LINUX Unplugged

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.
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Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git with Dirk Hohndel, Founder, DH Consulting - YouTube
Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off - The Reg
Re: Linking Patchwork with Sashiko? - Linus Torvalds — AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.
sashiko — Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes
SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a Programmable, Private, Browser-based, Open Source, Self Hosted, Personal Knowledge Database.
logseq — A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration.
Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions
Logseq public roadmap
Logseq DB Version Docs
Logseq DB Version Changes
Nixbook OS — A set-and-forget modern operating system designed for simplicity, speed, and peace of mind.
odysseus — A self-hosted AI workspace for chat, agents, research, documents, email, notes, calendar, and local model workflows.
fwtop — Real-time router/firewall traffic visualizer TUI for Linux (interfaces, conntrack, firewall drops)
hister — Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
3D[S]tageVibes
Artemis Qt — Artemis Qt is an enhanced cross-platform client for NVIDIA GameStream and Apollo/Sunshine servers. It brings the advanced features from Artemis Android to desktop platforms.
Apollo — Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device.
RustDesk — Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
rustdesk - GitHub — An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
NoMachine — The fastest and highest quality remote desktop you have ever tried.
Sunshine — Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.
Moonlight PC — GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first.
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Storyboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.
MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOS
Spud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agents
Le Potato AML-S905X-CC
MacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.
Karpathy's llm-wiki
Hermes llm-wiki SKILL.md
camply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.gov
Pick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together.
opentogethertube on GitHub
Pick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.
TypeType on GitHub
Pick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, for downloading media from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves.
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Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support
June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.
linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug count
Netatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.
Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.
MacOS 8: Internet Archive
Apple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMA
ChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.
jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0
marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh.
bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.
MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTube
La Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARL
Qu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?
adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down Utility
Gentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.
distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.
MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file.
WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00
MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel Macs
MacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.
MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals.
Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.
Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy

Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine.
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Texas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)
SeaGL 2026 CFP
CarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open!
carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina con
Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
SteamOS 3.8 - Steam News
Valve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUs
Steam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's Hardware
Steam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's Hardware
Valve Developer Hardware Talk PDF
2015 Steam Machine - Wikipedia
meshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.
Re-Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.
SONE on Flathub
Re-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for Linux
Pick: coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.
coppwr on Flathub
Pick: dn-tool — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.

Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon.
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KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
Plasma 6.7 - KDE Community
See what's next for Firefox — Firefox.com
systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux
Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization - Phoronix
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released with New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED, and Major Code Cleanup | Linux Journal
The first half of the 7.2 merge window - LWN.net
Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things - Phoronix
Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 - Phoronix
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More - Phoronix
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed - Phoronix
Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix
soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
Distro Stu's Nix Router Config
Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.