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  <description>&lt;p&gt;0:00 Cold Open&lt;br&gt;
1:32 Banter: Flatpak, Otra Vez&lt;br&gt;
11:32 Banter: Updates Once a Year&lt;br&gt;
21:18 History: Void Linux&lt;br&gt;
1:18:43 Distro Talk: Void Linux&lt;br&gt;
1:31:03 Housekeeping&lt;br&gt;
1:36:30 App Focus: Syncthing&lt;br&gt;
1:40:23 Next Time&lt;br&gt;
1:43:58 Stinger&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Coming up in this episode&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Flatpaks back on track&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;I update once a year, do you?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We enter the Void&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We age in the Void&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tech with a Bloke&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;and Monitor the situation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

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&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Banter - Did we fall flat?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/mwleeds" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Phaedrus Leeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace/status/1467826656031039490?s=20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Our tweet that started the conversation - follow the thread&lt;/a&gt;
### Moar Banter - Podbait&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How often do you update? Let us know in Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Email, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Void Linux&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Void Linux&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Wikipedia page for Void&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.voidlinux.org/about/history.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;From the Void Handbook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/10/xbps-src-to-chroot.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;xbps-src to use linux-user-chroot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/11/journald-switch.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;journald introduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/base-system-0.76-replaces-base-system-rpi.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;First mention of Pi as officially supported&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/xbps-0.27.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;RSA encryption introduced to xbps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/KDE-4.11.4-available.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;KDE 4 is available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/Cinnamon2-available.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Cinnamon 2 is available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/xbps-0.29.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Musl compatability introduced to xbps&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://musl.libc.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;More info about musl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Using the Nix package manager&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/03/Steam-for-x86_64.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Steam client is available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/void-is-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;April Fools joke 2014&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/Full-multilib-support.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Multilib support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/07/runit-by-default.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;runit becomes default&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/08/LibreSSL-by-default.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;LibreSSL is default&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/09/MATE-desktop.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Mate is introduced&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/11/LXQt-desktop.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;LXQt enters the Void&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/02/Raspberry-Pi-2.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Raspberry Pi2 support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/06/New-images.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Void images built with musl are available&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2016/08/Tor-Hidden-Service.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Void repositories available over TOR&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/We-care-about-your-needs.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;No Foolin', help needed&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/Flatpak.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Flatpak bult with glibc and musl&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2017-09-18-into-the-void/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Juan takes a step back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-gcal.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;2017 Advent Calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/04/my-little-void.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;2018 April Fools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Juan is MIA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/irc-back.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;IRC control regained&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/06/GitHub-Organisation-is-moving.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Github organization moves&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/09/repo-address-change.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Repos move&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Michael Aldrige's post mortem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/advent-tcc.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;2018 Advent calendar&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/02-advent-closing.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;THE Christmas poem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/02/voidlinux-eu-gone.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;voidlinux dot eu Gone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/04/homepage-redesign.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;2019 April fools&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2020/04/some-context.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Official? post mortem of the disappearance of Juan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;OpenSSL is back&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/03/In-memoriam-pullmoll.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Pullmoll (Jürgen Buchmüller) is remembered&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/libera.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;IRC is moved to Libera.chat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/freenode-takeover.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;old freenode channels hijacked&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/sponsor-do-renew.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;DO renews sponsorship&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/hacktoberfest.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Hactoberfest 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Original developer: Juan Romero Pardines (xtraeme) Initial release 2008&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Site: &lt;strong&gt;voidlinux.org&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Old Site: &lt;strong&gt;voidlinux.eu&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;voidlinux.com&lt;/strong&gt; (dead since 2018)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Base System: &lt;strong&gt;Independent&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Desktop Environment: &lt;strong&gt;XFCE&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;File Manager: &lt;strong&gt;Thunar&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Package Manager: &lt;strong&gt;xbps&lt;/strong&gt; (Xtraeme's Binary Package System)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kernel: &lt;strong&gt;Rolling 5.15.8 right now&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Display Manager: &lt;strong&gt;lightdm&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Display Protocol: &lt;strong&gt;X11, Wayland&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Project Members: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/orgs/void-linux/people" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;from Github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Housekeeping&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://oldtechbloke.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Old Tech Bloke&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Our &lt;a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Matrix room&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Check out our website &lt;a href="https://linuxuserspace.show" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://linuxuserspace.show&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;App Focus&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;System Monitoring Center&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
This episode's app:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/hakandundar34coding/system-monitoring-center" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;System Monitoring Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Next Time&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With us trying out Zorin OS for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our next distro to check out is &lt;a href="https://nixos.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Nix OS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Reddit whatever. Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Contributor&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nicholas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CubicleNate&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;LiNuXsys666&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jill and Steve&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WalrusZ&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;sleepyeyesvince&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Paul&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Curtis&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Co-Producer&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Donnie&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Johnny&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Producer&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruno&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josh &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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    <![CDATA[<p>0:00 Cold Open<br>
1:32 Banter: Flatpak, Otra Vez<br>
11:32 Banter: Updates Once a Year<br>
21:18 History: Void Linux<br>
1:18:43 Distro Talk: Void Linux<br>
1:31:03 Housekeeping<br>
1:36:30 App Focus: Syncthing<br>
1:40:23 Next Time<br>
1:43:58 Stinger</p>

