Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

Were were you aware that there was an internet archive style website for source code, well there is and it's called the Software Heritage Archive so lets take a look.

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Software Heritage Archive: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
FAQ: https://www.softwareheritage.org/software-heritage-faq/
CLI Docs: https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/cli.html
Mission: https://www.softwareheritage.org/mission/
Software Is Key: https://www.softwareheritage.org/mission/software-is-the-key/
Software Is Fragile: https://www.softwareheritage.org/mission/software-is-fragile/

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A new way of building distros is becoming more popular, rather than the tradional approach, instead building off of a project called Buildstream.

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Bluefin Distroless: https://github.com/projectbluefin/distroless
Bootc: https://github.com/bootc-dev/bootc
KDE Linux Issue: https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/issues/424
Stay With Arch: https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/458
Move To Fedora: https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/459
Move to Buildstream: https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/work_items/460

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Would you pay for a web browser is a tough question, but browsers are looking for a way to be profitable that doesn't involve selling your user data and Brave is trying something out

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In a recent merge request GNOME decided to disable middle click to paste and locked the MR before anyone realized it was happening, and also tried to make similar changes over on Firefox, well there's a lot to unpack here so lets take a look.

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GNOME Merge Request: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119
GNOME Change: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1012#issuecomment-269129298
Newer Protocol: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/blob/main/unstable/primary-selection/primary-selection-unstable-v1.xml
Firefox Change: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D277804
New Issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/4539
KDE Change: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514208

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For the longest time StackOverflow was the thing that developers looked to for answers to there queries but that time is over and basically no one uses it anymore

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StackOverflow Data: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
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Did you know that Flathub publishes a yearly Year in Review, well it turns out that I didn't so lets take a look and see what has been going on with flathub for this year.

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2 years ago FFmpeg sent out a request to Rockchip to stop stealing there code, well they never stopped stealing there code so now it's time to do something about it.

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Nate Graham has been running the weekly blog series This Week in Plasma for quite a few years now and he now he needs a change and wants someone else to take over the project.

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There has been a lawsuit between the Software Freedom Conservancy and Vizio for quite a few years now and following a partial ruling Linus Torvalds was not very happy with the direction that things seem to be going.

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The Register 2021: https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/20/vizio_gpl_lawsuit/
SFC Complaint: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
The Register 2025: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/vizio_gpl_source_code_ruling/
Tentative Ruling: https://sfconservancy.org/static/docs/2025-12-04-sleal-tentative-rulings.pdf
FOSS Force Article: https://fossforce.com/2025/12/judge-signals-win-for-software-freedom-conservancy-in-vizio-gpl-case/
SFC Ruling: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/24/vizio-msa-irrelevant-ruling/
Torvalds Post: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B1aR6QFuzksLVSyBZQ
Tivoization Piece: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/

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There has been quite a bit of movement in the X11 space and one such movement is the creation of a new X11 server going by the name Phoenix and written in the Zig language. It's not trying to just be Xorg, it wants to be a modern server and learn from Wayland

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