ULS 187: Don't Fear the Copilot - Wine 10, the 5090, and Gnome 48

01/26/25 • 81 min

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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Host: Jonathan Bennett

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

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ULS 186: Accidental Honeypot - Rsync, Kernel Cycle, and WSL

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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ULS 188: We Don't Talk About ChromeOS - Thunderbird, CEF, and GTK

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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