Ask Noah Show 355

What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works"
-- During The Show --
00:58 Intro
Steve's Nvidea Issue
trouble shooting process
root cause = it's dirty
why dig for the root cause
Good News!
Axia fixed our board!
06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed
Google ads used for phishing
Google ads placement confusing
Why google don't clearly label ads
12:05 TPM & Drive Encryption On Fedora - Tiny
Clevis (https://github.com/latchset/clevis)
SystemD Cryptenroll
Fedora TPM Blog Post (https://fedoramagazine.org/automatically-decrypt-your-disk-using-tpm2/)
Fedora Security Keys Blog Post (https://fedoramagazine.org/use-systemd-cryptenroll-with-fido-u2f-or-tpm2-to-decrypt-your-disk/)
15:09 Linux Mint Issues - penguin prince
Maybe re-seat things?
15:55 Current Grafana Setup - Tiny
Current Usage
Network
CPU
RAM
Disk
Matrix database
Added to Ansible
Grafana can be more than graphs
21:00 News Wire
Fedora KDE Plasma 6 Dropping X11 - 9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-40-to-offer-the-kde-plasma-6-desktop-on-wayland-and-drop-x11-session)
Linux 6.7 Drops Itanium IA-64 - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-To-Drop-Itanium-IA-64)
ReiserFS Removed From Default Kernel - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReiserFS-Drop-From-Defconfigs)
Tails 5.17.1 - Tails (https://tails.net/news/version_5.17.1/index.en.html)
Real-Time Linux on AWS - The News Stack (https://thenewstack.io/canonical-brings-real-time-linux-to-amazon-web-services/)
Delayed Module Signature Verification - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Delay-Module-Verification)
OpenSUSE Seeks LEAP Replacement - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/opensuse-seeks-a-leap-replacement-but-will-distro-community-rise-to-the-challenge/)
OpenSource.com Reborn - Open SOurce Watch (https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/invaluable-opensourcecom-site-reborn-opensourcenet)
Intel FPGA & RISC-V - The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/15/intel_fpga_updates/)
OpenSSL 1.1.1 is EOL - The News Stack (https://thenewstack.io/update-now-openssl-1-1-1s-shelf-life-has-ended/)
Earth Lusca & SprySOCKS backdoor - Bleeping Computer (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-sprysocks-linux-malware-used-in-cyber-espionage-attacks/)
NCurses Flaw - The Hacker News (https://thehackernews.com/2023/09/microsoft-uncovers-flaws-in-ncurses.html)
CISA Announcement - CISA.gov (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-announces-open-source-software-security-roadmap)
VC Bill Gurley - Fortune.com (https://fortune.com/2023/09/17/bill-gurley-warns-regulatory-capture-ai-hails-open-source/)
6.1.14 Kernel in Scratch - MIT.edu (https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/892602496)
23:00 OpenSuse Aeon
"It Just Works" Linux
MicroOS & Gnome as immmutable base
Software via FlatPak and distrobox
Good for some users
What problem does this solve?
Purpose Driven
OpenSuse Aeon (https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Aeon)
All Systems GO Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_kGbmlewo)
34:30 Penguin Prince Calls
Adding a Page to WordPress Issue
Page refuses to go live
38:55 The US Assembled Linux Laptop You Haven't Heard Of
Malibal (https://www.malibal.com/)
Final Assembly in the US
Expensive
Making a powerful sleek computer
Most have graphics cards
Optimus Manager (https://github.com/Askannz/optimus-manager)
Coreboot
Commitment to sustainability
Barrel Power vs Type-C charging
Dell's commitment to Linux
System76 (https://system76.com/)
Framework Laptops (https://frame.work/)
51:36 NextCloud Hub 6
They have to have email
Mail in a Box (https://mailinabox.email/)
LInux Today (https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/nextcloud-hub-6-more-than-a-foss-replacement-for-microsoft-365-business-standard/)
Linux UnPlugged 528 (https://linuxunplugged.com/528)
52:25 LFNW Moved to Next Year
Had to move the date
Will still have things to do
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• Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 •
Special Guest: JT Pennington.

What if you could purchase a computer built like a Mac but run a free and open source operating system on it that you can't break, would you buy one? Steve and Noah discuss the Malibal, and an immutable distro with Flatpaks that "just works"

-- During The Show --

00:58 Intro

Steve's Nvidea Issue

trouble shooting process
root cause = it's dirty
why dig for the root cause

Good News!

Axia fixed our board!

06:50 Google Ad Policy - Ahmed

Google ads used for phishing
Google ads placement confusing
Why google don't clearly label ads

12:05 TPM & Drive Encryption On Fedora - Tiny

Clevis
SystemD Cryptenroll
Fedora TPM Blog Post
Fedora Security Keys Blog Post

15:09 Linux Mint Issues - penguin prince

Maybe re-seat things?

15:55 Current Grafana Setup - Tiny

Current Usage

Network
CPU
RAM
Disk

Matrix database
Added to Ansible
Grafana can be more than graphs

21:00 News Wire

Fedora KDE Plasma 6 Dropping X11 - 9 to 5 Linux

Linux 6.7 Drops Itanium IA-64 - Phoronix

ReiserFS Removed From Default Kernel - Phoronix

Tails 5.17.1 - Tails

Real-Time Linux on AWS - The News Stack

Delayed Module Signature Verification - Phoronix

OpenSUSE Seeks LEAP Replacement - ZDNet

OpenSource.com Reborn - Open SOurce Watch

Intel FPGA & RISC-V - The Register

OpenSSL 1.1.1 is EOL - The News Stack

Earth Lusca & SprySOCKS backdoor - Bleeping Computer

NCurses Flaw - The Hacker News

CISA Announcement - CISA.gov

VC Bill Gurley - Fortune.com

6.1.14 Kernel in Scratch - MIT.edu

23:00 OpenSuse Aeon

"It Just Works" Linux
MicroOS & Gnome as immmutable base
Software via FlatPak and distrobox
Good for some users
What problem does this solve?
Purpose Driven
OpenSuse Aeon
All Systems GO Talk

34:30 Penguin Prince Calls

Adding a Page to WordPress Issue
Page refuses to go live

38:55 The US Assembled Linux Laptop You Haven't Heard Of

Malibal
Final Assembly in the US
Expensive
Making a powerful sleek computer
Most have graphics cards
Optimus Manager
Coreboot
Commitment to sustainability
Barrel Power vs Type-C charging
Dell's commitment to Linux
System76
Framework Laptops

51:36 NextCloud Hub 6

They have to have email
Mail in a Box
LInux Today
Linux UnPlugged 528

52:25 LFNW Moved to Next Year

Had to move the date
Will still have things to do

-- The Extra Credit Section --

For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!

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Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys

Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix

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Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard

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Contact Noah

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