Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner.

News

AppCenter for Everyone

South Korea switching to Linux?

Windows 7 users moving to Windows 10

Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge

KDE Korner

Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can)

Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that

KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!

Admin

Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra

FOSS Talk Live 2020

PinePhone

Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.

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Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner.

FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement

The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details here.

News

PinePhone Freedom

HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up

Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella

WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source

Linux on Will’s Mac

Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.

KDE Korner

Qt News & Reactions 1 2 3

KDE gets a handshake

Digital Ocean

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The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes back, bad news for Mozilla, a great new Nexcloud release, and more in the news.

News

Y2020

Mozilla Lays off 70 people

PinePhones Shipping

Nextcloud Hub now with KItinerary

KDE Korner

KUserFeedback with a bit more detail

Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta

Admin

Joe’s Brunch With Brent

Graham talking about synths on Jupiter Extras

Linux as a replacement for Windows 7

Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, should we be advising people to change to Linux? Are we actually doing that?

Digital Ocean

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It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020.

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Entroware

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It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.

January

Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB

MongoDB removed from major distros

February

Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database

Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again

March

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

LVFS joins Linux Foundation

April

UBports Foundation finally created

Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features

May

Announcing WSL 2

Introducing Windows Terminal

June

Raspberry Pi 4 released

July

Fuchsia gets a website

August

Xfce 4.14 released

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!

September

Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Richard Stallman resigns from MIT

Stallman intends to keep leading GNU

October

Ubuntu 19.10 released

Will has left Canonical

November

Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support

Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch

December

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux

Digital Ocean

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Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more in the news.

News

Ubuntu Pro

64-bit Ubuntu now works on Pi 4

The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey

First Ever Release of Ubuntu Cinnamon Distribution is Finally Here!

Zorin OS Responds to Privacy Concerns

Firefox 71

Kali Linux 2019.4 released with Xfce by default

KDE Korner

Kontributing to KDE is even easier than you kThink

Chrome OS

Joe has been playing with a “new” Chromebook. We discuss how this hugely popular Linux-based desktop OS compares to proper distros.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news.

News

Google Kills Cloud Print

Google plans to offer bank accounts next year

Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta

Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support

PINEPHONE – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters

KDE Korner

KDE Neon snapcraft extension

KDE looking to hire an experienced project manager (PDF)

Admin

Joe on Linux Lads

Two weeks with macOS

Will’s new job means that he’s now using a Mac every day. How does macOS compare to Linux?

Digital Ocean

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We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE.

News

LinuxApp Summit Kicks Off

Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites

Google open source VR SDK

The downside of Ubiquiti network gear

Linux Foundation introduces telemetry policy

Microsoft to offer Defender for Linux next year

Microsoft confirms new browser is coming to Linux

Ubuntu 19.10 on the Pi 4

Joe and Graham have been playing with Ubuntu on the Pi 4

Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

KDE Korner

Indian Newspaper Switches 100% FOSS

KItinary into the browser a la Google Now

And finally… Getting stuff fixed

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news.

News

The BBC has joined the dark web

Startpage bought by an Ad Company

Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds

GNOME fights patent troll

Firefox 70 released

KDE Korner

Akademy vids are out, Plasma Mobile catchups, KItinerary extractors again & The cashew is no more

Will leaves Canonical

Will tells us why he has left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop and where he’s going next.

Admin

OggCamp panel recording

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Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Software as a Service Dangers

Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts

Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week

Chromium will be a snap

ARM reacts to RISC-V

What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

KDE Korner

HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps,  Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6

Admin

Come to OggCamp!

OggCamp panel questions

Campbell Barton from Blender

Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.

Digital Ocean

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