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- The History of Flatpak
The history of Flatpak goes WAY back to 2002! A whole lot older than we dared to guess, but it turns out installing software in an easy way is a problem we've been trying to solve for a while in Linux.
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https://patreon.com/linuxuserspaceFrom the episode "Handle with Care"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXr6fCPJ8UMore at https://linuxuserspace.show/510
🧐The history of flatpak packages📦Autopackage
https://web.archive.org/web/20021122061820/http://autopackage.org/Listallerhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120203221057/http://listaller.tenstral.net/AppStreamhttps://web.archive.org/web/20130717201957/https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/The rootshttps://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2007/08/07/experiments-with-runtime-less-app-bundles/Klikhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050125005333/http://klik.atekon.de/docs/Rethinking the Linux distributionhttps://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/09/30/rethinking-the-linux-distibution/Flatpak 4 years inhttps://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/Goodbye xdg-app, hello Flatpakhttps://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/Initial Flatpak press releasehttps://jimmac.github.io/flatpak-org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/KDE's Discover found its support of Flatpakhttps://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.10.5-5.11.0/Firefox begins Flatpak buildshttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441922#c59OBS begins Flatpak builds toohttps://feaneron.com/2022/02/14/obs-studio-27-2-on-flathub-get-it-while-its-hot/Thunderbird gets official supporthttps://www.omglinux.com/thunderbird-115-is-now-available-on-flathub/⭐⭐⭐⭐Producers ❤️John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.
⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, --verbose, Pjol, MarshMan
⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Livet, Hausken, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Jefferson Lotspeich, Blackshift6090, Rotted Mood, Mick, Amanita
⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan
0 min - The History of Ubuntu's Snap Packages
All the history you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu's Snap packages, how they're related to earlier Snappy and Click apps, and what the original intent of it all really was!
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https://patreon.com/linuxuserspaceFrom the episode "Make It Snappy"
https://youtu.be/izDzKkuEyRwThe History of Snap PackagesUbuntu's convergence promise
https://web.archive.org/web/20160531204608/https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/820Click appshttps://click.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Snappy Ubuntuhttps://youtu.be/BlcTDz9ogugClick apps and Snappy apps share update technologyhttps://web.archive.org/web/20141209165441/https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1434Snappy Ubuntu Core was availablehttps://techcrunch.com/2015/04/21/ubuntu-15-04-launches-with-support-for-openstack-kilo-new-lxd-hypervisor-and-snappy-core/Snapcraft was released as version 2.0https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.0Snaps were now available to everyonehttps://ubuntu.com/blog/snaps-for-classic-ubuntuMozilla chimed in with their supporthttps://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/04/21/firefox-default-browser-for-linux-users-ubuntu-new-snap-format-coming-soon/Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch and Fedorahttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/06/snap-to-be-universal-linux-package-formatxdg-app rebrands as Flatpak as a Snap competitorhttps://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-17.04-Unity-8-Snaps-TalkThe backporting of Snaps to 14.04 was a successhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/install-snap-apps-ubuntu-14-04Fedora saw that promised Snap support landhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/use-snap-fedoraMark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcementhttps://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergenceAn effort to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeededhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/gnome-platform-snap-developmentThe first Snap-installed-by-default shipped with Ubuntu MATE 17.10https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/ubuntu-mate-17-10-will-ship-a-snap-by-default/15064The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louderhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2018-February/040126.htmlMozilla authors their own Snap packagehttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/03/firefox-snap-package-availableSnap devs finally started their efforts to slim down the startup timeshttps://blog.ubuntu.com/2019/03/28/snap-startup-time-improvementsCanonical's announcement that Chromium would switch to a Snaphttps://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-chromium-browser-deb-to-snap-transition/11179Linux Mint forges their own path. Additionally, they blocked the snapd backendhttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3906The dev team speeds startup times furtherhttps://snapcraft.io/blog/snap-speed-improvements-with-new-compression-algorithmSnaps killed their 32-bit supporthttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Snapcraft-6.0-ComingMozilla Firefox would now also be snap-onlyhttps://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-2The introduction of modularityhttps://ubuntu.com//blog/the-future-of-snapcraftMore LZO compressionhttps://ubuntu.com//blog/kde-snaps-performance-revving-upMozilla Firefox improveshttps://ubuntu.com//blog/how-are-we-improving-firefox-snap-performance-part-2Ubuntu Flavors no longer seed the Flatpak backendhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-Flatpak-By-DefaultMore rumblings about the all snap Ubuntuhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/immutable-all-snap-ubuntu-desktopThose rumblings were squashedhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-core-desktop-delayedMore at https://linuxuserspace.show/508
⭐⭐⭐⭐Producers ❤️
John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, --verbose, Pjol, MarshMan⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Livet, Hausken, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Jefferson Lotspeich, Blackshift6090, Rotted Mood, Mick, Amanita⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan0 min - The History of Linux Mint (and the Cinnamon Desktop!)
