This week we take your feedback give an update on Steve's son's server. We talk some Xsession woes, Noah gives you an update on access control and credentials, and Steve has some thoughts on Apple.
-- During The Show --
00:42 Intro
- Conference season
- Seasons of Life
- Each conference has something different
03:15 Steve's Audio Issues - bout10bucks
- Jellyfin and Kodi
- MKV containers
- What Steve was doing
06:22 Steve's Son's Server and other things - Norm
- Steve's son and Linux
- Parenting
- Applying pressure
- Noah's listening
- Audio Books
- Jupiter Broadcasting
- Darknet Diaries
- Steve's listening
- Jupiter Broadcasting
- Coder Radio
- Late Night Linux
- AI Fix
- Smashing Security
- Getting a company to open source code
- Open Source community can be hostile
- Gather info before hand
- What is the benefit to the company
- Licensing
- Linux Conference Talk
21:16 Charlie's Xsession woes - Charlie
- How to disable error generation into the xsession file
- What is an xsession file
- AI is good at parsing log files
25:41 News Wire
Postfix 3.11 - postfix.org
Handbrake 1.11 - handbrake.fr
Digikam 9.0 - digikam.org
Docker 29.3 - docker.com
SQLite 3.52 - sqlite.org
Rust 1.94 - releases.rs
GTK 4.22 - gitlab.gnome.org
KDE Plasma 6.6.2 - kde.org
Nvidia 595 Driver - phoronix.com
CIQ Kernel - yahoo.com
ZeroRISC Crypto Stack - thequantuminsider.com
Fake Laravel Packages - thehackernews.com
RELIANOID Community Edition v7.9 - relianoid.com
Austrumi 5.2 - ftp.linux.edu.lv
CachyOS March 2026 release - cachyos.org
T2 26.3 Desktop Edition - t2linux.com
Nitrux 6.0 - nxos.org
NemoClaw - cnbc.com
Google Always On Memory Agent - venturebeat.com
Database to Study Cancer - hopkinsmedicine.org
27:20 Access Control Credentials
33:55 Steve's Apple Observations
- Cellphone in laptop form factor
- Eats into "low end devices"
- Unified memory and VRAM
- Developers already targeting Mac
- Cost to running Linux
- Linux's answer
- Developer angle
47:29 GrapheneOS & Motorola
- Annouced at Mobile World Congress
- Buying a Pixel to load other operating systems
- Android Authority.com
- Motorola News
51:00 Age Verification Built into OS
- California is requiring age verification in the OS
- What is expected of other operating systems
- Now is the time to speak up
- How it effects Linux
- itsfoss.com
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