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Popular songs we can’t stand, and our biggest regrets in life. With Andy from Linux Dev Time, Jim from 2.5 Admins, and Martin from Linux Matters.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 280
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Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
News
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it
Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers
RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback
US government reportedly ponders crimping China’s use of RISC-V
Amarok 3.0 “Castaway” released!
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Linux Dev Time – Episode 97
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Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.
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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 03
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What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1
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2.5 Admins 193: TV DoS
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How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.
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News/discussion
Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame
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We were asked about encrypting offsite backups.
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Linux Matters 28: Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers
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In this episode:
- Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down
- Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server
- Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide
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Late Night Linux – Episode 279
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What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
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What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro?
Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity
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Linux After Dark – Episode 68
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Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.
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2.5 Admins 192: ZFS Week
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ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).
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How to upstream code to open source projects
News
Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption
Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike
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We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 278
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More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
Announcing the Open Home Foundation
tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again
A thread about people who need to run Windows
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
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