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  • The History of the Common Desktop Environment

    But you can't tell the proper history without talking about X, OPEN LOOK, Motif and lots of other tech! So we travel back to the late 60's to begin the retelling.

    From Season 4, Episode 6 "Anything But Common"

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    The History of The Common Desktop Environment (CDE)

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
    The Andrew Project
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120717074939/http://www.cmu.edu/corporate/news/2007/features/andrew/what_is_andrew.shtml
    W was a windowing system that was originally written for the V operating system
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040522163027/http://eia.udg.es/~teo/sd/documents/articles/p314-cheriton.pdf
    In 1984, Robert Scheifler wrote
    https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml
    X is our “reaction” to W
    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/22949.24053
    Ultrix Window Manager, or uwm
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrix_Window_Manager
    Tom's Window Manager, which eventually became Tab Window Manager, or twm
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twm
    Open Look Specification
    https://archive.org/details/openlookgraphica00sunm
    The OSF narrows the search for a User Interface
    https://books.google.com/books?id=szsEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=open look&f=false
    HP and Microsoft's CXI and DEC's XUI to create the HP OSF/Motif Window Manager
    https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Company-Publications/HP-Journal/90s/HPJ-1990-06.pdf
    Sun went on to build OpenWindows, which was X with OPEN LOOK on top to replace SunView.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWindows
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunView
    COSE
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Open_Software_Environment
    In 1994, The OSF and Unix International, a body meant to standardize UNIX, merged
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.osf.misc/c/Q2uTrTvB8bY/m/8SMI8V-JvE4J
    and in 96, merged again with X/Open into The Open Group
    https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1996/0214.html
    Motif and CDE became one
    https://groups.google.com/g/cu.motif-talk/c/xMQ-2cBi9bU/m/_VTikcvANZkJ
    KDE enters the scene
    https://groups.google.com/g/de.comp.os.linux.misc/c/SDbiV3Iat_s/m/zv_D_2ctS8sJ
    May of 2000 when Motif was released as OpenMotif
    https://web.archive.org/web/20131003125200/https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.windows.x.announce/K2LrU6QusnA/5fRzz-NBIrAJ
    LessTif, because Less is Mo, published an initial statement
    https://web.archive.org/web/20000619030034/http://www.lesstif.org/future.html
    August 6th, 2012, CDE was relicensed under the LGPL and was available on SourceForge, where it still lives today
    https://web.archive.org/web/20121124230739/http://devio.us/~kpedersen/forums/viewtopic.php?id=1293
    After opening it up, 2.2.1 was released on March 1st, 2014
    https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/32043063/
    The final release, at least as of this recording, 2.5.1, dropped in October of 2022
    https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/37715846/

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  • The History of Fedora Silverblue

    The history of Fedora Silverblue from before it existed in 2012. OStree and other tech had to be invented first, but it all led to Silverblue

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    Eduardo PH, Kyle, Jon Guthery, LqLarry

