We're live from LinuxFest Northwest 2025. We're joined by guests from the audience, try our hand at Linux trivia and share our experiences from the best fest in the West.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025COSMIC DesktopCOSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environmentCOSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New FeaturesThe best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.Blind Penguin - Software Development with José IbañezAccessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open SourceTrimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded GamesSausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.
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611: Distro Double Trouble
Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 are here—We break down what's new, what stands out, and what we love most about each release.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMThe answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.GNOME 48 Release NotesUbuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)The newest Ubuntu version ushers in ARM64 support for early adoptersUbuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktopJB Gaming DenRetro Game Corps on YouTubePick: Ignition — Ignition is a minimal app for editing autostart entries on Freedesktop-compliant Linux distributions.Ignition on FlathubPick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.Record Apps on Flathub
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610: Linus' Next Big Thing
Apple's software is going rotten, while Linux sneaks up as the better Mac. Linus grumbles through Git's 20th birthday, and we spot a hardware window Linux better not slam shut.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMTailscale Community Meetup Seattle — Calling all Tailscale users, homelabbers, and networking enthusiasts! We’re bringing the community together for a casual, community focused meetup in Seattle.POLL: Would you tune into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?Celebrating Git's 20th anniversary with creator Linus Torvalds — Discover the origins of the open-source version control system, why he handed over the reins a few months in, and what he thinks about adding new programming languages to Git.Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds - YouTubeuemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatonsYes Linus' uemacs is pacakged in NixDebian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI — This new version introduces a significantly refined command-line interface and a completely new package solver.I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux — "Apple needs a real competitor, one alternatives such as GNOME on Linux could actually be, if only the hardware rose to the occasion."I'd love to see someone help Linux take the next stepoutdoorgeek's laptop sleep optimized NixOS configRust is easy? Go is… hard?Pick: chat-gipitty: Terminal client for getting answers from LLMs — Chat Gipitty (Chat Get Information, Print Information TTY) is a command line client for ChatGPT. It allows you to chat with your chosen model of ChatGPT in a terminal and even pipe output into it.moreutils' sponge — soak up standard input and write to a file.GitHub - pgdr/moreutils — a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.Pick: ALttP VT Randomizer — Each playthrough shuffles the location of all the important items in the game. Will you find the Bow atop Death Mountain, the Fire Rod resting silently in the library, or even the Master Sword itself waiting in a chicken coop?spannerisms/ALttPNG
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609: We Used to Be Friends
We attempt to get one of the great gaming classics running on Linux, and dig into some of the technical issues still holding back Linux. Plus: Chris has a new handheld.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
ConfigCat Feature Flags: Manage features and change your software configuration using ConfigCat feature flags, without the need to re-deploy code.
Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2025 SchedulePOLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional componentsR36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux SystemKooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.
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608: Linus' NT Surprise
Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
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Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2025 ScheduleLINUX Unplugged LIVE Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204Linux 6.14Linux 6.14 from Linux Kernel NewbiesBtrfs Support for uncached buffered I/OFUSE and io_uringWindows NT synchronization primitives for LinuxNixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardwarePick: Eloquent — Eloquent is a proofreading software for English and more than 20 other languages.Eloquent - Flathublanguagetool — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.LanguageTool standalone server
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