This week a special guest joins The Ask Noah Show to discuss how approachable and easy Framework is making the purchase and maintnece of a modular laptop. Matthew Miller joins the program and we talk Fedora!
-- During The Show --
00:30 LFNW
- Conference is re-scheduled (early next year)
- All other activities still going on
02:30 Framework Laptop Impressions
- First impressions
- Saw them in the wild
- Watched other manufactures make parts
06:05 Framework Owner Interview
- 13 years old
- House rules
- Previous laptop - ThinkPad X270
- What led you to Framework?
- What were your first impressions?
- How did the purchase day go?
- Why the DIY route?
- Order experience
- Very well organized packing
- Storage
- Everything is labeled
- First Power On
- OS - Kubuntu
- What is it like using it?
- X270 to Framework Comparison
- What distros have you tried?
- Kubuntu
- Ubuntu
- Arch
- Long term expectations?
- Who is the ideal Framework customer?
- Gaming?
- Framework videos, labels, QR codes
- Any improvements on modules?
- disassembling
- What is the feel like?
- Over all 0-10?
- Expansion modules
- Tools included
- Highly polished hardware and software experience
- Framework
28:30 Matthew Miller
- What's new in Fedora?
- under the hood improvements
- packaging
- build infrastructure
- 5 year strategy "Guiding Star"
- double the number of contributors
- better metrics
- mentors
- Ansible came from Fedora
- Friends, features, first
- Tools & People cycle
- What is on the immediate horizon
- change proposals
- DNF re-written in C++
- new installer UI
- increased automation
- CoreOS and SilverBlue
- Why is coming to summit important?
- Getting things into RHEL
- EPEL repository
- Origin of Ansible
- Red Hat's method
- Red Hat is a good steward of OSS
- What's next for Fedora
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