Episode 445

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June 10th, 2025

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About this Episode

X11Libre is a fork of xorg, do the developers of xorg not want xorg to continue? This week Steve and Noah give you the details of what can only be described as a weird situation. SELF is coming up this weekend, Steve, Noah and executive producer JT will be there and we hope to see you!

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00:52 Intro

  • Two ways of traveling
  • Noah's airline story
  • Personal entertainment
  • Ente

10:28 Self

  • This year is "retro year"
  • old tech could be loaded
  • anything requiring sign in can't be used
  • retro swap
  • Free admission
  • Free HAM radio test
  • Free HAM cram session
  • Lan Party
  • GPG Signing party
  • HAM Radio
  • Meshtastic

22:22 XLibre

  • Project to continue the Xorg display server
  • Xorg developed over several decades
  • Xorg server client model
  • Wayland comes in
  • less developement in Xorg, more in Wayland
  • Freedesktop.org
  • Lots of merge requests closed
  • People running RHEL just take what comes down the pipe
  • Cool that they are improving not just keeping it alive
  • theregister.com
  • Github
  • Lunduke YouTube Video
  • Fedora Project Wiki

36:06 News Wire

37:25 Warp Terminal

  • Foss Force
  • It is closed source
  • Uses AI
  • How does Warp stack up against the new RHEL AI?
  • RHEL AI will probly run on the local machine
  • Where it may make sense
  • What is the target audiance?

43:22 Ereader for Music - Steven

  • Tablets?
  • Convertible laptops?
  • Noah bought the PineTab2 for this purpose
  • Nashville Number System
  • SongbookPro
  • Tabbed PDF viewer
  • Trying proton

51:07 Run OPNsense - Kevin

  • You can't install anything else on netgate appliances
  • Used Sophos with sata drives

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