Ep. 85

Simplifying the Stack

Dec 1, 2025

• 47min 36s

Episode description

AMD and nVidia are raising GPU prices
- https://wccftech.com/amd-raise-gpu-prices-by-at-least-10-percent/
  - No word from Intel
Alma Linux 10.1 Released now with btrfs support
- https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-11-24-almalinux_101_release/
  - This is a feature change in a point update
  - Also re enabled SPICE support and frame pointers and x86_64-v2 CPU support.
Alex Gaynor (Rust for linux co-maintainer) steps down
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alex-Gaynor-Rust-Maintainer
  - Miguel Ojeda is now the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers.
  - Is Rust dying in linux?
  - Alex Gaynor wrote on the patch removing himself as a maintainer of the Rust code:
    
    “I’ve long since stopped having the time to contribute code or reviews, this acknowledges that.
    
    Geoffrey Thomas and I created the “linux-kernel-module-rust” project at PyCon in 2018, as an experiment to see if we could make it possible to write kernel modules in Rust. The Rust for Linux effort has far exceeded anything we could have expected at the time.
    
    I want to thank all the Rust for Linux contributors, past and present, who have helped make this a reality – and in particularly Miguel, who really transformed this project from an interesting demo to something that could really land in mainline.“
Valve Watch: More talk on the steam machine this time with more officialish word on a price
- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/valves-steam-machine-looks-like-a-console-but-dont-expect-it-to-be-priced-like-one/
  - HDMI-CEC support is more or less confirmed
  - Watch the interview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvu66Y2VLq8
    - Valve officials join at 54:24 but do please watch the whole thing.
Good Bye Chrome OS, hello Aluminum OS
- https://www.theverge.com/news/828595/google-aluminium-os-android-pc-chromeos-ai
  - This is just android for PC
  - Josh: This is just Google consolidating Operating Systems, which I’m perfectly fine with.