ULS 257: Better with Butter - Workshop, Hummingbird, & KernelScript

About this episode

The episode covers the latest news in Ubuntu, Fedora, and CachyOS, along with performance updates on Btrfs and discussions on Open Source AI.

This week the trio covers the Latest Ubuntu, Fedora, and CachyOS news. Btrfs has a big performance win, USB4 brings fast data transfers, the latest kernel RC has prompted a classic Torvalds rant. And then Jonathan flies in to wrap up the show with Open Source AI definition news. For tips, we have quein for turbo-charges who is, Shelly for smarter package management, htmlq for querying a web page, and DuckDB for slick SQL on the command line. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/434Hrkg and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald, Rob Campbell , and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord .

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Bennett

Topics covered

• Ubuntu news
• Fedora news
• CachyOS news
• Btrfs performance
• USB4 data transfer
• Open Source AI
• package management

Keywords

• Ubuntu
• Fedora
• CachyOS
• Btrfs
• USB4
• Open Source AI
• package management
• htmlq
• DuckDB

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ubuntu, Fedora, CachyOS, Btrfs, USB4, Torvalds, Open Source AI

Products: quein, Shelly, htmlq, DuckDB

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