LINUX Unplugged

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.
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Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation
Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs
Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes
Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O
Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems
Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay
Linux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support
Give Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.
opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.
Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environment
NixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea
Forgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions
NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners
Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development
Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately
Git Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch
Pick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network
Pick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineers
Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.
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Preferring Local OSS LLMs
Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
Open Models have crossed a threshold
Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
Gemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project
googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
Tunarr API Reference
Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
ErsatzTV/next
Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
Threadfin
xTeVe
Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
Tunarr API Reference
LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.
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Keeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.
Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 Release
OneCal
PiBox Overview - KubeSail Docs
PiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — Kickstarter
RPi CM4 based local storage server launches on Kickstarter
KubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Pods
ipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBox
raspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)
cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.
systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."
Azuay Province - Wikipedia
Pick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.
Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storage
Pick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!
Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned.
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PabloVitasso/esphome-chinbasto — A custom ESPHome component for controlling Chinese Webasto heaters using ESP32.
Hacking the Chinese Diesel Heater Communications Protocol.pdf - Ray Jones - GitLab
timmchugh11/Chinese-Diesel-Heater---ESPHome
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
anomalyco/opencode: The open source coding agent.
Hunter Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter
ESPHome - Smart Home Made Simple
Home Assistant
ESP32 Wi-Fi & Bluetooth SoC | Espressif Systems
nodemcu/nodemcu-firmware: Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32
NodeMCU-32S Development Board Details, Pinout, Specs
Amazon.com: ESP-32S USB-C Development Board + ESP32 Terminal Board
agent-browser-protocol — Deterministic browser automation.
camofox-browser — Headless browser automation server for AI agents.
chrome-devtools-mcp — Chrome DevTools for coding agents
firefox-devtools-mcp — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox DevTools
LittleFOX-MCP — Model Context Protocol server for Firefox
Chrome DevTools MCP Debug — Let your Coding Agent debug your browser session
LFNW2026 - Back to Root
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 | Jupiter EXTRAS 40
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 | Jupiter EXTRAS 41
Pick: LosslessCut — Simple and ultra fast cross platform tool for lossless trimming/cutting of video and audio files.
LosslessCut on GitHub
LosslessCut on Flathub
Pick: CanIRun.ai — Can your machine run AI models?
Pick: llmfit — Hundreds of models & providers. One command to find what runs on your hardware.