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🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.

⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.

Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,

webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.

Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies

⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?

2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon

GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.

GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund

Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.

Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs

KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.

KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia

Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki

Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog

This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.

KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs

KDE neon Unstable downloads

KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear

nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.

Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.

Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube

nevoyu's Nix Config

International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.

Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube

KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube