Linux Unplugged - Is Plasma Getting a Second Rate Implementation?

Brent has been on a bug-finding marathon. We review what he's discovered and share some hard-learned lessons.

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Links:

• Pull Request #378 by DECbot — "JB is live!" indicator - on page load, call the script to highlight the #livebutton red if jupiter.tube is live
• NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions — SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions.
• Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup
• West Coast Crew Matrix Room
• Submit Your Baller Boost Jingles
• Fountain 0.4.8 - Referrals, Search Editorial and Other Improvements
• Fountain.fm Charts
• KDE Official Response to creation of GNOME Foundation (2000)
• Report: Default Desktop Environments for Linux and Unix
• How Much Does KDE Pay Developers?
• KDE Issue Reporting Guidelines - Have Realistic Expectations
• KDE neon
• Plasma Activities
• All bugs submitted by Brent during Kubuntu Jammy beta testing
• Firefox icon missing from panel following Kubuntu upgrade 20.04->22.04
• kdesu fails to authenticate with sudo from Jammy
• KDE Issue Reporting
• Fedora Workstation bug - Kate
• Fedora Workstation bug - Network - gnome-control-centre
• Fedora Workstation bug - Guake
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