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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

Audacity privacy notice

Clarification of Privacy Policy

IBM Leadership Changes

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 Tips

KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff!

FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon

21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support

aKademy video playlist

MyGNUHealth 1.0 is out

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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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Entroware

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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.

Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.

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

Dart/Flutter support for Kate

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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.

Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.

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.

FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.

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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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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Datadog

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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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