#lfnw

[chelnik]

Helping Tux out at the Ubuntu booth

[over-the-bucolic-green-hills]

Wow!! That sounds exciting.

I have had alot of interesting experiences over the past five years.

Whats your favourite event from the past five years? #FlashbackFriday

[system76]

LinuxFest Northwest Summary

Here’s a summary of our time at LFNW, and we hope to see you there next year!

System76 was in Bellingham over the weekend for LinuxFest Northwest! People had a wonderful time meeting our support staff and got to put a friendly face to the name of the lovely folks who’ve helped them out in the past.

Our booth was fully loaded this year! Attendees who stopped by got to experience the new Oryx Pro and Darter Pro laptops. People were particularly fond of the Darter Pro’s trackpad and the springiness of the keyboard on both machines.

Thelio was also in attendance, with both guts and glory on display. The desktop was a popular topic at the booth, and the wood veneer was quite the crowd-pleaser!

While we were there, we flashed Pop!_OS onto multiple USB drives at a time using Popsicle to hand out to all of our guests. It was a spectacle of lights, and attendees were glad to be able to take Pop!_OS home to try it out for themselves!

For our fans, we raffled off two laptop bags and had an hourly drawing to pick a lucky winner of our Pop! kits.

We also had tons of stickers laid out and a swath of System76 t-shirts in black, brown, blue, and pink! Can you guess which shirt is Emma’s favorite? (Hint: It’s the pink one.) (That wasn’t a hint. But also, you didn’t need a hint.)

On Saturday, we were joined by Jupiter Broadcasting for a delicious parking lot barbecue! Conference-goers flocked to enjoy burgers, beverages, and boisterous fun in the Bellingham sun. Everyone received a bottle opener that also served as a reminder to be their nerdy selves.

The event drew quite the crowd!

Martin Wimpress, Wes Payne, Alan Pope also came to say hello!

When we got back to the hotel on Saturday, we noticed something interesting. The hotel we were staying at was using Ubuntu as well!

On Sunday, Emma gave a talk at the conference about taking a HAPPY approach to tech support, which is available to watch on YouTube!.

While it’s helpful for people to speak to an actual person rather than a robot, it’s not as helpful if the person acts like one. The HAPPY approach is an acronym that stresses the importance of being human, active, patient, persistent, and you when assisting someone. System76 has always been known for helpful support, and that’s thanks to keeping our support team HAPPY!

[5-fuxking-unicorns]

I MISSED ALEX SAYING LFNW?? FUCK

[atomantic]

Linuxfest NW #lfnw notes from today @bryanlunduke's "they're watching you" talk.

[chauletb]

Near St Gothard Pass you can find few incredible lakes to visit all at once! #outdoor #bergsee #hiking #nature #lake #wanderung #mountains #adventure #schweiz #waterfalls #travel #switzerland #wandern #naturephotography #suisse #swiss #hikingadventures #bergliebe #landscape #natur #alpen #rich #outdoors #cklich #camping #mountainlake #berge #water #travelphotography #trekking (at Gotthardpass) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfcI0R-LFNW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mutiarakiranashoppe]

Terima kasih 😍 #js #jamuslimmingherbal #jamuslimming #jamu #kurus #JamuSlimmingDollBeauty #jomkerengga #jamuslimmingbyrianaalyssa #Islimminglicious #mutiarakiranashoppe #MagicBoosterCoffee https://www.instagram.com/p/CeQMR2-LFnw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[prju77]

