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  • 2019-09-11

    The Fairphone 3 gets a perfect 10 from iFixit, Acer joins LVFS, and Facebook has a user-space killer for a distro near you.

    Plus an updated RAW file editor for Linux and Full Circle's plea for help.

    Links:

    • Fairphone 3 Teardown - iFixit
    • Fairphone spare parts | Fairphone shop
    • Please welcome Acer to the LVFS
    • RawTherapee version 5.7
    • oomd: A userspace out-of-memory killer
    • Full Circle REALLY needs your help! — Want to write? Email them: [email protected]. If you’re good with WordPress and scripts then please email: [email protected].
    3 min
  • 2019-09-10

    Mozilla's Test Pilot program is back with a new VPN service, GSConnect has a big release, and KDE looks to modernize Kate.

    Plus a host of exciting improvements coming in Ubuntu 19.10.

    Links:

    • Firefox’s Test Pilot Program Returns with Firefox Private Network Beta - The Mozilla Blog — If you haven’t heard, third time’s the charm. We’re turning to our loyal and faithful users, specifically the ones who signed up for a Firefox account and opted-in to be in the know about new products testing, and are giving them a first crack to test-drive new, privacy-centric products as part of the relaunched Test Pilot program.
    • A Smackerel of Opinion: Boot speed improvements for Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine — Even with slow spinning media and a slow CPU, the longer load time of the LZ4 kernel is overcome by the far faster decompression time. As media gets faster, the load time difference between GZIP, LZ4 and LZO diminishes and the decompression time becomes the dominant speed factor with LZ4 the clear winner.
  • Ubuntu 19.10 Switching to a Full Light Theme, Ditching Dark Headerbars - OMG! Ubuntu! — Alongside the new “full” Yaru light theme — which was always a light theme, just with an dark header bar — is a refined full Yaru dark theme.
  • GSConnect Updated With Command Line Interface, Wayland Clipboard Support (Experimental) - Linux Uprising Blog — The latest GSConnect also brings support for controlling remote media players. With this version, if you have a media player running on your phone, you'll be able to control it from your desktop.
  • Kate Planning — Whereas Kate already works well as a general purpose editor, the competition in the text editor space got more intense in the last years.
  • Kate Planning Feedback on Reddit
    • 3 min
  • 2019-09-09

    Manjaro begins a new era, KDE sets goals for future usability, and Mozilla rolls out a controversial feature to Firefox.

    Plus after nearly 10 years, one of our favorite open source projects gets a major feature update.

    Links:

    • Manjaro is taking the next step
    • Blue Systems
    • KDE Decides the Three New Challenges
    • Mozilla to gradually enable DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox US users later this month
    • Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox
    • Mumble 1.3.0 Release Announcement
    3 min

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