This week we answer your questions, then dig into OpenShift vs. Kubernetes operators, give some updated options for email hosting, and talk about the dangers of Ai.
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
AI war stories
Content Warning
Dangers of AI
AIs are sycophants
10:00 News Wire
ClamAV 1.5 - gbhackers.com (https://gbhackers.com/clamav-1-5-0-released)
Wireshark 4.6 - wireshark.org (https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.0)
KDE Frameworks 6.19 - kde.org (https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.19.0)
Qt 6.10 - qt.io (https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.10-released)
6.16 - kernelnewbies.org (https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.16)
NordVPN - techradar.com (https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/nordvpn-just-made-its-linux-gui-app-open-source-and-theres-more-on-the-way)
T2 25.10 - level1techs.com (https://forum.level1techs.com/t/t2-linux-25-10-never-obsolete-keeps-32-bit-and-big-endian-risc-alive/238216)
Ubuntu 25.10 - canonical.com (https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-questing-quokka)
Linux Mint LMDE 7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-LMDE-7)
Winux W10EOL - betanews.com (https://betanews.com/2025/10/13/rip-windows-10-winux-w10eol-is-the-windows-11-clone-that-runs-on-linux-and-makes-your-old-pc-feel-new-again)
Nezha Gh0st RAT - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/10/chinese-hackers-weaponize-open-source.html)
Secure Boot Bypass - bleepingcomputer.com (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/secure-boot-bypass-risk-on-nearly-200-000-linux-framework-sytems)
ksmbd File System Vulnerability - cyberpress.org (https://cyberpress.org/linux-kernel-ksmbd-filesystem-vulnerability)
Kali Linux 2025.3 Gemini CLI - linkedin.com (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kali-linux-20253-introduces-gemini-cli-automate-qmd4e)
React Foundation - techzine.eu (https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/135353/meta-transfers-react-to-linux-foundation)
11:45 OpenShift vs. Kubernetes Operators - Tiny
OpenShift
Helm Chart
Operators
OKD
20:30 Email - JJ_4884
Proton Mail
Email aliases
Zero inbox
Kanban swim lanes
Why Steve manages things
Fastmail
Mail in a Box
46:20 Analog Audio Recordings
Saving cassette audio
Will you be able to open things in the future?
Quality
Dual head tape deck
-- The Extra Credit Section --
For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!
This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/463)
Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
-- Stay In Touch --
Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard
Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com)
Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!
Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/)
Contact Noah
live [at] asknoahshow.com
-- Twitter --
Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
--------
53:55
--------
53:55
Ask Noah Show 462
This week it's all about your feedback! We answer your questions, and dig through your problems!
-- During The Show --
00:50 Intro
Hallucinating
03:45 Friso from Mumble
Moving all chats to one application
Matrix Server
Bridges
Beeper
Messages not flowing
Self hosting beeper bridges
E2EE
12:05 Security Cameras - Dustin
Used Axis cameras
Reolink Camera's
POE Ethernet only models
Some models require Reolink app for first setup
Doorbell camera
Steve's "doorbell camera flow"
Surveillance Station
Get one drive
Reduce frame rate
Weeks worth of footage
Axis camera 2035 or 2036
Axis P3367
Write back in!
24:04 Laptops - Dasgeek
Framework 12
Framework 12 vs Framework 13
25:45 News Wire
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.0 - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/10/06/proxmox-mail-gateway-open-source-email-security-solution)
GnuCash 5.13 - gnucash.org (https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml)
GNU Octave 10.3 - octave.org (https://octave.org/news/release/2025/10/01/octave-10.3.0-released.html)
OpenSSL 3.6 - openssl-library.org (https://openssl-library.org/post/2025-10-01-3.6-release-announcement)
Docker 28.5 - docker.com (https://docs.docker.com/engine/release-notes/28)
Cairo-Dock 3.6 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cairo-Dock-3.6-Released)
GNU Linux Libre Kernel 6.17 - gnu.org (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-09/msg00007.html)
Tinycore 16.2 - tinycorelinux.net (https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,27807.0.html)
Opensuse Leap 16 - opensuse.org (https://get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0)
Spine Endoscopic Atlas - nature.com (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-05897-7)
Huawei Shrinks LLMs - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/huaweis-new-open-source-technique-shrinks-llms-to-make-them-run-on-less)
4th Version of Granite AI - techrepublic.com (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-granite-40-ai)
Granite AI Earns ISO 42001 - ibm.com (https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-iso-42001)
27:00 Send Feedback and Questions!
