2035 is the year of the Wayland desktop! PipeWire hits 1.0, making neofetch go fast, and automating file downloads from Archive.org.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Linux on AppleTV
01:34 Firefox (beta) on Debian
04:38 Crocheted penguins
06:26 RedHat puts X11 on notice.
10:59 File downloader for archive.org
13:15 PipeWire hits 1.0
21:03 Neofetch but fast
Wayland in RHEL
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-10-plans-wayland-and-xorg-server
- We’ve talked about RH going full-wayland in the past and now we have a timeline.
- X will not be included in RHEL 10 due out in 2025.
- The X11 protocol will continue to be supported with Xwayland for the mountain of applications that will never be ported.
- If you absolutely need X you can stick with RHEL 9 since it doesn’t reach EOL until 2035.
- That’s right, 2035 will be the year of the Wayland desktop.
- This is great news and we knew this was coming, but now we have a timeline.
Wimpy’s Internet Archive get
https://github.com/wimpysworld/ia-get
- Would you like an easy way to download multiple files from the Internet Archive?
- Well, our good friend Martin Wimpress, Wimpy, has developed a command line app for just that!
- It is called ia-get, or Internet Archive Get, and all you have to do is type ia-get in the terminal with the URL of an Internet Archive details page you want to download.
- And all the files from that page will download to your current working directory.
- Ia-get will preserve the original directory structure and automatically resume failed or partial downloads.
- Wimpress wanted to hoard high-quality scans of ZZap!64 magazine because reasons.
- This is the end result of ChatGPT-4 plays Rust.
- Now if we could only do something about Archive speed.
Pipes 1.0
https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-0-el-presidente-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-0-an-interview-with-pipewire-creator-wim-taymans/
- Getting Pipes to 1.0 was a lot of work.
- This release is mostly focused around stability and performance.
- The LC3 codec has been added for bluetooth.
- Some additional optimizations for Jack.
- Wim did an interview with fedorfmag.org.
- Talks about getting netjack 2 and firewire support finished.
- They are unable to test since they do not have the hardware.
- AVB support is still poo but they are focusing on AES67.
- No word on Dante.
- On the video side camera support is mostly baked.
- Initial support for vulkan video filters..
Neofetch fast
https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
- Many of us in the Linux community like to show off pretty screenshots of our system specs and what distro we are running in the Linux terminal.
- One way to accomplish this is to use Neofetch in the terminal.
- Neofetch is written in bash 3.2+, which is wonderful, but it is a bit sluggish launching.
- So say hello to fastfetch, which is a Neofetch-like tool written mostly in C.
- Wow, fastfetch launches instantaneously!
- The developer CarterLi states:
- “I like putting neofetch in my ~/.bashrc to have a system overview whenever I use the terminal, but the slow speed annoyed me, so I created this.”
- It is packaged for many distros, including a .deb for Debian and Ubuntu, an .RPM for Fedora, and also Arch, Gentoo, openSUSE packages etc.
- Installed the debian package on, you guessed it, Debian.
- Compared to neofetch it provides some additional info like local IP and disk usage.
- Times on TB https://imgur.com/Vdrfm2x.png
