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!

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This week it's all about the GPUs, with KDE 6.1, Nvidia's 555 drivers, and Mesa 24.1 all coming out, bringing support for Explicit sync, the Nvidia NVK ready for prime time, and more. Then there's Handbreak with FFmpeg 7.0 support, Ventoy bringing an update, and a new Pipewire RC with support for snapcast. Then there's Hans Reiser's last request for ReiserFS making it into kernel 6.10. For tips, we have the Bluefish editor, The last of Spring Cleaning, and how to use docker to very quickly spin up one-off containers. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3yxtdwn and come back next time!

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Broadcom makes an offer to give us vmware for free, with an asterisk. Ubuntu is already looking at how to polish the 24.10 release, The Raspberry Pi Foundation releases the official NVMe hat, and Winamp has an announcement. A Debian maintainer made a questionable call regarding KerPassXC, and CIQ makes the case that all vendor kernels are insecure. Then, for tips we have uxplay for airplay on Linux, cd - for quick directory flipping, more spring cleaning, and pkg-config for a scriptable way to check for dependencies. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/3V9CCmI and enjoy the show!

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We're talking about Google's layoffs and how it affects Flutter and Dart, then AMD is working to push AMF code into FFMPEG, and it's time for Open Source to grow up. RHEL has an AI offering, NVidia is suggesting Open Source kernel drivers, and Zed is coming to Linux. Then there's Pi Connect pulling a Sherlock, KDE working on color management, and a bit of a history lesson on where we came from. For tips, we have the Radion TUI radio player, || : to ignore errors in a script, the Mixxx DJ app for all those underground raves, and PanWriter for markup editing. You can catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/3UTCJ5C, and we'll see you next time!

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This week, it's a Wine release that fixes an ancient bug, a shiny new Nano with modern bindings, and a breaking bug fixed in VirtualBox. Then NeoFetch is officially retired, Adwaita breaks KDE apps, and run0 vies to replace sude. For tips, we have HyFetch to fill the neofetch gap, cpulimit to keep your system responsive, more tmux setup, and how to tell ping to use ipv4 or ipv6. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3WsR2PD It's another great show, enjoy!

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Nvidia continues to amaze, Thunderbird is getting rusty, and Proton is about to go 9.0. Then there's a Flathub redesign, a shiny new QEMU release, and maybe the year of Linux in the car. For tips we have awk, the number and string wrangling do-all tool, more spring cleaning with dpkg, how to get tmux set up just right on a new install, and ydiff for much better diff highlighting. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3xZHa60 and thanks for coming!

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Need a Linux distro to clean up after a ransomware incident? We've got CSI Linux! Want to run a newer mainline kernel with a RHEL derivitave? Rocky's doing it! And Nvidia has hired a Nouveau developer, the 6.10 kernel may have a blue screen of death, and Gentoo bans AI code! For tips we have nmon to build-your-own top, the final staps to re-sizing a virtual machine drive, and obfuscate for doing a bit of image redaction. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3Ju3l6G and see you next week!

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It's an exciting week, as Ubuntu 24.04 is in Beta, Gentoo is moving, and Explicit Sync is landing. Now what about x86-64_v5? And why does Mesa support CPU raytracing rendering? Then for tips we have CPU Controller, Turbostat, and dnf and apt spring cleaning. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3xIbNMQ And happy Linuxing!

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This week the crew starts by looking at a KDE throw-back distro, then followed that up with a bunch of April Fools news, and a few April first stories that check out. FFMPEG puches out version 7, LXC mints 6.0 LTS, and EEVDF is about feature complete. Then the XZ SSH backdoor gets an update, and that conversation turns a bit philisophical regarding how nice Open Source should really be. For tips we have the awesome selfhosted list, vim, xz --version and zstd, and then some xfs tools for resizing a partition. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4aqmu5a and we hope to see you next time!

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The big news is the SSH backdoor, introduced by a mal-maintainer of the xz project. The rest of the news is happier, with coverage of FlyOS, Intel finally planning to move away from family 6, and Blender minting a new release. There's a compellng alternative to Broadcom's VMWare, Canonical is toying with x86_64-v3, and The Linux Foundation has forked Redis as Valkey. For tips, we have ladder for your bash gaming obsession, lvchange and file for dealing with logical volume filesystems, three different ways to count directories, with three different results, and gdu, the Go alternative to ncdu. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3TDta8Y and enjoy the show!

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