430: The Real Beefy Miracle

We check-in with Fedora Project lead Matthew Miller on the state of the project, then conduct our exit interview with Fedora 34, and review Fedora 35.

What's new, what's changed, and what's broken. It's a Fedora special.

Special Guests: Matthew Miller and Neal Gompa.

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• Tom Wagner / Helvum — Helvum is a GTK-based patchbay for pipewire, inspired by the JACK tool catia.
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