Podcast Season 2 Episode 9
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Title: Trifon Ivanov
In this episode: Linus Torvalds is given another award. Yet Another Kernel Bug. Razor-qt and LXDE merge to create LXQt. Google may have to amend certain search results and a crowd funded open laptop hits its target. Plus! There are several rather excellent neurons and lots of distro-love in this episode.
What’s in the show:
- News:Linus Torvalds has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s Computer Pioneer Award. There’s a new privilege escalation bug in the kernel. A new version of the LXDE/Razor-qt mashup, LXQt 0.7, has been released. Google might need to amend some search results, according to a recent EU court ruling. Novena, an open hardware laptop, has reached its crowdfunding target. You can no longer legally watch Chris Hadfield’s rather excellent cover version of Bowie’s Space Oddity. And Canonical has launched its own ‘Chuck Norris Grade’ cloud service.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Graham:
- If you like KDE, LXQt is a great alternative for low-powered systems.
- SyncThing a new and open source equivalent to BitTorrent Sync.
- Ben:
- The launch of each Apollo rocket took approximately the same number of man/woman-hours as it took to build a pyramid.
- You can stop sending in photos of your shoelaces now.
- Andrew:
- The Great Boot Race
- The visual editor in WordPress is a lie.
- Mike:
- Levinux; a tiny version of Linux for education.
- Graham:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Many awesome thanks to Phil and Omnivorous Implementer for this episode’s neurons. If you’d like your brains to be part of our next episode email mike@linuxvoice.com.
- Voice of the Masses: What made you choose your current distro?
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:03:33
Theme Music by Brad Sucks.
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About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
I use KDE with Openbox, which works quite well if I dare say so.
You certainly may – I do the same (but with Fluxbox, although that’s splitting hairs). Both QT and GTK apps run beautifully and my RAM consumption is circa 200MB (along a few odds and ends of daemons / conky etc. running in the background).
I’ve been using SolydK on my netbook for a few weeks and I’m very impressed with it’s resource usage. Runs at around 270MB of RAM for me. Openbox would make it look like a hog, but pretty darn slim for KDE. Nice distro too. I think I’m going to keep it.
Another great podcast. Just listened to the latest offering from the folks behind Another Magazine You May Be Familiar With and it was fairly woeful. Can’t wait for my LV dead tree copy to arrive.
I installed openbox on my kde install so I could log in to either desktop, but I found the various kdaemons still running in the background added an extra 100mb of ram compared my slim+openbox install on another partition. How do you achieve true separation?
Don’t know if this is going to be read but KWin’s memory consumption isn’t any good or worse then the main window managers like Gnome and Unity. And memory is no longer a limiting factor in most computers.
http://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/