<p><strong>Coming up in this episode</strong></p>

<ol>
<li>Flatpaks back on track</li>
<li>I update once a year, do you?</li>
<li>We enter the Void</li>
<li>We age in the Void</li>
<li>Tech with a Bloke</li>
<li>and Monitor the situation</li>
</ol>

<hr>

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<hr>

<h3>Banter - Did we fall flat?</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mwleeds" rel="nofollow">Phaedrus Leeds</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace/status/1467826656031039490?s=20" rel="nofollow">Our tweet that started the conversation - follow the thread</a>
### Moar Banter - Podbait</li>
<li>How often do you update? Let us know in Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Email, etc.</li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Void Linux</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org" rel="nofollow">Void Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia page for Void</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.voidlinux.org/about/history.html" rel="nofollow">From the Void Handbook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/10/xbps-src-to-chroot.html" rel="nofollow">xbps-src to use linux-user-chroot</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/11/journald-switch.html" rel="nofollow">journald introduced</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/base-system-0.76-replaces-base-system-rpi.html" rel="nofollow">First mention of Pi as officially supported</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/xbps-0.27.html" rel="nofollow">RSA encryption introduced to xbps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/KDE-4.11.4-available.html" rel="nofollow">KDE 4 is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/Cinnamon2-available.html" rel="nofollow">Cinnamon 2 is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/xbps-0.29.html" rel="nofollow">Musl compatability introduced to xbps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://musl.libc.org" rel="nofollow">More info about musl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.html" rel="nofollow">Using the Nix package manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/03/Steam-for-x86_64.html" rel="nofollow">Steam client is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/void-is-dead.html" rel="nofollow">April Fools joke 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/Full-multilib-support.html" rel="nofollow">Multilib support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/07/runit-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">runit becomes default</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/08/LibreSSL-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">LibreSSL is default</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/09/MATE-desktop.html" rel="nofollow">Mate is introduced</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/11/LXQt-desktop.html" rel="nofollow">LXQt enters the Void</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/02/Raspberry-Pi-2.html" rel="nofollow">Raspberry Pi2 support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/06/New-images.html" rel="nofollow">Void images built with musl are available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2016/08/Tor-Hidden-Service.html" rel="nofollow">Void repositories available over TOR</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/We-care-about-your-needs.html" rel="nofollow">No Foolin&#39;, help needed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/Flatpak.html" rel="nofollow">Flatpak bult with glibc and musl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2017-09-18-into-the-void/" rel="nofollow">Juan takes a step back</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-gcal.html" rel="nofollow">2017 Advent Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/04/my-little-void.html" rel="nofollow">2018 April Fools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html" rel="nofollow">Juan is MIA</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/irc-back.html" rel="nofollow">IRC control regained</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/06/GitHub-Organisation-is-moving.html" rel="nofollow">Github organization moves</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/09/repo-address-change.html" rel="nofollow">Repos move</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/" rel="nofollow">Michael Aldrige&#39;s post mortem</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/advent-tcc.html" rel="nofollow">2018 Advent calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/02-advent-closing.html" rel="nofollow">THE