KDE has finally blessed us with the latest release of KDE Plasma and this isnt just any release but a massive megarelease as they call it. That’s right, KDE Plasma 6 is here! We also got some new distro releases from the privacy focused distro Tails, Tiny Core Linux and apparently one project is trying to see just how accessible coconuts can be. CIQ is in the news this week by making some controversial moves. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 KDE Plasma 6 Released – [link]
07:03 Tails 6.0 Released – [link]
09:14 Will CIQs Paid-Only Programs Hurt Rocky Linux? – [ciq blog, messmer blog, resf.org, resf faq, rockylinux.org]
18:57 Sponsored by Kasm – [link]
20:25 Tiny Core Linux 15 Released – [link]
21:50 Sway 1.9 Released – [link]
22:51 Accessible-Coconut 22.04.3 Released – [link]
24:42 HexChat 2.16.2 is the Latest & Final Release – [link]
26:32 Ardour 8.4 Open-Source DAW Released – [link]
28:26 Giada Loop Machine 1.0 Released – [link]
29:49 Outro
Sad news about HexChat. I’m comfortable with its interface and rely on its features. I don’t use it often, though. Installing Konversation to see if it has the same capabilities.
Thanks for this @MichaelTunnell! For me, best news of the week is that Accessibility focused Linux. I learned more about accessibility in the QE bootcamp I did recently and have long had an interest in it for KDE in particular. I have just upgraded to Plasma 6 and look forward to it. I’m not sure what’s going on with Rocky. As a sole developer I think RHEL would entitle me to a free licence; I’d also like to support CentOS Stream if able. Following both Alma and Rocky somewhat from their origins, for some reason my heart has always felt more inclined towards Alma from the two.
I haven’t used irc much. Just when I was about to start, a huge controversy started about freenode, I think it was, so I never got into it. Not sure what happened about all that either.
it is unfortunate but in my opinion, I think Konversation is better in pretty much every way but thats my use
yea Red Hat offers RHEL for free to individuals for us on up to 16 machines. It’s pretty great for small business as well as individuals.
Rocky is a bit of a mess in my opinion due to the way they promote and the real structure being much worse than Red Hat. Red Hat is public company vs Rocky which is a business owned by a single person, thats not better lol even their FAQ says he can do whatever he wants.
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