• 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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• Official standings for a browser
• We strum some reverberations
• Focus on the HQ
• Focus on the sounds
• Forecast the future

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Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
2:05 Go to lus.sh
8:38 Fed Up with Ubuntu?
14:20 * Forced Snaps
21:24 * Ads in the Terminal
27:00 * Telemetry?!
29:42 * Ubuntu is Anti-Freedom?
32:21 * Maybe use Linux Mint
34:43 Browser Watch
34:57 * The Vivaldi Flatpak
39:49 * Vivaldi on iOS
42:54 * iOS May Go WebKit Free
47:53 Reverb Focus
48:05 * Ian
53:13 * Dan!
58:26 * TeamLinux01
1:03:16 Community Focus: SteamDeckHQ
1:10:54 Gentoo Focus #5
1:23:46 Next Time: Gnome History
1:26:54 Stinger

lus.sh

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• .sh is also the first two letters in "short"

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Why Do We Still Use Ubuntu?

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Browser Watch!

Vivaldi on Flatpak is Officially Unofficial

• Vivaldi Flatpak on Flathub
• OMGUbuntu coverage

Vivaldi is also on iOS

• Vivaldi is on iOS
• It has great features
• The Chromium devs are developing a Blink version for iOS
• Firefox devs are developing a Gecko version for iOS

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Reverb Focus

Ian comments on YouTube about Ed

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Dan commented about Xfce history, Manjaro and KDE Plasma

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TeamLinux01 wants to hear about Valve's Linux journey

• Thanks for the feedback. I think this might just be the push we needed to look into the history of Steam and Linux. We're both big fans so it makes sense.

Community Focus - Steamdeck HQ

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• Steamdeck HQ YouTube channel
• Steamdeck HQ on Mastodon

Gentoo Focus

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Next Time

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Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:40 The Wayland Soapbox
20:33 Browser Watch
46:27 Reverb Focus
1:12:02 Community Focus
1:14:46 Gentoo Focus
1:29:30 Next Time: CDE History!
1:31:50 Stinger

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Social Soapbox - Wayland

• Nate Graham's blog post - So let's talk about this Wayland thing
• The Wayland Protocol
• Wayland from the Arch Wiki
• Wayland from the Gentoo Wiki

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Browser Watch

• Vivaldi’s Open Letter — Microsoft DMA Compliance
• Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds
• It's time to ditch Chrome and fall in love with Firefox again.

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Reverb Focus

Stewie - Why GRUB?

• Gentoo Wiki - GRUB
• GRUB2 Gentoo Quick Start

Dai - Telemetry

• Fedora considers adding telemetry
• Fedora Wiki on the proposal
• Endless OS's optional telemetry

Ganome - Gentoo

• Switching to the Gnome Profile doesn't install Gnome but it is an important step.
• emerge --ask gnome-base/gnome is what installs the desktop.

Rene

• Wi-Fi Sheep
• RISC OS Developments Ltd
• RISC OS Open
• RISC OS Info
• RISC OS at Distrowatch
• Plan9 Foundation
• leepsvideo YouTube channel
• EasyOS

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Community Focus - Jorge Castro

• Jorge Castro
• Universal Blue
• Jorge at GitHub

Gentoo Focus

• Last time on LUS Streaming Live
  • FYI we do these live on Twitch the day after an episode is released.
• Gentoo MAKEOPTS jobs

Next Time

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• Browser Watch...ing!
• Some feedback, and a focus

The Video Podcast
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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

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• Lemmy
• The Linux User Space Lemmy instance
• feddit's community browser
• Another Lemmy explorer

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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.

2020

• December - CentOS Stream announced as the successor to CentOS Linux.
• an FAQ linked in the CentOS announcement about Stream

2021

• January - Red Hat announces more free RHEL.
• February - Brian Exelbierd noted on the Red Hat Developer site.
• March - Alma Linux 8.3 was released
• June - Rocky Linux followed with their 8.4 release

2022

• Red Hat was posting 15% revenue increases every quarter of the year.
• IBM, despite its projected 3900 person layoff was growing at similar rates.

2023

• April - Red Hat announement
• Ben Cotton and others were laid off.
• June - Red Hat announce that CentOS sources will no longer be on github
• Brian Exelbierd's post from February 2021 changed.
• Mike McGrath writes a clarification post
• Rocky Linux announces that they'll possibly be using the Universal Base Images
• July - Alma Linux no longer aims for bug-for-bug compatibility.

SUSE and Oracle

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• Oracle Linux
• SUSE's statement
• SUSE Liberty Linux
• SUSE Manager

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Browser Watch

• Firefox 115 brings hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs and more.
• Vivaldi 6.1 they found a way to use Bing Chat.
• Edge blocks notification spam, now!
• Opera is relaunching as Opera One.

Feedback

Sebastian

• SerenityOS
• Ladybird Browser
• Andreas Kling on YouTube

Rich

• Greenbone Open Source Vulnerability Management
• Leo recommends The Linux Commandline by Willian Shotts
• Dan recommends Learn Linux TV
• If there is something specific you want to know more about let us know.

Scout

• HP Elite Mini 800 PCs
• Lenovo M75q Mini PCs
• Dell OptiPlex Micro PCs
• The a11y project
• Orca is part of Gnome
• Other Gnome accessibility tools
• KDE accessibility tools

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Linux Matters Podcast

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App Focus Jerboa and Memmy

• Jerboa in the Google Play Store
• Jerboa in FDroid
• Jerboa GitHub repo
• Memmy in the Apple store
• Memmy GitHub repo

Next Time

The history of Debian, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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2. Let's get generous
3. Browser Watch!
4. So much feedback
5. Automated whack-a-mole

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:47 We're on TILvids
14:20 Johnny's Fundraising Drive!
22:19 Johnny's Distro Apocalypse
36:13 Mozilla Watch feat. Vivaldi
53:21 Feedback: furicle
53:52 Feedback: py
57:03 Feedback: georgh
1:02:18 Feedback: Anon
1:06:57 Feedback: Daniel
1:09:19 Community Focus: Techno Tim
1:13:16 App Focus: CrowdSec
1:22:24 Next Time: Gecko Linux
1:23:57 Stinger

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Feedback from Johnny

• Leo's pick for a project to support - Kdenlive
• Dan's pick for a project to support - FreshRSS
• Leo's pick if his top 3 distros went away - openSUSE Tumbleweed
• Dan's pick if his top 3 distros went away - Fedora

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Browser Watch

Mozilla

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  • Cache the World!
• Reflecting on a decade of anti-tracking

Vivaldi

• New web panel is enabled for Mastodon on Vivaldi's own Mastodon instance. tl;dr you can change it for any other Mastodon instance too.

More Feedback

History show possibilities.

• furicle on Mastodon

Have you tried BunsenLabs?

• py on Mastodon
• Leo has had an interest since "The end."

Emacs thoughts

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• Leo went down the Internet Rabbit Hole and suggests this video

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