Newbie questions welcome
Fastest way to learn is immerse yourself
Experts welcome too
Email in!
Follow up
30:45 Linux Basics - Kevin
The bell story
Level of learning
GUI vs CLI
Learning styles
Ask your Linux friends
Ask a LLM SIMPLE things
Get hands on using it
Set your expectations
Tails Linux (https://tails.net/)
Reproducibility
Endless OS (https://www.endlessglobal.com/)
Distro Hop
Fedora (https://fedoraproject.org//)
Ubuntu
Arch Linux (https://archlinux.org/)
Tiling window manager
RHCSA and other Red Hat exams
Canonical Academy
ANS 437 (https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/437)
-- The Extra Credit Section --
For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!
This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/462)
Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
-- Stay In Touch --
Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard
Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com)
Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!
Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/)
Contact Noah
live [at] asknoahshow.com
-- Twitter --
Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
--------
53:52
--------
53:52
Episode 461: Ask Noah Show 461
F-Droid is going away if Google continues down the path of requiring that developers register their apps through Google. Jellyfin has a big update, and Steve joins the program from Texas and shares about what he's doing there.
-- During The Show --
00:52 Intro
Steve remote from Texas
Talking to a someone in the same space
Advantage of Face to Face
08:15 Operese
Windows 11 requires certain hardware
Microsoft will play games with Windows 10 updates
Windows to Linux migration tool
Use case
Codeberg (https://codeberg.org/Operese/operese)
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YUkD5oslmc)
Nixbook (https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook) vs EndlessOS
Immutable Distros
Alloy (https://grafana.com/docs/alloy/latest/)
Tailscale
21:50 News Wire
GNU Coreutils 9.8 - gnu.org (https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html)
Postgres 18 - postgresql.org (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-released-3142)
GROOT Robot Model - yahoo.com (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-launches-open-source-physics-183426533.html)
OBS Studio 32.0 - github.com (https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases)
RPM 6.0 - rpm.org (https://rpm.org/releases/6.0.0)
Linux 6.17 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Released)
Kaosx 2025.09 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2025/kaos09)
Kali Linux 2025.3 - kali.org (https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-3-release)
NeptuneOS 9.0 - neptuneos.com (https://neptuneos.com/en/news-reader/neptuneos-9-0-maja-released.html)
MemVerge AI Memory Layer - blocksandfiles.com (https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/09/24/memverges-ambitious-long-context-ai-memmachine-memory)
Song-Prep - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/tencent/SongPrep-7B)
1T Parameter Model - huggingface.co (https://huggingface.co/inclusionAI/Ring-1T-preview)
CISA Sudo Vulnerability - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/cisa-sounds-alarm-on-critical-sudo-flaw.html)
23:05 F-Droid and Developer Registration
F-Droid's stance
Principles and Trust Model
Older phones
Google decides what can run on your phone
Forcing phone use
Alternative Options
People clinging to proprietary solutions
Historic cycle of open-closed-open
F-Droid Post (https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html)
The Register (https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=rt-3a)
43:49 Jellyfin EFCore Migration
RCs are up PLEASE TEST!
Database migration completed
DO NOT INTERRUPT on first boot
Some plugins will need time to upgrade
32bit ARM deprecated
Kodi as a front end to Jellyfin
Pinchflat (https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat)
Jellyfin Hedgedoc (https://notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_features#)
-- The Extra Credit Section --
For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!
This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/461)
Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
-- Stay In Touch --
Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard
Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com)
Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!
Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/)
Contact Noah
live [at] asknoahshow.com
-- Twitter --
Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
--------
54:01
--------
54:01
Ask Noah Show 460
This week Noah and Steve dig into an npm attack that Red Hat has issued an alert for. We talk about small and portable laptops, and of course answer your questions.
