681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2. 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: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Jupiter Garage SWAG AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away Linux 7.2 Kernel Newbies Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions [REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XT reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver The beginning of the 7.3 merge window Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3 Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3 Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes Syncthing GitHub Rclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces. LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex. A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkit MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names. dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requests Rockbox - Free Music Player Firmware Pick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.