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We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment?Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. CrowdHealth: Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. CrowdHealth: This open enrollment, take your power back. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using code UNPLUGGED.Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Hoy te cuento, en formato monólogo y sin rodeos, qué es ZFS y por qué cambió la forma de guardar y proteger datos. Veremos su modelo copy-on-write, snapshots y clones, checksums con autocorrección, pools (zpool, vdev), RAID-Z (1/2/3), compresión LZ4, deduplicación y cifrado nativo. Además, comparo ZFS con Btrfs, XFS y ext4 para que sepas cuándo elegir cada uno en Linux y FreeBSD (y dónde encaja TrueNAS). Cierro con ventajas, limitaciones, y buenas prácticas para que lo apliques con criterio en tu NAS o servidor.
Buenas tardes, sean bienvenidos a un nuevo podcast de tecnología e informática con Tomás González. En este episodio exploramos a fondo XFS, un sistema de archivos concebido por Silicon Graphics en los años 90 y adoptado por distribuciones empresariales como Red Hat. ¿Qué lo hace tan especial? Analizaremos su arquitectura basada en grupos de asignación y árboles B que le permiten trabajar en paralelo, las razones por las que es el favorito en servidores con archivos enormes y qué sacrificios implica en entornos con muchos ficheros pequeños. Todo ello en un monólogo ameno y con analogías sencillas, como comparar XFS con una autopista de seis carriles frente a la avenida de barrio que supone ext4.Durante la charla contextualizaremos las ventajas —volúmenes de petabytes, rendimiento en alto I/O, herramientas integradas— y las limitaciones como la imposibilidad de reducir particiones o la ausencia de sumas de verificación de datos. También haremos una comparación rápida con ext4 y Btrfs para que sepas en qué casos te conviene cada uno. Como siempre, cerraremos con un resumen en tres puntos clave y un adelanto del próximo tema, en el que hablaremos de los fundamentos de Btrfs y su enfoque en la integridad de datos. Todo en menos de una hora y con la perspectiva rigurosa, cercana y reflexiva que caracteriza a este podcast.
Watching MLB baseball games from the comfort of your terminal, Debian Trixie-based Raspberry Pi OS, Alienware Control Center for Linux, and installing Arch with Btrfs on the Raspberry Pi 500+.
Could mutli-kernel's be the next thing? The latest beta of KDS Plasma 6.5 is out now. Raspberry PI announces the 500+ as its next all-in-one desktop computer. And APT is finally getting the much needed history features. Catch the show notes here! http://bit.ly/3Wc0TrL Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Hauke und Micha begrüßen euch zu ihrer regelmäßigen Infotainment-Sendung rund um Linux und Open Source.Heute geht es mitunter um: Portainer, BCachefs, BTRFS, Matrix.org-Ausfall, Linux Mint, Debian und Twitch-Bots.
Von toten App Stores über lebende (und untote) Filesysteme bis hin zu Real-Life-Rickrolls – Felix, Felix & Sebastian nehmen euch mit auf eine wilde Tech-Reise. Dazu: KI gegen KI, Froscon-Flashbacks, 3D-Druck-Frust & die besten Nerd-Picks. Blast from the Past elixir != erlang Toter der Woche Typepad Amazon App Store gesideloadete apps unter Android 2026 Kaisen Linux Nintendo 3DS im Louvre Tizen auf Samsung Smartwatches EU Batterieverordnung Bericht zu kleineren Akkus in Deutschland Untoter der Woche BCashFS bleibt im Kernel Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now “Externally Maintained” bcachefs “externally maintained” Btrfs bei facebook Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 AI der Woche Meckern für besseren Code Jailbreak yourself AI gaslighten evtl. auch https://www.heise.de/news/Youtube-Videos-heimlich-mit-KI-verschlimmbessert-10622259.html Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale Apertus: Offenes Sprachmodell aus der Schweiz News CVE-2025-34158: Update plex libxml2 maintainer macht keine mehrarbeit für kein geld Celebrating 20 Year of the #openSUSE Project Debian 13 “Trixie” Released Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer ‘garbage’ ESPHome Sicherheitslücke Biometrie per WLAN: Signalstörungen erlauben Personenerkennung und Überwachung Mit WLAN den Puls messen pyx: a Python-native package registry, now in Beta Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells FreeBSD repository name changes Hollow Knight: Silksong Release Brings Down PS5, Switch, and Steam Storefronts Mixed Reality: Lasertag überall Themen [Verschoben] 3D-Druck der Woche Raxslab Thinkcentre 10" Rackmount Musical Fidget Noctua 3D-mod für Framework Desktop Mimimi der Woche Ruby 3.5.0 / Python 3.12 sysutils/iocage: Error when using iocage with python 3.12 devel/py-Js2Py: Add Python 3.12 support databases/mongodb70: Fails build with Python 3.12 BeyondPod AntennaPod Pixel 9a Thinkpad X13 vergisst wie grafikkarte funktioniert Too many Keyboards! Click!Clack!Hack! Lesefoo Open Source is one person Dicing an Onion Picks Website ausgeliefert von neun Neovim Buffern auf altem Thinkpad reMarkable Paper Pro Move SQLite read and write ZIP Stoppt die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung 2.0 mouseless Snapmaker U1 e-mail.wtf nixcon
Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
This Week the crew talks about the latest AI in Open Source. Then the new OBS Beta is out, there's a new Init system in town, and Agama 17 is out for SUSE Linux 16. There's kernel drama, with a Btrfs develop stepping back, Bcachefs is maintained outside the kernel, and Rosenzweig is now at Intel. And don't forget the Android bombshell, that sideloading will soon be limited to verified developers. For tips, we have systemctl restart options, wpctl inspect for WirePlumber information, aptitude for more package management, and gdisk for converting an MBR drive to GPT. The show notes are available at https://bit.ly/45T37AJ and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.
