375: Wrong About Pop!

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We're reminded that you can't judge a distro by its screenshots. We use Pop!_OS for a few weeks and share our embarrassing discovery. Plus our thoughts on the new Plasma release, a super handy pick, and more. Chapters: 0:00 Pre-Show 0:44 Intro 0:50 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 2:39 Plasma 5.20 7:50 Kernel 5.9 8:05 VMware Flirts with Arm 15:28 SPONSOR: Linode 18:54 Big News for Nebula 22:10 Code-Shaming the Kernel 27:40 Housekeeping 29:31 Pop!_OS Exit Interview 31:44 Pop!_OS Full-Time Staff 34:49 Pop!_OS: The Last Ten Percent 37:46 Pop!_OS: A Very Unique Distribution 43:13 Pop!_OS: Driving Hardware Sales 47:40 Pop!_OS: Strengthening the System76 Brand 49:51 Manjaro Arm 20.10 Released 50:48 SPONSOR: A Cloud Guru 51:48 Feedback: TLP Magic 53:23 Feedback: Chromebooks and Education 56:16 Pick: Autotier 59:09 Pick: Antennapod 2.0.1 1:00:30 SPONSOR: Core Contributors 1:01:10 Outro 1:03:18 Post-Show Special Guest: Neal Gompa. 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 : This course is designed to be a deep dive into the topic of systemd, the most widely used service management scheme in Linux today. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Linux_5.9 - Linux Kernel Newbies Plasma 5.20 — One absolutely massive release! ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE! — The ESXi-Arm Fling supports a number of different Arm platforms ranging from a traditional Datacenter form-factor to both Near and Far Edge systems including the highly requested Raspberry Pi. ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings Great News for Nebula Nebula for iOS and Android is now available | Defined Networking — In February of this year, Nate and I left Slack to start a company together, Defined Networking, Inc., to focus on Nebula full-time. Mobile Nebula on the App Store LUP 329: Flat Network Truthers The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux Kernel — With Linux 5.9, it comes in at 2.16 million lines of code plus another 247k lines of code comments and another 109k blank lines. AMD Graphics Driver Hacker News Thread All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows Pop!_OS by System76 Unplugged Core Contributors Manjaro ARM 20.10 released! Feedback: TLP Magic Feedback: Chromebooks and Education PIck: autotier — A passthrough FUSE filesystem that intelligently moves files between storage tiers based on the frequency of use, file age, and tier fullness. AntennaPod 2.0.1 Changelog

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