SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.

News

Send us your predictions for 2025

Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus

Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat

Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!

Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now

£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance

New era of slop security reports for open source

Xfce 4.20 released

Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch

The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest

KDE Korner

I think the donation notification works

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling

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Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.

Voice of the Masses

Do you dual boot and why?

Feedback

The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer

gui-scale-applet

gui-scale-application

Discovery

Terrain

elementary OS 8

elementary OS 8 Available Now

elementary OS

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We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs).

With guest host Amolith from Linux Dev Time and Linux Lads.

News

Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone

Snarky post about it

FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released

elementary OS 8 Available Now

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7

First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released

Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

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Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.

Discoveries

pup

8bitworkshop

20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2

BlinkenLights

European Alternatives

WisBlock Smart Cube Companion

Graham’s cubes

Joe’s battery test data

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Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.

News

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds

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Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.

Discoveries 

firebuilder

GNOME

m.uber.com

codon

Ubuntu Summit

Feedback

Zen Browser

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Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.

News

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

We’re forking Flutter. This is why.

The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight

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Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.

Discoveries

Taskfinder

Thingino

YouTube video on how to install it

follow up videoon Neos

Framework 13 DIY edition

Linux After Dark 80

HAL Project

How GFX Cards Work

GridFinity

Videos about a modular shed

WikiHouse

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The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.

News

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Open Source Pledge

Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway

RIP: Ward Christensen, co-developer of the CBSS

Plasma 6.2

AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

20 years of Ubuntu

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Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop to the stack.

Discoveries

fastboot.js

android-webinstall

dolphie

audapolis

toolong

Topics in computer graphics

OpenZFS

sanoid

Feedback

linux-surface

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