Christmas poem</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/02/voidlinux-eu-gone.html" rel="nofollow">voidlinux dot eu Gone</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/04/homepage-redesign.html" rel="nofollow">2019 April fools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2020/04/some-context.html" rel="nofollow">Official? post mortem of the disappearance of Juan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html" rel="nofollow">OpenSSL is back</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/03/In-memoriam-pullmoll.html" rel="nofollow">Pullmoll (Jürgen Buchmüller) is remembered</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/libera.html" rel="nofollow">IRC is moved to Libera.chat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/freenode-takeover.html" rel="nofollow">old freenode channels hijacked</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/sponsor-do-renew.html" rel="nofollow">DO renews sponsorship</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/hacktoberfest.html" rel="nofollow">Hactoberfest 2021</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<ul>
<li>Original developer: Juan Romero Pardines (xtraeme) Initial release 2008</li>
<li>Site: <strong>voidlinux.org</strong></li>
<li>Old Site: <strong>voidlinux.eu</strong> and <strong>voidlinux.com</strong> (dead since 2018)</li>
<li>Base System: <strong>Independent</strong></li>
<li>Desktop Environment: <strong>XFCE</strong></li>
<li>File Manager: <strong>Thunar</strong></li>
<li>Package Manager: <strong>xbps</strong> (Xtraeme&#39;s Binary Package System)</li>
<li>Kernel: <strong>Rolling 5.15.8 right now</strong> </li>
<li>Display Manager: <strong>lightdm</strong> </li>
<li>Display Protocol: <strong>X11, Wayland</strong></li>
<li>Project Members: <strong><a href="https://github.com/orgs/void-linux/people" rel="nofollow">from Github</a></strong></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Housekeeping</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://oldtechbloke.com" rel="nofollow">Old Tech Bloke</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/OldTechBloke" rel="nofollow">OTB YouTube</a></li>
<li>Email us - <a href="mailto:contact@linuxuserspace.show" rel="nofollow">contact@linuxuserspace.show</a></li>
<li>Linux User Space <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/discord" rel="nofollow">Discord Server</a></li>
<li>Our <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix" rel="nofollow">Matrix room</a></li>
<li>Support us at <a href="https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a></li>
<li>Join us on <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram" rel="nofollow">Telegram</a></li>
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<li>Watch us on <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a></li>
<li>Our latest social platform <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit" rel="nofollow">reddit</a></li>
<li>Check out our website <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show" rel="nofollow">https://linuxuserspace.show</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>App Focus</h3>

<p><strong>System Monitoring Center</strong><br>
This episode&#39;s app:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hakandundar34coding/system-monitoring-center" rel="nofollow">System Monitoring Center</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Next Time</h3>

<p><strong>With us trying out Zorin OS for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Our next distro to check out is <a href="https://nixos.org" rel="nofollow">Nix OS</a></strong></p>

<p><strong>Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space</strong></p>

<p><strong>Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Reddit whatever. Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.</strong></p>

<hr>

<p>We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!</p>

<h3>Contributor</h3>

<ul>
<li>Nicholas</li>
<li>CubicleNate</li>
<li>LiNuXsys666</li>
<li>Jill and Steve</li>
<li>WalrusZ</li>
<li>sleepyeyesvince</li>
<li>Paul</li>
<li>Curtis</li>
</ul>

<h3>Co-Producer</h3>

<ul>
<li>Donnie</li>
<li>Johnny</li>
</ul>

<h3>Producer</h3>

<ul>
<li>Bruno</li>
<li>John</li>
<li>Josh</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace">Support Linux User Space</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>0:00 Cold Open<br>
1:32 Banter: Flatpak, Otra Vez<br>
11:32 Banter: Updates Once a Year<br>
21:18 History: Void Linux<br>
1:18:43 Distro Talk: Void Linux<br>
1:31:03 Housekeeping<br>
1:36:30 App Focus: Syncthing<br>
1:40:23 Next Time<br>
1:43:58 Stinger</p>

