385: The 2020 Tuxies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:15:00 -0800

We reveal the winners of the 2020 Tuxies.

We've tallied the audience votes for the best open source projects, desktops, distros, editors, games, and much much more.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Nate Graham.

384: Born To Run Fedora

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:15:00 -0800

It's light as a feather, fast as hell, and everything is upstream. The ThinkPad X1 Carbon ships with Fedora, and this week we put it to the test.

Plus community news, feedback, and a great pick.

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Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies
CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollars a year into CentOS clone — Project Lenix will be a free, open-source, community-driven, 1:1 binary compatible fork of RHEL 8 (and future releases).
Feedback: Mike’s Stream Struggles
Matrix Client: Fractal — Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.
Matrix Client: nheko — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app.
This Week in Matrix
Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — As the Fedora team mentioned in the original announcement, it's coming without any bloat as they said Lenovo "respects our open source principles". The only software they will have is from the included repositories, no extra fluff.
ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 Spec (PDF)
HW probe of Chris’ ThinkPad X1 Carbon
LENOVO 20U9CTO1WW - Geekbench Browser
chrislas’s Profile - Geekbench Browser
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Feedback: Rob’s Academic Tuxies
Rob’s blog: FOSS Academic
Feedback from Marcus: The Best Top Tool
Glances — An Eye on your system
Pick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.