Hello and welcome to the 571st episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short topics episode, the hosts discuss recent upheaval at the ARRL, hacking of some DX clusters, the latest GIMP, changes at Asahi Linux, Fedora and Flatpak and much more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.
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RE OBS: There’s an acronym conflict between Open Broadcaster Software and SUSE’s Open Build Service. It’s annoying because you have to pay attention to context, something AIs still don’t manage very well. The AI model was probably trained on material that doesn’t include Open Broadcaster.
RE Linux on the iMac w/32bit EFI image: Debian 12.x (Bookworm) has i386 installation media, but I believe upcoming version 13 (Trixie) will not support i386. At least, there’s currently no installation image for testing on that architecture.
For long term paths forward for older 32 bit systems Linux is probably not a good choice at this point even though some distros do have some years left in the support life cycles. Many distros and software projects are phasing out legacy x86 support to lighten their support burden. Instead people may want to look at NetBSD or OpenBSD (not FreeBSD because they’re also phasing out 32 bit x86 legacy support). However, it would be a good idea to check software compatibility support for their chosen BSD because not all ham radio projects support the BSDs. If the software isn’t already in their package repositories or an equivalent isn’t available, porting might be necessary which may or may not be as easy as running ./configure && make especially when it comes to audio subsystem API support.