Ask Noah Show 445

X11Libre is a fork of xorg, do the developers of xorg not want xorg to continue? This week Steve and Noah give you the details of what can only be described as a weird situation. SELF is coming up this weekend, Steve, Noah and executive producer JT will be there and we hope to see you! -- During The Show -- 00:52 Intro Two ways of traveling Noah's airline story Personal entertainment Ente (https://next.ente.io/) 10:28 Self This year is "retro year" old tech could be loaded anything requiring sign in can't be used retro swap Free admission Free HAM radio test Free HAM cram session Lan Party GPG Signing party HAM Radio Meshtastic 22:22 XLibre Project to continue the Xorg display server Xorg developed over several decades Xorg server client model Wayland comes in less developement in Xorg, more in Wayland Freedesktop.org Lots of merge requests closed People running RHEL just take what comes down the pipe Cool that they are improving not just keeping it alive theregister.com (https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/?td=rt-3a) Github (https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver) Lunduke YouTube Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJCyXfWpOo) Fedora Project Wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/X11Libre) 36:06 News Wire Snapd 2.69 - github.com (https://github.com/canonical/snapd/releases) Sway 1.11 - github.com (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases) PeerTube 7.2 - joinpeertube.org (https://joinpeertube.org/news/release-7.2) RockyLinux 9.6 - rockylinux.org (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-6-ga-release) Linux Mint 20 EOL - news.itsfoss.com (https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-20-eol/) Open Source Supply Chain Attacks - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/malicious-pypi-npm-and-ruby-packages.html) Chaos RAT - scworld.com (https://www.scworld.com/news/open-source-chaos-rat-used-in-recent-attacks-targeting-linux) Kali AI - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/kali-gpt-revolutionizing/) Dots.llm1 - compterworld.com (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4004272/rednote-joins-chinas-open-source-ai-wave-with-the-launch-of-dots-llm1.html) Boltz-2 - nasdaq.com (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/mit-and-recursion-unveil-boltz-2-revolutionary-open-source-biomolecular-co-folding-model) ChatGPT Used to Disable SecureBoot - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-used-to-disable-secureboot-in-locked-down-device-modded-bios-reflash-facilitated-fresh-windows-and-linux-installs) 37:25 Warp Terminal Foss Force (https://fossforce.com/2025/06/warp-takes-your-terminal-to-light-speed-and-beyond/) It is closed source Uses AI How does Warp stack up against the new RHEL AI? RHEL AI will probly run on the local machine Where it may make sense What is the target audiance? 43:22 Ereader for Music - Steven Tablets? Convertible laptops? Noah bought the PineTab2 for this purpose Nashville Number System SongbookPro (https://songbook-pro.com/) Tabbed PDF viewer Trying proton 51:07 Run OPNsense - Kevin You can't install anything else on netgate appliances Used Sophos with sata drives -- 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/445) 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)