Issue #248 / Jul 2021

The interface of politics with tech is always complicated – even when the stated values of the country and the company are similar. But in a world of global corporations and diverging values, the interplay is almost impossible to follow.

Ubuntu 21.04 and Fedora 34 Workstation

In the news: Armbian 21.05 Now Available; StarLabs has Released Another Linux Laptop; Ubuntu 21.04 Adds Support for Active Directory; Gnome 40 Available on openSUSE; Kernel 5.13 Merges Apple M1 Hardware Support: and KDE Launches the Qt 5 Patch Collection. 

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on want vs. need, and hiding system resources ... from the system.

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