Late Night Linux – Episode 31

An episode of the Late Night Linux podcast, hosted by The Late Night Linux Family, titled "Late Night Linux – Episode 31" was published on February 20, 2018 and runs 69 minutes.

February 20, 2018 ·69m · Late Night Linux

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Episode Description

We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases.

News

Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain

Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics

elementary OS AppCenter changes

Admin

FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!

Entroware

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Purism

We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.

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