mintCast 156: Ken Starks
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News:
- GNOME or KDE? The Old Question Is New Today. (Datamation.com )
- Development begins on a lightweight KDE version. (H-Online.com )(KDE.org )
- Cinnarch drops Cinnamon for GNOME. (H-Online )
- Clem comments on Cinnamon and its development. (Github.com )
- Fedora 19 Alpha Gets Its First Delay Due To UEFI. (Phoronix.com )
The Main Topic:
- An interview with Ken Starks.
Featured Websites:
- Reglue – A Child’s Exposure to Technology Should Never Be Predicated On The Ability To Afford It (Reglue.org)
- The Blog of Helios (Blogspot.com )
- Linux Advocates (LinuxAdvocates.com )
Featured Tip:
- All about SUID – thanks again to James Eaton (Linuxnix.com )
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great episode
i wonder from where i can download the distribution that Mr Ken Starks has mentioned
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Great to hear of Ken Starks work … absolute respect and an extended thanks goes out to Ikey Doherty (Solus OS) for going the extra mile in providing a custom distro for Ken.
I have to agree with the ext4 assessment.
IMHO ext4 and xfs are the main contenders. I find ext4 more lightweight so I typically use it on smaller boxes (less than 16 threads). There are a few issues with regards to metadata so it’s not good if you plan to use it for setting up glusterfs or Ceph but otherwise it’s probably one of/if not the fastest fs for Linux.
The only reason for chosing ext3 over ext4 I can think of are external dependencies i.e. your bootloader doesn’t know about ext4 or you want to mount it on some OS that doesn’t know ext4.
btrfs is probably also a solid choice but so far it hasn’t really made much inroads into the Enterprise as of yet – probably because ext4 and xfs work so well and the additional features solve problems that have already been solved in other ways.
F2FS is a special use case that probably shines when used on flash devices but I see no reason to use it anywhere else.
Hey guys. Sorry to be gone so long, my media player died a while back and my phone went so stupid on me I can’t do anything anymore while I listen to podcasts. Luckily I received a new laptop recently (the screen on the old one died on me recently) and now I can fire up the laptop while listening to the ‘Cast, something I couldn’t do that easily before thanks to a dead battery.
I loved hearing about Reglue and Helios. It reminds me of a group I used to work with here in Beantown, Virtually Wired. They had a public access computer area where people could come in and use VW’s computers, but they also did a nice bit of computer education. They also took donations of old hardware and gave them to people who needed them, although I don’t recall how they decided who would get hardware.