Untitled Linux Show (Audio)

Xen 4.19 is released with a new 9pfs backend, why Snap and Flatpak make Linux a better OS and how they're different, FOSSA is buying StackShare, Canonical saw a $251M revenue last year and grew to more than 1,000 employees, and Intel extends its CPU warranties for its 13th and 14th-gen desktop CPUs as a result of crashing 13th and 14th-gen CPUs.

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Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: David Ruggles and Jeff Massie

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It's about time that Fwupd supports the Pi 5, the kernel has moved to a minimum Rust version, and we chat about the TinyWatch. Then Fedora is headed towards some sane metric reporting, Curl fixes a vulnerability and blames C for it, and Gnome worries us again. For tips we have a Rust coreutils howto, a Bitlocker decryptor, and pdfgrep for finding text in PDFs. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3YoBCNk and see you next week!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: David Ruggles and Ken McDonald

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This week We chat about AMD's drive for Raytracing performance, Nvidia's push towards open kernel drivers, what Fedora did to help make that possible, and what's new in Kernel 6.10. Then Linux is making Rust safer, OpenSUSE is having a crisis, and oh yeah, the world's computers were bricked this weekend. It was a good day to be Linux users. For tips we have shuf for text suffling and mr for managing repositories en masse. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/46cWzwA and have a great week!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Host: Jeff Massie

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We start with gaming, talking about Bottles, Raytracing comparisons, and the Godot engine. We give the Zed editor a try, talk about changes at the Gnome foundation, and go all in on Wayland. Then put an M.2 drive in a Pi case, chat about Clonezilla, and celebrate Comet as the Linux implementation of GOG's Galaxy. For tips, we have findmnt, PiHole, run0, and hexyl. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4f1JTfV and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Rob Campbell, and Ken McDonald

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We take a victory lap for Linux, Cover the SSH vulnerability in great detail, and discuss Fedora's proposal to include opt-in telemetry. KDE ships an update, Nexus Mods is coming to Linux, and Meta has a clever link time optimization approach for the kernel. For tips, we have inxi for better system info, rolldice for all your command line dice rolling needs, dvtm and abduco for simple terminal splitting and detaching, and ollama for running LLMs locally. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3VWzJ7X Back next week!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Rob Campbell, and David Ruggles

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We're diving into the weeds this week, talking about tapeouts, PCI-E specifications, and kernel scheduling on today's oddball systems. There are releases to check out, like the latest OpenShot, Pipewire, and Raspberry Pi Connect. And finally we look to the future of Ubuntu, Gnome, and X11. For tips we have umask, shebang, and archiemount. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4eH3zFZ and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie and David Ruggles

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It's another Linux laptop, and this time Framework is bringing the RISC-V heat. There's an LTS battle brewing, KDE pushes 6.1 with more fixes, and X Windows turns 40. And don't forget the Firefox beta, Raspberry Pi going Monochrome, and more news about Kaspersky. For tips, we have a tiling shell in Gnome, the fuser command for finding what's using that file, nproc for showing off how many cores your new machine has, and how to convince your browser to visit that IPv6 address instead of just searching it. The notes are available at https://bit.ly/4ewEzRF

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald

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We're excited for Linux laptops, the Rocket Accelerator for Rokchips, and a new programming language for Bash scripts. Then there's the extensible scheduler coming to 6.11 because Torvalds says so, NVIDIA making a move on the upstream kernel, and a bit of a change for ChromeOS. For tips, we have the quake terminal, a tmux environment variable, and an automount command to pick up your missing mounts. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4esmR1N and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and David Ruggles

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Kaspersky has released a virus scanner for Linux; should you run it? OpenBSD finally has Wayland support, OBS has a new Beta, and WSL leans into the Hypervisor. Then there's Gnome, which sort of worries us. Then for tips we've got gping for a snazzy ping tui, iVentoy for a selectable PXE boot, devicetree options in Grub, and hostnamectl. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4aSADaP and we will see you next time!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and David Ruggles

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We're all about the Real-Time kernel, and so is Ubuntu, who is now offering it as an option for 22.04. Then there's the new UAlink specification for AMD and Intel accelerators, a trio of distro releases to cover, and the latest and greatest in kernel 6.10. For tips we have bartib for time tracking; a set of commands for auditing logins, system shutdowns, and restarts; and a recap of ping, ending with how to specify ipv4 or ipv6. The notes are available at https://bit.ly/3V4P7yC and enjoy the show!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie

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