Episode 14: The WOW Factor

Coming up in this episode
1. XFace gets a new face
2. CentOS rocks your world
3. Mozilla Watch
4. We wish upon a star
5. And we think inside the box
Preshow
Wowstick 1F on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Wowstick-Electric-Screwdriver-Cordless-Lithium-ion/dp/B07H27G9NF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=wowstick&qid=1609986722&sr=8-4)
XFCE 4.14 --> 4.16
Official Announcement (https://www.xfce.org/about/news/?post=1608595200)
Official Tour, highlighting the new color palette (https://www.xfce.org/about/tour416)
https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-16-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
TL;DR - Fractional scaling. New Icons. Cleaned up dialogs and settings menus.
CentOS Linux announcement
CentOS (https://www.centos.org)
Official Announcement (https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/)
Old "Rough" Timeline
Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL --> wait some more time --> Centos
New "Rough" Timeline
Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL
Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org)
Project Lenix (https://www.projectlenix.org/)
Oracle Linux (https://www.oracle.com/linux/)
Mozilla Watch...
Visual refresh meta bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=proton) AKA proton --> photon
https://www.techradar.com/news/get-ready-for-a-radical-firefox-redesign
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton/
Wishlist for 2021
Dan
I think the Pine 64 future (https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pinephone-ce-and-a-peek-into-the-future/) looks good. My wish is that the time frame is closer to the 6 month range for the next gen stuff to start to materialize.
Intel gets their new graphics stack rolled out for laptops.
Leo
Pine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform.
Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture.
Joe
My long suffering 4k laptop screen woes remedied (installers that support Hidpi)
RPi sata or M.2 ports (even MMC)
Housekeeping
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App Focus
Gnome Boxes
This episode's app: Gnome Boxes (https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-boxes/stable/)
Boxes on flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Boxes)
Next Time
We discuss January's distro of the month, Solus (https://getsol.us)
Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Coming up in this episode

XFace gets a new face
CentOS rocks your world
Mozilla Watch
We wish upon a star
And we think inside the box

Preshow

Wowstick 1F on Amazon

XFCE 4.14 --> 4.16

Official Announcement
Official Tour, highlighting the new color palette
https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-16-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
TL;DR - Fractional scaling. New Icons. Cleaned up dialogs and settings menus.

CentOS Linux announcement

CentOS
Official Announcement
Old "Rough" Timeline

Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL --> wait some more time --> Centos

New "Rough" Timeline

Fedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL

Rocky Linux
Project Lenix
Oracle Linux

Mozilla Watch...

Visual refresh meta bug AKA proton --> photon

https://www.techradar.com/news/get-ready-for-a-radical-firefox-redesign
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/01/02/mozilla-is-working-on-a-firefox-design-refresh/
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/01/firefox-proton/

Wishlist for 2021

Dan

I think the Pine 64 future looks good. My wish is that the time frame is closer to the 6 month range for the next gen stuff to start to materialize.
Intel gets their new graphics stack rolled out for laptops.

Leo

Pine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform.
Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture.

Joe

My long suffering 4k laptop screen woes remedied (installers that support Hidpi)
RPi sata or M.2 ports (even MMC)

Housekeeping

Email us

SANS Internet Stormcast

Support us at Patreon

Join us on Telegram

Follow us on twitter

Check out Linux User Space on the web

App Focus

Gnome Boxes

This episode's app: Gnome Boxes

Boxes on flathub

Next Time

We discuss January's distro of the month, Solus

Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Support Linux User Space