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    Multiple Bootable Roots

    https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/OSTree/NixOSComparison
    From GUADEC 2012 - OSTree
    https://lwn.net/Articles/511877/#walters
    Gnome Continuous
    https://wiki.gnome.org/Attic/GnomeContinuous
    Walters described OSTree as "a magic formula."
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy0ZEHPXJ9Q
    March 20, 2013 - Docker is born
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software)
    CoreOS sees its first public release in October of 2013
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_Linux
    Red Hat official inclusion of Docker with RHEL 6.5
    https://web.archive.org/web/20131128171128/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/11/26/rhel6-5-ga/
    April 2014 - Project Atomic
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/announcing-project-atomic/
    The actual distro building was left to the actual distro projects
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/05/the-difference-between-project-atomic-and-atomic-hosts/
    Instructions to build on top of Fedora 20
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/04/build-your-own-atomic-host-on-fedora-20/
    CENTOS and RHEL partner which began the journey to Atomic Host
    https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-January/020100.html
    A Fedora Atomic Host installable ISO becomes available based on Rawhide
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/07/new-fedora-atomic-installable-iso/
    August 2014 - CentOS Atomic Host alpha builds were available
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/08/centos-7-alpha-builds-for-atomic/
    December 2014 - Fedora 21 releases with Atomic Host images
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2014/12/fedora-21-goes-gold-with-atomic-images/
    March 2015 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host released
    https://web.archive.org/web/20150312173742/http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/03/05/announcement-rhel-atomic-host-ga/
    July 2015 - Package layering was introduced
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2016/07/hacking-and-extending-atomic-host/
    Atomic Hosts came and went, including bi-weekly releases
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Two_Week_Atomic
    2016 - XDG-App was renamed Flatpak
    https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/flatpak/2016-May/000204.html
    2018 - CoreOS Docker platform was acquired by Red Hat in January. It became, Red Hat CoreOS
    https://projectatomic.io/blog/2018/05/welcome-redhat-coreos/
    The Fedora flavor would live on as... Team Silverblue
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180505090226/https://www.teamsilverblue.org/
    The domain name and handles around the web were available
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/_attachments/team-silverblue-origins.pdf
    It was almost called Silverleaf
    https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/faq/
    October 30, 2018 - Fedora 29 was released with a Silverblue variant. Matthew Miller on Fedora Magazine noted
    https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-29/
    The Fedora Council made the decision to tighten things up regarding naming
    https://web.archive.org/web/20191121020222/https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedoras-strategic-direction-an-update-from-the-council/796
    2019 - Fedora 30 and the Silverblue variant were released
    https://web.archive.org/web/20201201201318/https://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/
    2021 - Silverblue 35 in November, Fedora Kinoite appears
    https://fedoraproject.org/kinoite/
    2023 - Silverblue 38 in April, Fedora Sericea appears
    https://fedoraproject.org/sericea/

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  • The History of Debian

    For Debian's 30th birthday, this is its history. From its "official" inception in 1993 all the way to today in 2023 and beyond (to around 2027, if all goes well). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

    From Season 4 Episode 2 - Bits From Debian

    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmPXjMo_Dbk
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    The History of Debian

    Before Debian there was Softlanding Linux
    https://web.archive.org/web/20211215084534/https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux/c/Q4fxCi2g0kc/m/Z6vfd2aLSQwJ
    August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock's announcement that started it all
    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=Debian-announcement-1993.txt#CA-c114de97e513912ade3e21cedd1d833957c8edf6_13
    January 1994, Ian releases the Debian Manifesto
    https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/manifesto
    April 1, 1994, Ian was struggling to keep up with it all and needed a break
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1994/msg00005.html
    March 1996, Ian steps down as Debian Project Leader. Leaving Bruce Perens to take up the job
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1996/msg00003.html
    The FSF pulls sponsorship but later the FSF "resumed cordial relations"
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.linux.misc/c/A30TG4KRx4Y/m/WKi_Yx0iuTAJ
    https://www.debian.org/intro/cooperation
    June 17, 1996, Debian 1.1 is released with the first ever codename based on Toy Story characters. It was named Buzz, after Buzz Lightyear
    https://web.archive.org/web/19970616164301/http://www.debian.org/1.1/release.html
    A list of all the Debian releases
    https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/releases.en.html
    February 1, 1997, A board of directors had been elected for Software in the Public Interest
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00000.html
    February 20, 1997, Debian shows its intent to ratify a constitution
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00005.html
    July 1, 1997, Debian is really launched into space this time to monitor plant growth in microgravity, sending video and other data back home
    https://www.debian.org/News/1997/19970626a
    https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2186
    December 2, 1998, Debian ratifies a Constitution
    https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution.1.0
    At the beginning of 1999, Wichert Akkerman was elected Debian Project Leader and started with giving Debian a permanent identity
    Logo on debian.org as of April 14, 1997
    https://web.archive.org/web/19970414140629im_/http://www.debian.org/Pics/debian.jpg
    January 24, 1999, the logo license for Captain Blue-Eye, expired again
    https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/4/mail#mail2
    February 4, 1999, a Logo contest announcement
    https://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990204
    May 3, 1999, the submissions were in. Captain Blue-Eye was thought to be too Linux-specific
    https://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004
    https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/1999/14/mail#mail1
    June 8, 1999, The iconic swirl that we see today won the vote
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/1999/07/msg00005.html
    July 6, 1999, dpkg version 2, which was hinted at by Ben Collins back in May, is now officially a thing and the specifications are out there boasting a more modular design
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/1999/07/msg00012.html
    Debian weathered the Y2k storm with no major problems
    https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2000/1/

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  • The History of Raspberry Pi

    From Season 3 Episode 20 - A Timepiece of Pi

    Video: https://youtu.be/nLPuojqJbK4
    Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/320