<p><strong>Coming up in this episode</strong></p>

<ol>
<li>Flatpaks back on track</li>
<li>I update once a year, do you?</li>
<li>We enter the Void</li>
<li>We age in the Void</li>
<li>Tech with a Bloke</li>
<li>and Monitor the situation</li>
</ol>

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<p>Join: <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/discord" rel="nofollow">Discord</a>. <a href="https://reddit.com/r/LinuxUserSpace/" rel="nofollow">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram" rel="nofollow">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace" rel="nofollow">Twitter</a>.<br>
Sub: <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube" rel="nofollow">Youtube</a>. <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/linuxuserspace" rel="nofollow">Twitch</a>. <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/odysee" rel="nofollow">Odysee</a>.<br>
Fund: <a href="https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a>.</p>

<hr>

<h3>Banter - Did we fall flat?</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mwleeds" rel="nofollow">Phaedrus Leeds</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/LinuxUserSpace/status/1467826656031039490?s=20" rel="nofollow">Our tweet that started the conversation - follow the thread</a>
### Moar Banter - Podbait</li>
<li>How often do you update? Let us know in Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Email, etc.</li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Void Linux</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org" rel="nofollow">Void Linux</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_Linux" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia page for Void</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.voidlinux.org/about/history.html" rel="nofollow">From the Void Handbook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/10/xbps-src-to-chroot.html" rel="nofollow">xbps-src to use linux-user-chroot</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2012/11/journald-switch.html" rel="nofollow">journald introduced</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/base-system-0.76-replaces-base-system-rpi.html" rel="nofollow">First mention of Pi as officially supported</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/11/xbps-0.27.html" rel="nofollow">RSA encryption introduced to xbps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/KDE-4.11.4-available.html" rel="nofollow">KDE 4 is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2013/12/Cinnamon2-available.html" rel="nofollow">Cinnamon 2 is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/xbps-0.29.html" rel="nofollow">Musl compatability introduced to xbps</a></li>
<li><a href="https://musl.libc.org" rel="nofollow">More info about musl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/01/Using-the-Nix-package-manager.html" rel="nofollow">Using the Nix package manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/03/Steam-for-x86_64.html" rel="nofollow">Steam client is available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/void-is-dead.html" rel="nofollow">April Fools joke 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/04/Full-multilib-support.html" rel="nofollow">Multilib support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/07/runit-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">runit becomes default</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/08/LibreSSL-by-default.html" rel="nofollow">LibreSSL is default</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/09/MATE-desktop.html" rel="nofollow">Mate is introduced</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2014/11/LXQt-desktop.html" rel="nofollow">LXQt enters the Void</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/02/Raspberry-Pi-2.html" rel="nofollow">Raspberry Pi2 support</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2015/06/New-images.html" rel="nofollow">Void images built with musl are available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2016/08/Tor-Hidden-Service.html" rel="nofollow">Void repositories available over TOR</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/We-care-about-your-needs.html" rel="nofollow">No Foolin&#39;, help needed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/04/Flatpak.html" rel="nofollow">Flatpak bult with glibc and musl</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2017-09-18-into-the-void/" rel="nofollow">Juan takes a step back</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2017/12/advent-gcal.html" rel="nofollow">2017 Advent Calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/04/my-little-void.html" rel="nofollow">2018 April Fools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/serious-issues.html" rel="nofollow">Juan is MIA</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/05/irc-back.html" rel="nofollow">IRC control regained</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/06/GitHub-Organisation-is-moving.html" rel="nofollow">Github