This week Aaron Prisk and Jason Nucciarone join the program to talk about Ubuntu Summit 2024. We dig into your feedback and talk about the benefits of immutable operating systems.

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00:55 Intro

• Steve's WiFi issues
• Printer issues
• Nextcloud issues

07:46 Arch and Mandatory Access Control - Baker

• Why Steve chooses Arch
• Arch doesn't enable "auditing" in the kernel
• Other Mandatory Access Control
• SELinux
  • Will tell you what to do
  • Don't shut it off
  • Permissive Mode
• Arch is the most "vanilla" distro
• Things do break in Arch, and other distros
• Consider Arch

17:42 Printers - Rabin

• Steve uses Brother printers
• Till Kamppeter ANS 368
  • Buy Brother
  • Use IPP/IPPS

20:56 Charlie Asks The Audience

• Self Hostable Web based CRM
• Designed for both IT professionals and tradesmen
• Can:
  • Assign Staff
  • Assign Jobs
  • List Stock
  • Quote Job/Task
  • Invoice
  • Produce list of stock which is needed to buy as stock is low/empty
• Easy Appointments
• InvenTree

23:50 News Wire

• AntiX 23.2 - antixlinux.com

• Nitrux 3.7 - nxos.org

• Qbittorrent 5.0 - qbittorrent.org

• Firefox 131 - mozilla.org

• Network Manager 1.50 - networkmanager.dev

• Ardour 8.8 - ardour.org

• FWUPD 2.0 - github.com

• Rocky Linux from CIQ - insidehpc.com

• Pine64's E-innk Tablet - howtogeek.com

• Perfctl Malware - thehackernews.com

• Nvidia Open Source AI Model - venturebeat.com

25:00 Ubuntu Summit Interview

• Aaron Prisk
• Jason Nucciarone
• What is Ubuntu Summit
• Renamed "Ubuntu Summit" from "Ubuntu Developer Summit"
• Target audience for Ubuntu Summit
• Talks about Rust
• Matthew from Matrix
• Matrix in Canonical
• Getting the flavors together
• Community Teams
• Ubuntu Summit

45:00 Noah's Imposed Handicap

• Build service infrastructure
• Secure enclave
• Valve heading a specific direction
• SteamOS is immutable
• Use Tails for a daily driver
  • Includes basic tools
  • Can update keys
  • Can clone itself
  • Persistent storage
• Gnome
• KDE Plasma
• Everyone should have a Tails drive
• Endless OS

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