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    Raspberry Pi OS links

    Main software web site
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
    The Forum
    https://forums.raspberrypi.com/
    Documentation
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/
    Daily News
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/
    Foundation
    https://www.raspberrypi.org/

    Raspberry Pi OS the History

    BBC Micro
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
    ZX Spectrum
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
    The very first Raspberry Pi prototypes
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-2006-edition/
    Early alpha boards
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-alpha-boards-are-here/
    Paul Beech's logo
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/logo-competition-we-have-a-winner/
    Early hacking resulted in a functional Debian Squeeze installation
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/first-root-filesystem-available-for-download/
    The Raspberry Pi is official
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/the-raspberry-pi-launch/
    Arch Linux ARM supporting the Raspberry Pi is out in the wild
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/arch-linux-arm-available-for-download/
    Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-fedora-remix-our-recommended-distro-is-ready-for-download/
    The first Raspbian SD Image was made available for testing
    http://www.zen103156.zen.co.uk/rpitime.pdf
    Raspberry Pi's began hitting doorsteps
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/deliveries-have-started/
    Quake III runs on Raspberry Pi
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/fancy-a-quake-iii-deathmatch/
    Debian Wheezy beta build hits the public net
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/debian-wheezy-public-beta/
    Raspbian was officially announced
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspbian-based-sd-card-image-released/
    Turbo Mode is added
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-turbo-mode-up-to-50-more-performance-for-free/
    The model B got upgraded
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/model-b-now-ships-with-512mb-of-ram/
    The Model A is finally available
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/model-a-now-for-sale-in-europe-buy-one-today/
    Minecraft: Pi Edition is released
    https://web.archive.org/web/20130214025539/http://mojang.com/2013/02/minecraft-pi-edition-is-available-for-download/
    The cameras and updates in Raspbian are released
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/camera-board-available-for-sale/
    Wayland preview is announced
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/wayland-preview/
    NOOBS
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-noobs/
    Pi NoIR camera is now available
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pi-noir-infrared-camera-now-available/
    No Foolin'. A website revamp
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/welcome-to-our-new-website/
    Raspberry Pi compute module is announced
    https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-product/

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  • Interview with Cassidy on Endless OS!

    From Season 3 Episode 18 - The NeverEnding Story

    Video: https://youtu.be/f5AvLAusUIs
    Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/318

    This is our interview with Cassidy James Blaede of Endless OS (formerly of elementaryOS) to talk about all the Endless OS things! Originally released on March 13th, 2023

    We get to know him and his history a little, what he loves to do, and then we dive into the Endless OS past, present and future including their contributions to Flatpak and Gnome.

    Endless OS links

    Main web site
    https://endlessos.com/home/
    The Forum
    https://community.endlessos.com/
    The Wiki
    https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os
    Endless OS Foundation
    https://www.endlessos.org/

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  • The History of Endless OS

    From Season 3 Episode 18 - The NeverEnding Story

    Video: https://youtu.be/f5AvLAusUIs
    Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/318

    Endless OS the History

    Endless Mobile Inc.'s was founded
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180519033528/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=241000702
    Computers started shipping in late June 2015
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers/posts/1276655
    The Endless Mini
    https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mini-review/
    August 2016 Endless 3.0 was released as was the very First Linux distro to adopt Flatpak for apps and have it configured for use out of the box
    https://flatpak.org/about
    October 2016 Netflix and Flash were broken
    https://community.endlessos.com/t/attention-new-users-flash-and-netflix-temporarily-broken/327
    Jan 4, 2017 Endless Mission One and Mini released
    https://venturebeat.com/business/endless-expands-into-the-u-s-with-launch-of-129-mission-mini-and-249-mission-one-computers/
    Mission Mini Review
    https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mini-review/
    Mission One Review
    https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mission-one-review/
    March 2017 3.1.3 Released and now ISOs are now available
    https://community.endlessos.com/t/release-endless-os-version-3-1-3/1835
    November 1 2018, 3.5 Released, but was then quickly withdrawn. 3.5.1 was quickly delivered on November 16th addressing the issue
    https://community.endlessos.com/t/release-endless-os-3-5-1/8252
    April 1, 2020 Endless drops its for-profit status and becomes a not-for-profit
    https://www.endlessos.org/post/launching-endless-os-foundation
    November 2020 Hack and friends go fully open source!
    https://www.hack-computer.com/post/update-hack-is-now-fully-open-source
    June 2021 The Endless Laptop
    https://www.endlessos.org/endless-laptop
    January 2023 5.0 Released
    https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os/release-notes/5
    4.0.14 delivers the ability to upgrade to 5.0 which was previously not possible
    https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os/release-notes/4-0-14
    March 7, 2023 Endless announces backing for Flathub
    https://discourse.flathub.org/t/flathub-in-2023/3808

