284: Free as in Get Out

ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

Plus some surprising community news, and a few great picks!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• This Guy Made a Computer Mouse That Is Itself a Computer
• Apple’s FoundationDB open sources CloudKit database layer — The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantics similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB.
• FoundationDB Record Layer: A Multi-Tenant Structured Datastore
• 'Celluloid' is the new name of GNOME MPV — “The current name is a bit unelegant, and doesn’t really fit in with other apps on the GNOME platform. Good app names are usually a single noun that’s related to the app’s domain (e.g. “Fragments” for a torrent app, or “Peek” for a screen recorder).”
• Google is Adding 'Apt Search' to the ChromeOS App Launcher — Now, based on a code commit uncovered by Chrome Story, users of the Linux (beta) for Chromebooks will also be able to search for and install Linux apps from the Chrome OS launcher.
• Chrome OS to let companies use other Linux distros for apps — Device administrators will be able to designate a URL for Chrome OS to download the Linux distro, and a hash to ensure the download was successful.
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-7 Release — OTA-7 is the release where we take a breath and focus on getting the launch just right.
• ZFS On Linux Runs Into A Snag With Linux 5.0 — ZFS On Linux currently fails to build against the Linux 5.0 kernel sources.
• Linux 5.0: _kernel_fpu{begin,end} no longer exported · Issue #8259 · zfsonlinux/zfs
• The future of ZFS in FreeBSD
• Datto — Datto offers business continuity and disaster recovery, networking, business management, and file backup and sync solutions, and has created a one-of-a-kind ecosystem of partners that provide Datto solutions to half a million businesses across more than 130 countries.
• Neal Gompa - DevOps Engineer II - Datto, Inc.
• Neal Gompa on Twitter @Det_Conan_Kudo
• Chezmoi: Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines.
• Introducing Ephemeral – Cassidy James Blaede — The always-incognito web browser for elementary OS.
• Introducing The Elementary OS 5 Linux Community Challenge
• Chris losing it on the Linux Academy Live Stream — Time code link to just before it all happens.