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A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections.

First Impressions

We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro.

Feedback

Zim – a desktop wiki

This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community

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Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner.

News

Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022

Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck

German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Google-translated interview

Apple announces Self Service Repair

The future of documentation at Canonical

Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 35 and Linux After Dark

KDE Korner

How to create KDE Applets

KDE now also LTT proof

Evolving 3D effects in Plasma

Be flexible to win big

PinePhone Cross Compilation

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:35 — 20.4MB)

How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.

Félim mentioned Camara Education.

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A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.

News

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15

The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi

Ubuntu Server support

Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS

Nat Friedman leaves GitHub

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements

Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Admin

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KDE Korner

November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0

Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders

Nice look through PolKit

Updates in KDE PIM

Giant Swarm Site Reliability job

Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles)

https://giant-swarm.jobs.personio.de/job/180887?_pc=533308

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:18 — 20.2MB)

We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more.

First Impressions

We had a look at Haiku, an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”

Feedback

We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:34 — 21.7MB)

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

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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

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:08 — 20.1MB)

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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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:43 — 20.5MB)

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

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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

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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.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:14 — 20.1MB)

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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