• Syncing the Notes
• The History of Snaps
• And How Much We Absolutely Adore Them

0:00 Cold Open
1:34 Seeking Syncthing
16:42 The History of Snaps
33:52 How'd 9 Years of Snaps Go?
1:01:54 Next Time
1:04:49 Stinger

The Video Version
https://youtu.be/izDzKkuEyRw

It is all about the notes

• Leo goes back to basics and uses SyncThing to move his markdown files around that he edits using a standard text editor.

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The history of snap packages

• Ubuntu's convergence promise.
• Click apps
• Snappy Ubuntu
• Click apps and Snappy apps share update technology.
• Snappy Ubuntu Core was available
• Snapcraft was released as version 2.0.
• Snaps were now available to everyone.
• Mozilla chimed in with their support.
• Snap expanded its compatibility to the likes of Arch and Fedora.
• xdg-app rebrands as Flatpak as a Snap competitor.
• Unity 8 and Snaps were expected for 18.04
• The backporting of Snaps to 14.04 was a success.
• Fedora saw that promised Snap support land.
• Mark Shuttleworth made a game changing announcement.
• An effort to slim down the size of Gnome apps succeeded.
• The first Snap-installed-by-default shipped with Ubuntu MATE 17.10.
• The drumbeat of Snaps-installed-by-default got louder.
• Mozilla authors their own Snap package.
• Snap devs finally started their efforts to slim down the startup times.
• Canonical's announcement that Chromium would switch to a Snap.
• Linux Mint forges their own path. Additionally, they blocked the snapd backend.
• The dev team speeds startup times further.
• Snaps killed their 32-bit support.
• Mozilla Firefox would now also be snap-only.
• The introduction of modularity.
• More LZO compression
• Mozilla Firefox improves
• Ubuntu Flavors no longer seed the Flatpak backend
• More rumblings about the all snap Ubuntu.
• Those rumblings were squashed.
• Snap compatibility get stronger
• KDE Plasma desktop sees Snap support.
• more drivers are Snapped.
• Some exploits and maybe a few flaws.

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Extra Snap Resources

• Click Apps
• Snappy Ubuntu!
• Snappy security
• It's a Snap
• Ubuntu 15.10 might have a Snappy Personal spin?
• Shortly after, Mozilla said Firefox will support the Snap package format
• Debs aren't going anywhere...
• xdg-portal and snap collab?
• Snap store
• Another Chromium push
• LZO compression time and
• Snapcraft changes
• April - Ubuntu Won't Support Flatpak
• Mozilla's snap pushes back 22.04.1
• Firefox Snap Performance part 1
• Firefox Snap Performance part 2
• 50% reduction in start time for Firefox Snap
• Flapak is out, Snap is still in
• An immutable Snap desktop? and also
• Malicious Snap Apps
• Thunderbird
• Another Exploit
• And another?
• Better Cross Distro Support

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• Notating the Notes
• The History of KDE
• And Plasma, Straight from the Tap

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 A Note on Notes
22:52 The History of KDE
28:29 History: KDE 1
30:42 History: KDE 2
33:03 History: KDE 3
36:21 History: KDE 4
45:36 History: Plasma 5
51:34 History: Plasma 6
53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide)
1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE
1:27:37 Stinger

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🔥Warm Up🔥

• Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle.
• Eric mentioned MarkText and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that.
• Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes.

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The History of KDE

• The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all.
• KDE ONE
• K Desktop Environment first real beta release.
• Beta 1 Screenshots
• KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998.
• 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KFM turned into Konqueror.
• Konqi
• KDE 2.0
• KDE 2.1
• In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released.
• 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".
• 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• April 8, 2005 Kubuntu.
• KDE 3.5
• KDE Four Core Meeting
• KDE 4
• Oxygen
• 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
• Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation".
• November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now.
• Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment.
• KDE SC 4.5.
• October 2010, an official split from KOffice
• Plasma Active
• KDE Manifesto
• December 2012, a redesigned Konqi.
• KDE release structure changed.
• KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series.
• Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
• 2015 Wayland enters the room.
• Plasma Mobile
• Plasma Bigscreen
• KDE Neon
• Slimbook
• KDE Plasma is chosen for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode!
• The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab and Matrix.
• The first release candidate for Plasma 6
• Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024.

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