app01 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:04:34 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Fedora Project Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Hardware” https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/tags/hardware Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 This Podcast will feature interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome. These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, or they produce the distro itself. Some work on putting Fedora in the hands of users. There’s so much going on in Fedora; it takes a whole podcast series! en episodic News and interviews from the people who work on the Fedora Project Fedora Project This Podcast will feature interviews and talks with the people who make the Fedora community awesome. These folks work on new technologies found in Fedora, or they produce the distro itself. Some work on putting Fedora in the hands of users. There’s so much going on in Fedora; it takes a whole podcast series! no Fedora,Linux,Community,Open Source,Free Software Fedora Project podcast@fedoraproject.org 61: Framework Laptop 12 Meets Fedora https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/61 b4f49f63-64bb-4477-8e92-f6c97bd6cc80 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 Fedora Project full Fedora Project Michael Tunnell from Framework joins Eric and Noah to talk about the Laptop 12, why Fedora KDE ships on it from the factory, and what officially supported actually means. 38:32 no <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>We get into:</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>The 80 percent of Laptop 12 owners already running Linux, measured before any preload existed, so every one of them installed it themselves</li> <li>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</li> <li>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</li> <li>The expansion card system, with two of the four slots on the 12 running Thunderbolt 4</li> <li>ZMK open source keyboard firmware, published CAD files, and 3D printable components</li> <li>What it costs a company to commit to repairability instead of planned obsolescence</li> </ul> <p>There is a written companion post at <a href="https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep61-framework-laptop-12/" rel="nofollow noopener">https://itguyeric.com/blog/fedora-ep61-framework-laptop-12/</a> Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.</p> Fedora, Framework, Framework Laptop 12, KDE, KDE Plasma, Linux laptop, Michael Tunnell, open hardware, repairability, ZMK, Core Series 3, Thunderbolt 4, Fedora Podcast 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.

Links:

]]> 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.

Links:

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