Season 2 - Episode 14: A Break in Tradition

News

• Facebook got 💢💰 slapped with a $5B fine (CNN via Linux Journal)

  • The Cambridge Analytica scandal 🤯
  • Facebook 👌 Open Source
  • ⚛️ React JavaScript library
  • Btrfs at 💽 Facebook
  • EEE 🤗↔️💀
  • Microsoft joins private 🔒📧 Linux kernel mailing list

• ✏️ Ubisoft and 🎮 Epic to support 💶💶💶 Blender (GamingOnLinux)

• KDEConnect 📱🔗🖥️ is being ported to Windows 10 (omg! ubuntu!)

  • The effort is part of ⛱️🤖 Google Summer of Code

• Mirror 📱➡️🖥️ you Android phone from Ubuntu (omg! ubuntu!)

• New Pinebook Pro 🌲📗💻 video 📹demos 4K video, external monitor 📺, and WebGL (omg! ubuntu!)

  • The PbP preorders 📦 are now live for community members

• OnlyOffice 🏢 gets updated (omg! ubuntu!)

Events

• Ubucon, 🐧📛 10th to 13th of October, Sintra, Portugal
• Oggcamp 🥳🐧, 19th to 20th of October, Manchester, UK

Discussion

Running Linux on an old 🕰️💻 laptop (submitted via Twitter by Joey Fallon

• Xubuntu 🐭🐧

• Lubuntu 💙🐧

• BunsenLabs 🔥🐧

• Ubuntu Mate 💚🐧

• Manjaro i3 🤓🐧

• Quick fixes if 🔥🦊 Firefox slows down

• NoScript ⛔📜 for Firefox

• Auto Tab Discard 🗃️🗑️ addon for Firefox

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