Canonical releases Ubuntu for StarFive’s VisionFive RISC-V boards, configuring a 7 Colour E-Ink display for Raspberry Pi, .NET 6 uninstalls Discord, and 30 years of XscreenSaver.
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00:00 Intro
05:14 OBS 28 and Websockets
07:59 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS & Nvidia hybrid default
11:59 12th gen Galago Pro
19:19 Linux 6.0 is a ninja sloth
23:09 Pro sound on Linux
32:29 Anti-Tracking Pi
Ubuntu on VisionFive (RTheren)
https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-enables-ubuntu-on-starfives-visionfive-risc-v-boards
- Canonical is proud to announce the Ubuntu release for another piece of RISC-V hardware: StarFive’s VisionFive board.
- VisionFive, the first generation of cost-effective RISC-V single-board computers, is designed to run Linux, with StarFive’s JH7100 vision processing SoC.
- The JH7100 SoC is equipped with a 64-bit high-performance RISC-V dual-core processor with a 2 MB L2 Cache and running at 1.0 GHz.
- It is equipped with 8 GB RAM, 40-pin GPIO header, and end-to-end hardware and software infrastructure.
- And Canonical porting Ubuntu to RISC-V to become the reference OS for early adopters is a good choice.
- This is a long-term collaboration between StarFive and Canonical.
- Cindy Goldberg, Vice President of Silicon Alliance at Canonical states:
- “Canonical and StarFive are partnering to create an enterprise-grade Ubuntu image for the new VisionFive board, bringing open source software and open source hardware together for developers to build a broad range of computer vision applications at the edge. I can’t wait to see what developers are going to build with this VisionFive board and Ubuntu.“
- You can download the latest Ubuntu Server 22.04.1 LTS image for the StarFive’s VisionFive board from here: https://ubuntu.com/download/risc-v
- There was a time long long ago when $179 for a 8GB pi-like device seemed silly.
- Not in this brave new world.
- Unless you want to spend $93 on the second gen quad-core Vision 5 2.
- Having an official image that just works ™ beats the snot out of installing something like Debian on the V1.
- But I would probably stick with the Fedora for now.
30 years of XscreenSaver
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/xscreensaver-was-released-30-years-ago/
- If you have been using Linux for any amount of time you’re familiar with xscreensaver.
- It’s the thing you remember to disable when it pops up after a fresh install.
- With every monitor made in the last decade+ screensavers are a bit of a novelty.
- It’s still nice to travel down memory lane and look at the classics on something other than a 13” CRT.
- Next year xsnow turns 30.
- Wow, Debian turned 29 and GNOME turned 25 last week, and now XScreenSaver turned 30! That makes me feel old.
- I have spent many hours of fun going through all the screensavers available in XScreenSaver over the years.
- And I remember being excited back in the day when you can get screensavers for Linux that weren’t available for Windows, and wowing my friends.
- I have used Fiberlamp, Julia, StarWars and XLyap as my default desktop screensavers for many years.
.NET in Ubuntu 22.04
https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/canonical-adds-net-to-ubuntu-22-04/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-6-is-now-in-ubuntu-2204/
- I think I saw this coming, Canonical is incorporating Microsoft’s ASP.NET and .NET SDK into Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
- Open-source .NET has long been available in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
- But this collaboration by Microsoft and Canonical will better secure the .NET software supply chain with enterprise-grade support.
- .NET 6 developers can install the .NET 6 packages on Ubuntu with a single, simple command: #sudo apt install dotnet6
- Canonical and Microsoft built this .deb package together.
- Canonical will also work in concert with Microsoft’s new distro maintainer .NET group.
- One of Canonical’s goals is to secure the software supply chain from source to packages, eliminating the middleman.
- I am not going to lie, I was a bit creeped out about this.
- But I know it is good for the developer ecosystem, and Linux in general.
- Microsoft is Microsoft when it comes to .NET.
- Open-source language with proprietary dev tools (debugging).
- Installing this will cause apt to remove Discord.
- Will this open the door for .NET applications to be included in Ubuntu?
- And before you pank, Fedora and Red Hat have offered .NET packages for years.
- Telemetry collection is still opt-out.
Slice of Pi
Configuring a 7 Colour E-Ink Display
https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/colour-e-ink-display-raspberry-pi/
- You can pick up a colour eink screen for $83.99 in 2022. Neat.
- Tim walks us through everything we need to set up a nice Pi powered photo frame.
- The Inky board is really slick since it pops right on the GPIO pins.
- Easy to set the saturation.
- You can even use it to display web pages.
- Tim managed to make a self-contained version that fits in a normal picture frame.
- OMG! Yeah, it is finally here,
- And I don’t even care that it has a slower refresh rate than the black and white displays.
- The screen takes around 15 seconds to do a full refresh.
- Looks like the MicroCenter in Tustin by my house has 1 in stock as of yesterday.
- And I am amazed it is priced under $100, at $83.99!
