Season 2 - Episode 10: Huawei or the Highway?

S. Korea to switch to Linux • Huawei on the naughty step • Firefox on speed • adios Antergos • One does not Simply Red

Chitchat

Conor has been playing 📲 with Android Q Beta
Mike has been skiving on the Continent 🌍

News

South Korean government might switch to Linux 🇰🇷💞🐧, original source here. Beware of the going the Munich route.

US 🗽 companies banned from doing business with Huawei 📵

📈Stock exchange impact
Huawei's own app store
Ban postponed till August
Deepdive into Huawei's current suppliers and future options

Firefox 67 is out, 🌍💥 Mozilla claims speed improvements

Linus Tech Tips video about Microsoft Edge

Antergos Linux project ends 💔. The original announcment

Alternatives:
A lightweight distro based on OpenBox: ArchBang
An allrounder with many flavours: Manjaro
For people who don't like SystemD: Artix
Started out based on Arch, now has it's own repos: Chakra
Free software-only: Parabola
Full list on Arch Wiki
For pentesting: ArchStrike and BlackArch

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.