-- During The Show --
00:52 Intro
ZFS Win
Meld (https://meldmerge.org/)
Domain knowledge scaling
07:32 NPM Supply Chain Attack
No compromised packages used in Red Hat software
NPM and Node.js
What the malicious code does
Red Hat is on top of it
Reaction to finding a compromise
Red Hat Article (https://access.redhat.com/security/supply-chain-attacks-NPM-packages)
Aikido Article 1 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/popular-nx-packages-compromised-on-npm)
Aikido Article 2 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised)
Aikido Article 3 (https://www.aikido.dev/blog/s1ngularity-nx-attackers-strike-again)
18:21 Registrar - Josh
CloudFlare
PorkBun (https://porkbun.com/)
Great Nerds
21:47 Small Laptop - Ziggy
HP ProBook
Noah's GPD Pocket v1
Surface Pro 1
Dell Latitude 2 in 1
StarLabs Star Lite (https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite)
34:56 Ham Radio - Brett
Open Source Ham Radio
Plan to sell a kit
Have a prototype
Reddit Post (https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/s/TTodwCYuyG)
Arkos Engineering (https://arkosengineering.com/)
HT-15 GitHub (https://github.com/Arkos-Engineering/HT-15)
37:58 News Wire
Systemd 258 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-258)
Rust 1.90 - rust-lang.org (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/Rust-1.90.0)
Gnome 49 - gnome.org (https://release.gnome.org/49)
Firefox 143 - firefox.com (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/143.0/releasenotes)
Thunderbird 143 - thunderbird.net (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/143.0/releasenotes)
Rayhunter - helpnetsecurity.com (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/17/rayhunter-eff-open-source-tool-detect-cellular-spying)
TernFS - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/TernFS-File-System-Open-Source)
BCacheFS DKMS - hackaday.com (https://hackaday.com/2025/09/19/bcachefs-is-now-a-dkms-module-after-exile-from-the-linux-kernel)
Tails 7.0 - torproject.org (https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_0)
Porteux - github.com (https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases/tag/v2.3)
Oreon 10 - oreonproject.org (https://oreonproject.org/oreon-10)
Azure Linux 3.0 - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/microsoft-releases-azure-linux-3-0-with-optional-6-12-lts-kernel)
Tongyi-DeepResearch-30B-A3B - marktechpost.com (https://www.marktechpost.com/2025/09/18/alibaba-releases-tongyi-deepresearch-a-30b-parameter-open-source-agentic-llm-optimized-for-long-horizon-research)
Qwen3-Omni - venturebeat.com (https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinas-alibaba-challenges-u-s-tech-giants-with-open-source-qwen3-omni-ai)
AI Risks - scmp.com (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326214/deepseek-warns-jailbreak-risks-its-open-source-models)
Hugging Face GitHub CoPilot Integration - infoq.com (https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/09/hugging-face-vscode)
40:06 OBS
OBS 32.0
Pipewire video capture
Lots of other features
Pipewire is professional
qpwgraph (https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph)
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager)
44:53 Tails on Trixie
Tails teaches you reproduce-ability
Privacy tools
Changes
New min requirements
Persistent Apps
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-0-anonymous-linux-os-released-based-on-debian-13-trixie)
-- The Extra Credit Section --
For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!
This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/460)
Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
-- Stay In Touch --
Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard
Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com)
Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!
Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/)
Contact Noah
live [at] asknoahshow.com
-- Twitter --
Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
--------
53:58
--------
53:58
Ask Noah Show 459
This week Noah and Steve talk about a brand new virtualization front end of KDE. They dig into the new law that governs ISP bulk contracts, and dig into the cooling efficiency of data centers.
