 Hi everybody, I'm Matthew Miller the Podor project leader and I have a cool laptop to show off here today This is the framework and I was going to do an unboxing video of this, but it was actually this is a version I guess of the older Frame chassis with a new the new motherboard and internals in it and it was sent to me in like developer packaging Not the actual final retail packaging, so I'm not supposed to show that off So I have this from the framework folks basically to help make sure that it runs Fedora Linux nicely And the good news is it really does so I've been playing with this for a couple of weeks and it's awesome And it's a neat computer. There's a whole bunch of stuff about framework out there But I kind of like the modular nature of it so you can put like four USB C ports or you know one USB A and whatever it's neat And that continues to the inside the whole idea that it's basically a repairable sustainable design for a laptop Which as a you know tinker it appeals to me But I think it's also appealing in a lot of different ways just in terms of how we put together things in society So that's cool, and it works really nicely with Fedora Linux 36 and so here I thought well we just branched for the next release That means we're starting to get ready for the Fedora Linux 37 release It should be at the end of October of this year. So that's coming up. So this is very early It's not even a beta yet, but we actually have some nightly builds that work So I booted that up here on one of them and here it looks very nice This is the wallpaper we're putting for that release. So if you haven't seen that already sneak peek and So basically everything just works. It's a really nice laptop and It's a lovely screen lovely features. It's you know your basic Fedora workstation interface here and there is Really nothing super exciting to say because it is so polished I really like the screens a joy to look at here, and it's nice to look at the lovely wallpaper The one thing in the setup guide. So with this new system There is a there's a sensor for the brightness and that uses the same Like internal configuration as the keyboard and there's a conflict in some way So there's a workaround for that if you look on the framework Website for the Fedora Linux guide. It tells you exactly what to run and that makes the keys work again So I'm going to check does that work in this beta or pre beta release yet? Will I something happen when I press the function keys? So function yep function keys for volume play the media keys are working here So those work, but we get to the brightness Okay, no, so that is not fixed yet. That's okay. That's something we'll have to work on for now I guess run that shortcut and that will make it work I've also heard that battery life can be a concern and something also we should work on There's some workarounds that are again available on the framework community site in the meantime I basically running it plugged in so I really pay attention to what those things are but I've heard good results with those And I think getting this to work more nicely would be good I live in the city, so sometimes there's sirens. They're not coming for me. I promise