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Late Night Linux

Late Night Linux – Episode 264

Jan 15, 2024
In this episode, the hosts discuss the criticism of desktop Linux, improvements in Snap support across Linux distributions, Mozilla's focus on AI, OpenAI's legal business model, and the upcoming release of Plasma 6.
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Quick takeaways

  • The Raspberry Pi 5 has the potential to push consumer Linux forward into a more usable state by improving its capability as a main computer.
  • Canonical's focus on cross-distribution support for snap packages can lead to overall improvement in the packaging ecosystem and provide more choice in software delivery.

Deep dives

Raspberry Pi 5 as a main computer

The podcast discusses using a Raspberry Pi 5 as a main computer and analyzes its capability in comparison to other hardware. The speaker mentions that Linux is a stack of independently developed software projects that barely work together and highlights the importance of the arm version of Linux and projects like the SR Hellenix project for Apple Silicon Macs in improving the situation. The Raspberry Pi 5 is considered as a hardware that has the potential to push consumer Linux forward into a more usable state.

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