Fedora Project Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Framework”

61: Framework Laptop 12 Meets Fedora

Fedora Project — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500

Framework does not have a storefront you can walk into. What they do have is a laptop you can order that arrives with Fedora already on it, and a screwdriver in the box.

Michael Tunnell is the Senior Marketing Manager for Linux Marketing at Framework, and spent years covering this ecosystem at TuxDigital before joining. Noah is back this week after missing the last episode while stuck forty feet up on a scissor lift with a dead battery.

We get into:

Why Fedora KDE, and why the answer is a boring technical one: KDE tested best for stylus and touchscreen, and Fedora moves fast enough on the kernel for brand new silicon
The 80 percent of Laptop 12 owners already running Linux, measured before any preload existed, so every one of them installed it themselves
What "officially supported" means at Framework: engineering collaboration with the distro, support for the distro, and a dedicated Linux support specialist a customer can actually reach
Real upstream fixes, including a CPU limiter and thermals bug on Wildcat Lake, audio modules, and screen rotation, all landed in Fedora and the kernel
The expansion card system, with two of the four slots on the 12 running Thunderbolt 4
ZMK open source keyboard firmware, published CAD files, and 3D printable components
What it costs a company to commit to repairability instead of planned obsolescence

There is a written companion post at https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep61-framework-laptop-12/

Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.

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47: RISC-V and Open Hardware

Fedora Project — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0600

We are excited to welcome Isaac Chute, an experienced software engineer with a background in embedded systems and a passion for open-source hardware. We'll delve into the world of RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), and explore its integration with Fedora. Join us as we discuss the current state of Fedora on RISC-V, the challenges and opportunities in porting Fedora to this architecture, and the future prospects of RISC-V within the Fedora ecosystem.

The Fedora Podcast features interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome! These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, produce the distro itself, or help put Fedora into the hands of users. There is so much going on in Fedora that it takes a whole podcast series!

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🔗 Additional Resources

RISC-V
https://riscv.org/

🔖 Chapters:

00:00 Stream start
02:00 Who is Isaac?
02:45 History of RISC-V
07:56 Choosing an OS for RISC-V
15:00 RISE Project - RISC-V Enablement
18:40 Lessons Learned from ARM
27:45 Licensing of RISC-V
29:45 Audience Questions
45:00 Closing thoughts
52:00 Bagpipe Solo! Special Guest: Isaac Chute.

44: Building a Better Fedora Laptop with Framework

Fedora Project — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0600

In this episode of the Fedora Podcast, we sit down with Matt Hartley from Framework, the innovative company behind modular and repairable laptops. We'll explore their mission to revolutionize consumer electronics and look out their partnership with the Fedora Community!