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Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source.
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Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma?
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VM Brasseur
VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.
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VM Brasseur publishes a book on FLOSS yet uses a closed source OS. What?
Joe wanted to know how much time does it take Pine64.org to come back to you after you register your email to get a pinebook or how long is the queue to get one. I’ve recently registered with them and two weeks later (Oct 8), I got an email from them letting me know it was my turn to order with details and conditions. They said they would ship early November. They gave a code valid till Oct 16 and I could order accessories as well but they must be in the same order, however, they will ship separately from the laptop due to battery shipping regulations (add more to shipping cost?).
Warranty is 30 days, no returns accepted. They also said that dead pixels are normal with the pinebook and emphasized that they do not make any profit selling the pinebooks as they do it only as service to the community.
Shipping, tax, and import fees are not included. In my case shipping alone to my country was $94 raising the total cost for the pinebook 11″ with NO accessories to $194.
By the way, I noticed that the chassis of the pinebook seems to be a common housing for cheap Chinese laptops. I got the exact same laptop but with Intel Cherry Trail for my daughter for only $130 Windows 10 ‘activated’ and 2-year warranty.
I’ve actually ordered one now. I’m expecting it to end up at around $200 all in. I’ll talk about it on the show when (if) it arrives.