En este episodio de "Podcast de Tecnología e Informática con Tomás González" profundizamos en Btrfs, el sistema de archivos Copy-on-Write que ha redefinido la gestión del almacenamiento en Linux. Analizamos su historia como respuesta abierta a ZFS y desgranamos los pilares técnicos que lo distinguen: snapshots instantáneos, subvolúmenes flexibles, compresión transparente, verificación de integridad con autorreparación y operaciones de balanceo. También revisamos sus ventajas prácticas frente a Ext4 y XFS, así como las limitaciones que todavía presenta —desde el estado experimental de RAID 5/6 hasta la ausencia de cifrado nativo— y cómo influyen en su adopción por distribuciones como Fedora y openSUSE. Un episodio riguroso y directo, pensado para estudiantes y profesionales de informática que buscan comprender a fondo la arquitectura y el futuro de Btrfs en entornos de escritorio, servidores y NAS.
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
En este capítulo charlamos con Tomás González y repasamos, en palabras sencillas, los hitos linuxeros de los últimos siete días:El kernel 6.16 a punto de salir y las primeras pistas de la versión 6.17.Qué demonios es Btrfs y por qué ahora será más rápido.Las novedades de KDE Frameworks 6.16 y systemd 258 (sí, te explicamos qué son).OBS Studio 31.1: mejoras para tus directos sin necesitar un PC nuevo.Adiós a Ubuntu 24.10, plusmarca de rendimiento de Clear Linux y el avance imparable de Wayland.
Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.Sponsored By:Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. 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. Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
The Linux 6.12 kernel isn't just another update — it's a game-changer that deserves our full attention, from performance improvements to fascinating new features.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Breaking free from Google's grip: Our surprising journey and the tools that made it possible. Plus, Brent's NAS feature stirring up debate, s clever tool for distributed video encoding, and more. Special Guest: Brent Gervais.
We go back in time to revisit our favorite classic SUSE release and then fix Brent's broken box the hard way.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!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. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Btrfs ist ein spezielles Dateisystem für erhöhte Ausfallsicherheit. Wie es funktioniert und welche Vorteile es gegenüber ext4 und ZFS hat, erklären wir hier.
We're building a completely hidden Linux OS inside an existing system—with no trace left behind.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!Kolide: Kolide 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.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:
Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole. Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.
The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter! Plus the big flops we're still sore about. Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.
We did Proxmox dirty last week, so we try to explain our thinking. But first, a few things have gone down that you should know about.
We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa.
Can we build an indestructible server that stands up to the test of giving out root login to the Internet?
Can Ubuntu make a great immutable desktop? We're trying the brand-new "Everything is a Snap" Ubuntu Core Desktop.
Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.
Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.
What we really like in Debian 12, the big players backing RISC-V, and the improvements in NextCloud Hub 5. Note: Linux Action News will be off next week.
How we found peace with the Linux community's perpetual debates; and our tricks for finding the signal from the noise.
Why Fedora 38 might Sway you to try it; and how it runs on the MacBook M1 Max.
We surprise each other with three secret topics, with one big catch.
A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs users, and more.
A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs users, and more.
A fresh take on open-source funding, Fedora's plan for better encryption out of the box, and our impressions of the latest Ubuntu Beta.
FFmpeg gets new superpowers, Plasma's switch to Qt6 gets official; what you need to know. Plus we round up the top features coming to Linux 6.3.
Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store. Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?
Google is getting paid to advertise malware sites, Comcast's false map data, more on private TLDs, why we don't use Btrfs, and getting notifications for your monitoring. Plugs Support us on patreon Klara Sysadmin Series: How to catch a bitcoin miner News/discussion Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software […]
Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.
Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.
Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.
We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure.