I keep a lot of my TTRPG PDFs in my drive. I’m wary of Google generally, but I do have to admit it was pretty cool to see it pick out bits and bobs from my PDFs with not-very-much guidance on my part.
They say no one is using these older LTS kernels, but I’m running into them all the time on Android devices. I don’t know if the vendors are taking advantage of those updates, but they’re definitely choosing the LTS kernels for their BSPs at release time.
HWE is just a much newer upstream base. I’ve had issues with their HWE line (6.2 base) but then I’ve had issues with their Generic line (5.15 base) so while newer isn’t always better, older isn’t better either.
Sorry for my dumb question but what is the difference between the Linux kernel at kernel.org and say the Linux kernal at Ubuntu.org? It is just different maintainers?
For example I believe the LTS version of Ubuntu runs for 5 years and you can pay for Pro support and get 10 years on their ESM version, if I understand correctly you can keep the same kernel version though the duration.
The Ubuntu kernel is downstream from the actual kernel.org version. Ubuntu just handles support of it for Ubuntu. Kernel.org are the original implementers.
Linus Torvolds and the folks at kernel.org work to continually improve the kernel and ready it for each release cycle.
Ubuntu and other distro maintainers take that work and make sure that they are shipping to you a compiled kernel(s) that dependably works with all other software on their distribution.
The other two answers are correct but missing one maker thing: many major distributions apply patches to the kernel before distributing. So there are very slight modifications.
On your final note, it’s not really the same kernel version throughout, and at times they have bumped up major upstream kernel versions mid-LTS, but even disregarding that, they are constantly applying security patches (think of it as minor version increments with bugfixes from the future).
So sure, you’re running kernel 5.15.0 on Ubuntu LTS 22.04, but maybe you started at 5.15.0-36 and after a few months of incremental upgrades you’ll be running 5.15.0-85.
Correct. They regularly freeze and maintain their own kernel, merging patches in as needed.
5.15.0-83.94-generic
5.15.0 (mainline kennel version at the point it was frozen)
83.94 (Canonical’s version numbering with newer upstream patches merged in over time)
generic (Canonical maintains several specialized flavors of kernel for different needs)
They’ve recently put out a “HWE” flavor which just starts at a much newer point in the upstream kernel. I’m not sure what the point is in maintaining the 5.15 and the 6.2 flavors side-by-side.
Cut from 6(!) years to 2 years. I had no idea the support stretched as far back as 6 years. 2 still seems totally reasonable, especially given all the work put into backwards compatibility in the kernel already.
Going by their pricing model I’d have to pay $330 at mininum going by my listening habits… What the.
$22 a month for 2 hours. That’s crazy! It’d be cheaper for me to hire an actual person with these prices. I was thinking of like $10 a book. They’re asking at least ten-fold…
The AI narrator sounds okay. The words are clearly pronounced. It mostly has a even tone and doesn’t seem to give a lot of emotion, this is fair though. When it reads a quote within the text it changes its tone, which I think is cool.
Try listening to a book from the Library for the Blind. They read everything. Every written word in the book. Only the page number gets skipped (although they tell you what page you’re on when they change sides).
I once listened to a Harry Dresden book that was read by text-to-speech (back before they went back and had James Masters read all the books). It always said the word “wizard” (Harry’s a wizard) sarcastically. It made it seem like all the other characters were making fun of him all the time and really changed the feel of the book.
This obsession with specific distros is puzzling. "It has a cool default theme for Gnome, and there's a colored bash prompt." Oh boy, sign me up. I wonder who the audience for these types of articles is.
Although most of the praise in the article actually goes to the improvements in GNOME, it’s always great to see Linux getting high praise on more “mainstream” news sources. ZDNet is more techy than normal, but still reaches a wider audience than Linux-specific articles.
“It has a cool default theme for Gnome, and there’s a colored bash prompt.”
The “cool default theme” in Fedora is the default Gnome theme. There isn’t a “colored bash prompt.” Fedora is a major distribution on par with stuff like Arch and Debian, so news about Fedora is news about linux.
Love Fedora, hate Fedora, I couldn’t care less. But at least do a little research.
I am sucker for these things. I have a small laptop I keep around for menial tasks and I use Mint on it. I wanted to change it for a while and this article just tipped the balance. Fedora here we go! Although I will be using Xfce for it’s lightweight.
There’s definitively more to a distro than the shell prompt and wallpaper.
Besides the obvious package repos and how well package interoperability is maintained, there’s also differences for default configuration. OpenSUSE offers sane options for security OOtB, IMO.
Then there’s also linux itself. Some distros build the default kernel package with a set of patches to improve typical usability, while others just ship an untouched upstream version. Some offer alternatives while others don’t.
God why are people here so obsessed with optional telemetry. Fedora aren’t selling your secrets to advertiser’s, they are just trying to create a better experience for users, and you can always opt out.
Has it ever occured to you that it is also good to give back to the open source community?
Do you just look for things to get mad at? This hasn't even been implemented yet. Even if it had, it would be opt-in. And even if you opt-in, the data is all anonymous and you would be able to see exactly the data that gets sent out. If Fedora or anyone else really wanted to spy on you, I assure you they wouldn't let you know beforehand.
Is there a good/easy way to defrag a btrfs filesystem after 3-4 years of continuous use? At this point I can’t tell if my SUSE install was slow all those years ago or it’s just been getting worse over time.
Author just said the search feels faster, and apps feel like they open faster. There’s absolutely no numbers supporting this. It’s mostly just an opinion piece with the same fluff that comes with every Fedora update article.
The importance of their work and philosophy should not be underestimated. And the Libre principles are more important now than ever before.
Libre says that the user is king and the system must never be used to oppress the user. Rather the user must have fun control over the system and it’s code.
In a time where all operating systems not desktop and mobile are abusing users, taking their data and locking away the code from them accessing it, we must remember and practice the libre principles.
Use Linux on the desktop and Android on your phone. Especially custom android if you can, but even stock android still gives you a lot of control and 3rd party apps exist which protect your data.
On iPhone you have no such protection and are totally under the control and whim of apple.
I’m really not sure if I would name any stock Android in that list. There’s not much “libre” about it. Compared to Apple, sure, but that’s a ridiculously low bar. We’re still missing good alternatives for mobile phones.
Unlike iOS you can get it as AOSP which is totally open source. Sure you need to add the blobs for the specific device etc but at least it’s a good base to work off if anyone wanted to make an Android based open source phone.
iOS could never do that.
Agree though they overall there is no “true” FLOSS mobile os and the KDE and gnome one’s still have a long way to go.
Not really. Apple collects as much as Google does, I guarantee you, but they just claim they don’t look at it. Yeah right. Tell me another story Apple…
I look forward to new releases. 40+ roadmap looks really interesting. I’m trying to keep an eye out for the things that’s happened recently with rhel though.
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