Fedora Project Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Fedora 34”

18: Exploring GNOME 40 with Alan Day: The Fedora Workstation Evolution

Fedora Project — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Dive into the world of GNOME 40 as Alan Day, a designer at Red Hat and member of the Fedora Workstation Working Group, shares his insights on the major design changes and enhancements in this latest release. From the reimagined Activities Overview to the switch to GTK4, discover the thought process, user research, and iterative approach that shaped this desktop evolution. Alan candidly discusses the journey, challenges, and rationale behind the visual and workflow redesigns, offering a unique perspective from the trenches of open-source UI development. Whether you're a GNOME enthusiast, a Fedora user, or simply appreciate well-crafted user experiences, this engaging conversation provides a fascinating glimpse into the art of balancing innovation and usability in a beloved desktop environment.

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🔗Episode Resources

Allan Day: https://blogs.gnome.org/aday
Gnome Foundation: https://www.gnome.org
Gnome 40: https://forty.gnome.org
Gnome 40: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-34-feature-focus-updated-activities-overview

Sponsored By: Tux Digital Network https://tuxdigital.com/

Special Guest: Allan Day.

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Tux Digital Network

15: Butter Up: Exploring Fedora's Transparent Compression

Fedora Project — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Chris Murphy, a developer working on BTRFS, explains the new transparent compression feature that will be enabled by default in Fedora 34 which automatically compresses files before writing to disk for space savings. He discusses the compression algorithm (zstd), performance impact, expected space savings, how to check compression stats, and the future roadmap for Butter FS features like snapshots/rollbacks.

🔗Episode Resources

Chris Murphy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy
BTRFS Fedora Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs
BTRFS transparent compression: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-workstation-34-feature-focus-btrfs-transparent-compression
BTRFS snapshots: https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-snapshots-backup-incremental

Sponsor: Tux Digital Network (https://tuxdigital.com/)

Special Thanks:
Ryan Gorley (https://freehive.com/) for his work on the Fedora Podcast artwork!
Tricknology: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FDvVTwe3XjmdNyKoqvHR6?si=OAwevZVhS9mNS7HnP2J8wA

Special Guest: Chris Murphy.

Sponsored By:

Tux Digital Network

14: Copy That: Fedora's Embrace of the BtrFS Copy-on-Write Filesystem

Fedora Project — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Chris Murphy, a developer involved with Fedora, provides an overview of Butter FS - a new default file system for Fedora that offers copy-on-write capabilities, data integrity checking, snapshots, flexible storage configs and more. Chris compares Butter FS to ext4, explaining the copy-on-write model, data integrity benefits over traditional overwrites, and capabilities like online shrinking.

🔗Episode Resources

Chris Murphy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Chrismurphy
BTRFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
Btrfs on the Fedora Wiki; https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Btrfs

Annual Fedora Contributor Survey: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-make-fedora-awesome-by-taking-the-first-annual-contributor-survey

Fedora KDE SIG's new video: https://youtu.be/zCFWTtSMbMs?t=2180

Fedora sponsored events:
KDE's Akademy 2021: https://akademy.kde.org/2021/sponsors#fedora
OpenSUSE Virtual Conference: https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSVC21)
Video: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/oSVC21/relive/3467

Sponsor: Tux Digital Network (https://tuxdigital.com/)

Special Thanks:
Ryan Gorley (https://freehive.com/) for his work on the Fedora Podcast artwork!
Tricknology: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FDvVTwe3XjmdNyKoqvHR6?si=OAwevZVhS9mNS7HnP2J8wA

Special Guest: Chris Murphy.

Sponsored By:

Tux Digital Network

13: The PipeWire Revolution: Untangling Linux' Audio Video Mess

Fedora Project — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 05:00:00 -0500

Developer Wim Taens explains PipeWire - a new middleware that will replace PulseAudio and JACK in Fedora 34 for better audio/video handling across applications and devices. Then Alexandra Fedorova discusses the new Annual Fedora Contributor Survey aimed at understanding tools, roles, and preferences of Fedora contributors to help guide project decisions.

🔗Episode Resources

Wim Taymans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Taymans)
Pipewire: https://pipewire.org
Pipewire the New Audio/Video Daemon: https://fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-the-new-audio-and-video-daemon-in-fedora-linux-34/

Aleksandra Fedorova: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bookwar
Annual Fedora Contributor Survey: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/annual-fedora-community-survey/30354

Ben Cotton's Friday Fedora Facts: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fridays-fedora-facts-2021-22
Fedora Elections: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-linux-34-elections-results
Red Hat Desktop Engineering team hiring: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/05/20/new-opportunities-in-the-red-hat-desktop-team

Sponsor: Tux Digital Network (https://tuxdigital.com/)

Special Thanks:
Ryan Gorley (https://freehive.com/) for his work on the Fedora Podcast artwork!
Tricknology: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FDvVTwe3XjmdNyKoqvHR6?si=OAwevZVhS9mNS7HnP2J8wA

Special Guests: Aleksandra Fedorova, Ben Cotton, and Wim Taymans.

Sponsored By:

Tux Digital Network

12: Fedora 34 Landing: Elections, Release Parties, and Contributor Fests

Fedora Project — Tue, 25 May 2021 05:00:00 -0500

The hosts preview the upcoming Fedora 34 release, cover Fedora community news, and explain the process for upcoming Fedora elections with project manager Ben Cotton and so much more!

🔗Episode Resources

Ben Cotton: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bcotton)
Fedora Council: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council
Fedora Mindshare: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/mindshare-committee/)
FESCO: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco

Community Blog: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org
Elections voting Announcement: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f34-elections-voting-now-open
Voting site: https://elections.fedoraproject.org

riecatnor: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Riecatnor
Fedora 34 Release Party + NEST 2021: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/save-the-date-fedora-linux-34-release-party

NEST 2021: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/nest-with-fedora-2021-edition
Fedora FLOCK: https://flocktofedora.org
FUDcon: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon
Hopin: https://hopin.com
Work Adventure: https://workadventu.re
FLOCK Pagure: https://pagure.io/flock

Sponsor: Tux Digital Network (https://tuxdigital.com/)

Special Thanks:
Tricknology: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3FDvVTwe3XjmdNyKoqvHR6?si=OAwevZVhS9mNS7HnP2J8wA

Special Guests: Ben Cotton and Marie Nordin.