Season 5 - Episode 1: A BRAND new season

Nvidia buys Arm • RISC-V on desktop • Microsoft releases kernel source • Hardware with Linux reloaded • Tabs, Not Spaces • It's all a wicked game

Chitchat

Shane passed his driving test 🚗
Conor 🚌 went to County Kerry
Mike is going back to school 🎒, went on Linux Spotlight

Discussion

And we are back! This time we mostly chat about hardware, as Nvidia dropped 40 biiiiiiillion on Arm and Linux laptops are all the rage. 👹

Nvidia 🤑 buys Arm. (via ZDNet)

RISC-V desktop CPU 🖥 (via CNX Software)

Microsoft 🏭 release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central)

Pinebook Pro and 📱 Pinephone

Linux 💻 laptops by

HP (via omg! ubuntu!)
Lenovo (via omg! ubuntu!)
Tuxedo Computers

Slimbook

Go have a listen of the new Tabs, Not Spaces 🎙

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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.