About this episode

The episode discusses the potential need to replace GitHub in workflows and highlights features of the new Linux 7.0 release.

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM LinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington LFNW2026 Schedule Linux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocation Linux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairs Linux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writes Linux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/O Linux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systems Linux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Fisher

Topics covered

• GitHub alternatives
• Linux 7.0 features
• technology news
• open-source software
• VPN solutions

Keywords

• GitHub
• Linux 7.0
• open-source
• VPN
• technology news

Sponsors

Jupiter Party Annual Membership, Managed Nebula

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GitHub

Books & works: Linux 7.0, LinuxFest Northwest 2026

Places: Bellingham, Washington

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