    Endless OS links

    Main web site
    https://endlessos.com/home/
    The Forum
    https://community.endlessos.com/
    The Wiki
    https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os
    Endless OS Foundation
    https://www.endlessos.org/
    The Early History
    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers/description
    The Release History
    https://community.endlessos.com/t/what-about-a-release-history/5277/3
    The Early PC's
    https://web.archive.org/web/20170223110116/https://endlessos.com/our-computers/
    All Old Github Tagged versions ~2.0.0
    https://web.archive.org/web/20201117023525/https://github.com/endlessm/eos-desktop/tags?after=Release_2.0.1-rc1_debian

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  • The History of CentOS

    From Season 3 Episode 16 - The Cent of a Distro

    Video: https://youtu.be/52MnZVvVumc
    Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/316

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    CentOS Linux the History

    July 1994 The "preview" release for Red Hat Linux is released internally
    October 31 codenamed "Halloween" 0.9 is released.
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/History_of_Red_Hat_Linux
    May 1995 "Mother's Day" 1.0 is released and introduces some iconic branding.
    March 1996 "Picasso" 3.0.3 is released. Version numbers might really matter, check out our Slackware episode to find out how Patrick Volkerding felt about them.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2YeSW5F97M
    TL;DW
    http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=general#0
    September 2000 Red Hat Linux 7.0 has releases with their renamed gcc version
    features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/12/163218&mode=thread
    May 2002 Enter Red Hat Enterprise Linux with version 2.1
    https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078
    Sometime within 2002, Warren Togami starts the Fedora Linux Project
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Wtogami?rd=WarrenTogami
    It aimed to bring together additional packages for Red Hat Linux
    https://web.archive.org/web/20031008123733/http://www.fedora.us/index-main.html
    It wasn't a distribution on its own. It was Extras for the existing Red Hat Linuxes
    https://web.archive.org/web/20030219051938/http://www.fedora.us/fedora.html
    March 2003 Red Hat Linux 9.0, named Shrike, is released
    July 2003 Severn, the beta for what would be Red Hat Linux 10, changes to a more open and community focused development process
    https://lwn.net/Articles/40201/
    September 2003, Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Linux Project, [merge into The Fedora Project
    https://web.archive.org/web/20031001204515/http://www.fedora.us/
    Mailing list announcement
    https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-September/msg00137.html
    Transition info
    https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7169
    Also in September, enter cAos
    https://web.archive.org/web/20120507000526/http://www.caoslinux.org/about.html
    cAos1-base and cAos1-enhanced couldn't really exist without each other
    https://web.archive.org/web/20050207043816/https://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=406
    November 2003 Red Hat signals that it's getting out of the Boxed Linux business
    https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/
    What was to be Red Hat Linux 10 instead released as Fedora Core 1 with Extras
    https://web.archive.org/web/20031107044428/http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES.html
    December 2003 the first alpha of cAos
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040128013252/http://caosity.org:80/
    Three weeks later, CentOS 3
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040202083913/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=10
    Another week later, CentOS 2 beta
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040202084601/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=11
    Whitebox Linux first release candidate
    http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/news.html
    David Parsley registered taolinux.org, and in December, started getting the site together
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040111131901/http://taolinux.org:80/
    Why Tao Linux
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040704030839/http://taolinux.org/?q=node/view/5
    June 2006, David had to switch jobs
    https://web.archive.org/web/20061013083339/http://taolinux.org/?q=node/view/8
    Scientific Linux
    https://scientificlinux.org/
    Feburary 2004 the final release cAos-1, the proof of concept,made it to mirrors
    https://web.archive.org/web/20040402100908/http://caosity.org/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=22

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  • The History of GeckoLinux

