This week we discuss a proposal in Fedora 44 to remove support for 32 bit libraries. We address your Kubernetes questions and talk about 2-in-one laptops with touchscreens!
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00:54 Intro
VLANs on Linux
Trunk into V-Host
Not using NetPlan
Using bridges to different ports
11:23 Kubernetes - Nick
Steve and Open Shift
The disconnect
If you bring it, you are "the guy"
You need to understand what you are running
Write back in!
As nerds we need to pull back the covers
21:00 How Noah got started with Linux
Got it working
Company paid to train Noah
22:42 News Wire
xfsprogs - lwn.net (https://lwn.net/Articles/1026870/)
Cryptsetup 2.8 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-2.8-Released)
Docker 28.3 - docs.docker.com (https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/28/)
Rust 1.88 - releases.rs (https://releases.rs/docs/1.88.0/)
Mir 2.21 - app.daily.dev (https://app.daily.dev/posts/mir-2-21-released-with-cursor-scaling-mouse-keys-support-dj8rkcvxb)
Firefox ESR 140 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/)
Jonathan Bryce To Lead CNCF - thenewstack.io (https://thenewstack.io/linux-foundation-appoints-jonathan-bryce-to-lead-cncf/)
Refresh OS 2.5 - refreshos.org (https://refreshos.org/download_refreshos_2-5.html)
TheSSS 49 - sourceforge.net (https://sourceforge.net/projects/thesss/)
Tails 6.17 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_17/)
Oracle 10 - blogs.oracle.com (https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-linux-10-now-generally-available)
Fedora May Drop 32-bit packages - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator)
Berkely Humanoid Robot - fox.com (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/berkeley-launches-lightweight-open-source-humanoid-robot)
DeviceLayout.jl Open Source - amazon.com (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/quantum-computing/design-quantum-integrated-circuits-with-open-source-software-devicelayout-jl-from-aws/)
A2A Protocol Project - campustechnology.com (https://campustechnology.com/articles/2025/06/24/linux-foundation-to-host-protocol-for-ai-agent-interoperability.aspx)
Gemini CLI - blog.google (https://blog.google/technology/developers/introducing-gemini-cli-open-source-ai-agent/)
Google has announced Gemini CLI: an open-source CLI AI agent
GitHub Copilot - visualstudiomagazine.com (https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2025/06/30/vs-code-goes-transparent-as-open-source-ai-editor.aspx)
Ernie 4.5 - techtarget.com (https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/news/366626838/Baidu-makes-foundation-model-Ernie-45-open-source)
24:34 Touch Laptop/Tablet - Aryeh
HP ProBook
CTC Solutions Donates Laptops
Writing scripts for 2in1
PineTab2
29:15 Gift Buying - Carey
Geek buying gift guide before Black Friday/Cyber Monday
Noah is already making a list
Seagate Iron Wolf Pro
Backblaze survey
Recertified MDD Drives
Treat drives like cattle
Drive warranty
37:25 Liberux Nexx Phone
Liberux (https://liberux.net/)
Nexx Indiegogo (https://liberux.net/)
Open Source and Crowdfunding done right
Noah doesn't crowd fund hardware
PinePhone Pro comes close
Liberux Nexx
Hardware kill switches
Replaceable eMMC, RAM, Cellular
Built for Linux
Steve needs an MP3 player
46:20 Fedora 44 and 32 bit
32 bit required for games and older software
32 bit vs TPM 2.0
Removing 32 bit could kill projects like Bazzite
Canonical tried this and back tracked
We may get 32 bit emulators
How long will 32 bit stick around
fedoraprojet.org (https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/303)
tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator)
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