This has been in the works for some time. With help from the NixOS community, we're set up to begin the process of introducing NixOS as a Community support distro.
NixOS community will be helping Framework with docs and related and we will provide hardware to those selected.
Some details being ironed out. This is a method of ensuring NixOS users identified as ideal candidates (a couple of selected people) can help us ensure we have Framework docs in place.
@AudraTran Great question. This is part of a larger project for 2024 and 2025 - community distro support. Community members active on community distros, already providing support/docs for these projects will be invited. Debian among others are welcome once I account it for other distros.
We ended up with massively more applicants for the community fundraise than the 100 slots we have space for. We've closed the form and are sorting through applications now.
@florian_l Appreciate the feedback. Yes, some of the earlier generations are held back from LVFS due to a bug we were running into with those specific Intel configs.
All AMD releases however, have had multiple BIOS releases over LVFS.
We raised a $17M Series A-1 fundraising round to continue to deepen support for our existing customers, scale the reach of our products, and expand into new product categories. We're also opening a $1M community fundraise to enable 100 people to invest alongside our VCs.
You can check out more around the fundraise and learn about the community funding in our blog post:
Almost all of the modules that make up Framework Laptop 16 are now in stock in the Framework Marketplace, for the DIY purists who need to build from parts.
(We don't actually recommend doing this. It will result in a ton of extra packaging and shipping overhead. You can just buy a Framework Laptop 16 DIY Edition, take it fully apart, and pretend we shipped it to you that way.)
Our focus is building products to last through upgrade and repair, and software is a critical part of that. This morning we shared more around our BIOS and driver update process to enable software longevity.
We fell short of where we needed to be on software updates, and we are making the necessary investments to not just deliver more timely releases, but also to communicate more broadly when we do.
Obviously, our words here are not enough. We need to and commit to demonstrating the results of these investments. We released new BIOS versions for our AMD laptops this week, with updaters for both Windows and Linux, and a release for Intel 12th Gen on Windows last week.
Our Founder sat with Jason Carman to talk through Framework’s product philosophy, the dynamics of the consumer electronics industry, and how we think about our roadmap.
"There's a different way to build consumer hardware: creating an ecosystem for modularity & upgradability. Framework Computer is reinventing laptops, and soon much more, in Episode 39 of S³."
The original Micron N28 flash we used in our high-speed Storage Expansion Card is end of life, so we've moved over to SK Hynix V6 flash and are calling the new cards (2nd Gen). Sustained write speeds are similar on the new 1TB, but faster on the new 250GB.
@frameworkcomputer as the older ones had issues with high usage (as for example an OS in a pocket) have you tested whether that is fixed/better with this controller?
We've just opened a new firmware/system software role (open to US, Canada, and Taiwan). We develop open source firmware to enable products like this, and we have even more exciting projects on our roadmap:
@frameworkcomputer If this eventually results in a coreboot option for the Intel Framework's (that aren't the Chomebook Edition), that'll be big for Linux users!
(Unfortunately, it seems like coreboot on AMD Ryzen CPUs isn't a thing yet...)