Framework Computer

Now, that's right to repair.

Rate to upgrade is something that you're not hearing a lot, but it's actually something that I've been talking to the guys at Framework.

I don't know if you've heard of Framework.

They're out in the Bay Area.

I haven't, no.

Framework, check them out.

Framework builds laptops and desktops that have user-replaceable parts.

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This is my favorite machine right now.

But Framework, I use those for a while too.

Here's the Framework Pro, 13 Pro is also a good machine.

And keep in mind that's for cutting edge hardware.

But the cool thing about Omachi is that you can run it on pretty much anything, bring any old hardware back to life with potentially the best operating system in the world.

But anyway, the donation started last December.

So Framework sent the CacheOS team a Framework Laptop 16 to tune their kernel and packages on modern hardware plus the $250 a month.

At the time, CashUS said that was about 10% of all its monthly donations.

So that tells you that CashUS is not a big money-making juggernaut.

Now, according to Jung, the new money goes to three things, keeping build servers, mirrors, and infrastructure running reliably.

So spending more time on kernel optimization, packaging, and hardware support, and getting closer to the project's long-term goal of letting the developers work on CacheOS full-time.

Now Jung wrote, having Framework triple its support says a lot about how much they care about Linux on their hardware.

Framework replied on X that CacheOS is one of the fastest growing distributions being used by Framework laptop owners.

You don't crap over established projects just because you built something different.

Now, in more interesting news, Framework announced that they would fund CachyOS a bit more.

They previously only donated $250 per month to the distro.

They will expand that to $850 per month, which is not bad at all.

Now, $850 isn't anything crazy if you compare to what other distros have been able to raise.

Uh, but it is still a significant amount.

It's more than three times what Framework gave previously, and I think this will help make CachyOS into a more reliable, more established name.

I think it's good.

And member of a privileged group are being thrown around.

Now they've even brought Framework Computer back into the fight.

GNOME, just as a backstory for those of you who weren't around for this, GNOME officially rejected a donation from Framework Computer last year.

And the leadership of GNOME said that part of the reasoning for rejecting the framework donation was that framework was associating people with people that have Hitler particles.

Don't I don't know.

Avoid them at all costs, he says.

And he's not the only one doing it.

Here's another member of the GNOME Code of Conduct Committee who says that Framework Computer, quote, partnered with fascists and recommends people not use their computers.

know what else you could get? What is it

called? Workforce? Workforce laptop? Framework.

I've heard about this.

It's the new hotness.

You can choose the operating system that best fits you.

Windows 11 and Linux are both supportive.

For Linux, Ubuntu and Fedora are officially supported with the installation guides and Framework Community offers additional setup guides for many distributions.

Other operating systems like OpenBDS I'm just kidding.

I wanna build a laptop company.

Framework is a company that builds longer-lasting consumer electronics products so that if anything ever happens to the product, something breaks, or you just need more out of it, more performance or more capability, you can actually just open it up very easily using the screwdriver that we include in the box.

Swap out a part and keep using it for longer.

Growing more than double revenue year over year for the last couple of years, which is pretty unusual for a consumer electronics startup, especially in a pretty tough environment.

And we kind of got it a little bit right, maybe not as right as we needed to.

But looking back on it now, those early years in Facebook, what we really needed to be focused on was iteration speed, not trying to build a big team and build a big consumer polished product.

And so that's what brought me to then start up Framework and then build an even more incredible team, but a very small focused team, where we have this clear mission, clear vision, clear roadmap that we're able to execute on.

One of the things that works really well for us is that the market that we're entering, the categories that we're entering in each of our products, they're just colossal.