Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more.

News

EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft

Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint

Who is the target user?

More about those zero-dot users

“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)

Listing rumours for Raspberry Pi? No ‘urgency’ says Upton

Flatpak Is Not the Future

On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 36 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

Icons… everywhere

Quick update for KItinerary

Digital Signatures in Okular – Thanks to NLNet

Usual features & fixes

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Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara.

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A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections.

First Impressions

We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro.

Feedback

Zim – a desktop wiki

This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community

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Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?

A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops

Silverblue: pretty good family OS

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Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner.

News

Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022

Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck

German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Google-translated interview

Apple announces Self Service Repair

The future of documentation at Canonical

Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 35 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

How to create KDE Applets

KDE now also LTT proof

Evolving 3D effects in Plasma

Be flexible to win big

PinePhone Cross Compilation

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Joe is joined by Carl George, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Linux, and CentOS Stream.

Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS.

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How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.

Félim mentioned Camara Education.

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What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch?

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A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.

News

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15

The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi

Ubuntu Server support

Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS

Nat Friedman leaves GitHub

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements

Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 34 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0

Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders

Nice look through PolKit

Updates in KDE PIM

Giant Swarm Site Reliability job

Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles)

https://giant-swarm.jobs.personio.de/job/180887?_pc=533308

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Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress. Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch.

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