371: Cabin Fever

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

24:48 SPONSOR: Linode

27:34 Cabin

29:48 Cabin: More Apps, Fewer Distros

33:41 Cabin: Building Small Apps

36:40 Cabin: What is a Cabin App?

44:34 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru

45:20 Feedback: Fedora 33 Bug-A-Thon

47:53 Goin' Indy Update

49:40 Submit Your Linux Prepper Ideas

50:11 Feedback: Dev IDEs

54:15 Feedback: Nextcloud

58:20 Picks: Cozy

1:00:25 Outro

1:01:38 Post-Show

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Stuart Langridge.

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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 Boot from USB · Issue #28 · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub