On this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ll cover the modular laptop that respects your Right to Repair called the Framework laptop. In the Distro News, we’ve got updates from Linux Mint and a very interesting potential plan for a Rolling Release edition of Pop!_OS from System76. We’re going to jump into an enterprise grade tool with Apache Cassandra 4.0. Then in the Linux Mobile News, we’ve got an interview with Rudi Timmermans of the WayDroid project which is looking to make it possible to run Android Apps on Linux Phones like Ubuntu Touch. We’ve also got news from NVIDIA, they’ve released new Drivers with a lot of great features and they’ve even Open Sourced some content. All that and so much more on episode 162 of This Week in Linux, recorded live on July 31, 2021. Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!
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Segment Index
- 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 162
- 01:24 = Framework Modular Laptop Respects Your Right to Repair
- 09:37 = Element Raises $30 Million
- 13:50 = Linux Mint Getting New Website
- 16:59 = Digital Ocean: Managed MongoDB ( https://do.co/dln-mongo )
- 18:16 = Pop!_OS Rolling Release?
- 22:16 = Apache Cassandra 4.0 Released
- 25:08 = WayDroid: Android Apps On Linux Phones
- 32:00 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
- 33:59 = NVIDIA Drivers Security Bugs & Open Source
- 37:47 = K-9 Mail 5.800 Released
- 40:27 = Humble Bundles: Programming Games & More
- 42:58 = Outro
Humble Bundles
- Humble Definitive Programming Cookbooks Oreilly Books
- Humble Choose Your Own Career Path Career Press Books
- Humble RPG Heroes Bundle
- Humble Hearts Of Iron
- Humble Judge Dredd Perps Punks Partners
- Humble Early Access Allstars
- Humble Japanese Culture Language Stone Bridge Press Books
- Humble Ultimate Survival Guides Weldon Owns Books
- Humble Starfinder Paizo Books
- Humble Find Cure Software
- Humble Music Sound Effects For Games Files Content
I’ll wait until Frame Works has a Coreboot motherboard option before getting one of their laptops unless one of my laptops dies before then.
I went back to episode 151 to reverse my position not long before this episode hit. Might be worth pasting here too:
https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/151-fragattacks-wifi-flaws-system76-keyboard-framework-modular-laptop-this-week-in-linux/3734/8
I have a hype allergy but sometimes the hype is real. It’s a pretty good product.
Thanks, @MichaelTunnell - excellent show, as ever! Loving the enthusiasm for Framework. I hope they give BigTech a real kick in the shin with the success of this, to say the least! Sounds like they’re getting so-much right! When’s the AMD kit coming out though, I wonder?!
Excellent news also about Element funding, new Mint website, Cassandra and WayDroid. I am posting my reply here late, and managed to get one of the humble bundles you mentioned in time - the careers one for later in the year when I start job-hunting![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](https://forum.tuxdigital.com/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=12)
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