organization moves</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/09/repo-address-change.html" rel="nofollow">Repos move</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.michaelwashere.net/post/2018-11-28-enobdfl/" rel="nofollow">Michael Aldrige&#39;s post mortem</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/advent-tcc.html" rel="nofollow">2018 Advent calendar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2018/12/02-advent-closing.html" rel="nofollow">THE Christmas poem</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/02/voidlinux-eu-gone.html" rel="nofollow">voidlinux dot eu Gone</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2019/04/homepage-redesign.html" rel="nofollow">2019 April fools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2020/04/some-context.html" rel="nofollow">Official? post mortem of the disappearance of Juan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/02/OpenSSL.html" rel="nofollow">OpenSSL is back</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/03/In-memoriam-pullmoll.html" rel="nofollow">Pullmoll (Jürgen Buchmüller) is remembered</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/libera.html" rel="nofollow">IRC is moved to Libera.chat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/05/freenode-takeover.html" rel="nofollow">old freenode channels hijacked</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/sponsor-do-renew.html" rel="nofollow">DO renews sponsorship</a></li>
<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/news/2021/09/hacktoberfest.html" rel="nofollow">Hactoberfest 2021</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<ul>
<li>Original developer: Juan Romero Pardines (xtraeme) Initial release 2008</li>
<li>Site: <strong>voidlinux.org</strong></li>
<li>Old Site: <strong>voidlinux.eu</strong> and <strong>voidlinux.com</strong> (dead since 2018)</li>
<li>Base System: <strong>Independent</strong></li>
<li>Desktop Environment: <strong>XFCE</strong></li>
<li>File Manager: <strong>Thunar</strong></li>
<li>Package Manager: <strong>xbps</strong> (Xtraeme&#39;s Binary Package System)</li>
<li>Kernel: <strong>Rolling 5.15.8 right now</strong> </li>
<li>Display Manager: <strong>lightdm</strong> </li>
<li>Display Protocol: <strong>X11, Wayland</strong></li>
<li>Project Members: <strong><a href="https://github.com/orgs/void-linux/people" rel="nofollow">from Github</a></strong></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Housekeeping</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://oldtechbloke.com" rel="nofollow">Old Tech Bloke</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/OldTechBloke" rel="nofollow">OTB YouTube</a></li>
<li>Email us - <a href="mailto:contact@linuxuserspace.show" rel="nofollow">contact@linuxuserspace.show</a></li>
<li>Linux User Space <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/discord" rel="nofollow">Discord Server</a></li>
<li>Our <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix" rel="nofollow">Matrix room</a></li>
<li>Support us at <a href="https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace" rel="nofollow">Patreon</a></li>
<li>Join us on <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram" rel="nofollow">Telegram</a></li>
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<li>Watch us on <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/youtube" rel="nofollow">YouTube</a></li>
<li>Our latest social platform <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit" rel="nofollow">reddit</a></li>
<li>Check out our website <a href="https://linuxuserspace.show" rel="nofollow">https://linuxuserspace.show</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>App Focus</h3>

<p><strong>System Monitoring Center</strong><br>
This episode&#39;s app:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/hakandundar34coding/system-monitoring-center" rel="nofollow">System Monitoring Center</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>

<h3>Next Time</h3>

<p><strong>With us trying out Zorin OS for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.</strong></p>

<p><strong>Our next distro to check out is <a href="https://nixos.org" rel="nofollow">Nix OS</a></strong></p>

<p><strong>Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space</strong></p>

<p><strong>Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Reddit whatever. Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.</strong></p>

<hr>

<p>We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!</p>

<h3>Contributor</h3>

<ul>
<li>Nicholas</li>
<li>CubicleNate</li>
<li>LiNuXsys666</li>
<li>Jill and Steve</li>
<li>WalrusZ</li>
<li>sleepyeyesvince</li>
<li>Paul</li>
<li>Curtis</li>
</ul>

<h3>Co-Producer</h3>

<ul>
<li>Donnie</li>
<li>Johnny</li>
</ul>

<h3>Producer</h3>

<ul>
<li>Bruno</li>
<li>John</li>
<li>Josh</li>
</ul><p><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace">Support Linux User Space</a></p>]]>
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