GNU GRUB

So I stuck to the big main line things that most new users should stick to.

So Grub, SystemD, and LemonAid.

I kind of go over just how to prep for installing Linux.

This is kind of a big thing when it comes to the preparation of Linux, how much space you should have, have a second drive, how to create a bootable USB.

The, the butter FS snapshot snapshot fans showed up the ZF ZFS on root fan showed up, you know, at, at one point a moderator had to switch on slow mode to just, slow down the threads.

And of course, someone suggested just rewriting Grub and Rust.

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course they

Let the hilarity ensue after that post.

Yeah.

So is the risk real? Well, one developer in the thread pointed out to CVE-2024-45774, a specifically crafted JPEG could trigger an out-of-bounds write in Grubb's JPEG parser.

Mm-hmm.

And then there's a whole lot more wrong with X.Org, and yet more powerful tools to fix it.

Ubuntu 26.10 has some questionable decisions about Grub.

We talk about some ARM news and the possible Raspberry Pi killer.

Blender goes 5.3. And Cage is doing some really interesting things in the Linux kernel.

We'll be right back.

All right, Jeff.

The Grub is going on a diet and some other things in Ubuntu.

What's new there in 26.10?

And then there's a whole lot more wrong with X.Org, and yet more powerful tools to fix it.

Ubuntu 26.10 has some questionable decisions about Grub.

We talk about some ARM news and the possible Raspberry Pi killer.

Blender goes 5.3. And Cage is doing some really interesting things in the Linux kernel.

Other people raised European, raised European compliance rules that require an encrypted slash boot.

The, the butter FS snapshot snapshot fans showed up the ZF ZFS on root fan showed up, you know, at, at one point a moderator had to switch on slow mode to just, slow down the threads.

And of course, someone suggested just rewriting Grub and Rust.

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