VSCode & MS Edge troubles, Fedora KDE might keep X11
Linux & Open Source News · Nick
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00:00 Intro
01:18 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed
04:32 Edge grabs Chrome’s browsing data without consent
https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature
9:04 Sponsor: SquareX
12:16 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40
15:47 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/
18:12 Wayland & Wine get big improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag
23:43 Red Hat’s licensing changes hurt their ecosystem
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches
26:41 Purism values itself at $75M
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M
30:07 Plasma 6 RC2 is out
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/
32:46 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024
40:15 Outro