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VSCode & MS Edge troubles, Fedora KDE might keep X11

2024/2/3
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00:00 Intro

01:18 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed)

04:32 Edge grabs Chrome’s browsing data without consent

https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature)

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12:16 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40)

15:47 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/)

18:12 Wayland & Wine get big improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation)

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag)

23:43 Red Hat’s licensing changes hurt their ecosystem

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches)

26:41 Purism values itself at $75M

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M)

30:07 Plasma 6 RC2 is out

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/)

32:46 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released)

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024)

40:15 Outro

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