Linux Saloon 203 | News Flight Night

On this News Flight Night, we chatted about several news topics, including Collin’s experience with stillOS, the importance of operating system rollback features, and recent news like HP sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service and KDE receiving significant investment. The session encouraged feedback and suggested future content explorations like QuarkOS.

What have you been doing in tech or Linux?

Collin Trying out stillOS

https://stillhq.io/

https://www.youtube.com/@PizzaLovingNerd

Warthunder’s CD ROM Hardware emulator

https://www.amazon.com/IODD-ST400-Enclosure-Bootable-Encryption/dp/B0B3HQMV5T
https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html 

Virtual OS Museum

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Operating System Rollback Feature is Important for Me

Replies

• Goofball: If I were to switch from Fedora to something else, I think PikaOS would be near top of the list. For my personal use case, rollback feature is not a priority. Most of my apps are cloud-based, most of my data is backed up. No loss if I have to wipe my machine. *That said, I use a Fedora atomic downstream called secureblue so I can always roll back to the previous stable image if needed.
• benstechroom: ​for me rsync used way too much space. btrfs is easier and lighter. I couldn’t get Debian to get its btrfs right for timeshift. thats what put me 100% on Ubuntu. Backups chose my distro for me. Lol.

Rollback Features in your operating system

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial
https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

News Flight Night

HP Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service / Fwupd
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-1M-EUR-Investment

AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Media-Entertainment
https://almalinux.org/almalinux-day-los-angeles-2026/

Bitwarden scrubs ‘always free’ and ‘inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down
The Response from Bitwarden https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1tdvnh7/comment/olznwcv/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Other Links

https://mikechilson.com/blog/The-Linux-ls-Command
https://sniffnet.net/

📅 Housekeeping

Next Week: Distro Exploration – QuarkOS
https://quark-os.sourceforge.io/

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Participant Project Links

• Eric Adams
  • https://mintcast.org/
  • https://mintcast.org/category/roundtable/
  • https://linuxotc.org/
• Mike Chilson BBS
  • https://classicbbs.net
  • https://marklite.app/
  • https://resizeall.app/
• Dale Low Tech Linux
  • YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/lowtechlinux
  • Twitch – https://www.twitch.tv/lowtechlinux
  • lowtechlinux.com
• Linux Out Loud
  • https://dlnxtend.com/
• Warthunder Nerd Cave
  • https://www.youtube.com/@WarthundersNerdCave
• Linux User Space
  • https://www.linuxuserspace.show/
• Scott’s Projects
  • https://www.bellumgero.net/
  • https://wiki.bellumgero.net/
• Penguin Revolution
  • https://www.youtube.com/@PenguinRevolution