ULS 133: It's a Technical Term - AI in Linux, the Linux Foundation, and Wayland Marches On

Happy 20th Birthday to Canonical, let's give OpenSuse and Warp a spin, and NTFS might get dropped from the kernel! Both AMD and Nvidia are making strides in opening more GPU code, there's a killer Linux laptop for real power users, and it might be time to retire the older NTFS driver from the Linux kernel. There's Wayland, desktops, and plenty more! For tips we have puter going open source, parted for growing your virtual partitions, dosage for keeping track of medication, and test for scripting goodness. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3PgU59f and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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This week it's all about video connections. HDMI 2.1 is dead to us, DisplayPort is the future, and dongles are the temporary solution. Freesync is dead-ish, and long live VRR. How much difference does X86_64_v4 make? How about AMD's new c cores? Then there's Pingora, the new nginx killer from Cloudflare; a bit of depressing news about native Linux games on Steam, and our favorite guilty pleasure GUI tool. For tips we have last for tracking logins, a Gnome extension for monitoring AirPods; Warehouse for managing flatpacks, and qemu-img as a first step to resizing a VM drive. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3T1dkF1 and Happy Linuxing!

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It's another Snap and Flatpak shootout, a new release of DreamWorks MoonRay, and Google Open Sources Magika. The MariaDB corporation is struggling, KDE has a new Slimbook, and we hate to hate on NVIDIA . For tips we have theme.sh for console theming, Tbmk for bookmarking command tips, tmux -- THE Terminal Multiplexer, and git update-index to get VSCode to leave you alone.

The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4bHDVPM and we'll see you next time!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Ken McDonald

Guest: David Ruggles

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DSL is back, but it's bigger! There's a CUDA implementation for AMD, The Linux Topology code is getting cleaned up, and there's a bit of a tussle over who's the first to ship KDE 6. Nginx forks over a CVE, AMD has new chips, and Asahi is beating Apple on OpenGL. For tips there's zypper for package management, cmp for comparing files, UFW for firewall simplicity, and a quick primer on how Wine handles serial ports! Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/49z3PDs and enjoy the show!

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This week, we cover Windows adding sudo, Ubuntu failing with KDE 6, and the Kernel finally getting some Continuous Integration. Google is spending a million bucks to make Rust and C++ play nice, Microsoft is giving developers another 12 months to use out-of-date Ubuntu with VSCode, and there's some neat Raspberry Pi news to share. For tips there's Grub2Win, the Github arm-runner-action, a bit of explanation on PCIe bifurcation, and a howto on diff.

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The crew covers the newest Framework laptop, the Raspberry Pi IPO, and Intel's Thread Director work in the kernel. There's coverage on Vulkan Video and AV1, the Wayland and KDE drama, and even news about Rust in Thunderbird. We have tips for grabbing a serial device right away, GNU screen for saving machines from spotty SSH connections, and a tip on what to do if your remote desktop is just a black screen.

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Co-Host: Jeff Massie

Guest: David Ruggles

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This week we're talking about all that's new in Linux gaming, and there's a bunch. There's a new Nvidia driver to try out, and a handful of distro updates to cover. Ubuntu Pro continues to be controversial, Firefox has had it with snaps, and KDE is already working on 6.1.

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Valve is complaining about Snap, you should be on Wayland, and Wine 9.0 is out with initial Wayland support. Kernel 6.8 closes the merge window, AV Linux MX Edition might be worth taking a look at, and Hans Reiser sends a letter from prison to the LKML. For tips we have Systemd-nspawn for a quick super-chroot; systemctl enable, disable, and mask; and yt-dlp for video archiving.

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This week we've got news about Ubuntu's reeealy long-term support release, OBS adding more Pipewire support, and a new way to manage your daemons. Then there's lots of fun in kernel land, as a proposal to add C++ to the kernel is capturing some attention, Linux Torvalds is snowed out and offline, and Intel's latest graphical driver needed a bit more testing before pushing. Then Fedora keeps working on its Machine Learning stack, and Cosmic is getting close to shipping an Alpha. For tips we have mcomix for your obscure digital comic book formats, and darling to try running MacOS binaries on Linux.

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This week, we cover artificial intelligence in Linux, Mesa 24 is wringing even more performance out of Radeon ray-tracing, and Archcraft makes a compelling case for installing on that old machine with not enough RAM for anything else. Then there's Zen 5 news, video acceleration for Chromium on Wayland, MX Linux on your Pi, and the annual report from the Linux Foundation. For tips, we have the puter in a browser, gpioinfo for wrangling your gpiochips, a CURRTIME function for tracking system time, and apt search for finding that package you can't quite remember.

Catch the show notes at https://bit.ly/3vmQRtL and come back next time!

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