Season 2 - Episode 10: Huawei or the Highway?

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

Events

• We're doing it live 🍻🎤 at FOSS Talk Live

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