This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch talk with Shawn W Dunn about openSUSE Kalpa, the atomic version of openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a KDE twist. What exactly do we mean by an Atomic desktop? Is ALP going to replace openSUSE Tumbleweed? Are snaps coming to Kalpa?
Shawn gives us the rundown of all the above, and what’s holding back a stable release of Kalpa, what’s up with Project Greybeard, and why Kalpa really doesn’t need a firewall.
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Kalpa
https://github.com/sfalken
https://github.com/ProjectGreybeard
https://fosstodon.org/@Kalpa
Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right in the Hackaday Discord? Next week, we’re talking with Eben Upton about Raspberry Pi!
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If you’d rather read along, here’s the transcript for this week’s episode.
Modern desktop environments are too heavy. They need to seriously cut back on the MBs.
Let’s put it this way: which elements would you like to lose?
Inefficient code.
And code written in interpreted/jit languages (python/js). And code written in languages without shared libraries cause that adds bloat too (go).
The same people who complain about this are viewing this website that takes almost 180MB in Firefox and Chrome. So what if KDE and Gnome takes 500MB to run? That is like 3 open tabs in a browser these days. If it’s taking more than that, then complain to your distro maintainers.
Is the RSS feed supposed to be distributing the .mp3 file? It seems to be giving me the transcript (or is there another RSS somewhere that gives the audio files)?
Duh.. The audio is there, as well as the transcript.