Season 2 - Episode 5: Binary Addition

With Mark from the Binary Times. Disco Dingo wallpaper • New Gnome • Nginx sold • Librem 5 kill switches • Maru OS new release • OS for the Pinebook Pro • Discussion on user interfaces. Make carrots, not sticks.

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Small Talk

KDE Neon • Linux Mint • PAVU Control • AVLinux • Python copy

News

New 19.04 Official Wallpaper.🎴 Alternatively, there is Sylvia Ritter's beautiful creation. Compiz Cube and wobbly windows YouTube video

New Gnome 3.32 released. It comes with fractional scaling, control over app permissions, new icon set and improved Adwaita, emoji in the on-screen keyboard

Nginx sold for $670.000.000 (about €590.000.000) to F5, a cloud infrastructure company. 🌍 Web server market share.

Librem 5 📱to have 3 hardware kill switches and a lockdown mode. Google knows where you have been

Maru OS has a new release enabling new devices.

A new video shows a community built desktop OS for the upcoming 💻 Pinebook Pro

Discussion: User Interfaces

A discussion of different approaches to user interfaces and their application. Some examples:

GUI vs CLI: PAMAC • Krusader • ⌨️ Dolphin • Make Love, Not Warcraft 🖱

Headerbars: Ubuntu window buttons went to the left and back • Mac-like touchpad gestures

Launchers: Ulauncher • Wox launcher • Whisker Menu • KRunner

Dark v bright themes:🌞 🌝 Solarized light/dark for Vim • Arc theme • Kubuntu 18.04

Desktop icons: yes or no?

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Attribution

The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.