384: Born To Run Fedora
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.Sponsored By:Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. A Cloud Guru: Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 TuxiesCloudLinux 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 StrugglesMatrix 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 MatrixLenovo 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 CarbonLENOVO 20U9CTO1WW - Geekbench Browserchrislas’s Profile - Geekbench BrowserAll Jupiter Broadcasting ShowsFeedback: Rob’s Academic TuxiesRob’s blog: FOSS AcademicFeedback from Marcus: The Best Top ToolGlances — An Eye on your systemPick: pbgopy — Copy and paste between devices.