Plus our thoughts on the perfect Linux laptop right now, and the clever initiative Valve just launched for the Deck.

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• Pop!_OS Raspberry Pi 4 Beta — THIS IS A BETA. Bugs are expected and re-installs are likely.
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• Valve Launches “Steam Deck Verified” Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck — Valve says they are reviewing the entire Steam catalog of games and will be categorizing each game for its level of compatibility with the Steam Deck. These ratings in turn will show up within the Steam Store and for users own game libraries.
• Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up — Meanwhile the Asahi Linux crew is preparing for their eventual bring-up of the new hardware. They have pre-ordered the M1 Pro MacBook Pro model and will be procuring the M1 Max model too.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Asahi Linux on M1 Pro bring-up stream ~next week. Thanks to all my Patreon supporters for making this kind of thing possible!
• AlmaLinux ELevate — ELevate enables migration between major versions of RHEL® derivatives. Easily go from CentOS 7.x to any 8.x of your choice.
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• Bryan lets us know some neat functionality in the kernel…
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Plus we catch up on some community news from old friends, complain about a few Linux bugs, and share a "magical" app pick.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Thomas Cameron.

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• Dropbox added support for zfs, eCryptFS, xfs, and btrfs filesystems — The latest version 77.3.127 Dropbox added support for zfs (on 64-bit systems only), eCryptFS, xfs (on 64-bit systems only), and btrfs filesystems.
• Fedora To Stop Providing i686 Kernels, Might Also Drop 32-Bit Modular/Everything Repos - Phoronix — Under this secondary proposal, Fedora 31 would stop producing and distributing Modular and Everything i686 repositories.
• Changes/Noi686Repositories - Fedora Project Wiki — Stop producing and distributing the Modular and Everything i686 repositories.
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• The Perfect Media Server - 2019 Edition — There's a ton of resources on serverbuilds but you should definitely take a few minutes to browse the excellent CPU spreadsheet before buying a new CPU. You'll probably think twice about that Sandy Bridge chip now (in a good way).
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