This is the history of the Cinnamon desktop, but without the history of Linux Mint, too, it's incomplete! Enjoy the journey.
From the full episode "Mint Condition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9mn5miMPM🤝Support us on Patreon
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John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, GrouchyM, --verbose, Pjol, MarshMan⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Livet, Hausken, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Jefferson Lotspeich, Blackshift6090, Rotted Mood, FrozenGorilla, Mick⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, Bobby Ramsey, James Taylor, Antony Frost, Alex, November Krinnan🍃The History of Cinnamon📚A new distro release
https://web.archive.org/web/20061019115016/http://linuxmint.com/content/blogsection/9/55/Three months laterhttps://web.archive.org/web/20061210132202/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/news.htmlVersion 2.0 of Linux Minthttps://web.archive.org/web/20061208052311/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/20061113.htmlBea, version 2.1https://web.archive.org/web/20061209094505/http://lt.k1011.nutime.de/20061201.htmlBianca, version 2.2https://web.archive.org/web/20070708184233/http://linuxmint.com/Mint's very own package manager 'apt' which is not-the-same-as-the-apt-you-knowhttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=68Lisa, version 12https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1889Maya, version 13https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2031Cinnamon 1.1.2https://web.archive.org/web/20120920015647/http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=53Nemo was forked from Nautilus, Gnome's file managerhttps://web.archive.org/web/20120905232228/http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198Cinnamon 2.2https://web.archive.org/web/20150418060752/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/04/cinnamon-2-2Cinnamon 2.4https://web.archive.org/web/20150329002036/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/11/cinnamon-2-4/Nemo got a plugin managerhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150729143250/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/06/cinnamon-2-6/Cinnamon 2.8, gained a power applethttps://web.archive.org/web/20151129213516/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2015/11/cinnamon-2-8-released/Apps written by the Mint team for... everythinghttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2985Cinnamon 3.0 was releasedhttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3026Better touchpad support, more animations and better window managementhttps://web.archive.org/web/20161008034617/http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/04/cinnamon-3-0-released/Plugins that Cinnamon could use were called Spiceshttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3094Cinnamon 3.4https://web.archive.org/web/20170708083908/http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sonya_cinnamon_whatsnew.phpCinnamon 3.6https://web.archive.org/web/20180401182007/https://linuxmint.com/rel_sylvia_cinnamon_whatsnew.phpCinnamon 4.0https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_tessa_cinnamon_whatsnew.phpCinnamon 5.0https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_uma_cinnamon_whatsnew.php"Thingy"https://github.com/linuxmint/thingyCinnamon 6.0 with experimental Waylandhttps://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-0-desktop-environment-arrives-with-initial-wayland-supportCinnamon 6.4 will end up with a much needed facelifthttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=47400 min - The History of Gentoo Linux
All the way back to the 90's, when Debian and Slackware reigned supreme, follow along as Gentoo Linux emerges -- all the way up to about a couple of weeks ago!
