A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13.
News
KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0
GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10
The death of the x86 Windows PC?
Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London
Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time
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Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.
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Awesome episode, as always.
Just wanted to say the conversation with Richard was really fascinating. Great dialog.
And best of luck, Ikey 🙂
Thanks Matt. I also really enjoyed the interview. It was nice to listen as a normal punter, rather than an interviewer.
Great talk, guys!
Congrats, Ikey! I’m a bit nervous about what the future will hold for Solus, but I got mostly positive thoughts about it – high hopes. 🙂 It’s the uncertainty that makes me nervous, mostly financially.
By the way, the audio player sucks being so tiny. I went into the HTML document and bumped it to 700px width so I can roll back to a part I missed – I went back about 3 minutes when I tried with the small player, which was way too much. 😛
It was great to listen to your views and insights about Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage. To make it short, the top two things I hated the most about being a sysadmin for many years, it was (1) updating Windows and (2) updating the tons of individual apps. There can be some sanity for a sysadmin if there’s an iron hand enforcing a very strict (and low) number of apps to be maintained, but that’s a big IF that reminds me of unicorns farting rainbows, flying pigs and so on. So why “hated”? That’s because for my own sanity I decided to move to web development, so at least I can have a different kind of insanity. :))
It’s not that the thousands of packages that go into a distro’s repository are magically safe and all that, but just as with PPA’s and other repositories, the least you have is the means to update everything through the update manager. That’s crucial to have an easy to maintain environment instead of a terribly annoying update experience so well known with Windows in general. At least they have Windows S.
Needless to say that as it is right now, I dislike this kind of packaging. And this is way too funny not to quote it here (from StackExchange): «I know I can write a script, but I wanted the “native” solution, the way for “human beings”». Being able to care precisely zero about a lot of apps, checking their latest versions and install them, was a key selling point for GNU/Linux for years. And now here we are, giving the users more ways to make their PC maintenance annoying.
So I hope everyone involved in these packaging “technologies” get a grip and fix this issue as soon as possible. Sure, the update managers in many distros would have to support the update mechanisms for these packages, but right now there’s no such thing.
Cheers, and thanks for this episode! o/
Guys,
Interesting conversation regards X86 Vs Arm. Interesting comment about “Shitty Celerons” Vs Arm
I just happen to be running a “Shitty Celeron” Win 10 GIGABYTE Brick right next to an Octacore ARM Odroid Xu4 running Lubuntu.
One runs pretty well and uses 2watts, the other one is a bit doggy and chews 15W. Take a guess which is which?