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It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more.

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News

PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open

PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News

Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever

Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75

Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge

Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO

Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM

Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android

Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer

Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE

KDE Korner

KDE on Instagram

February/March in KDE Itinerary

Maui Project

Qt offering changes 2020

#1: Qt, Open Source and corona

#2: Qt, Open Source and corona

Qt and Open Source

Digital Ocean

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The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world.

Linux and the virus

We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events.

KDE Korner

Plasma Bigscreen (homepage)

Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner

Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview

Linux vs the cloud

Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more.

News

Microsoft’s GitHub buys npm

When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests

Half Life Alyx is released 23rd March, with no Linux support, despite being developed by Valve using Vulkan.

Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile

Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally

Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.

Ask Linux

We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.

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Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner.

FOSS Talk Live 2020

Tickets and info here

News

GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT

Pi4 Gets Server Ready

A birthday gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35

Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube

Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.

Open source apps vs desktops

Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.

KDE Korner

Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming

kTop Seekrit

kItinerary all the things

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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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.

Digital Ocean

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CDN77

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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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Entroware

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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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CDN77

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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.

Digital Ocean

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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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CDN77

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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

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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