In your personal life as a Christian, you must demonstrate the Word everywhere, and at all times. Don’t let casual talk rob you of the effectiveness of the Word in you, and through you. Never become so casual with the Word and in your talk that you lose respect for the truth of God’s Word and who He’s made you. Maintain the consciousness of the honour the Lord has placed on your life, such that even when you joke, it’s never against the Word, your identity or heritage in Christ. The Bible says, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers” (Ephesians 4:29). Your jokes shouldn’t be coarse; don’t go overboard. It’s okay to be funny, but don’t get so funny that you forget who you are. Express dignity, honour, even when you joke. When you talk about God, be reverent, because His angels are always present. Many have got themselves into trouble because of their casual or idle communication, forgetting that they’re snared or taken captive by their words. Never say anything that’s against your body or your life, all in the name of making a joke. You may not mean it, but if you say it, you’ll have it. That’s what Jesus said in Mark 11:23. He didn’t say, “You’ll have what you say, only if you weren’t joking”; rather, He said, “You shall have what you say.” It’s a law of the Spirit; use it to your advantage. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2YB1l-lfnw/?igshid=tzy44gc935t4

[releaseteam]

via Twitter https://twitter.com/releaseteam

[chelnik]

Hanging out at the SeaGL booth at LFNW

[adridwitomo]

New video up on my Youtube channel celebrating @playoverwatch 1st Anniversary! Happy Birthday to the game that i love and hate at the same time! Link in bio!😸🎂🎉 📸 @alexis_calvin #sunrisejkt #emo #scene #makeemogreatagain #stage #sadboys

[system76]

System76 News: A May With Zing!

The force was with us in May, as we have a ton of fun updates for you! See what’s new regarding hardware, manufacturing, and accessories, and what’s in the works for Pop!_OS and our open firmware.

HARDWARE

In case you missed it, we recently announced that a new Gazelle laptop will be released soon! Gazelle has both 15” and 17” options and comes loaded with a 9th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU, an NVIDIA 16-series GPU, and up to 64GB RAM. Gazelle’s trifecta of CPU, GPU, and Memory gives content creators, gamers, animators, and designers a machine that can keep up with their graphics-heavy workloads. Head over to the product page to be notified when it releases this summer!

MANUFACTURING

“Brace” yourself for these manufacturing tweaks to Thelio Major:

A new power supply brace, GPU brace, and PCI bracket improve stability within Thelio Major’s interior, especially during shipping. Similarly, modifications were made to the CPU heat sink duct to better hold the heat sink in place while in transit.

ACCESSORIES

UK keyboard layouts are currently available on the Oryx Pro and Darter Pro! Though this keyboard layout is only available for a limited time, this option could stick around depending on popularity.

POP!_OS

Features

The ability to disable mouse acceleration has been added to GNOME Settings in Pop!_OS 19.04. Disabling mouse acceleration allows for the increased precision of mouse movements desired by PC gamers, artists, and designers for their unique use cases that depend on mouse accuracy. This patch was previously submitted upstream to GNOME by Mathew Bouma, but was not accepted. However, we’ve decided to include the patch as an option in Settings rather than through the GNOME Tweak Tool utility, as this feature has been highly requested among Pop!_OS users.

Graphics

VAAPI / VDPAU hardware decoding is now enabled by default for open source graphics drivers and the proprietary NVIDIA driver. This enables hardware decoding of supported video codecs in supported video players such as MPV. This can drastically reduce power consumption and CPU workload by offloading the expensive decoding tasks to dedicated hardware included alongside the graphics chip that was built specifically for those video decoding algorithms. This does not apply to Chromium or Firefox, however, as both of these browsers lack support for hardware decoding on Linux entirely.

System76-Power

Support for handling multiple hwmon interfaces for multiple I/O boards and CPUs was added to system76-power to combat excessive fan usage. This should reduce the amount of noise generated by fans on desktops that are affected by this criteria. A much quieter fan curve is also in the works and will arrive soon.

Security

Patches have already been released for Intel’s latest security vulnerabilities. To apply these patches, users are advised to install all available updates and reboot. These patches address the following security vulnerabilities:

- CVE-2018-12126 Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)

- CVE-2018-12130 Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS)

- CVE-2018-12127 Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS)

- CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM)

Fixes

We’ve updated the youtube-dl package to a newer version. This package, maintained by Debian and Canonical, is used for downloading videos from YouTube. Changes made by Google to the YouTube API had recently broken this package in the Ubuntu repositories, hence the update.

