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Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Apple joins Blender Development Fund

L0phtCrack is now open source

Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it

Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)

Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained

Copyleft Compliance Projects

Introducing the PinePhone Pro

Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision

Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?

Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 33 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too

KDEnlive used for Italian TV

23 ways to help KDE

KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt

Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming

Linode

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CBT Nuggets

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Entroware

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The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.

First Impressions

We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.

Feedback

We mentioned Photopea.

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Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.

News

Fairphone 4 review

10 Year Smartphone

Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them

News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile

Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 32 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

KDE has a FOSS role going

KDE’s 25th birthday

How Gwenview got its name

Kalendar devblog 17 & 18

Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores

Crowdsec

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CBT Nuggets

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Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.

First Impressions

We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.

Graham and the Pinephone

Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.

Linode

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Crowdsec

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CBT Nuggets

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Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.

News

Linux After Dark has launched!

Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream

Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default

Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

Steam Deck FAQ

Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

GOL

BattlEye to support the Steam Deck

GNOME 41 released

Building an Alternative Ecosystem

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 31

KDE Korner

KDE Window Rules

Get Drawing With Krita with this Book

Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October

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CBT Nuggets

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Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.