17.10 Beta



This week has been highly focused on bug fixes and final touches for our Beta release. We’re currently working with NVIDIA to correct backlight brightness issues related to their 9- and 10-series cards. We have a patch to our driver and anticipate them providing a fix upstream. There are also a few HiDPI bugs with X that we previously fixed for Ubiquity that now need to be fixed for Pop!_OS.

While testing, we discovered that Tweak tool had broken and was impacting more than just Pop!_OS. We’ve since been working with the Ubuntu team to write a patch and confirm that it fixes a myriad of related issues, such as font selections, desktop icons, and top bar clock settings.

New Community Manager!

System76 is happy to welcome our new Community Manager: Sriram Ramkrishna, or ‘Sri’ as he likes to be called! His role will be to help create and evolve strong relationships between our upstream projects and the Free and Open Source community as well as continue our fabulous relationship with our customers through our social media channels.

Sri previously comes from another well known hardware company, Intel Corporation, working for the Open Source Technology Center (OTC) group. While working at Intel for over 20 years, he has worked through a litany of positions ranging from engineering manager for the open source project - Tizen to an IT storage engineer working an engineering environment scaling to tens of thousands of Linux clients. His last gig, was working for the OTC marketing team that focused on identifying and communicating Intel’s open source achievements to the community and public at large.

Sri’s true passions through lies in his work in Free Software. He joined the GNOME Project 20 years ago after asking Miguel de Icaza for something to do and he’s been part of the project ever since. Considered one of the oldest members in GNOME, Sri has primarily focused on engagement and building relationships with users and open source communities like the Linux kernel. Sri’s work in GNOME is well known throughout the open source community and is admired for his use of diplomacy, humor and technical acumen when engaging in GNOME and externally. His passions go beyond the open source to social justice and to fair and equitable treatment for all.

Sri’s passion for communities and Free Software will help drive a flourishing community around the Pop!_OS brand, build trust and close ties with the GNOME Project, and find opportunities to work with other free and open source communities and for-profit entities. Ultimately, Sri’s vision (much like ours) is to create the deep integration between hardware and desktop in the same vein in which Ubuntu drove the integration of the OS and the desktop. Pipe dream? Never give up! Never surrender!





That’s all for this now! We’ll be enjoying the beauty that is Fall in the Colorado Mountains this weekend and then it’s back to work.