Damn Small Linux Returns! GitHub buries Linux Kernel, Distraction-Free Music With Tangara, and PipeWire plays with fire!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Kids don’t know how to use computers
05:41 Steam Next Fest demo picks
08:49 Damn Small Linux returns
15:38 GitHub buries the Linux kernel
18:41 PipeWire vs FireWire
28:35 Distraction-Free Music With Tangara
32:52 Credits
Dang Smol (Rtheren)
https://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
- Thank you Rtheren, our Advisor on Patreon, and our friend in chat for putting this story in our show Suggestzens on our Discord!
- One of my favorite mini Linux distros of all time is back! DSL or D*** (Dang) Small Linux!
- Jill’s screenshot of DSL on imgur: https://imgur.com/a/lZGFNwV
- That small Linux distro that came out in 2002, that pulled my heart strings, and let me discover the beauty of the Fluxbox X window manager.
- But it is no longer 50MB, and tailored to 486 computers that I used to run it on and the like.
- The creator John Andrews states:
- “The new goal of DSL is to pack as much usable desktop distribution into an image small enough to fit on a single CD, or a hard limit of 700MB. This project is meant to service older computers and have them continue to be useful far into the future.”
- DSL is now based on the small and robust Debian based distribution AntiX Linux.
- And Debians’s Apt is now fully enabled, unlike the original.
- It has two Window Managers: Fluxbox and JWM.
- And still has some of my favorite apps and web browsers from the original, including Dillo, XMMS, Sylpheed, Vim, Nano.
- And lots of shiny new classic apps as well, like BadWolf web browser, Ranger, mtPaint, MPV, Tmux, AbiWord, zzzFM, Leafpad.
- I got to meet the creator of DSL, John Andrews and his team, back at the Southern California Linux Expo way back in 2007, and he had become a regular at the following SCaLEs.
- I donated money to the DSL project, and John gave me this rare DSL hat which I forever cherish :-D
- You can download the DSL 2024 Alpha release ISO directly from the website, which is linked in our show notes.
GitHub open source freeze
- In 2020 github took a picture of everything.
- Seriously, it’s been put on film.
- Not your regular ordinary celluloid, nay.
- This is 1,000-year hardened film that might last that long.
- Instead of pictures they went with QR codes.
- 186 reels of film are able to store 21TB of data.
- An index guide is stored with each reel to explain how to recover the contents.
- So this is something completely awesome, on February 2, 2020 the Arctic World Archive contained a snapshot of all the active public repositories from GitHub and preserved that data for generations to come in the Arctic Code Vault.
- The AWA is a joint initiative between Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani and a long term digital preservation provider named Piql AS.
- And the Arctic World Archive put the GitHub data inside a sealed chamber in a decommissioned coal mine deep underground 250-300 meters.
- “This capture includes every repo with any commits between the announcement at GitHub Universe on November 13th 2019 and 02/02/2020; every repo with at least 1 star and any commits from the year before the snapshot. As well as all repos with at least 250 stars.”
- And, of course, torvalds/linux is one of the featured projects in the vault!
FireWire with Pipe Wire
https://interfacinglinux.com/2024/02/02/firewire-audio-with-pipewire/
https://twitter.com/wtaymans/status/1750776423181148191
- Someone asked in the forums how to make FFADO work with pipewire.
- Everything works with pipe wire out of the box right?
- How hard could it be?
- Instead of guessing I set things up on a testbench and got to work.
- FFADO does not work with pipewire, not even a little bit.
- Don’t waste your time trying to make it.
- If you use your firewire interface for professional recording stick with Jack + FFADO.
Slice of Pi
Open beep-boops
https://cooltech.zone/tangara/
https://sr.ht/~jacqueline/tangara/
- Tangara is an open source, iPod-inspired portable music player.
- For those of you who want music without the distractions.
- 300 people have backed the campaign, pledging over $135,000.
- You can reserve a Tangara device for $249.
- Comes with a 3.5mm audio jack and bluetooth, WiFi 4 and USB-C for chargement.
- Did I mention it’s open-source?
- It supports MP3, FLAC, OGG, Opus, and more audio codec support in the future.
- The Tangara features a Cirrus Logic WM8523 DAC and a TI INA1620 amplifier for high quality audio.
- And you can print your own case in whatever color you want!
