625: They're Doing it Wrong!

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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• F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
• Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
• Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
• Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
• Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
• Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
• The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
• bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
• Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
• EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
• Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
• Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
• Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
• The first half of the 6.16 merge window
• The second half of the 6.16 merge window
• Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
• Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
• Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
• Supporting kernel development with large language models
• Fending off unwanted file descriptors
• Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
• Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
• Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
• DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
• LLM generated git-resolve.sh
• Aidan's NixOS Flake
• Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
• SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
• Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
• Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.