Episode 6:12: It's All About the Pentiums

Coming up in this episode

The Ends of an Era

A Leaky Firefox

RAM is Affordable Now?!

0:00 Cold Open

1:36 Ends of an Era

32:30 A Leaky Firefox

48:47 A Slight RAM Reprieve?

1:04:51 Two Notes & Next Time

1:13:30 Stinger

Today in User Space we dive into the wonderful world of nostalgia again as we find out that the 486 architecture will soon be dropped from the Linux kernel. Luckily the very first Pentium (with MMX!) is still in-tree, but for how much longer? We also find out that Ubuntu is raising their minimum RAM requirement to 6GB from 4. Honestly, it's about time.

Then, some bittersweet news. Leo finally gets to play around with the Firefox built-in VPN, but Dan still hasn't seen it. What we found out, though, is that Firefox will happily leak your real IP address with WebRTC. Does this defeat the purpose?!