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John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones, Visaggio & Co.⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, GrouchyM, --verbose, Pjol, MarshMan⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Livet, Hausken, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, jeff3ix, Jefferson Lotspeich, Blackshift6090, Rotted Mood⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, LqLarry, James Taylor, Bobby Ramsey📖The History of Gentoo🔍
Stampede Linuxhttps://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2937When a system emerged, it was called Enochhttps://web.archive.org/web/20051126223839/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p1.xmlMaking a Distro part 2https://web.archive.org/web/20051118195918/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p2.xmlSustainability of the project had made its way to the forefronthttps://web.archive.org/web/20051126225230/http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/making-the-distro-p3.xmlGentoo website ~August 2001https://web.archive.org/web/20010924064822/http://gentoo.org:80/March 3 2002 public facing movement was easily spottedhttps://web.archive.org/web/20020328041905/http://www.gentoo.org/March 31 2002, 1.0 was finally released!https://web.archive.org/web/20020604061411/http://gentoo.org/news/20020331-gentoo.htmlThe huge influx of new users it encouraged caused bandwidth issues for Gentoohttps://web.archive.org/web/20020604025327/http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-announce/2002-May/000161.htmlAugust of 2003, 1.4 was releasedhttps://web.archive.org/web/20031207075713/http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030811-newsletter.xmlFull installation could be completed in under an hour!https://forums.gentoo.org/posting.php?mode=quote&p=110077&sid=55086929168089cbbb9dcdac1cec05ec2004, marked a change from the dot releaseshttps://web.archive.org/web/20031204134123/http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/index.xml2004.0 released February 28, 2004https://web.archive.org/web/20040610161340/http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2004.0/releng/2004.0-press-release.txtDaniel Robbins, the creator and founder, resigns from Gentoohttps://web.archive.org/web/20040501110844/http://www.gentoo.org/news/20040426-drobbins.xml2004.1 was released shortly after that news, dot 2 in July and dot 3 in Novemberhttps://web.archive.org/web/20141224104108/http://www.gentoo.org//proj/en/releng/release/2004.2/2004.2-press-release.txtSeptember 2005, the first Gentoo Council was electedhttps://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:CouncilDaniel Robbins makes his glorious return to the project!https://lwn.net/Articles/224082/This lasted about 8 days before he resigned againhttps://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070312#futureOther developers joined Robbinshttps://www.linux.com/news/gentoo-attempts-deal-developer-conflicts/Stability questions around the stability of the Gentoo Projecthttps://youtu.be/-ZSli7QW4rgOctober 2009, a LiveDVD releasehttps://web.archive.org/web/20141222231552/https://www.gentoo.org/news/20091004-gentoo-10-years.xml11.0, released in 2011https://web.archive.org/web/20141222015352/http://www.gentoo.org/news/20110308-livedvd.xmlIn 2015 A new website was announced! After the air was cleared, an actual NEW websitehttps://www.gentoo.org/news/2015/03/31/website-update.html#old-april-fools-day-announcement⚠️More Links at https://www.linuxuserspace.show🔗
0:00 The Early Years
5:40 1.0 and Beyond10:20 2007 to 201415:21 2015 to the Present0 min - The History of Xz (and the "Hack"!)
The further you dig, the farther the history goes, so we settled on starting in 1906, then the 90's, then Slackware. This is the history of Xz that culminated into a "hack" that would have rocked the world if not for one intrepid SQL developer.
Originally released in the full episode, Open Source Isn't Safe! on May 13th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3bN3PRmHJY📖The History of XZ🦜
LZMAhttps://web.archive.org/web/20121109182343/http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/forums/forum/45797/topic/1025556Andrey Markovhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chainLZ77 and LZ78https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ787zip historyhttps://7-zip.org/history.txtSlackelshttps://web.archive.org/web/20060202151612/https://tukaani.org/LZMA in the form of the GCC compiled LZMA SDKhttps://web.archive.org/web/20060213143853/http://tukaani.org/lzma/historyTukanni Linux Project was officially gonehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071011030325/http://tukaani.org/LZMA Utils was left behind in favor of the similarly LZMA-backed Xz Utilshttps://web.archive.org/web/20090830051503/http://tukaani.org:80/xzversion 5.0 is the transition from LZMA to XZhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101201065849/http://tukaani.org/xz/Some distributions would eventually migrate to using Z Standard compression, including Arch in 2019 and Fedora and Ubuntu would make the switch in 2020https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Switch_RPMs_to_zstd_compressionA new face, Jigar Kumar, shows uphttps://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00565.htmlJanuary 7th, 2023, Jia Tan was finally able to merge their own commits to Xz on Githubhttps://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/pull/7Jia tries to convince the OSS-Fuzz team to accept a patch that disabled Indrect Functionhttps://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667Adding the test files which weren't test files at allhttps://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=cf44e4b7f5dfdbf8c78aef377c10f71e274f63c0Andres Freund's Mastodon posthttps://mastodon.social/@AndresFreundTec/112180083704606941On April 2nd, 2024, Collin adds a page to his tukaani.org domainhttps://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/0 min - The History of LXDE (and LXQt)
Enjoy this history of LXDE (and LXQt)!
