Podcast Season 5 Episode 3
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Title: Feels over reals
In this episode: 32 bits are no longer enough, there’s crowdfunding for Elementary and small PCs, and Munich fakes the news. Plus lots of discoveries.
What’s in the show:
- News:
- Appcenter, a pay-what-you-want appstore for Elementary kickstarted. A study by Firefox, Cloudflare and others has shown that between 5 and 10 percent of HTTP traffic is intercepted. Arch drop 32-bit support, as does Tails. Munich considers dropping Linux, or not.
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- zmoylan-pi; You can’t turn off the DRM in the new version of Chrome (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-57-permanently-enabled-drm,33527.html).
- zmoylan-pi; The Nokia 3310 returns (http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/2/14/14609438/nokia-3310-rumored-mwc-3-5-6-hmd-global).
- aShepie; Linkedin articles are an excersice in narcism (https://blog.linkedin.com/topic/careers).
- Graham:
- If you’ve got an Amiga, check out Aural Synthetica (http://www.blachford.info/blachtech/as11.html).
- Ben:
- set synchronize on tmux has been a boon for me recently (https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/sync-tmux-panes/).
- A pocket PC running Ubuntu is being crowdfunded (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-pocket-7-0-umpc-laptop-ubuntu-or-win-10-os-laptop–2#/).
- Mike:
- There are an infinite number of contributors working on the Linux kernel (https://github.com/torvalds/linux).
- Andrew:
- The Craft of Text Editing is a free download (https://www.finseth.com/craft/).
- A selection of finds from from our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
- Vocalise your Neurons:
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Huge thanks to Bob Anderson for asking for Perl tutorials and Phil the Sheep for telling everyone how awesome Linux is. If you would like Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.
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Duration: 1:02:28
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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.
Great episode as always guys! Looking forward to infinite more episodes! =)
This podcast is brilliant but not expensive enough. 2 stars. 🙂
I for one can’t wait for your Amiga podcast. In answer to Mike’s question as to where the accelerator goes in the A1200, it goes in the trap door slot.
Thanks John!
Are there really so few people using i686 ?
My secondary machine is a very old, but very large 17-inch laptop (although you wouldn’t want to put it on your lap!). It is i686. It runs Arch. It’s used daily. Why? It has a 16:10 display and can drive a second external 1080p monitor at the same time.
Granted it’s slow but everything works fine with the exception most recently of Firefox being a slug.
I really like being able to run Arch on everything – intels and arms.
All is not lost, however. There is the phoenix-like archlinux32 in the works which, according to its fledgling website[1] may even support i486 and i586 too. There is a placeholder repo on GitHub[2] but nothing there yet.
I have this back-burner project to run Arch on an even older, but very ahead of its time, Toshiba Libretto 100CT. Maybe the i586 support might allow that to happen one day, if I ever have the time.
[1] http://archlinux32.org
[2] https://github.com/archlinux32
by the way… your link to the tails announcement is a link to an Archlinux list email. The announcements are
tails – https://tails.boum.org/news/Tails_3.0_will_require_a_64-bit_processor/index.en.html
arch – https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/