Coming up in this episode
* The Catchup Episode (We've missed so much!)
* The Red Hat Recap
* Browser Watch...ing!
* Some feedback, and a focus
The Video Podcast (https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8)
https://youtu.be/ZKm9vgJzAO8
401 Audio Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:16 The Gentoo Checkin
11:33 We Have a Lemmy!
19:24 Red Hat Recap
46:09 Browser Watch
1:05:21 Feedback
1:23:05 Community Focus: Linux Matters
1:27:03 App Focus: Jerboa & Memmy
1:34:48 Next Time: Debian
1:37:09 Stinger
Banter
Gentoo check in - Use the Handbook! (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page) The wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Main_Page) is just great in general.
Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org/)
The Linux User Space Lemmy instance (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/)
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RH takes their source and goes home
2019
July - IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Jim Whitehurst said at the time (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future).
2020
December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux) to CentOS Linux.
an FAQ (https://centos.org/distro-faq/) linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream)
2021
January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-year-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-programs-easier-ways-access-rhel).
February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code).
March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released (https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-os-stable-release-is-live/)
June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release (https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-8-4-ga-release/)
2022
Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases (https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article271678707.html) every quarter of the year.
IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff (https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-4Q22-Earnings-Prepared-Remarks.pdf) was growing at similar rates.
2023
April - Red Hat announement (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/message-red-hat-associates-today)
Ben Cotton and others were laid off (https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/).
June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream)
Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed (https://web.archive.org/web/20230621142027/https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/02/03/a-guide-for-using-centos-project-code).
Mike McGrath writes a clarification post (https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes)
Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images (https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/)
July - Alma Linux no longer aims (https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/) for bug-for-bug compatibility.
SUSE and Oracle
Oracle's press release (https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/)
Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/)
SUSE's statement (https://www.suse.com/c/navigating-changes-in-the-open-source-landscape/)
SUSE Liberty Linux (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/)
SUSE Manager (https://www.suse.com/products/suse-manager/)
More Announcements
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Browser Watch
Firefox 115 (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/115.0/releasenotes/) brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-1/) to use Bing Chat.
Edge blocks notification spam (https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2023/07/06/fighting-notification-spam-microsoft-edge/), now!
Opera is relaunching as Opera One (https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2023/06/introducing-opera-one/).
Feedback
Sebastian
SerenityOS (https://serenityos.org/)
Ladybird Browser (https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/)
Andreas Kling on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling)
Rich
Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management (https://github.com/greenbone)
Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts (http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php/)
Dan recommends Learn Linux TV (https://www.learnlinux.tv/)
If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.
Scout
HP Elite Mini 800 PCs (https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/business-solutions/elitedesk-800-mini)
Lenovo M75q Mini PCs (https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkCentre/ThinkCentre_M75q_Gen_2)
Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs (https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/desktop-computers/sr/desktops/optiplex-desktops/micro?appliedRefinements=41015)
The a11y project (https://www.a11yproject.com/)
Orca is part of Gnome (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Orca)
Other Gnome accessibility tools (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y.html)
KDE accessibility tools (https://userbase.kde.org/Applications/Accessibility)
Housekeeping
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App Focus Jerboa and Memmy
Jerboa in the Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa)
Jerboa in FDroid (https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jerboa)
Jerboa GitHub repo (https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa)
Memmy in the Apple store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/memmy-for-lemmy/id6450204299)
Memmy GitHub repo (https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy)
Next Time
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