Richard Stallman visits Microsoft! Manjaro incorporates, the Pinebook Pro beings shipping, and NVME temperature monitoring in Linux.
Timestamps:
03:38 Manjaro Incorporated
08:43 Stallman visits Microsoft
12:08 Pinephone 64 is shipping
14:33 Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
18:03 New challenges for KDE
20:33 Dedicated Linux site for DELL
24:48 Google Trend wallpapers
27:23 NVME temperature monitoring
31:33 Solder Ninja
34:58 PCIe Pi
38:15 Longan Nanno RISC-V
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- I can’t comment on them ripping PKGBUILD bit I can explain the LLC.
- It’s only after receiving your articles of incorporation that your nonprofit can apply for 501(c)(3) status.
- Then you can file a 1023 with the IRS.
- IRS projects 100+ hours of preparation time for a first-time applicant.
- Ask me how I know, I dare ya.
- Manjaro had already taken many of its first steps to being a professional project by partnering with Softmaker of FreeOffice, which we talked about in July.
- Manjaro being listed at The Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge is a great fiscal host as well as OpenCollective.
- I ❤ the fact that Stallman still did his usual rant about the ills of proprietary, even at the Microsoft campus.
- Stallman makes his living by giving rants.
- That was big of Microsoft to even let RMS in the door knowing what to expect, and does help their more “open” position on software.
- Stallman gave a “mostly standard talk,” covering the importance of free software, GPL v3, GNU vs. Linux.
- This comes at the heels of the announcement of the first Windows Subsystem for Linux Conference which will be held at the Microsoft campus in March of 2020.
- Apparently there is no video since the StallMan requested that it not be hosted in a platform with proprietary javascript.
- Yes, he still maintains his MS webzone entry.
- Like him or not Stallman is our resident conspiracy theorist.
- And hey. He’s occasionally right.
- The pine key on the Pinebook also gets proper functionality as the meta key, with the sole outliers being the F10-12 buttons.
- When you press the pine key along with one of those 3 buttons for 3 seconds, it will toggle the wifi/blueteeth, camera, or internal microphone.
- Clever!
- I can already say that I hate where the power button is, though.
- The phone itself is now on Pre-Order, with the actual units coming out later in the year and early 2020.
- Ideally, they’re expecting late 2020 to be when they can finally ship something resembling a final model.
- Just like the Librem…
Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
- Yeah, right now the OS isn’t ready, the apps aren’t ready, and dude is fairly sure the hardware isn’t ready.
- The PinePhone prototype, which seems to be a much more finished product regarding hardware and software, is also getting ready to ship this month.
- It is great that Purism is being so transparent regarding their Librem 5 release cycle.
- Going forward, the KDE folks have decided to tackle three areas in which the K Desktop Environment has some catching up to.
- Wayland: The bulk of the Plasma environment is still iffy about the new old graphical server.
- Consistency: this is possibly the one thing about GNOME 3 that the GNOME team got right. Making every application developed on that framework look and behave like it.
- Application availability: If you’ve ever looked at the plasmoids (the little desktop widgets in KDE) you’ve probably also noticed that some of the useful/neat ones aren’t available in the KDE “store”
- More often than not, people have to go digging for them on Github and setting them up by hand.
- So they’re looking to have a centralized place where people can find all of these.
- This was the next step needed to make it easier for Dell to sell its Linux hardware to the consumer.
- Up next Dell, put the laptops in stores please, like Best Buy!!!
- Dedicated site for US customers.
- Over here in the UK lands there doesn’t seem to be one.
- I was able to configure a business tower for a little over $400.
- “Where did you hear about this?” “My wallpaper told me!”
- Google-Trend-Wallpaper is a python and shell script to set the wallpaper to a wordcloud of the most trending google searches.
- This project was inspired by process-wallpaper which is also a desktop wallpaper word cloud, but instead shows the words of the most resource-hungry processes and apps.
- Actually, it might be helpful for our next play thru of Google Feud!
- Don’t forget that NVME needs to heat up to work properly, the problem is the controller shouldn’t get anywhere near as hot as the memory itself should.
- Remember kids, the heat spreader that came /w your MOBO will only make it hotter.
- I have used and loved S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools for a long time, but hadn’t tried to run it since I got my first NVME PCIe on my render box quite some time ago.
- This is basically a USB rechargeable soldering iron.
- We’re bringing this up since the project will be alledgley open-sourced after commercialization.
- Keep in mind you can buy a Weller digital station for $100.
- A 60W generic iron for $12.
- That’s small and easy enough to grok that I may finally own a soldering iron.
- Coming to a “as seen on TV” product in a store near you!
Slice of Pi
- I’m not sure giving the Pi a proper GPU will be good for productivity but I frickin love the idea!
- I would suggest doing this outdoors because fire.
- The Raspbian kernel is specifically configured to only allow a single PCI bus but that can be sorted by changing the PCI bus-range and a little professional wiggiginling.
- Sipeed’s Longan Nano RISC-V Development Board is now available in the Seeed store for just $4.90!
- This little USB powered board has a tiny 160×80 IPS RGB LCD display, a micro SD slot and comes with an acrylic case.
- Both me and Mfoxdogg in chat say “SQEEEEEEEE!!!!!”.
- The project uses for this RISC-V board are limitless, and personally I would like to use many of them in an interactive animation art project.
- And it can also run Huawei’s LiteOS and RT-Thread operating systems.
