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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro
    00:33 Sponsor: SquareSpace
    01:50 France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale
    03:53 German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice
    06:04 Jolla launches new Linux smartphone
    08:16 Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released
    11:26 KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year
    12:54 Proton launches Proton Sheets
    14:31 Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks
    16:18 Ubuntu MATE and Unity won't be LTS
    18:22 Major library goes unmaintained
    20:01 HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux
    22:14 D7VK released for older, DX7 games
    24:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

    Links:

    France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale

    https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-momentum-france/

    German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice

    https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

    Jolla launches new Linux smartphone

    https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/06/jolla-phone-launch-specs-price-sailfish-linux-os/
    https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

    Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released

    https://system76.com/pop/

    KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year

    https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

    Proton launches Proton Sheets

    https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive

    Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks

    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-yaru-theme-gnome-shell-changes

    Ubuntu MATE and Unity won't be LTS

    https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status

    Major library goes unmaintained

    https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-becomes-officially-unmaintained/

    HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux

    https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html

    D7VK released for older, DX7 games

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.0-Released

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