347: Arm is Here

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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Links:

• Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) Daily Build
  
• WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released
  
  
• LUP Started Covering WireGuard in June of 2016
  
• Manjaro InfinityBook Pro 15
• Manjaro Linux on Twitter — "Our #Intel based @ManjaroLinux by @TUXEDOComputers is now available for pre-orders.
• Linux 5.6 Ships With Broken Intel WiFi Driver After Network Security Fixes Go Awry
  
  
• Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features
  
• Btrfs Ready For Linux 5.6 With Async Discard For Better Efficiency + Performance
  
• EXT4 Gets Performance Work While XFS Gets 32-Bit Fixes For Linux 5.6
  
• F2FS Experimental Compression Is Ready For Extending Flash Storage Life
  
• Multipath TCP Support Is Working Its Upstream - First Bits Landing With Linux 5.6
  
• USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
  
• Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
  
• VirtualBox Shared Folder Driver Seeks Inclusion In Linux 5.6
  
• User Error 88
  
  
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
  
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
  
• Feedback: Arch to FreeBSD?
  
• Feedback: Pi4 Fixes
  
• Raspberry Pi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
  
• Feedback: Pi4 Projects
  
• Raspberry Pi NAS SATA Adapter Stackable X828 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD Cluster – Geekworm
  
• Feedback: Downsides of JSON in the Shell
  
• LINUX Unplugged 341: Long Term Rolling
  
• JC: JSON in the Shell
  
• Long Term Rolling Feedback
  
• Feedback: Try NixOS already!
  
• Feedback: Timeshift Story and Question
  
• Armbian – Linux for ARM development boards