In this episode of This Week in Linux (235), we cover exciting news: Raspberry Pi 5 Announced, Shorter LTS Kernel Maintenance, GNU’s 40th Anniversary, LINBIT, openSUSE’s Slowroll Distro & Survey, Mozilla Firefox 118 Released. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!
Chapters:
00:00 TWIL 235 Intro
00:32 Raspberry Pi 5 Announced – [ link ]
02:58 Shorter LTS Kernel Maintenance – [ link ]
04:25 GNU’s 40th Anniversary – [ link ]
05:33 LINBIT – [ linbit.com ]
06:57 openSUSE’s Slowroll Distro & Survey – [ link | link ]
08:22 Mozilla Firefox 118 Released – [ link ]
09:50 Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released – [ link ]
11:15 Google extends Chromebook lifespan to 10 years – [ link ]
12:46 KDE Plasma 6 Fundraiser – [ link ]
14:02 Porteus 5.01 Released – [ link ]
14:59 Outro
Happy Birthday, GNU
I think there’s even a release of Debian that uses Hurd as the kernel?
Raspberry Pi 5 and Plasma 6 are my fave news items for the week. I’ve actually been using Gnome desktop for probably close to a couple of years now, just to stay as close to defaults as possible when coding on Ubuntu LTS and just, consistency, I guess, even when switching to Debian for my personal use. I’m heavily in support of the KDE project in general, and still looking forward to resuming bug triaging on it, though was a little scared when the Qt licensing changed back in the Covid years. I am wondering if changes to Gtk on one hand, and licensing for Qt on the other, might open things up for Google’s Flutter. I think Canonical are already starting to use that as their default? I might have preferred WxWidgets at one time though I don’t think that’s been under much development for some time, unless I’m mistaken.
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