This week we get an update from the Ovens Data Center. Steve migrates a box from Ubuntu to Red Hat, and of course we answer your questions!

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00:50 Intro

• Deadly cold weather
• Oven's data center update
• Spending "cloud money" on local media

05:55 Custom RHEL ISO

• ISO build system
• Red Hatters building all kinds of custom ISOs
• Why a custom ISO
• Red Hat Doc
• Why switch to RHEL
• Professional Linux support
• Mixed environment?

20:20 CES

• POE powered TV
• ArsTechnica Atricle
• Basecase
• Crowd funding
• Questions about interfaces
• Powered over barrel connector
• Very expensive

29:58 News Wire

• Firefox 134 - mozilla.org

• Flatpak 1.16 - github.com

• KDE Frameworks 6.10 - kde.org

• Tails 6.11 - blog.torproject.org

• Debian 12.9 - debian.org

• 16GB Raspberry PI 5 - raspberrypi.com

• Nvidia Desktop AI "Super Computer" - theverge.com

• Phi-4 Fully Open-Source - venturebeat.com

• Sky-T1-32B-Preview - techcrunch.com zdnet.com

30:55 Social Media/Decentralized Networks

• Mastodon shifting to being owned by a non-profit
• Creator wants users in control of Mastodon
• People are choosing to embrace the open source decentralized option
• Network effect is starting to weaken in favor of interoperability
• ArsTechnica

36:15 OpenZFS 2.3

• Support for Linux 4.18, up to Linux 6.12 LTS
• Adding new devices to existing RaidZ pool
• 9 to 5 Linux

38:30 Red Hat In-Vehical OS

• Standardized domains
• ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL-B)
• thefastmode.com

41:10 ZFS/QCOW2 - Carey

• Double writes
• ZFS doesn't support trim
• Options
• Snapshots
• Copying a QCOW2 file can be tricky

47:54 Daughters Internet Access - Vlad

• Shut off Internet access entirely
• Take the device
• Internet is different than technology

49:20 Politics in Software - Max

• Does the project throw it in your face?
• Be the bigger person
• Don't tolerate treating people badly because they don't agree with you

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