Spacing issues between labels and icons in the Files side panel have been fixed as well. If you see any other issues with the GTK theme in 19.04, be sure to submit an issue report!

Pop Upgrade Progress

The new upgrade process for Pop!_OS is almost done! Though not yet implemented, the following changes have been made to Pop!_OS upgrading in May.

The option for keeping or disabling third party repositories was added to the upgrade daemon. Currently, third party repositories are disabled by default during an upgrade, which can interrupt a user’s workflow for certain applications.

Support for the Refresh OS option has also been added to GNOME Settings. Selecting this option will prepare the system to boot into the recovery partition on the next boot, and to ask to perform a refresh install. This allows you to skip setup for the language and keyboard settings, and to go straight to the refresh view.

Pop Upgrade: The Recovery Shell

The recovery shell was implemented this month, which opens a terminal to allow the user to manually recover from an error that prevents an upgrade from completing. Once the terminal is closed, the upgrade will be re-attempted.

Pop!_Volunteers This Week

@derpOmattic has submitted a handful of DEP11 appstream metadata: GNOME Authenticator, Lollypop, & PulseEffects. The addition of these apps to the Pop!_Shop was made possible through the help of @stratact and his DEP11 convertor. MR

@derpOmattic added the appstream metadata for Alacritty and TimeShift. MR

@adminxvii implemented checksum verification in Popsicle. MR

FIRMWARE

In open firmware news, the camera toggle hotkey is now functional. The last remaining hardware issues with running open firmware on our laptops lie with Thunderbolt. On Whiskey Lake chipsets, the Thunderbolt controller is often not in a functional state after suspending/resuming the system. On Kaby Lake chipsets, the Thunderbolt controller is never visible.

A new BIOS setup menu is also being designed for our open firmware so that the look and feel is consistent with the beautiful aesthetic you can expect from a System76 product. This will be implemented once the new firmware is ready for release.

EVENTS

LFNW Recap

System76 was at LinuxFest Northwest! We hope you all had a chance to stop by and meet our support team. They had a blast speaking with all of you! In case you missed out on some fun things like the Jupiter Broadcasting barbecue or Emma’s talk on the importance of being HAPPY in tech support, you can see our recap of the event on our blog.

19.04 Pop!_Party Recap

A long time ago (May 4th), in a factory far, far away (Denver), we hosted a fun release party for Pop!_OS 19.04. Partygoers enjoyed Star Wars-themed food, such as Hanburgers and Jabba the Hutt dogs, trivia, a tour of the factory, and brought some swag home, too!

PRESS

Pop!_OS Makes Classic Gnome Simpler

Jack M. Germain provides an in-depth review of Pop!_OS in this LinuxInsider article.

Opensource.com: System76’s Secret Sauce

Don Watkins of Opensource.com explores the “secret sauce” of System76 and the flavor that it adds to our culture and community.

Level1Tech Reviews Thelio

Wendell from Level1Tech has been busy this month on the Linux playground, testing out both Pop!_OS and Thelio.

[mehemyounggad]

Lock Dem Dates Yah #saucegad #saucecode #saucelife #saucenation #saucesyde https://www.instagram.com/p/B9O4kE-lfNW/?igshid=wbafm96iu80w

[stevelemon-blog1]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFNw-UQ57JA)

[lbcybersecurity]

Events for the week of May 7-13, 2017

Events for the week of May 7-13, 2017

May 2017 1-8: SANS Automotive Cybersecurity Summit – Detroit, MI (@sansinstitute)6-7: LinuxFest Northwest – Bellingham, WA (@lfnw) 7-9: GTRA SecureGov CISO Summit – Bedford, PA (@gtra)7-9: International Association of Professional Security Consultants … from Events for the week of May 7-13, 2017