System76 Transmission Log Episode 11: Interview with IT Director and SysAdmin, Dave Shaver

09/18/24 • 22 min

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Dave Shaver, an IT director at a small hospital and a local church in Northern New Mexico. Dave shares his extensive experience with Linux, starting from the early 2000s, and his preference for System 76 laptops, his day to day, and his side projects in music, video, graphics, web design, and gaming.

[00:00:02]: Introduction and Countdown

[00:02:24]: Last month's Cosmic Desktop Environment Alpha Release

[00:05:28]: Cosmic Ambassador Program

[00:06:35]: Community Meetups and Online Groups

[00:08:13]: Special Guest - Dave Shaver, IT Director and SysAdmin

[00:11:00] Linux Servers in the data center

[00:11:34] Why Choose System76

[00:13:38] Day to day

[00:15:55] Key tools and software used daily

[00:20:03]: Game Time and Conclusion

[00:00:02]: Introduction and Countdown

[00:02:24]: Last month's Cosmic Desktop Environment Alpha Release

[00:05:28]: Cosmic Ambassador Program

[00:06:35]: Community Meetups and Online Groups

[00:08:13]: Special Guest - Dave Shaver, IT Director and SysAdmin

[00:11:00] Linux Servers in the data center

[00:11:34] Why Choose System76

[00:13:38] Day to day

[00:15:55] Key tools and software used daily

[00:20:03]: Game Time and Conclusion

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System76 Transmission Log Episode 10: COSMIC updates, Hardware Updates and an interview with members of the COSMIC development team at System76

Listen to the latest on System76 computers, manufacturing, Pop!_OS and COSMIC DE. This episode features an interview with Carl, Maria and Jeremy from the COSMIC Development Team. We’ll also talk about new hardware updates, community happenings and even play a fun game at the end!

Check out what we make!

Blog: blog.system76.com

Laptops: s76.co/WuEDOnoS

Desktops: s76.co/Zn4NXTf9

Pop!_OS: s76.co/D_IWRvWD

:47 Hardware News- Starling Ampere Servers and Thelio Mira price drop

2:24 COSMIC News, new branding, logo, tagline

3:00 Story behind the COSMIC logo

4:40 Community News

5:30 Software Freedom Day

6:12 Interview Intro

6:35 Interview with COSMIC team begins

6:47 What is COSMIC?

07:45 What drove team to make COSMIC?

10:00 User Friendly experience

15:40 Design System

16:50 Theming

25:30 How did you decide who to choose to build COSMIC?

28:10 RUST eco system

32:25 Iced Toolkit

37:45 Make it easy to develop applets

42:00 UI components on their own

45:00 Nice defaults and ability to customize

50:58 What is everyone excited for?

57:00 On COSMIC for 18 months

1:00:00 What to expect from Alpha

1:03:00 COSMIC Icon Guessing Game

1:05:40 Outro

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Transmission Log Episode 12: System76 New Computer, COSMIC DE and Halloween Sale

Listen to the latest System76 updates including Halloween sales on laptops and desktops, the release of the second alpha of Cosmic and the introduction of the Thelio Astra, an arm-based desktop catering to autonomous vehicle and software-defined vehicle developers. Interviews with Joe Speed from Ampere and System76's Mechanical Engineer Britain and Product Manager Tony explore the technical specifications, engineering excellence, and collaborative efforts behind the Thelio Astra.

03:15 Halloween sale

04:08 COSMIC Desktop update

05:40 New Thelio Astra arm-powered desktop

07:26 Interview with Joe Speed from Ampere

08:08 Joe Speed talks grassroots community

09:35 Working with arm and Ampere

11:48 Comparing Thelio Astra to other machines

16:25 Astra as a Pre built arm desktop solution

17:30 Tier IV using Ampere desktops

20:58 Value in native development

25:05 Running tests in parallel

28:35 Britain and Tony from System76 talk about Thelio Astra’s engineering