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A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts @garythewilliams from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and @kbknapp from Linux Dev Time.
Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.
Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he’s got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn’t that janky anymore.
Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?
Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.
With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by @allanjude from @25admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.
What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.
The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe's KDE experiment.
It’s our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we’ve changed as people, and more.
It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.
@latenightlinux One problem with things like this is that they're more often than not, a lucky, "target of opportunity", one-time deal.
It'd be really interesting to see something like this filtered by "reproducible deals only". That would change things quite a bit.
@latenightlinux As well as those mentioned in the episode another source of cheap devices is searching the ibidder website which is a load of commercial auctions. Just be aware of the fees added to each auction.
Picked up a t14 thinkpad gen 1 on there last year pretty cheap (well beyond the £50 limit in your challenge though).
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