Episode 371: Cabin Fever

What this episode covers

Friends join us to discuss Cabin, a proposal that encourages more Linux apps and fewer distros. Plus, we debate the value that the Ubuntu community brings to Canonical, and share a pick for audiobook fans. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:48 Intro 0:54 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:25 Future of Ubuntu Community 6:51 Ubuntu Community: Popey Responds 9:31 Ubuntu Community: Stuart Langridge Responds 16:26 Ubuntu Community: Mark Shuttleworth Responds 17:30 BTRFS Workflow Developments 19:09 Linux Kernel 5.9 Performance Regression 24:49 Cabin 27:02 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros 30:55 Cabin: Building Small Apps 33:55 Cabin: What is a Cabin App? 41:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 42:34 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon 45:08 Goin' Indy Update 46:55 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas 47:25 Feedback: Dev IDEs 51:29 Feedback: Nextcloud 55:35 Picks: Cozy 57:40 Outro 58:52 Post-Show Support Core Contributor Links: Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel – CubicleNate’s Techpad Future of Ubuntu Community - Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub Mark Shuttleworth Now Plans To Restore Ubuntu’s Community Council - Phoronix — Mark Shuttleworth announced now that in cooperation with Ubuntu member (and former Community Council member) Walter Lapchynski, they are working to restore the Community Council. Btrfs development update | Josef Bacik’s Blog Deploying Btrfs at Facebook Scale - Josef Bacik, Facebook - YouTube The Latest On The Linux 5.9 Kernel Regression Stemming From Page Lock Fairness - Phoronix — Last week we reported on a Linux 5.9 kernel regression following benchmarks from Linux 5.0 to 5.9 and there being a sharp drop with the latest development kernel. That kernel regression was bisected to code introduced by Linus Torvalds at the start of the Linux 5.9 kernel cycle. Unfortunately it's not a trivial problem and one still being analyzed in coming up with a proper solution. Linux Mailing List - Re: Kernel Benchmarking Making apps for Linux, a proposal — I have a few thoughts on this topic, and so does Alan Pope, and so we got chatting and put together a proposal for a programming environment for making simple apps in a way that new developers could easily grasp. We were quite pleased with it as a concept, but: it didn’t get selected for further development. Oh well, never mind. But the ideas still seem good to us, so I think it’s worth publishing the proposal anyway so that someone else has the chance to be inspired by it, or decide they want it to happen. Direct link to Core Contributors Downloads Page Feedback: IDEs and Editors Feedback: Nextcloud (and borg too) GitHub - geigi/cozy — A modern audio book player for Linux using GTK+ 3. OpenAudible — Audio Book Manager

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