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. 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 'Rust ex…