This Week in Pop! – April 22nd
Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution by System76, a Linux-based desktop hardware OEM. It is based on Ubuntu, with many enhancements specific to our vision of the desktop, and provides an optimal platform for our hardware, which is thoroughly tested throughout each release. These weekly posts highlight the developments that have been made each week in …
This Week In Pop! – March 11th
Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution by System76, a Linux-based desktop hardware OEM. It is based on Ubuntu, with many enhancements specific to our vision of the desktop, and provides an optimal platform for our hardware, which is thoroughly tested throughout each release. These weekly posts highlight the developments that have been made each week in …
This Week in Pop! – March 4th
Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution by System76, a Linux-based desktop hardware OEM. It is based on Ubuntu, with many enhancements specific to our vision of the desktop, and provides an optimal platform for our hardware, which is thoroughly tested throughout each release. These weekly posts highlight the developments that have been made each week in …
This Week in Pop!
Pop!_OS is a Linux distribution by System76, a Linux-based desktop hardware OEM. It is based on Ubuntu, with many enhancements specific to our vision of the desktop, and provides an optimal platform for our hardware, which is thoroughly tested throughout each release. Click to expand… This will be the first in a series of weekly …
Getting Started w/ Rust on Pop
At System76, we write most of our Pop projects in Rust. It enables the rapid development of reliable, efficient software, even if you are a small team working on a very complex project. If you need to develop a project that’s guaranteed to succeed, with minimal hurdles, and avoiding entire classes of security vulnerabilities, with …
Backup Pop!_OS. Simple, easy and thorough
At some point you’re going to decide to keep your current installation, and when that happens you will want to start making backups to keep your data, hard work, and configurations safe. There are many ways you can do backups with Linux, but today I want to share one that is extremely easy to get …
Fork While Fork
I thought that by now, everyone knew that running random code was generally a bad idea. No matter who it's from, or where you found it. If you don't understand it, don't run it! Somehow, this always seemed self-explanatory to me; if someone says "Hey, run this!" the logical follow up should be "What does it do?" or, even better, do some research before running it! Well, I was wrong. Not so self-explanatory.
New Year, New Site
With any major project, there’s always a million more things you want to do then can do. Pop!_Planet is no exception. When I first envisioned what I wanted to see Pop!_Planet become, I saw a resource for the Pop!_OS community. That resource started as a simple wiki, but I knew I could do better; I …
Happy Holidays!
It’s been a whirlwind couple of months here at Pop!_Planet! When I first came up with the idea for Pop!_Planet, it was little more than a Jekyll site hosted on GitLab that contained unofficial docs for Pop!_OS. In a matter of four months, it’s gone from those humble beginnings to a full-scale wiki, to a …
Pop!_Planet… Redux!
Since day one, we’ve said that we wanted Pop!_Planet to be a resource for the Pop community. However, the Pop community has never had a real community feel. Sure, we’ve got the awesome live chat system, but that’s not ideal for content sharing. We’ve got the Pop!_OS subreddit, but Reddit only goes so far in …
