Ask Noah Show 415

Tim Flink, a Senior Quality Engineer from Red Hat joins us to talk about AI on Fedora. This week Noah and Steve talk about their struggles with the Linux Desktop. -- During The Show -- 02:30 Helping a Non-techy friend - Sleuth The plan Locked down second hand Android device Ting Flex plan Tracar (https://www.traccar.org/) JMP.Chat Sim Plan Mint Mobile Steer people away from sms/calls Matrix Telegram etc 08:47 News Wire Calibre 7.21 - calibre-ebook.com (https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.21.0/) Cmake 3.31 - cmake.org (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.31.html) Curl 8.11 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch/) Scraperr 1.0 - github.com (https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr) LXQT 2.1 - lxqt-project.org (https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/) Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 - ubports.com (https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-6-focal-release-3942) Debian 12.8 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241109) Torvalds 2.6% Performance Patch - theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/torvalds_patch_linux_performance/) 3800% Performance Improvement - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-3888.9-Performance) CRON#TRAP Malware - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/new-crontrap-malware-infects-windows-by.html) AMD OLMo LLM - computerworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3600762/amd-rolls-out-open-source-olmo-llm-to-compete-with-ai-giants.html) 09:58 Tim Flink - Senior Quality Engineer - Red Hat Where should you start with AI? PyTorch (https://pytorch.org/) Orders of magnitude faster on a GPU VRAM is the biggest factor How is Fedora using AI? OpenQA (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenQA) RocM and PyTorch Efforts around packaging Why are you focusing on RocM? Where is a good place to help out? AI/ML SIG (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/AI-ML) Containers coming What does open source mean to you? 22:28 Kubuntu and Docker Broken - Michael Fisher Docker Compose Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/EHa4sHGQ) Docker Logs Pastebin (https://pastebin.com/UWE7Ss1a) Docker internal DNS having issues 24:36 What's the deal with Linux Desktop Environments? Steve's workflow Static vs Dynamic approach How close can I get to immutable with flatpaks Software KVM Synergy (proprietary) Barrior (abandoned) Input Leap (https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap) 3 Monitors, 2 horizontal and 1 vertical KDE hates Steve NVIDIA drivers Why is it so hard to put software in hardware? Ubuntu won't say its up to date because of Ubuntu Pro Can't install LibreOffice on Ubuntu because of Snap All operating systems have issues 45:20 MacOS vs EndlessOS vs Windows 10 Mac Book No working battery Disposable 3+ Hours just to install the OS ThinkPad with EndlessOS Flatpak for Office 365 Windows Can't upgrade to windows 11 Windows 11 requires online account Windows 11 requires TPM chip 2 People both chose the EndlessOS Endless OS No forced updates All the icons right there Open source Allows you to fix things Unix philosophy The answers are there -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/415) Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah) Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com) -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com) Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/) Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux) Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow) Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed) YouTube Show Notes & Podcast Download available at http://podcast.asknoahshow.com Support us on Patreon ------------- https://www.patreon.com/linuxdelta --- Connect with us! --- On Twitter ------------------------ https://twitter.com/asknoahshow On Facebook ----------------------- https://www.facebook.com/asknoahshow Email The Show -------------------- live@asknoahshow.com • Ask Noah Show © CC-BY-ND 2021 •