Work continues on the automatic firmware flashing feature
Pop!_OS is developed on top of Canonical’s Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) operating system, due for release on October 19,2017, which means that it’s of Alpha quality, so some things might not work as expected or are missing, including the installer, which System76 now wants to develop in collaboration with the elementary OS devs .
« We’ ve invited elementary OS team members to come to System76 HQ the last week of August to work on a new and improved OS installer, » said System76. « We look forward to collaborating with elementary OS on an installer and consider this the beginning of a healthy collaboration between the Pop!_OS and elementary OS teams. »
We also reported last week on the automatic firmware updates coming to your System76 computers, and it now looks like the computer reseller is about to test the new feature internally and then prepare to roll it out widely to its customers. System76 works hard to makes the automatic firmware flashing as secure as possible.
By implementing automatic firmware flashing for its laptops, System76 wants to make it easier for users to update their machines to the newest firmware, which means that they won’t have to do anything to get the latest firmware version for their System76 laptops.
However, you will be notified when a new firmware version is available for your System76 laptop through the notification system of the GNOME desktop environment. Users will have to install the System76 Driver package to enjoy automatic firmware flashing on their machines.
