Coming up in this episode
1. XFace gets a new face
2. CentOS rocks your world
3. Mozilla Watch
4. We wish upon a star
5. And we think inside the box
Preshow
Wowstick 1F on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Wowstick-Electric-Screwdriver-Cordless-Lithium-ion/dp/B07H27G9NF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=wowstick&qid=1609986722&sr=8-4)
XFCE 4.14 --> 4.16
Official Announcement (https://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200)
Official Tour, highlighting the new color palette (https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416)
https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-16-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
TL;DR - Fractional scaling. New Icons. Cleaned up dialogs and settings menus.
CentOS Linux announcement
CentOS (https://www.centos.org)
Official Announcement (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/)
Old "Rough" Timeline
Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL --> wait some more time --> Centos
New "Rough" Timeline
Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL
Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org)
Project Lenix (https://www.projectlenix.org/)
Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/)
Mozilla Watch...
Visual refresh meta bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=proton) AKA proton --> photon
https://www.techradar.com/news/get-ready-for-a-radical-firefox-redesign
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton/
Wishlist for 2021
Dan
I think the Pine 64 future (https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pinephone-ce-and-a-peek-into-the-future/) looks good. My wish is that the time frame is closer to the 6 month range for the next gen stuff to start to materialize.
Intel gets their new graphics stack rolled out for laptops.
Leo
Pine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform.
Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture.
Joe
My long suffering 4k laptop screen woes remedied (installers that support Hidpi)
RPi sata or M.2 ports (even MMC)
Housekeeping
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App Focus
Gnome Boxes
This episode's app: Gnome Boxes (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/)
Boxes on flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Boxes)
Next Time
We discuss January's distro of the month, Solus (https://getsol.us)
Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space
