Episode 228: Fedora 34 with Matthew Miller

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! -- During The Show -- 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 -- 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/228) 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) Special Guest: Matthew Miller.