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  • Set Up a Thunderbird Build Environment on Mac

    Have a Macbook and want to build Thunderbird? Here is how to setup that development environment in just a few commands! This is useful if you are interesting in fixing bugs, trying out patches, or making any local changes to Thunderbird.

    Tutorial commands:

    Install homebrew and tools needed to build Thunderbird

    $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
    $ brew install python pipx mercurial
    $ pipx install MozPhab

    Checkout the source code

    $ mkdir tb-build && cd tb-build
    $ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central source/
    $ cd source/
    $ hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central comm/

    Run the bootstrap command from the source directory. Choose 2 (to build Firefox for Desktop). Choose all of the default options.

    $ ./mach bootstrap

    Make sure your ~/.zshrc has the following line:

    export PATH="$PATH:/Users/USERNAME/.local/bin"

    Create your mozconfig file in the source directory with the following info

    $ vim mozconfig
    ac_add_options --enable-project=comm/mail
    ac_add_options --with-ccache=sccache
    ac_add_options --enable-clang-plugin
    mk_add_options AUTOCLOBBER=1

    Build Thunderbird!

    $ ./mach build

    Run what you just built!

    $ ./mach run

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  • State of the Thunder 9: Answering Your Thunderbird Pro Questions

    In the latest State of the Thunder, we're answering your questions about the upcoming Thunderbird Pro offerings and introducing our new head of Community Programs.

    Michael Ellis is here to help us better serve our community, and he's placed a call for ideas on Mozilla Connect for ideas to improve the Thunderbird community: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/have-ideas-to-improve-the-thunderbird-community/m-p/100264#M38972

    Question 1: With these new services, will there be less effort spent on desktop and mobile?

    Answer: No! Lately we've added several new developers to our desktop and mobile teams. TB Pro is a collecting of projects (not products) that mean to coexist besides our core products and fill in missing pieces for users.

    Question 2: Why is Appointment being developed as a stand-alone?

    Answer: As a stand-alone, users can adapt it for their individual use, and core users don't have to use it if they don't want to. Also, this gives us time to help the underlying protocols add support for what Appointment needs to run natively.

    Question 3: Can you deploy Appointment on your own infrastructure?

    Answer: Yes! We know many of our users like to self-host and so we wanted this option. But offering to manage it on our own infrastrtucture is not only good for people who don't want to manage it themselves, but it's an opportunity to not only keep Thunderbird financially sustainable but to raise the resources to make it truly competitive.

    Question 4: Are there plans to make Send part of the core Thunderbird app?

    Answer: No, not for the foreseeable future. We'd like to have it as an opt-in system add-on. We still have Filelink, which has allowed us to build Send. Developing Send can possibly allow us to expand on Filelink's abilities!

    Question 5: In Send, is there a file size limit for each file?

    Answer: As far as we know, no. You'll have a limit of how much storage you'll have, which right now we're imagining will be 500GB for a normal subscription. Subscription costs will both pay for the storage itself and its management. As Send is open source, we'll have free options for folks who want to self host with their own storage.

    Question 6: Will I be able to use Thundermail with another client?

    Answer: Of course! As you can imagine, we're big fans of open standards! Thundermail will also support JMAP.

    Question 7: Any plans for future Google-like products connected to Thundermail?

    This is largely up to the community! We have no shortage of ideas how we could expand TB Pro into those spaces, but this depends on our success. (So be sure to sign up for the mailing list and use the service if you us to move closer to a fully featured suite.) For some of those services, stakes are very high, so before moving into them we'd want to be certain we could do them well.

    Question 8: Do we have a public roadmap for these projects?

    Answer: We've started a process to make a public roadmap, along the lines of our mobile roadmap which shows current and planned sprints. This will be done in collaboration with the Thunderbird Council and will help our community get involved with these projects.

    Chapters

    00:00 Intro

    00:43 Introducing our new Community Manager
    07:00 Q1 - Investing in Services AND Desktop and Mobile
    15:26 Q2 - Appointment as a stand-alone app
    20:46 Q3 - Upcoming features for Appointment
    27:56 Q3.5 - Open source paid products
    31:29 Q4 - Will Send be part of the core desktop app?
    35:13 Q5 - Are there individual file size limits in Send?
    43:22 Q6 - Will I be able to use Thundermail with another client?
    47:10 Q7 - Are there any plans to expand Thundermail into a Google-like suite?
    51:44 Q8 - Will there be public roadmaps for services projects?

