662: The GitHub Diet

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 • — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington LFNW2026 ScheduleLinux 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 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay Linux 7.1: i486 • — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 support Give 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 environment NixOS Wiki: Forgejo • — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of Gitea Forgejo Actions • — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub Actions NixOS Forgejo Actions Runner • — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runners Forgejo Federation (PR #10453) • — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software development Forgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) • — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privately Git Novice Guide • — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratch Pick: sshroute • — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or network Pick: rendercv • — Resume builder for academics and engineers Pick: ESPHome Starter Kit • — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices