The Weekly Squeak - Ubuntu on Lenovo

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In this Weekly Squeak I speak with Mark and Martin and cover how the two teams worked together to make Ubuntu shine on Lenovo machines.Also features content ...

In this Weekly Squeak I speak with Mark and Martin and cover how the two teams worked together to make Ubuntu shine on Lenovo machines.  Also features content on Slack acquisition, M1 on AWS, Garbage language, and much more…

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Ever since Apple announced its custom ARM-based chipset for the Mac lineup, the Apple M1 SoC, modding enthusiasts have waited for the platform to be blown wide open. Users have theorized for a long time now whether it would be possible to boot Windows or standard Linux distributions on ARM Macs.

Amazon Web Services move to offer Mac instances on EC2 is likely to be an accelerant for software development on Apple Silicon in 2021. The AWS move is also likely to give Apple heft in the data center. 

When the Salesforce-Slack deal was officially announced on Tuesday afternoon, and the number appeared, it was kind of hard to believe. Salesforce had shelled out more than $27 billion to buy Slack and bring it into the Salesforce family of products.

The word homepage came into popular use in the mid to late 90’s, but it’s origin dates back to the web’s beginning. On September 16, 1985, Steve Jobs was pushed out of Apple after a fraught and personal battle with then-CEO John Sculley.

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. I worked at various start-ups for eight years beginning in 2010, when I was in my early 20s. Then I quit and went freelance for a while.

It all started so quietly. Deep in the forthcoming Kubernetes 1.20 release notes, Kubernetes, everyone's favorite container orchestrator, developers announced: "Docker support in the kubelet is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Authors: Jorge Castro, Duffie Cooley, Kat Cosgrove, Justin Garrison, Noah Kantrowitz, Bob Killen, Rey Lejano, Dan “POP” Papandrea, Jeffrey Sica, Davanum “Dims” Srinivas Kubernetes is deprecating Docker as a container runtime after v1.20.

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