    Resources:

    Call for ideas to improve the community: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/have-ideas-to-improve-the-thunderbird-community/m-p/100264#M38972

    Consensus scheduling proposed standard: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-calext-vpoll/
    Filelink info: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/filelink-large-attachments
    TopicBox Mailing Lists: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/latest
    Thunderbird GitHub Repositories: https://github.com/thunderbird
    Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
    Thunderbird Development Docs: https://developer.thunderbird.net/

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  • Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.

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      Timestamps:

      00:00 Intro
      00:51 Sponsor: Squarespace
      02:09 EU ditching MS products
      04:42 Counter example: Munich
      05:28 Digital Sovereignty
      08:32 The Cost argument
      10:57 Why this move is good
      14:04 It's still very fragile
      17:07 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

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    • TanShan-Park - Hangzhou

      Der TanShan-Park liegt am Tongjian-See (铜鉴湖)in Hangzhou. Es gibt eine Reihe von Sehenswürdigkeiten mit poetischen Namen wie z.B. "duftendes Blumenmeer", "die sich in den Wellen spiegelnden Fichten", "Begonien-Frühlingsschmelze", die "Jiuqu-Pflaumenvilla" oder den "Tanshan-Besuchsstein".

      Su Shi, Bai Juyi, Fan Zhongyan und viele andere besuchten den Tongjian-See. Su Dongpo schrieb sogar ein Gedicht über ihn.

      Wir waren dort, um uns die Lotosblüte anzuschauen, was in Hangzhou eine Art Event ist. Leider meist jedoch sehr überlaufen. Der TanShan-Park ist dagegen geradezu menschenleer.

      Neben dem Lotus, den Gärten u.v.a. gibt es auch einen kleinen Wasserwald, in dem die Metasequoia und andere Pflanzen ein kleines Mangrovengebiet geschaffen haben.

      Während unseres Besuches sind wir vom Taifun Dasan überrascht worden, was uns noch einmal zusätzlich schöne Bilder beschert hat. 🤪

      (4k hier: https://youtu.be/2Ud1jEI7bS0)

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    • My Experience with Logitech Mice Under Linux

      In this video, I dive into my journey of moving from wired to wireless mice, sharing lessons learned with #Logitech products. After facing issues like gunk-filled scroll balls and accidental button presses, I discovered tools such as Solaar, Piper, and OpenRGB that helped me customize my setup for a smoother experience. Links for more details are below! Join me in exploring these solutions next week.

      🔗 https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar

      🔗 https://github.com/libratbag/piper
      🔗 https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB

      https://arthur.pizza

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    • X11 to Wayland is fixed_ BcacheFS is gone, Flathub is HUGE - Linux Weekly News

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        Timestamps

        00:00 Intro
        00:38 Sponsor: ProtonMail
        01:31 Torvalds kicks BcacheFS out of the kernel
        03:09 Wayback is an X11 on Wayland compatibility layer
        05:09 Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads
        07:20 Nvidia developer joins the NOVA driver project
        08:48 Fedora drops proposal to ditch 32 bit architecture
        10:40 Meta wins a court case related to AI and copyright
        12:13 French City ditches Microsoft as well
        13:47 GNOME 49 replaces a few default apps
        15:31 Stop Killing Games petition gets to 1M signatures
        17:57 New Copyleft Next license is launched
        20:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

        Links:

        Torvalds kicks BcacheFS out of the kernel

        https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-bcachefs-drop/

        Wayback is an X11 on Wayland compatibility layer

        https://linuxiac.com/meet-wayback-a-bridge-between-x-desktops-and-wayland/
        https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-2026-Plans

        Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads

        https://flathub.org/statistics

        Nvidia developer joins the NOVA driver project

        https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co-Maintainer

        Fedora drops proposal to ditch 32 bit architecture

        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Drop_i686_support
        https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/
        https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324/400

        Meta wins a court case related to AI and copyright

        https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-ops-and-tech/meta-beats-copyright-suit-from-authors-over-ai-training-on-books

        French City ditches Microsoft as well

        https://www.lyon.fr/actualite/action-municipale/la-ville-de-lyon-renforce-sa-souverainete-numerique

        GNOME 49 replaces a few default apps

        https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/papers-pdf-viewer-gnome-49
        https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk4/+bug/2113980

        Stop Killing Games petition gets to 1M signatures

        https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stop-killing-games-consumer-movement-hits-some-major-milestones/

        New Copyleft Next license is launched

        https://next.copyleft.org/pages/license-text.html
        https://next.copyleft.org/

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      • State of the Thunder 8: Eating Frogs, Roadmap Progress, and Fundraising

        Welcome back to the latest State of the Thunder! In this recording, we're eating frogs (metaphorically) and checking in on our roadmap progress, sharing our tips and tricks for Thunderbird development tools, and talking about the hows and whys of our fundraising campaigns.

        Want to learn how to join our recordings and ask questions to our team? Be sure to join the TB planning mailing list using the link in the Resources.

        00:00 Intro

        02:39 Desktop Roadmap update for Q3
        23:28 Dev tools tips and tricks
        32:54 Donations, campaign frequency, and revenue health

        Resources:

        Thunderbird Desktop Roadmap: https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

        Conversation Add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/gmail-conversation-view/?src=cb-dl-featured
        Release channel blog: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-release-channel-update/
        UI/UX mailing list: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux
        Account Hub video: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/video-the-new-account-hub/
        Eat the Frog summary: https://productivitypatrol.com/eat-the-frog/
        State of the Thunder: Volume 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xfUO9C_6tw
        Performance profile how-to: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiling-thunderbird-performance
        2024 Annual Report blog: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-report-2023-2024/
        Ryan Sipes' GUADEC keynote: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/thunderbird-goes-to-guadec-2024/
        TB planning mailing list: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning

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      • 16 GREAT LINUX FOSS APPS & UTILITIES I use, or plan to !

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          Timestamps:

          00:00 Intro
          00:27 Sponsor: TuxCare
          01:53 Pipeline
          03:29 Switcheroo
          04:05 Converseen
          04:44 Resources
          05:50 Mission Center
          06:27 Monitorets
          07:09 LACT
          07:59 Warehouse
          08:47 Gear Lever
          09:26 Dev Toolbox
          10:35 ClapGrep
          11:10 SpeechNotes
          11:53 Errands
          12:42 Planify
          14:21 Klevernotes
          15:18 Iotas
          16:58 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

          #linux #linuxdesktop #apps

          Pipeline:

          https://gitlab.com/schmiddi-on-mobile/pipeline

          Switcheroo

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.adhami3310.Converter

          Converseen

          https://flathub.org/apps/net.fasterland.converseen

          Resources

          https://github.com/nokyan/resources

          Mission Center

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter

          Monitorets

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.jorchube.monitorets

          LACT

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.ilya_zlobintsev.LACT

          Warehouse

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse

          Gear Lever

          https://flathub.org/apps/it.mijorus.gearlever

          DevToolbox

          https://flathub.org/apps/me.iepure.devtoolbox

          Clapgrep

          https://flathub.org/apps/de.leopoldluley.Clapgrep

          Speech note

          https://flathub.org/apps/net.mkiol.SpeechNote

          Errands

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.mrvladus.List

          Planify

          https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify

          Klevernotes

          https://flathub.org/apps/org.kde.klevernotes

          Iotas

          https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.World.Iotas

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        • A Modest (Linux) Proposal

          0:04 Docker

          0:25 WSL
          0:38 Linux Apps on Chrome OS
          0:54 WSL2
          1:05 Android and Mac OS
          1:22 The Proposal

          Links
          • https://www.infoq.com/news/2013/03/Docker/
            • Media
            • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Our_Troublesome_servers_(2844890722).jpg
            • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PVUSD_student_using_GoogleApps.jpg
            • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.png

              • https://arthur.pizza

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            • Big X org code reverts, giant data breach, KDE 6.4_ Linux & Open Source News

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                Timestamps:

                00:00 Intro
                00:39 Sponsor: ProtonVPN
                01:44 X.org reverts changes made by xLibre developer
                04:06 Giant data breach with 16B logins and passwords
                07:04 Plasma 6.4 is out
                09:23 German state keeps replacing Microsoft products
                12:13 Meta's model can spit out 42% of Harry Potter
                15:25 The final year of the hackintosh
                18:07 Steam Deck hits 20 000 games
                18:45 Steam enables proton for all games, all the time
                20:47 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers
                21:39 Support the channel

                Links:

                X.org reverts changes made by XLibre developer
                https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts
                https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1797#note_2800378

                Biggest data breach ever contains 16B logins and passwords

                https://cybernews.com/security/billions-credentials-exposed-infostealers-data-leak/

                Plasma 6.4 is out

                https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/

                German state keeps replacing Microsoft products

                https://www.techradar.com/pro/were-done-major-government-organization-slams-microsoft-teams

                Meta's model can spit out 42% of Harry Potter

                https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-percent

                The final year of the hackintosh

                https://www.techradar.com/computing/apple-has-finally-killed-the-mackintosh-and-my-diy-mac-dreams-have-died-with-it

                Steam Deck hits 20 000 games

                https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-and-steamos-hit-20000-playable-games/

                Steam enables proton for all games, all the time

                https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler/

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