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 - 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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• Valve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexus
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• 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
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• 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.

We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible.

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• Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
• FORScan — A software scanner for Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles, designed to work over ELM327 and J2534 Pass-Thru compatible OBD adapters.
• MeatPi WiCAN-PRO OBD Scanner — Built on the robust ESP32-S3 platform, WiCAN PRO runs the powerful, open-source WiCAN firmware.
• argunix: Webhook-driven Nix CI for GitHub, GitLab, and Forgejo
• PearPass - Your Open-Source Password Manager
• olmec's nixos-router config
• Ulanzi TC001 Smart Pixel Clock — The full-color LED screen supports custom icons, bringing time and weather to life in a way that’s both retro and modern — making it the most unique visual statement on your desk.
• ULANZI TC001 Smart Pixel Clock
• awtrix3 — Custom firmware for the Ulanzi Smart Pixel clock or self-made AWTRIX displays.
• Mouzi — Mouzi is a silent, elegant file organizer that lives in your system tray and keeps your Downloads folder (and any other folder) automatically tidy. It runs quietly in the background, monitors selected folders, and moves, renames, or sorts files based on customizable rules.
• Mouzi - Organize Downloads Folder Automatically

Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network that shrugged off an ISP outage.

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• Agent Op Guild on Matrix
• Outdoor Electrical Water Resistant Enclosure - Amazon
• Sipeed NanoKVM IP-KVM - Amazon
• Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
• Smart Automatic Chicken Coop Door with WiFi
• Omlet Developer Console
• WLED Project
• Generic MagWLED-1 WLED Controller
• WS2812B LED Light Strip
• LED Strip Diffuser Channel
• Zooz Z-Wave Long Range Q Sensor ZSE11 800LR
• AIR-1 Air Quality Sensor for Home Assistant
• Anyone successfully using the MiCS 4514 Gas Sensor? - Reddit
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• Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera
• Amcrest 8-Port POE+ Switch
• go2rtc
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• We Are The Art | Brandon Sanderson’s Keynote Speech
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rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the community's newest fault line cracks wide open.

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• fogti/rsync-nai — Fork of rsync just before the first obviously LLM-influenced commit
• Flathub No LLM Policy — We have updated Flathub's LLM policy to explicitly disallow AI usage for both the submission process and applications being submitted.
• Reword LLM policy to make it clear it's not allowed - flathub-infra
• Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains - YouTube
• GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator - Phoronix
• QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix
• Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Fixes For Bugs Spotted By Anthrophic's Mythos, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70 - Phoronix
• Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI - Phoronix
• GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week - Phoronix
• mnemosyne: The Zero-Dependency, Sub-Millisecond AI Memory System for Hermes Agents and Everyone Else!
• Markdown First: A Proposal for the Agent-Readable Web — BitCryptic
• Pick: RecordApps — A desktop application that allows you to record audio from specific applications on Linux. Built with Deno, Svelte, and WebView.
• Pick: OpenLogi — A native, local-first alternative to Logitech Options+, written in Rust 🦀 — remap buttons, DPI, and SmartShift over HID++. No account, no telemetry.

Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw.

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• The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
• My first 100 days at Bitwarden — Open source is the foundation of everything Bitwarden builds. The ability to audit the code, to self-host, to verify rather than simply believe are not just nice-to-haves, they are the reason Bitwarden is different from every other option in this space, and that will not change.
• AfterTouch — Bose SoundTouch Toolkit
• soundcork — Intercept API for Bose SoundTouch after they turn off the servers
• Bose SoundTouch EOL Announcement
• SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Wikia | Fandom
• Keeping Your Speakers Alive After the Bose Cloud Shutdown – AfterTouch
• Bose SoundTouch is officially dead, but your speakers may still survive - SoundGuys
• SoundTouch 30 Wi-Fi Music System | Bose Support
• NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
• nasty-top — A top-like TUI for bcachefs filesystems.
• hermes-agent - GitHub
• Hermes Agent — Open-Source AI Agent with Persistent Memory
• Windows-MCP — MCP Server for Computer Use in Windows
• Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers
• Rust for Linux — Rust for Linux is the project adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.
• OpenCode Go - Low cost coding models for everyone — Go brings agentic coding to programmers around the world. Offering generous limits and reliable access to the most capable open-source models, so you can build with powerful agents without worrying about cost or availability.
• Pick: Gnome Commander — A powerful file manager for the Linux desktop environment
• Pick: halo — Terminal flow field screensaver with Perlin noise, Braille rendering, particles, and 24-bit ANSI color
• Airwolf Theme 80s Retrowave Bass Remix | Retro Visualizer | DMCA Safe - YouTube

Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat.

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• Red Hat Summit 2026 Day 1 Keynote - The next platform is choice - YouTube
• Enabling long-term stability: Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system — Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual machines and even on bare metal. If you’ve been following Project Hummingbird‘s work on container images, or Project Bluefin’s work on the operating system, you already know the model. Fedora Hummingbird applies this model all the way down to the host OS.
• Fedora Hummingbird: Taking the Hummingbird model to the full operating system - Fedora Discussion
• After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops — Now, Fedora has voted on an initiative called Fedora AI Developer Desktop that will spawn AI-flavored Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative — After more than a month of sometimes heated discussion, the Fedora Council had voted to approve the initiative; however, a last-minute change to vote against the proposal by council member Justin Wheeler has (at least temporarily) sent it back to the drawing board.
• Fedora AI Developer Desktop Objective Discussion
• Pick: BudsLink — BudsLink is an application that provides battery monitoring and feature control for supported Bluetooth wearable audio devices, including AirPods, Beats, Sony Audio wearables, Samsung Galaxy Buds and Nothing/CMF buds.
• BudsLink on Flathub
• Pick: yamlcast — YAMLCast turns a YAML description of a terminal screencast into an animated GIF.
• Pick: lightroom-cc-on-linux — Reproducible recipe for running Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine 11.8 staging. Researched and verified end-to-end by Claude Opus 4.7.

Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

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• LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
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• Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026
• Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
• How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal
• Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu
• Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide
• LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules
• Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
• Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
• FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
• nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel
• Brent's nixbsd config
• NomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
• GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
• gershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
• gershwin-on-freebsd live iso
• gershwin-on-debian live iso
• gershwin-on-arch live iso
• Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation
• Pick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
• Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
• Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
• AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
• FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

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• Copy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — Theori
• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — Xint
• Linux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — Jorijn
• Ars: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars Technica
• Sysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — Sysdig
• CERT-EU Advisory
• Ubuntu Security Tracker
• The Register: Crypto Flaw
• Kernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel Commit
• Buggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)
• DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internals
• oss-security Disclosure
• PSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan Wildeboer
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu Engineering
• The Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon Seager
• Ubuntu 26.04 Release Notes
• Ubuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNet
• Canonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, Canonical
• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #942
• Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet
• 9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Tools
• uutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
• LINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the Future
• LiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issues
• Monty's “rescue” drive NixOS config
• Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report
• Pick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.
• Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.
• Defuse on Flathub

After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

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• The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
• Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
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• Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
• Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.