Matthew Miller joins the show to talk about next week's release of Fedora 34, with Gnome 40 and Pipewire there is no shortage of exciting changes coming to the distro. We take your calls, and emails and answer questions!
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00:50 Multi-Hard Drive Install - M.X.U.
If you have the same make/model make sure you know your serial numbers
04:00 Sony WH-1000XM4 headsets help? - Richard
06:00 Headphone recommendation? - Chris
Frequency Range
Human Range 20-20,000 hz
Sony WH-1000XM4
Sampling rate - 44.1 khz is nearly imperceptible to the human ear
Wireless requires Encoding/Decoding which can degrade quality
CD quality is much better than mp3, FLAC and WAV can be "uncompressed"
Driver Unit Size
Generally larger driver = better sound quality
Multiple small drivers can out perform a single large driver
Passive/Isolation vs Active Noise Cancellation
Active - generates opposite wave from to cancel out noise
Passive/Isolation - Simply tries to block outside noise
1st Choice Sony WH-1000XM4 (https://www.sony.com/electronics/headband-headphones/wh-1000xm4)
2nd Choice Bose Quiet Comfort (https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-Wireless-Headphones-Cancelling/dp/B0756CYWWD/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=bose+noise+cancelling+headphones&qid=1618957183&sr=8-3)
19:30 Gnome 40 still single thread? - Jon
Phoronix Article (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-40-Separate-Input-Thread)
21:00 Caller HDD Arrays - Mark
It depends on your use case
JBOD "just a bunch of disks"
Mirrored Array
Raid 5
Raid Cards can cause issues, Certain file systems (ZFS) want to talk to the disks directly
25:00 Education/Career Advice for a High Student
A few paths to take
Programmer
Support
System Engineer
Network Engineer
Job Shadow
Internships
Certs can be good
Red Hat Certs are good (RHCSA (https://www.redhat.com/en/services/certification/rhcsa))
Don't rely on certs
28:45 Interview with Matt
BTRFS by default went well
Fedora 34
Currently On Schedule
Fedora Linux Schedule (https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-34/f-34-all-tasks.html)
Transparent Compression is enabled
Shipping with Gnome 40
Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40 needs some work still
New Spins available
Pipewire by default (Pro audio for everyone!)
SystemD OOMD on by Default
Fedora Server received lots of polish (thank you Fedora Server Team)
Fedora IOT Edition, Based on RPM OS Tree and Containers
CoreOS has 3 streams now
You can get involved with Fedora
New Fedora Logo
History Of the Fedora Logo (https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2019/01/09/which-new-fedora-logo-design-do-you-prefer/)
Fedora Site (getfedora.org)
53:30 Another Backup question - Daniel
You want off site and automated backup
Bacula (https://www.bacula.org/)
ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive
Check out Episode 36 of Opinion Dominion
The Opinion Dominion Ep 36 (https://www.theopiniondominion.org/36)
Call to Action
We will have community rooms/booths
Matrix Chat (Element) will be used again this year
SELF will be virtual this year, hosted again by yours truly!
SELF Call for Talks (https://southeastlinuxfest.org/?nltr=MTE7MTIzMjtodHRwczovL2Zvcm1zLmdsZS9IeHoxNTRuS1NybkJXUkc0QTs7YmNmYmE5YmY2M2NmMDA5ODg5NWI3Y2ZlYjUzOGRkMzQ%3D)
SELF dates June 10-12
Email volunteers@minddripmedia.com with your skill set and contact details
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