358: Our Fragmented Favorite
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It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions. Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it. Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: SpaceX: We’ve launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet Issue #54: Default disk partitioning layout for Workstation - fedora-workstation - Pagure.io 16 Jun, MEETING AGENDA - desktop - Fedora Mailing-Lists [Discussion] What do we think about Github’s decision to start using main instead of master as a branch name? ZFS co-creator boots ‘slave’ out of OpenZFS codebase, says ‘casual use’ of term is ‘unnecessary reference to a painful experience’ OpenZFS: Remove unnecessary references to slavery GitHub will no longer use the term ‘master’ as default branch because of negative association - r/programming Community Central: Welcoming Nomenclature - YouTube PinePhone: postmarketOS community edition PineTab sold out in 72 hours. Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar! Pay it forward: Help us give away 1,000 ACG subscriptions
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- 0:00 Pre-Show
- 0:44 Intro
- 4:09 In Defense of BTRFS
- 27:15 Integrating Welcoming Language
- 41:29 postmarketOS on the PinePhone
- 45:31 Housekeeping
- 47:51 Catching Up to Proprietary Systems
- 48:48 The Multimedia Stack
- 54:31 The Installation Experience
- 58:25 Accessibility
- 59:51 The PDF Problem
- 1:00:51 Workstation Woes
- 1:12:14 Outro
- 1:13:25 Post-Show
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