Linux Action News 145

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 18:45:00 -0800

The week was packed with major project releases, we go through each of them and tell you what stands out.

Plus an update from Essential, and NetBSD's first big ask in ten years.

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KDE Plasma 5.18 Released
KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Released, This is What's New
MATE 1.24 released
OpenShot 2.5.0 Released — Perhaps one of the most exciting changes in OpenShot 2.5.0 is our experimental support for hardware acceleration.
OpenShot Video Editor Just Got a Massive Update
Firefox 73.0 Released — Today’s Firefox release includes two features that help users view and read website content more easily, quickly.
Firefox ESR 68.5.0 Released
Tor Browser 9.0.5 Released — This release updates Firefox to 68.5.0esr, NoScript to 11.0.13, and on desktop, Tor to 0.4.2.6. We also added a new default bridge and backported a few improvements from the alpha series.
Tails 4.3 is out
An Update from Essential — We have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential.
Essential, Andy Rubin’s phone company, is shutting down
Andy Rubin’s smartphone startup, Essential, is dead
After just one phone, Essential Products ends
NetBSD fundraiser — We are trying to raise $50,000 in 2020
NetBSD 9.0 Released

Linux Action News 137

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 12:00:00 -0800

Canonical releases a "mini-cloud" on your workstation, the KDE ecosystem has some big news, and the smart home might have just become more open.

Plus Firefox's new DoH partner, and signs of life from the Atari VCS.

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Firefox adds 2nd DoH partner — Program Committing to Data Retention and Transparency Requirements that Respect User Privacy
Apple, Google, and Amazon are teaming up to develop an open-source smart home standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Ikea previews its improved 2020 smart home experience
Z-Wave is making a huge change so it doesn’t get left behind in the smart home wars - The Verge — It’s turning into a fully open standard, according to Silicon Labs.
Canonical Releases Multipass 1.0 As "A Mini-Cloud On Your Workstation" — "a mini-cloud on your workstation using native hypervisors of all the supported plaforms (Windows, macOS and Linux), it will give you an Ubuntu command line in just a click ("Open shell") or a simple multipass shell command, or even a keyboard shortcut."
Krita Receives Epic MegaGrant — Epic, the makers of the Unreal game engine, have supported Krita with a $25,000 MegaGrant
A Kubuntu-Powered Laptop Is Launching In 2020 For High-End KDE Computing — A Kubuntu laptop is launching soon that is aiming for a high-end Linux laptop experience atop the KDE flavor of Ubuntu.
KDE Launch Video & Wallpaper Competitions with Linux PCs as Prizes
Guidance for Atari VCS Content Developers — Initial procedures announced for more independent game and app developers to start creating and planning now for earning a place in the Atari VCS storefront.