    Taken from Season 3 Episode 14 - Gecko Linux and the Side Quest

    Video: https://youtu.be/vX5OUEGvlYc
    Audio: https://linuxuserspace.show/314

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    GeckoLinux

    https://geckolinux.github.io/
    openSUSE
    https://www.opensuse.org/
    November 13, 2015, the first release of GeckoLinux 421.15.1113.6 was announced
    https://web.archive.org/web/20151117201144/http://geckolinux.github.io/
    Explaining the version number
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/wiki#version-numbering
    In December 2015, alongside Cinnamon, XFCE, Gnome and Budgie were added. In addition a BareBones edition. And a few days later Plasma, Mate, and LXQt get their first ISOs
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160327124759/https://susestudio.com/a/OO38wm/geckolinux-barebones
    https://web.archive.org/web/20151231064432/http://geckolinux.github.io:80/
    SUSE Studio Express
    https://www.suse.com/c/suse-studio-online-open-build-service-suse-studio-express/
    Budgie put on ice for a while
    https://groups.google.com/g/geckolinux-updates/c/kv0OOBXOJvA
    Pantheon is added.
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/releases/tag/200830.152-Pantheon
    AND the Budgie ROLLING and NEXT editions make a return.
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/releases/tag/200830.152-Budgie
    A vote for which default filesystem was held with btrfs winning.
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/issues/210
    The same vote, but for the STATIC edition was held.
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/issues/226
    Static will have a sunset in the future due to the change in LEAP
    https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/SHINA373OTC7M4CVICCKXDUXN5C3MYX3/
    Since that has happened yet GeckoLinux released after 15.4
    https://github.com/geckolinux/geckolinux-project/releases/tag/220822.154

    Most of the "story" came from an email between Sam and us.

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  • QR Codes for All!

    How to make QR Codes. It's actually really easy!

    0:22 QR Codes with the Linux CLI: qrencode

    e.g. qrencode -o lusqr.png "https://linuxuserspace.show"
    3:18 In DuckDuckGo just type qr code WHATEVER
    e.g. qr code https://linuxuserspace.show

    Taken from the full episode "A Hot Plate of Hype"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC4IUlCfP1c

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  • The History of Clear Linux

    Taken from the full episode "How to Clear" here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhnwEBj8SVA&t=0s

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    Clear Linux was officially released. The only reference we found

    https://community.clearlinux.org/t/ha...
    Arjan van de Ven penned an article
    https://lwn.net/Articles/644675/
    Announcement that the Container-only OS will now start shipping a desktop for developers.
    https://clearlinux.org/news-blogs/cla...
    In parallel, Robert Nesius announces
    https://clearlinux.org/news-blogs/cle...
    Enter, Flatpak
    https://clearlinux.org/news-blogs/end...
    The auto-updater is here
    https://clearlinux.org/news-blogs/end...
    XFCE, while still available, is no longer the default desktop. It's Gnome 3.24.
    https://www.phoronix.com/review/clear...
    The first Issue in Github about ffmpeg not being included shows up.
    https://github.com/clearlinux/distrib...
    "How to Clear"
    https://github.com/clearlinux/how-to-...
    Wireguard is added
    https://github.com/clearlinux/distrib...
    Snap was and will remain unavailable and unsupported.
    https://github.com/clearlinux/distrib...
    A new installer beta is floating around
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clear-L...
    The public forum is live!
    https://community.clearlinux.org/t/we...
    cups enabled by default
    https://github.com/clearlinux/distrib...
    version 2.0 of the new installer is released with a full graphical interface!
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clear-L...
    An appeal to Linux developers
    https://web.archive.org/web/201905201...
    Offline installations are now available
    https://community.clearlinux.org/t/cl...
    exFAT is available
    https://github.com/clearlinux/distrib...
    The distro will focus less on Desktop
    https://community.clearlinux.org/t/ch...
    Clear Linux pulls out a win over EndeavourOS on the Ryzen 9 5900x.
    https://www.phoronix.com/review/endea...
    Clear wins in all but a handful of benchmarks
    https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubunt...
    Clear Linux wins in 68 out of 102 benchmarks. Windows 11 won 1
    https://www.phoronix.com/review/windo...
    The first third-party swupd repo
    https://clearfraction.cf/
    Clear switches from the -O2 compiler flag for the kernel to -O3 for more SPEED
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clear-L...

    Clear Linux Home Page

    https://clearlinux.org/
    Clear Linux Forum
    https://community.clearlinux.org/
    Clear Linux on GitHub
    https://github.com/clearlinux
    Clear is part of 01.org, Intel's open source technology
    https://01.org/

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