This week we chat about the new Raspberry Pi, Chromium on Mint, YouTube-DL takedown, Ubuntu, carrier lock, HBO Max.

🥧 The Raspberry Pi 400

Linux Mint are now 🏗️ building and packaging Chromium

The RIAA got ⚖️ YouTube-DL taken off GitHub (via Torrent Freak)

Ubuntu 21.04 is gonna be called Hirsuite 🦛 Hippo (via TechRadar)

Ubuntu 20.10 is out (via FOSS Linux) 🦍

No more carrier lock in the UK 🔓 (via The Verge)

HBO Max is back for Linux users 🖥️ (via Ars Technica)

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🎃 In this episode we tip our hat to the Fedora guys, and talk to them about the new release, the project, the Universe and everything.

🔴🎩 Red Hat the company supporting Fedora

The multiple editions can be found on their main page 📑

💻 Gnome-based workstation is the main one, but there are many other spins

Centos gets a lot of goodness from Fedora (eventually ⌛)

Extra options can be set using ⚙️ Gnome Tweaks

Extra software can be found in the ⚗️ copr repos and in RPM Fusion

Flatpak is the "official" universal 🌌 packaging format, but Snaps in Mike's experience works too.

🟦 Fedora Silverblue

33 should be released 🏭 soon (via It's Foss)

Fedora 🤯 Mindshare

💼 Fedora Ambassadors

👍 Fedora is on

Fedora Special Interest Groups 🍻

Fedora is an ✌🏿✌️✌🏻✌🏾inclusive project

Find the Fedora community:

Catch up with Ed on Twitter 🐦

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Shane has a Minetest let's play YouTube 📹 video

👨‍💻 Conor works way too much

Mike talks way too much 🤐

This week we mostly chat about empowerment and barriers 🚧 to entry.

Purism's AweSim 📱💲

Azire VPN 🕸️

Manjaro Cinnamon 🖼️

UK Covid Excel fail 📊🙅‍♀️

🦉 You've chosen wisely (via YouTube)

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And we are back! This time we mostly chat about hardware, as Nvidia dropped 40 biiiiiiillion on Arm and Linux laptops are all the rage. 👹

Nvidia 🤑 buys Arm. (via ZDNet)

RISC-V desktop CPU 🖥 (via CNX Software)

Microsoft 🏭 release kernel source code for Surface Duo (via Windows Central)

Pinebook Pro and 📱 Pinephone

Linux 💻 laptops by

Slimbook

Go have a listen of the new Tabs, Not Spaces 🎙

We have a brand new store 🛒

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This is the last episode of the season, we'll be taking a break and will be back in September

Conor: I haz new PC 🖥

Mike: 🍹Drinking in LA (fat chance)

Ireland ☘ contributes the open-source part of the COVID Tracker app to the Linux Foundation

PinePhone news 📱📢

Phosh Purism's phone shell 🐚

📽 Olive is a new contender in the video editing space on Linux.

LibreOffice 7 🏢 won't use "Personal Edition" tag for now

Closing thoughts:

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Mike: Was on PTO, 🧳🇮🇪 went to Carlingford and Kilkenny

Mark: Still playing with 📱 Volla phone and loving it.

Conor: Adventures in 🐧 KDE continue.... we can do this, we have the technology

Ikey Doherty moves back to Ireland 🇬🇧➡🇮🇪, starts a new distro called 🐍 Serpent OS (not necessarily in that order).

Barclays UK 🏦 used the Internet Archive as their CDN 👎

Volla 📱 phone beta is out and Mark is testing 🧪 how it runs Ubuntu Touch

👈 Ubuntu Touch page for the device

Assembled by Gigaset in Germany 🤖🇩🇪

/e/ foundation, Sailfish OS ☎

Turn Ubuntu into a rolling distro with the 🤣🦏 Rolling Rhino script (via omg! ubuntu!)

The Ubuntu Podcast episode where it all started 🎤🔰 (around the 25th minute)

Debian releases and codenames 🦖

openSUSE 💚🐧

Manjaro 💻

🎷⬇ Cadmus noise suppression GUI tool for Linux (via GamingOnLinux)

Elementary OS, Zorin, Linux Mint 🐧🐧🐧

John Romero, the designer of Doom 💀

Alacritty the GPU-accelerated terminal ⏩

🎙 Catch up with Mark at the Binary Times

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What is ⚡🐚 PowerShell

VS Code and the open source VSCodium 📜

Zenity 🧑‍💻

🦸 PSAvalonia

Out-GridView 🗼

PowerShell 🌍 Selenium module

🌐 Web

🐥 Twitter

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US 🇺🇸 Senate 🐘 Republicans 🥊 attack 🔒 encryption 🤯 (via cnet)

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition 💻 now comes with Ubuntu 20.04 (via 9to5Linux)

KDE plasma 🖥 changes the window list to icons only by default (via omg! ubuntu!)

Pine64 🎍📱 announced PinePhone Community Edition (via omg! ubuntu!)

Linux Mint 💔📦 disables snaps (via ZDNet)

Daniel from Elementary on Twitter: "Now that macOS looks like hot garbage I hope people will finally stop saying we look anything like it" 🔥♻

iOS, now with more Android 7, Mac OS now with more iOS, also ARM 💻📲 (via The Verge on YouTube)

🌐 Web

🐥 Twitter

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🖌🎦 Blender 2.83 is the first longterm support release from the project with many new great features.

Microsoft's recent "mis-steps" 🥾🥾 in open source:

🥡 Winget Appget grab (via The Verge)

Maui 📛🔥 name clash (via Phoronix)

Linux market share moved 📈 up (via omg! ubuntu!)

PineTab is 📦 ready for order (via omg! ubuntu!)

Lenovo ThinkPads 💻 and ThinkStations 🖥 to be certified for 🐧 Linux

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Mike: I've been playing 👨‍💻 with Julia

Shane: I am reaching convergence ☯ nirvana in my workspace.

Conor: I installed ➡ Ubuntu 20.04 on my Win 2, then wiped it and put on ➡ Manjaro Gnome. Also I went from Manjaro Cinnamon to ➡ KDE to ➡ Budgie to ➡ Mate (clean install each time).

Gnome and patent troll 🤝 settled

EU 🇪🇺 Parliament recommends open source (via It's FOSS)

Trump fact-checked by Twitter, so he wants to regulate 🟠👎🐦 (via The Guardian)

Munich 🔙 going back to open source. (via ZDNet)

Microsoft released version 1.0 of their open source terminal 💻 (via omg! ubuntu!)

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