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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.

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:07 — 25.3MB)

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

After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage

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.

Tailscale

Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:10 — 22.8MB)

Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 25:44 — 21.2MB)

Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.

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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter

News/discussion

Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing

Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork

Why AWS Supports Valkey

OpenTofu not being good fork

IAM Is The Worst

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:31 — 23.2MB)

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.

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Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine

Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them

Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive

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We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.

Tailscale

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 34:54 — 28.5MB)

In this episode:

• Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us.

Here are the links to everything we mentioned.

• Bucklespring

• Snapdrop

• Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp
• 8BitDo Micro Gamepad

• https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html
• https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html

• Introduction to Virtualization
• systemd-nspawn containers

• A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck

• StyleTTS2
• Pied

• Calibre Companion
• Calibre Web
• FBReader
• CDisplayEx
• Komga
• BorrowBox
• Audiobookshelf
• Booksonic

• N100 upgrade

You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:

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• The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.

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We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.

Bazzite

Universal Blue

Project Bluefin

Install Collector on Linux

Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems

CNCF Landscape

Kolide

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:17 — 24.6MB)

A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols

X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing

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We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.

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