Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop.
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The plan
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Tracar (https://www.traccar.org/)
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Matrix
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08:47 News Wire
Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com (https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.21.0/)
Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.31.html)
Curl 8.11 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/)
Scraperr 1.0 - github.com (https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr)
LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/)
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com (https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-6-focal-release-3942)
Debian 12.8 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241109)
Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/)
3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance)
CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/new-crontrap-malware-infects-windows-by.html)
AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600762/amd-rolls-out-open-source-olmo-llm-to-compete-with-ai-giants.html)
09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat
Where should you start with AI?
PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/)
Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU
VRAM is the biggest factor
How is Fedora using AI?
OpenQA (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenQA)
RocM and PyTorch
Efforts around packaging
Why are you focusing on RocM?
Where is a good place to help out?
AI/ML SIG (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AI-ML)
Containers coming
What does open source mean to you?
22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher
Docker Compose Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/EHa4sHGQ)
Docker Logs Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/UWE7Ss1a)
Docker internal DNS having issues
24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments?
Steve's workflow
Static vs Dynamic approach
How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks
Software KVM
Synergy (proprietary)
Barrior (abandoned)
Input Leap (https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap)
3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical
KDE hates Steve
NVIDIA drivers
Why is it so hard to put software in hardware?
Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro
Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap
All operating systems have issues
45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10
Mac Book
No working battery
Disposable
3+ Hours just to install the OS
ThinkPad with EndlessOS
Flatpak for Office 365
Windows
Can't upgrade to windows 11
Windows 11 requires online account
Windows 11 requires TPM chip
2 People both chose the EndlessOS
Endless OS
No forced updates
All the icons right there
Open source
Allows you to fix things
Unix philosophy
The answers are there
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