Season 4 - Episode 8: Wrapped in Ethernet Cables

The return of the Heron • QT - fork it, maybe? • Phosh so big and pure • Foliate your ebooks • Deepin in beta • Lightly Lemur • Support Joe • Stay safe and eat scones

Chitchat

Mike: Used X2Go in anger 🖥️ and it was good

Shane: Dug out an old 🤳 OnePlus One. Still works fine! Going to test it with Ubuntu Touch. 👌

Conor My 5T is back after attempted /e/ install, thanks to 🐦 PowerShellOnLinux's help 📱

OneUI - not big fans 👎

News

The Heron 🖼️ is back (via omg! ubuntu!)

The Ubuntu startup sound 🔊 (YouTube)

NDISwrapper 🖧

QT might get forked 🍴 because the QT Company's possible releas changes. The QT Company responded with a extremely short blog post denying this. (via OSnews)

New GNOME Mobile Shell Mockups for bigger touch 👈 screens (via omg! ubuntu!)

The Phosh shell 🐚 from Purism.

📚 A great update to Foliate eBook reader (via omg! ubuntu!)

The 🦋 Deepin 20 Beta is out (via Forbes)

Ubuntu DDE with Ubuntu Store 🏪

System76 have a beautiful and light new Lemur 🐒 Pro laptop 💻 (via Forbes)

Shoutout

Well known Linux podcaster and community member Joe Ressington lost his consulting contract. The details are on his Twitter and in the latest Late Night Linux episode, but if you like to listen to Joe's podcasts, now would be a good time to support Late Night Linux's Patreon.

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