519: The Clone Grift Wars
LINUX Unplugged
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How to Present the UI After Upgrading to Fedora
The system is collecting data and we are discussing whether it's better to wait. If you say no, then it'll just turn off everything and delete whatever it collected so far. Could be as I said, based on this question that we end up turning it on at that point,. But I mean, I think for some people it matters more.
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Have Oracle and SUSE lost their minds? Plus, we dig into Fedora's proposal to add telemetry collection to Workstation.
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