Fedora 37 hungers for Raspberries! Davinci Resolve 18.1 is a spite-crashy mess, simplifying Firefox with Pulse, and a 32GB Orange Pi 5.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
05:50 Fedora 37
15:02 Davinci Resolve 18.1
25:38 Pulse browser
30:26 Orange Pi 5
Fedorf 37
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-37/
- Fedora Linux 37 has been released, with lots of major changes and improvements.
- Immediately I noticed running the Fedora Linux Workstation 37 live ISO in GNOME Boxes is much quicker.
- And I love the default wallpaper:
- The desktop wallpaper boots in GNOME light mode, with a bright blue and green color palette.
- But the wallpaper can easily be switched to dark mode, with a darker color palette of blues and greens in the Appearance Settings menu.
- Or in the new GNOME 43 Quick Settings feature accessed in the top right of the GNOME panel.
- I am ready now to update my Fedora 36 rig to Fedora 37.
- There are two new Fedora editions:
- Fedora CoreOS, the successor to Atomic Host, provides an automatic update mechanism geared toward hosting container-based workloads.
- Fedora Cloud provides a great Fedora base to run in your favorite public or private cloud.
- Fedora Workstation features the latest version of GNOME 43, which includes a new device security panel in settings, more core GNOME apps have been ported to the latest version of the GTK toolkit, GTK4, and a more modern look and feel.
- Fedora Server now produces a KVM disk image to make running Server in a virtual machine easier.
- The Raspberry Pi 4 is now officially supported in Fedora Linux, including accelerated graphics.
- Programming languages and system library packages have been updated, including Python 3.11, Golang 1.19, glibc 2.36, and LLVM 15.
- Fedora, one of the few no frills distributions left.
- Something to be said for a distro that gets out of your way and lets the user decide.
- I still want the Fedora LTS workstation edition.
- Something hardware / software vendors could target.
- The 13 month lifecycle is a bit short but I guess that’s what RHEL is for.
- Or Debian.
Resolve 18.1
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=170527
- Welcome to (beta) testing in production.
- This version should really have a beta tag on it.
- It’s really crashy and not just for us Linux nutters.
- Hidpi scaling has been enabled for Linux and it almost works.
- 100% is borked but 150% and 200 works like a charm if you like comically oversized UIs.
- Requires a database upgrade so backup all the things.
- Studio 18.1 adds a new AI-based voice isolation track FX so you can remove loud, undesirable sounds from voice recordings.
- There is a new dialogue leveler that will help balance uneven audio.
- People are having mixed results with it.
- Makeresolvedeb has been updated for the new version but you can install from the *.run file as well.
- Hold off on this upgrade.
- Vertical resolution options in project settings for social media.
- Now Venn can TikTok better ;-)
Pulse Browser
https://github.com/pulse-browser/browser
- There is a new minimal web browser being developed that looks very promising, and looks beautiful!
- It is called the Pulse Browser, and it is an experimental Firefox fork that is focused on increasing work productivity, due to its hyper minimalistic UI and built-in tools.
- The Pulse Browser includes easy to access sidebars, includes the uBlock Origin spyware blocker by default, and is easily customizable.
- It also features Tabliss when you launch the browser:
- A beautiful, customisable new tab page for Firefox that features widgets for weather, clocks, a quick links/speed dial for your favorite websites, or even literary quotes.
- Tabliss backgrounds are powered by the huge libraries of Unsplash and GIPHY, or you can use your own.
- Despite the Pulse Browser still being in alpha, it is very stable and I am using it for my show notes now!
- Firefox minus the telemetry with a striped down UI and one of those annoying sidebar thingies like Vivaldi.
- Has a couple of custom skins and the native one looks okay.
- The BetterFox user.js tweaks, which are used throughout the browser.
- Tabliss extension to provide a better new-tab experience.
- Firefox-QR-Code-Generator extension from GitHub for a QR Code generator.
Slice of Po
Orange Pi 5
- Welcome to week three of the more powerful and cheaper RasPi4.
- This week we have the Orange Pi 5.
- It’s an octa-core ARM with WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5, 32GB of eMMC flash, and support for 32GB of RAM.
- $80 for 8GB and $116 for 16GB.
- Open for preorders and expected to ship in two weeks.
- There’s also an onboard microphone, a 26-pin header, MIPI D-PHY and MIPI CSI connectors for cameras or displays.
- And it has a neural processing unit (NPU) with support for up to 6 TOPS of AI performance.
- Direct to Amazon or AliExpress preorders, brilliant!
