653: The Kernel Always Wins

The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSCaLE 23x | Registration • — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG" PlanetNix 2026 • — Where Nix Builders Come Together Pasadena Linux Party MeetupValve explains why it hasn’t announced release dates for its new hardware, now plans for “first half of the year” • — Valve now says all three products will ship “in the first half of the year.” Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend • — Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality. bcachefs-tools v1.36.1 • — Interactive TUI for monitoring various filesystem internals, slowpaths and device performance, with duration and frequency tracking for various events. Helpful for diagnosing performance issues. bcachefs v1.36.1 is out - next release will be erasure coding : r/bcachefsbcachefs PSA: if you're on 1.33-1.35, upgrade asap • — Several people have been hit by this, so - please upgrade asap. Mattermost • — Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle. Debian's CI Data No Longer Publicly Browseable Due To LLM Scrapers / Bot TrafficVenice AI - Private AI for Unlimited Creative FreedomThinkBox V2 - A Custom 4-Bay SATA/SAS HDD NAS for Your Lenovo M720QCode for Climate 2026 — The Mad Botter Earth Day Open Source Challenge • — We're doing our Earth Day open-source competition again The Mad Botter INC. Once again featuring System76 hardware and this time with dual tracks for college and non-college students. Michael Dominick on X - Earth Day Open Source ChallengeRed5d/podcast_mcp • — MCP server for accessing Podcasting 2.0 RSS feed episode data. "I've really only tested it with JB feeds!" Pick: Plexus • — Remove the fear of Android app compatibility on de-Googled devices. Plexus-app: GitHubPick: ReinschriftTodo • — Reinschrift combines a native GNOME interface with the simplicity of plain text. Your tasks remain a normal Markdown file – easy to back up, versionable via Git, and editable on any device with your favorite editor. Reinschrift on Flathub