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A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more.

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First Impressions

We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction”.

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Bodhi Linux

Fedora Silverblue

AI Noise Analyzer

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The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.

Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama.

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News

A fresh new Firefox is here

The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement

Glimpse fails

The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters

Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 23.

KDE Korner

PinePhone KDE Patron

KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git

Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:36 — 21.8MB)

A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone.

First Impressions

We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management.

Admin

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Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Sweep

ocenaudio

mhwaveedit

Audio Recorder

Gnome Wave Cleaner

Kwave

Ventoy

Pinephone

Graham finally has his hands on a Pinephone and so we asked him all about it.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:05 — 22.8MB)

Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner.

News

Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management

Welcome to Libera Chat

Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now open, starting at $999

Hands-On with Framework’s Fully Modular Laptop!

Improving Firefox stability on Linux

Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own

Google Play Store will be able to send you compromised Android apps from August

Magisk developer leaves Apple to join Google on the Android security team

How the UK’s Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix

Online abuse: Why management liability isn’t the answer

Admin

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KDE Korner

Moving on

KCommandBar

LAS Tooling Update

Telegram KDE Client Slim Mode

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:20 — 20.9MB)

The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more.

First Impressions

We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager

grml-rescueboot

FreeTube

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:14 — 20.8MB)

Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.

News

Audacity & MuseScore Announcement!

Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity

elementary OS 6 Beta Available

KDE Developer tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin

Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable

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Where we get our news

RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.

KDE Korner

Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released

KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover

Kdenlive 21.04 – Subtitle STT

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Entroware

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:59 — 20.7MB)

Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.

First Impressions

Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro will be Endless OS.

Admin

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Feedback

The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE.

Things we mentioned:

HIP and ROCm

FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs

Restored Genesis video

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:56 — 21.3MB)

Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.

News

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars

NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new?

Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New

The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment

Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits

An open letter to the Linux community

Admin

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KDE Korner

Krita Arrives in the Epic Store

KDE in Kerala

Peruse Komics

Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:21 — 20.9MB)

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE.

We mentioned Launcher Manager.

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Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:26 — 20.3MB)

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends

WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence

US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales

Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices

Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology

Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program

Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether

popey to leave Canonical

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Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.

KDE Korner

Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection

SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs

KHamburgerMenu

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Entroware

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