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John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, GrouchyM⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Paul Burton, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Larry Murphy, Hausken, Livet, Nick Woody, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, Tobias Niedermayr, Pjol, jeff3ix⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, LqLarry, James Taylor, Bobby Ramsey🌏Lemmy
https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show🌏TILvidshttps://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace🌍Reddithttps://linuxuserspace.show/reddit🌎Discordhttps://linuxuserspace.show/discord🌏Telegramhttps://linuxuserspace.show/telegram🌍Matrixhttps://linuxuserspace.show/matrix🌎Twitchhttps://linuxuserspace.show/twitchThe LXDE mailing list goes back to 2008
https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/mailman/lxde-list/Ubuntu Litehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071213180659/http://ubuntulite.https://web.archive.org/web/20090126190042/http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5187661383.htmltuxfamily.org/?q=node/5later known as U-lite commited to using LXDE.https://web.archive.org/web/20071213180659/http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/?q=node/5DesktopLinux.com coveragehttps://web.archive.org/web/20090207075132/http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7428727466.htmlElemental Linux, MoonOS and WattOS followed with a commitmenthttps://web.archive.org/web/20120427050611/http://wiki.lxde.org/en/UbuntuA PCManFM review from 2008https://web.archive.org/web/20220119114409/https://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/07/pcman-file-manager-045-review.htmlThe blog appearshttps://blog.lxde.org/page/27/December 2008 status updatehttps://blog.lxde.org/2008/12/10/recent-status-of-lxde/Sidux adds an unofficial LXDE flavorhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080929014208/http://cap.gediam.de/index-en.htmMandriva adds LXDEhttps://web.archive.org/web/20081005023344/http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Tour#LXDEFedora toohttps://blog.lxde.org/2008/11/13/fedora-10-with-lxde/LXDE Translation projecthttps://blog.lxde.org/2008/12/14/lxde-translation-project/PCMan asks the community for feedbackhttps://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=456FOSDEM 2009https://www.slideshare.net/mariobehling/lxde-presentation-at-fosdem-2009?type=presentationLubuntu enters the chathttps://blog.lxde.org/2009/02/05/lubuntu-lxde-meet-up-with-mark-shuttleworth-in-berlin⚠️ More links at https://linuxuserspace.show/416
0 min - The History of the MATE Desktop
This is the story of the MATE Desktop from the initial GNOME fork in 2011 on to the most recent release, 1.28, in February of 2024!
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The first MATE org blogposthttps://mate-desktop.org/blog/2011-12-05-introducing-mate-desktop/The initial Arch Linux forum posthttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162&p=1Perberos described the fork as...https://youtu.be/iwQ7iqNwRKs?t=64Phoronix August 2011https://www.phoronix.com/news/OTgxMAingeek 2011https://web.archive.org/web/20140214105804/http://ingeek.com/a-gnome-2-fork-the-mate-desktop-environmentPerberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums and Linux Mint forumshttps://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11333073https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=86481Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders.https://web.archive.org/web/20120122102625/http://mate-desktop.org:80/team/The initial migration scripthttps://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.1/Salix had been one of the very first distributions to headline MATEhttps://forum.salixos.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=3510#p22897The GNOME team created GNOME Flashbackhttps://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback#HistoryMATE Universityhttps://github.com/mate-desktop-legacy-archive/mate-universityGhostBSD features the Mate desktophttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GhostBSDBy the end of the year and into 2014, MATE was officially available in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Sabayon, Salix and Ubuntu.https://youtu.be/iwQ7iqNwRKsStefano Karapestas stepped up to lead the team.https://youtu.be/sRNK9QnnvCo?t=1395Clem had his part-ownership of MATE removed. He had this to sayhttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4591The big scoop MATE 1.28 and1.28.1 were recently released!https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/releases/tag/v1.28.0https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-desktop/releases/tag/v1.28.1⭐⭐⭐⭐Producers ❤️
John Andersen, Bruno Parisi, Johnny, Dave Jones⭐⭐⭐Co-Producers ❤️Tim LePés, GrouchyM⭐⭐Super Users ❤️Nicholas Omann, CubicleNate, sleepyeyesvince, LiNuXsys666, Jill Bryant & Steve Ryniker, Paul Burton, Eduardo Sanchez, Advait, Musical Coder, Larry Murphy, Hausken, Livet, Nick Woody, A.J. Robb, Mark the Saigoneer, Tobias Niedermayr, Pjol, jeff3ix⭐Users ❤️Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, LqLarry, James Taylor, Bobby Ramsey🌏Lemmy
https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show🌏TILvidshttps://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace🌍Reddithttps://linuxuserspace.show/reddit🌎Discordhttps://linuxuserspace.show/discord🌏Telegramhttps://linuxuserspace.show/telegram🌍Matrixhttps://linuxuserspace.show/matrix🌎Twitchhttps://linuxuserspace.show/twitch0 min - The History of KDE
For KDE's history, we begin at the beginning, a little before it's true inception in 1996, and take you up to the RC1 of Plasma 6 in late January of 2024.
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https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJKDE ONEhttps://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/http://community.kde.org/KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)K Desktop Environment first real beta releasehttps://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0-beta1/Beta 1 Screenshotshttps://web.archive.org/web/19980129135932/http://www.kde.org/kscreenshots.htmlKDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/1.0/1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrichhttps://linux-center.org/articles/9809/interview.htmlKFM turned into Konquerorhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080723193818/http://konqueror.kde.org/faq#WheredoesthenameiKonqueroricomefromKonqihttps://community.kde.org/KonqiKDE 2.0https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/2.0/KDE 2.1https://web.archive.org/web/20180613130417/https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.1.phpIn April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was releasedhttps://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.0/2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrichhttps://www.linuxjournal.com/article/68342004 Interview of Matthias Ettrichhttps://behindkde.org/matthias-ettrich-1KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy"https://conference2004.kde.org/2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrichhttps://archive.fosdem.org/2005/2005/index/interviews/interviews_ettrich.htmlApril 8, 2005 Kubuntuhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu#/media/File:Kubuntu.5.04.KDE.pngKDE 3.5https://kde.org/announcements/1-2-3/3.5/KDE Four Core Meetinghttps://dot.kde.org/2006/06/26/kde-libs-hackers-meet-kde-four-coreKDE 4https://kde.org/announcements/4/4.0/Oxygenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_Project2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrichhttps://tfir.io/matthias-ettrich-creator-of-kde/KDE hit the 1,000,000 commithttps://dot.kde.org/2009/07/20/kde-reaches-1000000-commits-its-subversion-repositoryStarting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation"https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.4.phpNovember 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, nowhttps://dot.kde.org/2009/11/24/repositioning-kde-brandFork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environmenthttps://www.trinitydesktop.org/KDE SC 4.5https://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/October 2010, an official split from KOfficehttps://lwn.net/Articles/419822/Plasma Activehttps://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-active-one/KDE Manifestohttps://manifesto.kde.org/index.htmlDecember 2012, a redesigned Konqihttp://tysontan.deviantart.com/art/Konqi-ver-2-494267237KDE release structure changedhttps://dot.kde.org/2013/09/04/kde-release-structure-evolvesKDE SC 4.14 the last in the serieshttps://kde.org/announcements/4/4.14.0/Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma5.0/2015 Wayland enters the roomhttps://dot.kde.org/2015/12/18/first-plasma-wayland-live-image... More history at https://linuxuserspace.show/412
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From Miguel's first email to signal the beginning of the project, to the release of GNOME 45. This is the history of the GNOME project!
Or most of it anyway. Getting everything in ~30 minutes was impossible, so we make do.
From Season 4 Episode 10, GNOME in the Home
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The email in 1997 to start it allhttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1997-August/msg00123.htmlDevelopment snapshot 0.13 announcementhttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/1998-March/msg00002.htmlGNOME 1.0 releasehttps://foundation.gnome.org/1999/03/03/gnome-1-0-released/GUADEChttps://wiki.gnome.org/GUADECGNOME OG websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20000407082920/http://www.gnome.org/GNOME revamped websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20000621134911/http://www.gnome.org/HP's HP/UX and Sun's Solaris announce they would be using GNOME as their default desktopshttps://www.computerworld.com/article/2596398/unix-vendors-adopt-gnome-desktop.htmlGNOME Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_FoundationGNOME 2.0 releasehttps://foundation.gnome.org/2002/06/26/gnome-2-0-released-desktop-environment-boasts-simpler-user-interface-and-a-host-of-powerful-developer-tools/Ubuntu 4.10 ships GNOME 2.8https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2004-October/000003.htmlGNOME no longer part of GNUhttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2009-December/msg00055.htmlGNOME was no longer an acronymhttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2010-April/msg00050.htmlGnome 3.0 arriveshttps://foundation.gnome.org/2011/04/06/gnome-3-0-has-arrived/Linus Torvalds notedhttps://digitizor.com/linus-torvalds-ditches-gnome-for-xfce/Linus Torvalds, originally critical, returned to using GNOME for his day to day work, but noted thathttps://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-switches-back-to-gnome-3-x-desktop/Groupon, the couponing company, decided that they would make a tablet and name it... GNOMEhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/s/groupon-gnome-legal-war-almost-080504914.htmlAgain, the target of litigationhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/leave-gnome-alone-this-patent-troll-is-asking-for-trouble/Rothschild Patent Imaging was stripped of its patent rightshttps://blog.opensource.org/gnome-patent-troll-stripped-of-patent-rights/Gnome 40https://forty.gnome.org/The Gnome 40 announcementhttps://foundation.gnome.org/2021/03/24/gnome-40-release/The Gnome 45 announcementhttps://foundation.gnome.org/2023/09/20/introducing-gnome-45/Original GNOME introduction (~99)https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3139The Evolution of the GNOME Projecthttp://turingmachine.org/files/papers/dmg_wosse2002add.pdfUsing GNOME gmc (GNOME Midnight Commander)https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=131217&seqNum=12"A Brief History of GNOME" Presentation Noteshttps://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/files/2017/07/A-Brief-History-of-GNOME-1.pdf"A Brief History of GNOME" Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWUmptI6O2wGNOME 2.0 - 40 Release Noteshttps://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/⭐⭐⭐⭐Producers ❤️
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6:25 GNOME 1.x9:28 GNOME 2.x17:06 GNOME 3.x25:36 GNOME 40 and Beyond0 min - The History of Xfce 🐁
The History of Xfce, from its inception during CDE's downfall, to its inclusion for the first time in major distros, and finally to today where it sits as (according to some) third place in the Great Desktop Environment War.
From Season 4 Episode 8, Cholesterol Free
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Olivier Fourdan posted a question to a few newsgroups that got things startedhttps://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1997/0218.htmlXForms toolkithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XForms_(toolkit)An early release announcement - 2.3.0https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/0110-a.htmlChangelog for 2.4.0 which shows changes all the way back to the beginning.https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/0317-b.txtXFce 2.4 User Guidehttps://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/xfce-2.4/en/index.htmlXFce 3.2 User Guidehttps://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/1999/xfce-3.2/help.html2000 Interview - 10 Questions with Olivier Fourdanhttps://web.archive.org/web/20001017144724/http://www.linuxorbit.com/features/interview1.php32001 Interviewhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010603075344/http://www.moongroup.com/stories.php?story=01/05/01/0821338XFce 4.0 announcement September 25th 2003https://web.archive.org/web/20031002123938/http://www.xfce.org/en/press_release_en.htmlxfce goes all lowercasehttps://web.archive.org/web/20040607035013/http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=news&lang=en2007 Interviewhttps://web.archive.org/web/20070116201506/http://linuxgazette.net/issue43/jacobowitz.xfce.html2009 Linux Journal Interviewhttps://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/xfce-third-man2009 Slashgear Interviewhttps://www.slashgear.com/xfce-creator-talks-linux-moblin-netbooks-and-open-source-0633329/2017 Interview with Sean Davishttps://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/interview-xfce.htmlXfce 4.4 - 4.18https://xfce.org/about/news0 min
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