I am curious too. You tested two different versions, one beta and the other current nightly (different content). It’s okay for a quick test, but you can actually have a much closer test. Both nightly and only one day difference:

• bz2: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2024/11/2024-11-26-20-51-18-mozilla-central/firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
• xz: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2024/11/2024-11-27-09-56-17-mozilla-central/firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz

I run this quick test multiple times and on average these are typical results (don’t forget to delete the unpacked folder between each runs):

$ time tar xjf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

real    0m5,784s
user    0m5,700s
sys     0m0,371s

$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz

real    0m1,699s
user    0m1,621s
sys     0m0,315s

Most normal users do not do this. But there might be special packages with special setups, like scripts downloading and installing from Mozillas download links. Or package creators themselves might use it. Or maybe you are a developer, in which case such direct downloads would be helpful for testing and comparing stuff. I also assume most people do not care or notice any difference with this change. Still its an improvement without much drawback and thats always good, even if its only a few people benefiting of it.

Does your Antivirus or Firewall prevents it from accessing the internet maybe?

Definitely VirtualBox in my opinion. I used it before. Recently switched to libvirt with virt-manager (Qemu+Kvm), but this is really a bit more advanced and need more understanding and setup. VirtualBox is much easier and simple.

Snapshot feature of VB is fantastic (not to any reader, snapshot is not an screenshot, rather a temporary image point of the entire system you can revert back anytime like a backup). Binding and accessing directories from your host system is also relatively easy, if I remember right. It’s been a while since I used VirtualBox.

It might be because they were developing Azure. And they also include Linux distributions in Windows too, so it makes sense for Microsoft to work on it. Microsoft is one of the few top paying Platinum members in the Linux Foundation: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

Microsoft doing Microsoft things, such as working on the Linux Kernel.

Nice overview and conclusion right at the top. Last edited 19. Nov, so its pretty active. I’m glad its not named “Are We H.264 AVC Yet?”. :D

Me too, yet we click and decided to reply.^^

I’m happy for others, plus it makes life easier for those who expect a working Discord like on Windows.

I’m not a fan of forced apology. It’s just there like forcing a billionaire to apology, so some people feel better and to get a false sense. An apology should come from them without asking for one. Otherwise it loses its meaning and is only a formal apology, not a meaningful one. It can even make it worse, because people tend to forget look over the issue as resolved. As said, I do not like the idea at all.

I like this response best so far (from the actual mailing list): https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/[email protected]/ (from Martin Steigerwald)

Do you really think that power-playing Kent into submission by doing a public apology is doing anything good to resolve the issue at hand?

While it may not really compare to some of the wording Linus has used before having been convinced to change his behavior… I do not agree with the wording Kent has used. I certainly do not condone it.

But this forced public apology approach in my point of view is very likely just to cement the division instead of heal it. While I publicly disagreed with Kent before, I also publicly disagree with this kind of Code of Conduct enforcement. I have seen similar patterns within the Debian community and in my point of view this lead to the loss of several Debian developers who contributed a lot to the project while leaving behind frustration and unresolved conflict.

No amount of power play is going to resolve this. Just exercising authority is not doing any good in here. This needs mediation, not forced public humiliation.

To me, honestly written, this whole interaction feels a bit like I’d imagine children may be fighting over a toy. With a majority of the children grouping together to single out someone who does not appear to fit in at first glance. I mean no offense with that. This is just the impression I got so far. The whole interaction just does not remind me of respectful communication between adult human beings. I have seen it with myself… in situations where it was challenging for me to access what I learned, for whatever reason, I had been acting similarly to a child. So really no offense meant. This is just an impression I got and wanted to mirror back to you for your consideration.

This quote is not the entire response, but most of it. Edit: I totally forgot to include a link. Added now.

LTS Kernels are not affected, aren’t they? I also wonder if some distributions will patch in bcachefs support for non LTS.

Anyone know how the Wayland driver in WINE will impact? I mean Wine works on XWayland so far, so what can we expect to get better with native Wayland support? I’ve searched a bit in web, but its hard to find some definitive answers (lots of general WINE and Wayland topics, often outdated).

God bless your innocent soul.

And the irony that Microsoft employees are working on Linux too. :D

Short: I forgot the /etc/fstab mount entry

I’m not sure if the following counts as stupid, but here is one where I almost wiped my system and reinstalled everything. I have some entries in the /etc/fstab to bind certain directories to specific locations in my home, to keep it modular (doing this since over 10 years). One day I replaced one of the internal harddrives and then the system would no longer boot up, because the it tries to mount a non existent drive.

Due to my long years of experience and wisdom with Linux, I thought that either the new drive was broken or I something from my body sparked over the board. It took me several minutes until I realized what actually happened and then everything was fine.

BTW in EndeavourOS when this happens again (and it did) then while boot the system asks me to ignore that entry and continue. Which is soooo useful and don’t know why this was never asked before (before I was on EndeavourOS).

Skill issues.

Just joking. These are Vulkan features to support. Normal users usually don’t read those and are not meant for anyway. The first part tells you the feature itself such as VK_EXT_descriptor and the second part with “on” tells you on what hardware driver it connects to, such as nvk for Nvidia Vulkan or radv for Radeon AMD Vulkan driver.

You can actually lookup the Vulkan features supported on your hardware. Depends on what driver and hardware you are using. The Nvidia panel list them somewhere (I’m no longer Nvidia user) and on AMD you can in example lookup in KDE Info Center. I’m also a noob and that’s all I know. :D

I don’t mean this in a toxic way, but this is probably the worst idea I have seen yet with Ai in programming. People should use less Ai, and learn more how to program. It’s better in the long term.

https://github.com/AZHenley/Mirror

Is the language and interpretation predictable and exact? If you install a newer version of the Ai, can the exact same code behavior be guaranteed? What’s the benefit over using Ai tools that generate code in a static language, instead leaving it to be interpreted?

Why not.

This is a lot going on there. I’m thankful the blog poster did a content warning, I truly appreciate that. It’s a bit too hard subjects to read for me, so not going into details now.

BTW I’m on beehaw and your reply looks like this to me, in case if it helps to see if it federates the way you was expecting it:

If you think that’s WTH-worthy, then you definitely shouldn’t read the /r/cpp thread (sample comments: [1][2]).

(edit to see if this will federate)

At the top of the blog post:

CONTENT WARNING

Unfortunately, this post has mentions of rape and sexual assault.

What the hell?