299: Linux Action News

6 July 2023

Recent advances in embedded Linux, Canonical takes full control of LXD, ZFS gets a handy Btrfs feature, and updates on the show's production.

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  • Status of Embedded Linux โ€” In this talk, Tim will give an overview of issues in the Linux in the embedded space that have come about in the past year
  • The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem
  • LXD Moves to Canonical โ€” While the team behind Linux Containers regrets that decision and will be missing LXD as one of its projects, it does respect Canonicalโ€™s decision and is now in the process of moving the project over.
  • Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
  • Nearly 40% of Linux gamers on Steam are on Steam Deck โ€” Overall the Steam Deck has kind of taken over Linux gaming and June 2023’s statistic are pretty striking.
  • Steam Deck on Twitter โ€” โ€œHi all, just a quick note to celebrate a big milestone - weโ€™ve just passed 10,000 Verified and Playable titles on Steam Deck! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰ A bunch of these titles are on sale (along with Steam Deck itself) at the Steam Summer Sale!
  • ZFS Block Cloning โ€” Block Cloning allows to clone a file (or a subset of its blocks) into another (or the same) file by just creating additional references to the data blocks without copying the data itself. Block Cloning can be described as a fast, manual deduplication