Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.
News
With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative
LineageOS 20 released
The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton
[Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”]
[Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35]
2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
KDE Korner
Gear 22.12 (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01
Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes
& some holiday updates & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview
Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL
KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes!
Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023
Linode
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Kolide
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Entroware
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