Introduction

We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?

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• Kudu (kudu6) - System76 Technical Documentation
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• MBP M1 Max Machine Learning, Sys76-kudu-ML Benchmark Comparison
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• Pick: Spodcast — Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app.
• Pick: hwatch — A modern alternative to the watch command, that records the result of command execution and can display history and diffs.
• Pick: rnote — A simple drawing application to create handwritten notes.
• Pick: dog dns client — dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON.