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662: The GitHub Diet
Episode 662
Sunday, 12 April, 2026

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 UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonLFNW2026 ScheduleLinux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocationLinux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairsLinux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writesLinux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/OLinux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systemsLinux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stayLinux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 supportGive Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environmentNixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of GiteaForgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub ActionsNixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runnersForgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software developmentForgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privatelyGit Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratchPick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or networkPick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineersPick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices