Episode 228: Fedora 34 with Matthew Miller Ask Noah Show

Matthew Miller joins the show to talk about next week's release of Fedora 34, with Gnome 40 and Pipewire there is no shortage of exciting changes coming to the distro. We take your calls, and emails and answer questions!


-- During The Show --

00:50 Multi-Hard Drive Install - M.X.U.


If you have the same make/model make sure you know your serial numbers


04:00 Sony WH-1000XM4 headsets help? - Richard

06:00 Headphone recommendation? - Chris


Frequency Range


Human Range 20-20,000 hz
Sony WH-1000XM4
Sampling rate - 44.1 khz is nearly imperceptible to the human ear
Wireless requires Encoding/Decoding which can degrade quality
CD quality is much better than mp3, FLAC and WAV can be "uncompressed"

Driver Unit Size


Generally larger driver = better sound quality
Multiple small drivers can out perform a single large driver

Passive/Isolation vs Active Noise Cancellation



Active - generates opposite wave from to cancel out noise
Passive/Isolation - Simply tries to block outside noise

1st Choice Sony WH-1000XM4

2nd Choice Bose Quiet Comfort



19:30 Gnome 40 still single thread? - Jon


Phoronix Article


21:00 Caller HDD Arrays - Mark


It depends on your use case
JBOD "just a bunch of disks"
Mirrored Array
Raid 5
Raid Cards can cause issues, Certain file systems (ZFS) want to talk to the disks directly


25:00 Education/Career Advice for a High Student


A few paths to take


Programmer
Support
System Engineer
Network Engineer

Job Shadow
Internships
Certs can be good


Red Hat Certs are good (RHCSA)
Don't rely on certs



28:45 Interview with Matt


BTRFS by default went well
Fedora 34


Currently On Schedule
Fedora Linux Schedule
Transparent Compression is enabled
Shipping with Gnome 40
Multi-Monitor in Gnome 40 needs some work still
New Spins available
Pipewire by default (Pro audio for everyone!)
SystemD OOMD on by Default
Fedora Server received lots of polish (thank you Fedora Server Team)
Fedora IOT Edition, Based on RPM OS Tree and Containers
CoreOS has 3 streams now
You can get involved with Fedora
New Fedora Logo
History Of the Fedora Logo
[Fedora Site](getfedora.org)



53:30 Another Backup question - Daniel


You want off site and automated backup
Bacula
ZFS/BTRFS Send/Receive


Check out Episode 36 of Opinion Dominion


The Opinion Dominion Ep 36


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SELF dates June 10-12

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