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 (https://next.ente.io/)
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 (https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/?td=rt-3a)
Github (https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver)
Lunduke YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJCyXfWpOo)
Fedora Project Wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/X11Libre)
36:06 News Wire
Snapd 2.69 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/snapd/releases)
Sway 1.11 - github.com (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases)
PeerTube 7.2 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.2)
RockyLinux 9.6 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-6-ga-release)
Linux Mint 20 EOL - news.itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20-eol/)
Open Source Supply Chain Attacks - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/malicious-pypi-npm-and-ruby-packages.html)
Chaos RAT - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/open-source-chaos-rat-used-in-recent-attacks-targeting-linux)
Kali AI - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/kali-gpt-revolutionizing/)
Dots.llm1 - compterworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4004272/rednote-joins-chinas-open-source-ai-wave-with-the-launch-of-dots-llm1.html)
Boltz-2 - nasdaq.com (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/mit-and-recursion-unveil-boltz-2-revolutionary-open-source-biomolecular-co-folding-model)
ChatGPT Used to Disable SecureBoot - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-used-to-disable-secureboot-in-locked-down-device-modded-bios-reflash-facilitated-fresh-windows-and-linux-installs)
37:25 Warp Terminal
Foss Force (https://fossforce.com/2025/06/warp-takes-your-terminal-to-light-speed-and-beyond/)
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 (https://songbook-pro.com/)
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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