Episode 2:13: Some Assembly Required

Linux User Space

0:00 Cold Open
1:32 Banter: Flatpak, Otra Vez
11:32 Banter: Updates Once a Year
21:18 History: Void Linux
1:18:43 Distro Talk: Void Linux
1:31:03 Housekeeping
1:36:30 App Focus: Syncthing
1:40:23 Next Time
1:43:58 Stinger

Coming up in this episode

1. Flatpaks back on track
2. I update once a year, do you?
3. We enter the Void
4. We age in the Void
5. Tech with a Bloke
6. and Monitor the situation

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Banter - Did we fall flat?

• Phaedrus Leeds
• Our tweet that started the conversation - follow the thread ### Moar Banter - Podbait
• How often do you update? Let us know in Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Email, etc.

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Void Linux

• Void Linux
• Wikipedia page for Void
• From the Void Handbook
• xbps-src to use linux-user-chroot
• journald introduced
• First mention of Pi as officially supported
• RSA encryption introduced to xbps
• KDE 4 is available
• Cinnamon 2 is available
• Musl compatability introduced to xbps
• More info about musl
• Using the Nix package manager
• Steam client is available
• April Fools joke 2014
• Multilib support
• runit becomes default
• LibreSSL is default
• Mate is introduced
• LXQt enters the Void
• Raspberry Pi2 support
• Void images built with musl are available
• Void repositories available over TOR
• No Foolin', help needed
• Flatpak bult with glibc and musl
• Juan takes a step back
• 2017 Advent Calendar
• 2018 April Fools
• Juan is MIA
• IRC control regained
• Github organization moves
• Repos move
• Michael Aldrige's post mortem
• 2018 Advent calendar
• THE Christmas poem
• voidlinux dot eu Gone
• 2019 April fools
• Official? post mortem of the disappearance of Juan
• OpenSSL is back
• Pullmoll (Jürgen Buchmüller) is remembered
• IRC is moved to Libera.chat
• old freenode channels hijacked
• DO renews sponsorship
• Hactoberfest 2021

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• Original developer: Juan Romero Pardines (xtraeme) Initial release 2008
• Site: voidlinux.org
• Old Site: voidlinux.eu and voidlinux.com (dead since 2018)
• Base System: Independent
• Desktop Environment: XFCE
• File Manager: Thunar
• Package Manager: xbps (Xtraeme's Binary Package System)
• Kernel: Rolling 5.15.8 right now
• Display Manager: lightdm
• Display Protocol: X11, Wayland
• Project Members: from Github

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Housekeeping

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App Focus

System Monitoring Center
This episode's app:

• System Monitoring Center

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Next Time

With us trying out Zorin OS for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.

Our next distro to check out is Nix OS

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