Season 4 - Episode 3: Flotsam and FOSDEM

Support the Document Foundation • Pine64 at FOSDEM • Regolith 1.3 • Manjaro and Kubuntu laptops • Godot gets paid • Zorin Grid • Wireguard in the kernel • Thunderbird under MZLA • Ubi Linux, ibi patria, ibi libertas

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Chitchat

• Shane made a low poly Tux in Blender. 🖌️🎨🖼️ Any ideas for future projects?
• Mike played with 🏗️ Ansible

Support the Document Foundation 💶💸

The Document Foundation are the maintainers of LibreOffice which is a Free and Open Source alternative to the likes of Microsoft Office and Google Docs. It is a long-standing project as it is a direct continuation of the OpenOffice and StarOffice projects. They also maintain the open document formats which are an open standard alternative to the MS Office formats. Please show your support by going to https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

News

• 🌠 Star Trek: Picard

• Pine64 shows off new stuff at FOSDEM 🌲6️4️

  • Hardrock64 🤘🎸 - Raspberry Pi for comparison

  • they offered cases for the 📱 PinePhone

  • and showcased all the OSes - YouTube video 📹

• Regolith 🀄 1.3 released (via omg! ubuntu!)

• 🤵 Tuxedo Computers offer Manjaro and Kubuntu (via Forbes.com)

  • configure and price Kubuntu Focus 💻: Canada + US, rest of the world

• Epic 🕹️ gives 💵 Godot a $250,000 grant (via GamingOnLinux)

  • Epic owned Rocket League 👎 drops support for Linux and Mac (via Jupiter Broadcasting)

  • GeForce Now 👾 sadly doesn't work on Linux

• Zorin Grid 🖥️🖥️🖥️🖥️

• Wireguard 💂‍♀️ will be included in kernel 5.6 (via TechRadar)

• 📧 Thunderbird is now under MZLA Technologies (via ZDNet)

  • Ryan Sipes on the 🎙️ Mike Dominick Show

Shoutouts

• Shane: Digital Sovereignity - A blog about digital freedoms. Found in the Binary Times podcast chat. They're just starting out and it's a topic I am very interested in so I felt like giving them a shout out. 🆓

• Mike: 🚀 Rofi app launcher, window switcher, ssh launcher and much more. Even has a Pass integration!

Events

• 🍻🎤 FOSS Talk Live: 20th June 2020 at the Harrison in London 📅

Question for the audience

❓Are you using Vim or are you doing it wrong?

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• The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.