LWDW 374: RedHat depreciates X11 & Mozilla gets social

Red Hat is moving to Wayland, Mozilla opens their Mastodon instance to the public, kernel 6.1 comes to Pi OS, and NVIDIA puts a 16GB Tie on the 4060.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:00 Firewire audio on Linux
02:28 B-day celebrations
05:53 Mozilla Mastodon invites
10:03 Red Hat depreciates X11
16:16 16GB NVIDIA Ties
28:28 RasPiOS gets kernel 6.1

Mozilla Social

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-social-mastodon-private-beta-announcement/

Aww, I thought it was going to be a new social media network.
Mozilla is opening their mastodon instance to the public.
Better late than never?
You can apply for a beta invite.
Still waiting on my Blue Sky invite.
Mozilla announced at the end of last year that they were getting ready to create a Mastodon instance for the public.
Well now you can join a waitlist to get on mozilla.social.
I joined the waitlist a few days ago, and haven’t heard back yet.
Mozilla does believe that “the potential of the Fediverse is bigger and broader than Mastodon alone” but that this is a first step to a decentralized network away from corporate controlled social media.
I am hoping Mozilla will eventually create their own app for Masdon, with hopefully, easier discoverability and search.
That may very well be what the waitlist is for.

RIP X

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.0_release_notes/deprecated_functionality

Xorg will not be included in RHEL 10.
It stays a supported part of RHEL 9 until at least 2032.
This gives companies almost a decade to make the switch.
I told you Wayland was only 10 years away!
And remember, it’s the Xorg server that’s being deprecated, not the ability to run X11 applications via XWayland.
You’re going to run into applications that have issues with Wayland (OBS) and ones that flat don’t work like Barrier.
RHEL workstations are not uncommon in engineering, academia, and media production.
I expect XFCE will be ready by late 2031’ish.
With some luck X12 will be ready by then.
The X.org display server being deprecated in future releases I saw coming, especially as a Fedora user, where Wayland was already the default display server.
And as a Steam Deck user whose default is Wayland.
Red Hat also deprecated ipset and iptables-nft.
As a replacement, use the nft command-line tool provided by the nftables package.

16GB 4060

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060-ti-to-launch-in-16-gb-8-gb-flavors-rtx-4060-arriving-in-july/

We were joking about this a week ago on the LGC preshow.
Rumor has it that the 4060Ti will come in 8 & 16GB variants.
The 4060 will be 8GB and on the shelves in July.
Personally, I’m holding out for the 24GB 4050.
Would you pay $500 for a 4060Ti 16GB?
I wouldn’t, and that’s coming from someone with a 3060.
A $399 12GB 4060 would get my attention but not until AV1 injections are widely supported.
AMD said they were releasing some new cards this quarter and that’s something to keep an eye out for.
And something I am happy about: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card will come in various small form factors and compact ITX options making them great for small PC builds.
And it will require close to only 150-160W while gaming, or even lower, which is 25% lower than its predecessor, the 3060 Ti.
There’s also 32 MB of L2 cache on board the GPU which is an 8x increase over the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti.
With how successful the middle of the line 60 series of cards have been in the past, like the popular GTX 1060 that I used for quite a few years, the 2060 and 3060, it is smart for Nvidia to offer both memory options.
Nvidia has been a bit chincy on their memory offerings on GPUs compared to AMD, so it is a good thing they are offering a 16GB option, especially on the RTX 4060Ti.
It’s 2023, and by now, shouldn’t the default be at least 12GB for all models?, just sayin! LOL

Slice of Pi

Kernel 6.Pie

https://www.omglinux.com/raspberry-pi-os-update-may-2023/

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_armhf/release_notes.txt

There is a new release of the Debian based Raspberry Pi OS available to download, and it arrives with a new Linux Kernel 6.1.
Previous versions of Raspberry Pi OS used the older Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS.
The newer kernel offers improved hardware support, new drivers, performance boosts, and better security.
And it also includes new gamepad support for the Hori Fighting Commander ONE and 8BitDo Pro 2 wired controller.
This update also features updated software, including Chromium 113, Mathematic 13.2.1, Matlab 23.1.0, and Raspberry Pi Imager 1.7.4.
There is also an updated VLC hardware acceleration patch which should deliver better media playback.
And a new Raspberry Pi firmware, updates to libcamera, libcamera-apps, and picamera2 which includes EXIF date and time tags.
Open the Terminal and run sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade to upgrade the OS, or just download the latest ISO and flash it to an SD card.
Now we just need more Raspberry Pis available to test out the new software.