351: Lenovo Loves Linux

Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller joins us to discuss Lenovo shipping ThinkPads loaded with Fedora, and our review of the new 32 release.

Plus Ubuntu's Director of Desktop Martin Wimpress covers the details everyone missed in 20.04.

Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Matthew Miller, and Neal Gompa.

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Links:

• Red Hat Summit 2020 Virtual Experience
• Wimpy on Twitter: There are new ✨ features in #Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 that no one is aware of or talking 🙊 about, so here they are; straight from the horses mouth 🐴 Also, a little peek behind the curtain 👀 regarding how OEM requirements help shape desktop #Linux 🐧
• What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
• LINUX Unplugged 350: Focal Focus
• Lenovo is Bringing Fedora Linux to its ThinkPad Laptops
• Know when we’re going to be live. Check out the calendar
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• ACG launches Cloud Playgrounds for B2B
• Fedora 32 Officially Released With EarlyOOM, SSD TRIM Finally Flipped On, GNOME 3.36
• Fedora 32 Schedule: All Tasks
• Fedora Release Life Cycle
• Fedora 32 Cleared For Release Next Week
• Fedora 32 ChangeSet
• Fedora Workstation : Swamp draining for 6 years — Christian F.K. Schaller
• GNOME 3.36
• Login and unlock in GNOME Shell 3.36
• Enable Earlyoom
• Previously covered on LINUX Unplugged 348: OK OOMer
• Change firewalld default to nftables
• Make iptables-nft preferred iptables implementation
• Nftables: a new packet filtering engine (2009)
• The return of nftables (2013)
• Why nftables
• And maybe it will be eBPF before long anyway… (2018)
• Adopting sysusers.d format
• DNF Better Counting
• Enable FSTrim Timer
• Restart services at end of rpm transaction
• Systemd 245 Released - First Version Including Systemd-Homed
• GCC 10
• GCC’s New Static Analysis Capabilities Are Getting Into Shape For GCC 10 - Phoronix
• Static analysis in GCC 10 - Red Hat Developer
• GLIBC 2.31
• LLVM 10
• Python 3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Fedora 32 vs. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Engaged In Some Healthy Competition Over Performance
• Initial Benchmarks Of Fedora 32 Linux Performance
• Firefox Performance On Wayland Is Looking Good - Browser Benchmarks With KDE vs. GNOME
• Fedora Alternate Architectures
• Fedora Magazine Mentions Better Rock64 Support
• Bonus Pick: bashtop