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Joe talks to Chris and Gary about their homelab setups, their use of the cloud, and how it all ties together with WireGuard.
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A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré.
First Impressions
We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation.
Feedback
Software subscriptions and FOSS
We are joined by Daniel Foré to discuss software subscriptions and monetising FOSS. We mentioned elementary Developer Weekend.
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GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more.
News
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Clarification of Privacy Policy
When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos’s £136m contract with NHS England
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 25.
KDE Korner
KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff!
21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support
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Joe is joined by Chris and Gary again to discuss cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and NFTs. Our history, our mistakes, and ultimately why we became jaded about the whole thing.
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Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years.
First Impressions
We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer that’s based on Debian.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+
Firefox: Hide Native Tabs and Titlebar
Josh’s CSS for Tree Style Tabs
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
More questions that we didn’t get round to answering at FOSS Talk Live.
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Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more.
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News
Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours
Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 24.
Dev Null and the Kernel Panics
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
The spinning wheel of meh at FOSS Talk Live ended up with loads of leftover questions so we answered a few of them.
Chrome OS at 10
10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.22 Video from the promo team
Bug Triaging Needed – Nate
Akademy is on with day 2 and day 3 reports up and BOFs ongoing this week (Channel)
/u/wael_ch/ made some cool shortcuts for Dolphin, Plasma and Krunner check out /r/kde
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Joe is joined by Chris and Gary to discuss how we got into Linux around a decade ago, and what would be different for someone getting into it these days.
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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:
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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.
FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.
News
The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement
The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters
Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 23.
KDE Korner
KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git
Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully
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Joe is joined by Chris and listener Orlando to talk about why Arch and derivatives like Artix Linux are perfect for some users.
Chris mentioned a talk called The Tragedy of systemd.
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