A New Endeavour | LINUX Unplugged 382

LINUX Unplugged Video

A problem that just kept getting worse and worse. What it was, and why it led us to "check in" on EndeavourOS.

Plus some important community news, handy picks, feedback, and more!

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• Cast Your Nominations for the 2020 Tuxies — Nominate your favorite projects (the term used loosely here) and devices for the 2020 Tuxies.
• ZaReason is Done. The Store is Closed. — As many have noticed, our product line has been getting smaller and our tech support has been slowing down to a crawl. Unfortunately, the pandemic has been the final KO blow. It has hit our little town hard and we have not been able to recover from it. As of Tuesday, 11/24/20 17:00 EST ZaReason is no longer in business.
• Hector Martin on Twitter — Help make Linux on Apple Silicon Macs a reality! Patreon is up! I’m pausing billing until I get $4k/mo of commitment, so you won’t be charged until there is enough momentum to make the project viable.
• marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs | Patreon
• OpenZFS 2.0 Released With Unified FreeBSD/Linux Support, Many New Features — OpenZFS 2.0 has been officially released! OpenZFS 2.0 marks a major step forward for open-source ZFS file-system support for what started out as ZFSOnLinux but is now OpenZFS with unified FreeBSD and Linux support.
• GNOME 40 Mutter Moves Input Work To A Separate Thread — An exciting addition for GNOME 40 is that the Mutter compositor will be punting the input work off to a separate CPU thread.
• GNOME Circle Officially Announced For Letting More Apps/Libraries “Join GNOME” — GNOME Circle is effectively lowering the barrier for allowing new applications and libraries to become part of the GNOME project.
• All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
• EndeavourOS — A terminal-centric distro with a dynamic and friendly community in its core.
• Feedback: Linode Linux Surprise
• Feedback: Black Friday?
• Feedback: What RF Ear Buds Does Chris Use?
• Amazon.com: Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound
• Feedback: Pro1 X Smartphone
• Pro1 X Smartphone Functionality, Choice & Control | Indiegogo — A keyboard smartphone purposely designed for functionality, running Android, Lineage or Ubuntu.
• Pick: Haruna Video Player — A Qt/QML video player built on top of libmpv.
• Pick: gallery-dl — gallery-dl is a command-line program to download image-galleries and -collections from several image hosting sites. It is a cross-platform tool with many configuration options and powerful filenaming capabilities.