Untitled Linux Show (Video)

This week the Rust controversy continues, and a kernel maintainer stirs up some political drama on the way out the door. NTSYNC and Wayland HDR finally land... and you can't use them yet. KDE Plasma pushes 6.3 out the door, OBS threatens to sue Fedora, and OpenSUSE surprises us all by moving to SELinux. For tips we have etckeeper for versioning your /etc files, pw-config for querying your Pipewire config, and a more detailed guide to using jq to manipulate JSON data. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4gHNvng and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell and Ken McDonald

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It's apparently not always safe to apply to Canonical, Nvidia pushes drivers to go with its new hardware, and apparently Linux now runs inside PDFs. Then there's a bit of a flame war to cover over Rust in the kernel, at least one maintainer leaves, and there's the normal churn of application updates to talk about. For tips, we have EasyCron so you don't have to use Google every time you write a cron job, dig for abusing DNS to check if your local Internet connection works, pw-dump to get excrutiating details on your local Pipewire environment, and rocm-smi to make sure nobody's mining bitcoin on your GPU. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/3CJ7LXy and enjoy the show!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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We're celebrating the 1.7 release of Gparted, the new hybrid approach to a queueing problem in the Linux kernel, and musing over the news that GTK5 won't have any X11 support. Then there's KDE news, a Thunderbird update, OpenAI's troubled relationship with that "open" element of their name, and the kernel's maintainer worries. For tips we have pw-v4l2 for Pipewire fun, certbot for HTTPS certificate wrangling, and rocminfo for examining your system's ROCM status. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3Emasia and happy Linuxing!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and David Ruggles

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This week we're back with Wine 10 and x86 emulation on ARM64, the compute performance of the NVIDIA RTX 5090, and a new Ventoy release. There's more Linux 6.14 news, including support for the copilot key, an impressive win in suspend and resume speeds, and the bcachefs pull request finally lands. For tips we have Ignition for startup management, lsscsi for drive info, vainfo for quering VA-API, adn v4lt-ctl for working with video devices. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/42uSZ1g and we'll see you next time!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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Hosts Jonathan Bennett, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie discuss several significant developments in the Linux ecosystem. They begin with an urgent security vulnerability in rsync version 3.3 and earlier that requires immediate updates. The hosts then cover the progress of KDE Plasma 6.3's development, highlighting numerous bug fixes and improvements. They discuss the upcoming Linux kernel 6.13 release and preview features coming in kernel 6.14, including significant improvements for gaming through Wine with NTSync support. The conversation also covers TuxCare's extended support for Microsoft's .NET 6.0, LXQT's new Wayland session support in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and a detailed technical discussion about PCI Express 7 specifications and testing requirements. Find the show notes at https://tinyurl.com/2zd37cp3

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie

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This week we talk browsers, with coverage of the Servo updates and the new Supporters of Chromium group in the Linux Foundation. The Raspberry Pi has a 16Gb model of the Pi 5, and not everyone is happy about it. KDE Plasma 6.3 has a public beta, Flatpack has released version 1.16, and Mint is on the cusp of releasing version 22.1. For tips we have kshift for quick or automated KDE re-theming, php -S for local php site testing, a quick tar howto, and pipewire-pulse for more pipewire and oulse audio fun. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3BUzLqV Enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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It's the year-in-review show, and the Steam survey, and the Linux Kernel commit review. There's also Proxmox news, news on Debian 13, and questions about x.org. Then the guys dove into their predictions from last year, and made new predictions for 2025. Check it out to see how they did! You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4fMbHnK and happy new year!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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The guys are back, this time with Intel news, Microsoft's new open source tool, and the dust-up between bottles and OpenSuse. We finally cover the Pi 500 and Pi monitor, review the latest Framework laptops, and take a look at Microsoft's new Open Source MarkItDown tool. For tips we have comm for comparing files, a tip on bash expansion, fbi for displaying images right on the frame buffer, and abcde for super simple audio CD extraction. The show notes are at https://bit.ly/4gtMyQ0

Merry Christmas, and we'll see you next year!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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It's the Jeff and Jonathan Show, with the guys talking about the new Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, the new hardware attack known as BadRam, and the new proposed Fedora COSMIC spin. There's a new Proton release, CentOS Stream 10 is out, and KDE ships 6.3. For tips we have Cargo for all your rust packaging needs, and switcherooctl for video card management. See the show notes at https://bit.ly/4iDntUk and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Co-Host: Jeff Massie

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There's been a bit of a shakeup this week, with Torvalds criticizing Docker, Rustls dominating the TLS performance war, and Intel releasing a graphics card while "retiring" their CEO. Then, Flathub and KDE are working on their finances, OpenVPN has modernized its kernel driver, and Steam Machines may be back! Oh, and don't forget OBS 31 or the potential security issue with OpenWRT! For tips, we have eza as an ls replacement, pv for pipe progress viewing, IMSProg for EEPROM hacking, and HandlePowerKey for customizing what your machine does when you hit the power button. Grab the show notes at https://bit.ly/4gl1VtB and enjoy!

Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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