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hello and welcome to linux action news episode

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255 recorded on august

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24th 2022 i'm chris,

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let's

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the news this week,

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for those of us just too

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dang many cpu cores and

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not enough time or

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multiple efforts are now underway

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to improve the boot time for arm

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or wrist systems that

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use k exact

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every now and then we have a story that

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i feel like was custom written for

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west pain we recently even covered

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another effort underway by the folks

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at tic time optimize our

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the colonel image compression handle during

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a gay exact boot or shut down

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now

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newark seemingly underway for me there an individual

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or at least a small group sharing a g email

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account this new set of patches allows

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the colonel to bring down c b u

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corps in parallel

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when we get into the details a little background

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for those of you may be not exec

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enthusiasts it's an abbreviation

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for colonel execute and

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execute and an admin to reboot or

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boot into are entirely different new

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kernel without going to the

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usual posting process of

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a typical start what

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you perform faster system reboots get to

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skip all that slow hardware initialization

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or you can boot into a very different colonel

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perhaps performer function like crash

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recovery

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currently

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erin out a keg that reboot on risk

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five or a sixty four bit arm

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system well it

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can be a little bit painful

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at least if you're lucky enough to have a high core

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count system since each

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cb you course is shut down one

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at one at one after

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another to underscore

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that point the patch author points out

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that with this new work and eighty core

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arm server can do a k exact reboot

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just

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that

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the anything

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i took almost fifteen seconds

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vienna you that up like across

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infrastructure like a w s oh

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man are you talking a real savings it's stats

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that a game changer for some of these big cloud

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providers and other architectures like

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x eighty six sixty four in power

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well yeah no surprise there they were dissolved

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this a little while ago when using kegs that

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are not currently bottleneck my that serialize

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style of shutdown of the seaview course

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the bit of luck

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these ten patches could soon be mainland

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and well at least are west pain will be

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delighted about the one thing i'd

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like a little more clarity about his

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if these two efforts have

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any connection at all it seemed on

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first past the didn't

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i think

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i'm like more details that

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it is a little bit curious why

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all this work on k exact just

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right now that

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is the intersection of you know some of these new architectures

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really gaining in popularity lately and

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then perhaps also a bit of cake that been

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viewed as something of a curiosity

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least bias in in fifteen minutes

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and but i suspect the

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me see more used to production the we really give it

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credit for watch it

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has always if you have more details or

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peck if you're using k exact in production

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let us know in our matrix room or linux

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action news dot com slash contact

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and speaking of with five devices star

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five tech out of shins and china has launched

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their first kickstarter different a small board

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computer in the spirit of a raspberry

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pi loaded with a

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risk five chair

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and

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the to say

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it's it's been a really long

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time since a crowd funded sucked me in and

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i funded anything that division

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five to got me i have backed a

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unit that claims it will share in november

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the core of the unit well

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it's the star five sixty four bit

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c b you the train quad

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sign five one point five kicker hurts court

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and in a larger chains from the vision

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five to predecessor i

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think got an imagination pfc

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for thirty two graphics processing

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unit which should do some of the heavy lifting

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if you're using this for desktop or graphical

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workload

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yeah so the device itself it served its

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in a rough for footprint of a raspberry pi

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also but unlike the pie division

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five do also has m m c

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onboard and and m dot to t

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slot for an ssd

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as well as standard forty pinch

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gp i owe header hd a my

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multiple us be and

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to yes to the

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internet ports now

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kickstarter is offering a super

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early bird special version which has

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different isn't that part one

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supports ten or one hundred megabus

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while the other is kick a bit only but

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all other aspects remain the

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same impressively

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kickstarter has already reached it's goal

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and within twenty four hours to boot

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the mean to hit twenty ak from

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the start and campaign has raised

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nearly forty k as a

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record

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the did a quick note let you know about an important election

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coming up the twenty twenty two election

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for members of the linux foundation technical

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advisory board known as tab will

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be held during the linux plumbers conference coming

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up on september twelfth two the fourteen

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the cab represents the colonel development

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community to the linux foundation and

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beyond the and hold the seat

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on the foundations board of directors

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the copper nominees for this year's election has

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already gone out the deadline

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for nominations in september twelfth

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from that i had no idea that project

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was even still have live in twenty twenty

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two file web men the

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once king of remote web management first

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at least nineteen ninety seven

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has released version to dot zero

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this week

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and yes and still mainly written

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in pearl you might expect

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women to point out has been in the works for

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years initially a

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goal of the two point oh release was focused on

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removing the legacy support that it built up

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the many years of development

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it is time has gone on web men to dot

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has become more of an incremental updates

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over the one series there are some nice

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visual improvements for sure support for

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multiple versions of web been installed on a system

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with system

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in

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great to see support ray mdc view temperatures

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you know just in general it's impressive

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to see a project continue on after

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twenty five years still

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developed at still in use still

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take a moment to acknowledge that this is providing

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a lot of value felt that there

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this particular release a project

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seems to be focusing on enforcing a city

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p strict transport security as

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well as having better http to https

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redirect when you've that ssl unable

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that's a good thing to see on your remote

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that

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interface after that fifty

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that pop acts of really glad they enabled

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that i also the over just really happy

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see the project continue and

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it's not like they have it at any release is over the years

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rabbit a bit of fun here in fact their

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previous release version one dot nine

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nine nine dash to was released on august

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fourth and the released before that july

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twenty fifth in july thirteenth before

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that so really the one that oh series

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has seen many updates

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over the years is is not something

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i use anymore that there

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was a time in the early two thousand

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when web and help me bridge that gap

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in a world where i had windows and linux

