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What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference.
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Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more.
News
We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group, Matrix room, and IRC channel). Links to everything on our community page
What are ESM Apps, and how do they relate to Ubuntu Pro?
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article
Google’s Go may add telemetry that’s on by default
It’s not looking good for Mycroft AI
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.27-eve (Frameworks 5.103.0 is just out) Nate has a writeup and help report multi-monitor bugs effectively
A couple of FOSDEM Reports (or ALL the talks!)
Akademy call for proposals is open
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Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally.
He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix
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Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more.
Discoveries
Node Red Home Assistant Contrib
Feedback
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It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad.
Challenge
Red Hat article about nested virtualisation
Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad
Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running Linux on their X13s ThinkPad.
Instructions for flashing and installing the Debian installer on the X13s
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The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange
Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs
What is Google doing with its open source teams?
We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
KDE Korner
Example of KDEnlive & Glaxinate
Plasma 5.27 Beta is here & KFrameworks Branched
New Skrooge site & XRechnungViewer (not related to each other)
Best Plasma 5 and Major bugfixes
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Entroware
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In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust?
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Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more.
Discoveries
Feedback
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Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software.
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The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.
News
Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support
Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
RISC-V Summit Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V
ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 module and development board launched!
The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good
Admin
Discoveries
KDE and Xfce Kornerx
New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal
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