Ask Noah Show 423

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! -- During The Show -- 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 (https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/composing_a_customized_rhel_system_image/index) Why switch to RHEL Professional Linux support Mixed environment? 20:20 CES POE powered TV ArsTechnica Atricle (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/the-8-most-interesting-pc-monitors-from-ces-2025/) Basecase (https://getbasecase.com/) Crowd funding Questions about interfaces Powered over barrel connector Very expensive 29:58 News Wire Firefox 134 - mozilla.org (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/134.0/releasenotes/) Flatpak 1.16 - github.com (https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.16.0) KDE Frameworks 6.10 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.10.0/) Tails 6.11 - blog.torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-611/) Debian 12.9 - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250111) 16GB Raspberry PI 5 - raspberrypi.com (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/16gb-raspberry-pi-5-on-sale-now-at-120/) Nvidia Desktop AI "Super Computer" - theverge.com (https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/8/24339195/nvidia-digits-ai-supercomputer-in-person-photos-small) Phi-4 Fully Open-Source - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-makes-powerful-phi-4-model-fully-open-source-on-hugging-face/) Sky-T1-32B-Preview - techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/researchers-open-source-sky-t1-a-reasoning-ai-model-that-can-be-trained-for-less-than-450/) zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/450-and-19-hours-is-all-it-takes-to-rival-openais-o1-preview/) 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 (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/mastodon-becomes-nonprofit-to-make-sure-its-never-ruined-by-billionaire-ceo/) 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 (https://9to5linux.com/openzfs-2-3-is-out-with-linux-6-12-support-raidz-expansion-fast-dedup-and-more) 38:30 Red Hat In-Vehical OS Standardized domains ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level B (ASIL-B) thefastmode.com (https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/38950-red-hat-achieves-functional-safety-certification-for-in-vehicle-operating-system) 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 -- 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/423) 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)