610: Linus' Next Big Thing
13 April 2025
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.
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Episode Links
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Tailscale 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 - YouTube
- uemacs - Linus Editor — Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons
- Yes Linus’ uemacs is pacakged in Nix
- Debian 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 step
- outdoorgeek’s laptop sleep optimized NixOS config
- Rust 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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