Linux

At the recent Open Source Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Jon Corbet gave yet another talk on Linux kernel development... this time focusing on it's 34th anniversary and giving long-term trends.  His talks are always very good, and data driven.  Enjoy!

Mr. Torvalds sat down with TFiR for a fairly lengthy interview while attending a conference a couple of weeks ago.  I enjoyed it; Hope you do too.

I’m pretty sure I am not your typical computer user or Linux enthusiast. At work, I primarily use Windows (about 98% of the time) with a touch of Mac (2% of the time). However, at home, I lean more toward Mac, although I occasionally dabble in both Windows and Linux based on my preferences or needs. Lately, when I explore Linux, I tend to boot up Ubuntu Budgie. It strikes me as one of the more polished-looking desktop environments.

Now, here’s the interesting part: I recently watched the “LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Meet COSMIC DE” presentation on YouTube, and I have to admit, I’m intrigued. COSMIC DE is a new Rust-based desktop environment being developed by System76—a company known for creating Linux-compatible hardware. They’ve also crafted their own flavor of Ubuntu Linux called Pop!_OS which currently uses the Gnome Desktop environment.

A few years back, I briefly experimented with Pop!_OS, but it didn’t quite capture my interest. Visually, it didn’t resonate with me, and—though it sounds silly—the name bothered me a bit. However, COSMIC DE has piqued my curiosity. I’m drawn to its aesthetics and the functionality they’re aiming to develop. System76 is planning to release Pop!_OS with the new Cosmic Desktop Environment sometime this year (2024). Once it’s officially released, I plan to give it a closer look.

Feel free to check out the video and share your thoughts!

The most recent Linus talk.  Enjoy.

RetroBytes put together quite the complete / lengthy history of X11.  I've been using KDE Plasma on Wayland for a while but X11 is going to remain for some time to come.  Enjoy!

The YouTube ExplainingComputers guy just came out with a Linux End-User Manifesto.  He basically makes an argument for how Linux users can better advocate for wider adoption.  Enjoy!

The Open Source Summit was held this week in Japan.  The Linux Foundation has been pretty quick to post the videos on YouTube but currently in very long, everything-that-happened-in-this-room-that-day format.  I fished this clip out and converted it to av1/opus in a webm media container. If you can't play that, use something that is compatible with those codecs/container format.

Linus Torvalds at the recent Open Source Summit Japan, 2023.

Here's a 30 minute documentary that explains the eBPF function of the Linux kernel.  Enjoy!

We don't get to see Linus talking much these days but here's a recent interview.  Enjoy!

Here's Jon Corbet's  very recent Linux Kernel Report from the recent LinuxCon OSS EU 2022: