ULS 190: A Fedoraish Direction - Controversies Abound, NTSYNC Lands, and OpenSUSE Pivots

02/16/25 • 79 min

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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Previous Episode

ULS 189: Rustrated By Frust - Canonical, Rust, and Risc-V

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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Next Episode

ULS 191: Linux, Like Sausage... - Linus Puts His Foot Down, Mozilla Diversifies, and Meta Torrents

Rust in the Kernel is still hot news, with Linus chiming in. Asahi has new leadership, there's a new way to detect hung GPUs, and one of those other OS makers wrestles with encryption backdoor rules. Mozilla announces their new plans, Gentoo publishes a VM image, and Meta is taken to court for torrenting. For tips we have kew for terminal music playing, killport for ending a process based on the port it's listening on, and stable-diffusion-webUI for taking advantage of AMD's ROCm for AI image generation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3CRPBTL and we'll be back next week!

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