-- During The Show --
00:52 Intro
Un-usual weather
Noah's air conditioner problems
Electricity cost and AI
Electricity cost and crypt mining
10:45 KDE Karton
Native Virtual Machine Manager
Libvirt
VirtManager
Cockpit
Open Shift & Kubernetes
linuxiac.com (https://linuxiac.com/kde-virtual-machine-manager-moves-forward/)
25:45 Jonathan Riddell Leaves KDE
Jonathan's Blog Post (https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/)
Linux IAC Article (https://linuxiac.com/jonathan-riddell-leaves-kde-after-25-years/)
KDE on the Steam Deck
KDE and the start of Ubuntu
Nokia
Different priorities from current KDE maintainers
31:09 News Wire
Freetype 2.14 - freetype.org (https://freetype.org/index.html#news)
Curl 8.16 - curl.se (https://curl.se/ch)
Samba 4.23 - samba.org (https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.23.0.html)
Hyprland 0.51 - hypr.land (https://hypr.land/news/update51)
MKVToolNix - bunkus.org (https://www.bunkus.org/2025/09/2025-09-14-mkvtoolnix-v95-0-released)
Godot 4.5 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.5-Released)
Q4OS 6.1 - q4os.org (https://www.q4os.org/blog.html)
PuppyLinux BookwormPup 10.0.12 - puppylinux.org (https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8690)
SpecFive Strike - linuxgizmos.com (https://linuxgizmos.com/specfive-strike-handheld-linux-workstation-with-lora-mesh)
Yurei Ransomware - industrialcyber.co (https://industrialcyber.co/threats-attacks/yurei-ransomware-exploits-open-source-tools-raising-double-extortion-risks)
CHILLYHELL and ZynorRAT - thehackernews.com (https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/chillyhell-macos-backdoor-and-zynorrat.html)
AI Driven Cyber Crime - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/open-source-ransomware-tools-on-github-fuel-ai-driven-cybercrime-surge)
OS AI Director Departs - zdnet.com (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-open-source-initiatives-executive-director-departs-what-it-means-for-the-osaid-debate)
Qwen3-Next - nvidia.com (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/new-open-source-qwen3-next-models-preview-hybrid-moe-architecture-delivering-improved-accuracy-and-accelerated-parallel-processing-across-nvidia-platform)
K2 Think - sqmagazine.co.uk (https://sqmagazine.co.uk/uae-k2-think-ai-open-source-launch)
RustGPT - webpronews.com (https://www.webpronews.com/rustgpt-open-source-pure-rust-llm-challenges-python-dominance)
Vaultgemma - research.google (https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differentially-private-llm)
AI Stable Coin Protocol - cointelegraph.com (https://cointelegraph.com/news/google-ai-payment-protocol-stablecoin-integration)
32-bit Firefox Phased Out - mozilla.org (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026)
33:38 QWhisper
GitHub (https://github.com/q5sys/qwhisper)
Dragon Natural Speaking
Whisper for transcription
Hardware requirements
38:28 CA Bill Snubs Cable Lobby
Forces rental companies to allow competition
ISP Agreements
Best of both worlds
Internet has become a human right
Common carrier infrastructure
ArsTechnica (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/california-snubs-cable-lobby-with-bill-to-boost-isp-competition-in-rental-housing/)
-- The Extra Credit Section --
For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard!
This Episode's Podcast Dashboard (http://podcast.asknoahshow.com/460)
Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys (http://www.voxtelesys.com/asknoah)
Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix (https://element.linuxdelta.com/#/room/#geeklab:linuxdelta.com)
-- Stay In Touch --
Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard
Ask Noah Dashboard (http://www.asknoahshow.com)
Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show!
Altispeed Technologies (http://www.altispeed.com/)
Contact Noah
live [at] asknoahshow.com
-- Twitter --
Noah - Kernellinux (https://twitter.com/kernellinux)
Ask Noah Show (https://twitter.com/asknoahshow)
Altispeed Technologies (https://twitter.com/altispeed)
The Ask Noah Show is a weekly talk radio show where we focus on Linux and Open Source technology. We invite the community to participate live on the air 1-855-450-6624.
The show airs Tuesdays at 6pm CT on asknoahshow.com and at KEQQ 88.3 FM in Grand Forks ND.
It's a free call 1-855-450-NOAH so join us and start on your way to owning your operating system, your software, and technology.