IRC is Dead | LINUX Unplugged 340

The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right.

And a bunch of community news, app picks, and much more.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Daniel Fore, and Dusty Mabe.

Links:

• KDE Plasma 5.18: More Convenient and with Long Term Stability - KDE.org
• What’s New in KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS? - OMG! Ubuntu!
• System76 Launches Impressive Line Of Thelio Major Linux Workstations Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper - Including The 3990X - Phoronix
• oreboot: oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.
• Rust's Freedom Flaws
• FS#736 - [rust][cargo] trademark agreement affects user freedom
• AppCenter for Everyone | Indiegogo
• Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Our Accidental Home Base — Work, Life, and RV Podcast
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram
• PDP-7
• FOSDEM 2020 - Events
• FOSDEM 2020 - Interview with James Bottomley - The Selfish Contributor Explained
• FOSDEM 2020 - The next generation of contributors is not on IRC
• FOSDEM 2020 - The Hidden Early History of Unix
• FOSDEM 2020 - Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?
• FOSDEM 2020 - How Containers and Kubernetes re-defined the GNU/Linux Operating System
• The Meteoric Rise Of Fwupd+LVFS For Linux Firmware Updates - Phoronix
• hollywood.computer: multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
• shairport-sync: AirPlay audio player. Shairport Sync adds multi-room capability with Audio Synchronisation