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servers an easy transition specially

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when i was learning linux service management

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things like sign a d and apache virtual house

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and the basics of som web

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and gave me a you i'd figure that stuff

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out and having a standard tool i

7:58

could load on my red had bought my debbie

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and machines in my mandrake systems

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really valuable

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the leopard wonder fourteen dot zero

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is out this week the

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combination of several months of work by

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dozens of people and it brings a variety

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of lower level improvements this

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one corrected an issue that could lead

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to memory corruption

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it's always good to see there's a lot

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in one dot fourteen that i think what our

8:28

listeners are gonna find most interesting the

8:31

improvements to the command line tools i'm

8:33

always sort of personally sell to the command line interface

8:35

to flat pack wasn't quite as good

8:37

as it could be and did not always

8:40

expose all of the information that

8:42

the user needed the now

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with one dot fourteen the command line

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interface is in many improvements a

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couple of them i think are essential one

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is the user will now be properly informed

8:53

the opposite are using an end of life runtime

8:56

extension that's good for security reasons obviously

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the head

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when the user use of the uninstall command

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it will now ask for confirmation before

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removing a runtime or runtime

9:07

extension that another flat pack as depending

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on

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yeah that's a pretty big deal right

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there

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the really

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the bigger picture with my packs is i

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think we've had the era of polish

9:21

you know about the based technology of delivering

9:23

containerized applications basically

9:26

soft this point we

9:29

can ship just about any application in one of these

9:31

universal format the even something

9:33

as complicated as safe steam and

9:36

my pack claims to have wider and wider community

9:38

dobson just about every single week

9:40

it seems least it

9:42

i think you're right was i think the challenges

9:44

that still need to be solved now our social

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ones

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we rarely draw attention to individual

9:54

releases of web browsers that

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a firefox one for release on

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august twenty third peter

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me thought you might like to know about

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among a few others

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like commercial that starts getting the ability to

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measure the actual power usage a website

10:10

one thing we're all getting the

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new feature for the firefox you why

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itself or maybe

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i should say it's a lack of features

10:20

starting with version one of four when firefox

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is hidden under another window or

10:24

minimized the and hire you

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i will be throttled for performance and

10:29

for improved battery impact much

10:32

like how idol back and have get throttled

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already overall firefox

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is had a string of excellent releases lately

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we end this week with an update

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on the journey into a fully open

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gl accelerated linux desktop

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on the apple m series hardware

15:52

arose week has been involved with he thought he'd

15:54

linux project for nearly two years

15:57

working on reverse engineering apple m serious

15:59

graphics

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lord

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the shared a new status update

16:03

the and and seen something

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of a milestone has been reached

16:08

never ball west the old classic

16:10

never ball game and all of it's open gl

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glory rendered on the open

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source mesa asahi drive

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the understand

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this opens your drivers actually running on mac

16:20

o s while using the standard proprietary

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maquilas colonel driver

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the hope here is the once the apple

16:26

silicon colonel graphics driver for the

16:28

linux begins taking shape mesa

16:31

open gl driver well my just

16:34

a little bit of work function

16:36

under linux rather than only

16:38

been functional on mac o s make

16:42

no mistake this is still quite

16:44

the achievement their most

16:46

recent update rosenzweig writes about

16:48

the process of reverse engineering the behavior

16:51

of apple's metal driver and

16:53

of course apple provides no

16:55

hardware documentation

16:57

and surprise surprise the documentation

16:59

for metal well according to rosenzweig

17:03

really kind of two versions of the they

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say they have one version for

17:08

the public developers to consume the documents things

17:10

for a developer targeting the app store he

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believes there's a second version inside apple

17:16

that is quote the internal

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a p i am back features that apple

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doesn't want you using

17:22

the and while apple did not publish

17:24

those features or any kind of documentation

17:26

on those internal ip years the

17:28

team found a quote leave

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behind the curtain

17:33

the undocumented classes and methods making

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up apple's internal mentally be i

17:37

of course are still available in the production

17:40

metal binaries to use them

17:43

developer only needs the missing headers and fortunately

17:45

objective see symbols contain enough information

17:48

to reconstruct the header files allowing

17:50

rosenzweig to experiment with undocumented

17:53

methods that have your functionality

17:55

inherited from opens yeah

17:57

now all this is very exciting but the

18:00

probably be clear

18:01

reverse engineering a driver stack

18:03

requires years of work

18:06

the gamers out there should probably be prepared

18:08

to wait a few more years before you'll really

18:11

be satisfied with tb driver performance

18:14

yeah and the asahi developers will be the

18:16

first to tell us temper our expectations

18:19

but

18:20

those of us who would be satisfied with enough

18:23

functionality for accelerates desktop

18:25

environment a working web browser

18:27

and maybe a few older games i

18:30

think they might be there by the

18:32

end of this year

18:34

paint quotes

18:35

i'm often

18:36

that i will have native open gl

18:38

two point one and a thaw he linux by

18:40

the end of the year i've been up to

18:43

accelerate your desktop environment browser

18:45

oh enough to play older games like

18:48

never bought even without

18:50

fancy features he be withheld recent

18:52

mean smooth animations and

18:54

better battery life

18:56

the be a heck of a thing to see specially if they

18:58

do it by the end of the year that would be really

19:00

impressive than in my opinion pretty much the best

19:03

case scenario or work like

19:05

this i'd say i mean have you i

19:07

be blown away honestly then i wouldn't

19:09

be surprised if the project doesn't make

19:11

a funding post to try to hire rosensweig

19:14

full time so she can really get

19:16

this thing across the finish line well

19:18

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