Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner.

News

Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again

Changing World, Changing Mozilla

Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended

You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade

Last October we talked about FlightGear being used in the AlphaDogfight Trials, well now we’re all doomed as the AI wins 5-0

Admin

Make sure you’re subscribed to the Late Night Linux Extra feed to get more episodes with Joe and Kyle.

AMA

We were asked whether Canonical is standing on the shoulders of giants, or building castles on the sand.

KDE Korner

KDE neon Rebased on 20.04 (plus all the 20.08 app updates)

Kdenlive 20.08 is out

Plasma Mobile Update

Linux Spotlight EP56 – Nate Graham of KDE Plasma

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem.

Kyle the Windows user

We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Late Night Linux Extra so make sure you are subscribed to the RSS feed to hear his thoughts on Joe’s beloved Xubuntu.

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about corporations having public political views, and NixOS and Guix.

Félim’s RSI issues

Félim tells us about the new vertical mouse he bought to tackle his shoulder and neck pain. He should have probably bought this cheaper version. Graham mentioned his trackball mouse.

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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TrueNAS from iXsystems

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A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.

Lineage Love-in

OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1

Lineage 17.1 on the Pi

Admin

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FOSS trends 2020

We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.

KDE Korner

New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too

KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes

DigiKam becomes sentient

Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner.

News

COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Pine update

postmarketOS PinePhone update

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions

Official u-turn

Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

What Does the Future Hold for Edge Computing?

KDE Korner

HiDPI Fixes Coming

KDE PIM Updates

More Apps & More Stores

Konsole in 2020

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions.

News

UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device

Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up

Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support

KDE Korner

KDE has completed the move to GitLab

Modern process management on KDE

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner.

News

Facebook did a bad thing to do a good thing

Bountysource was going to change its terms so it could keep unclaimed bounties but then backtracked

Xfce considers leaving

Admin

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Linux hardware – old and new

Joe talks about his new Pinebook Pro, and after Will read an article about netbooks, we have a nostalgic look back to those good old days.

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.19: A more Polished Plasma which wasn’t (Updated Wallet… broke it… then later that day fixed it) so they polished it again

KDE Plasma is Switching to a Windows-style Icon-only Task Bar

Krita 4.3 with good features video & overall KDE apps in the Windows store (no Krita numbers)

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever.

News

8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75

Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version

Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi

Mint not keen on snaps

AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Admin

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Joe on Linux Spotlight

Joe on Ubuntu Podcast

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop

Nvidia Wayland & KDE

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux.

News

LiMux is back

Patent case against GNOME resolved

Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering

OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact

Admin

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Microsoft Linux

Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”.

Nice article by original bug author

They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more.

Plugs

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News

/e/ Partners With Fairphone

postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets

SaltStack authorization bypass

Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses

RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support

Keybase joins Zoom

Admin

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Feedback

Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.

KDE Korner

Akademy: Call for Proposals

Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress

Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet

Digital Ocean

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ScholarPack

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news.

Two new podcasts

Joe has been busy over the last couple of weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives

What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New

Admin

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News

ProtonMail Bridge is now open source

All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list!

Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results

GitHub is now free for teams

KDE Korner

KWinFT & Reaction

Qt 6 this year

Browser plugin update & Brave support coming

New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it

20.04 Apps, KDEnlive

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Entroware

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