Show Notes
Join us next week for the recording of episode of 500. We'll be live from the Tamarack Tap Room at 6pm next Tuesday Aug 4th. This week we talk about Steve building a custom distro for his house with BootC!
-- During The Show --
00:45 Intro
Time snark
Lots done in the studio
01:55
Tamark Taproom in Woodbury MN
Big Thank You to the venue
Aug 4 17:30
Uncomfortable Man hugs available
03:25 Oven's Project
Lots of computers in the Oven's house
Outgrown imutable OS
NixOS was considered
Looked to sharpen both home and industry skills
Wide domain knowledge
BootC and Fedora CoreOS
Printer drivers
Testing and working out the bugs
The process
Special snowflake computer
What is BootC
Automating the process
SilverBlue issues
Zero touch config
Problems
Picking a distro
Encryption
"Day 2"
Staging machine
Take-aways
36:55 News Wire
Peazip 11.2 - github.io
Proton 11 - steamdeckhq.com
KDE Frameworks 6.28 - kde.org
Calibre 9.11 - calibre-ebook.com
TMUX 3.7 - github.com
GNU Nano 9.1 - nano-editor.org
GNU Cash 5.16 - github.com
Shotcut - 26.6 - shotcut.org
Arm64 Live Kernel Patching - ubuntu.com
Cosmic Epoch 1.1 - phoronix.com
7.0 Kernel EOL - eosl.date
KaOS 2026.06 - kaosx.us
Parrot OS 7.3 - parrotsec.org
Mageia 10.0 - mageia.org
Ultramarine 44 - blog.fyralabs.com
Gnoppix 26.7 - forum.gnoppix.org
4mLinux 51.2 - 4mlinux-releases.blogspot.com
Porteux 2.6 linuxjournal.com
CachyOS June 2026 linuxjournal.com
Hannah Montana Linux ReMaster - tomshardware.com
Ubuntu 25.10 - discourse.ubuntu.com
Debian 13.6 - debian.org
Azure Linux 4.0 - zdnet.com
Bad Epoll - securityweek.com
Januscape - thehackernews.com
Tencent hy3 - the-decoder.com
Z.Ai GLM-5.2 - counterpointresearch.com
Leanstral 1.5 - the-decoder.com
Github's License Tool - helpnetsecurity.com
39:35 Noah's Framwork
Noah's change in mindset
Buying new doesn't save much
13 Pro on the way
Many but not all new parts interchangeable with original Framework 13
Screen aspect ratio
Framework has been consistant
LPCAMM2 RAM
Life of laptops
51:10 Activist Charged with Felony
CBP Agent entered Duress code into GrapheneOS phone
Wiped the encryption key, effectively wiping the device
Activist charged with a Felony
Successfully thwarted the government
Question to the audiance
ArsTechnica
The Guardian
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