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Which distro is best for friends and family? We have a unique take on this common question.
Plus new insights into the future of CentOS, and Chris falls in love with a 14-inch screamer.
Special Guest: Carl George.
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- The unanswered question at CentOS community Q&A: How can we trust you now? — The CentOS board conducted a public Q&A just ahead of last week's FOSDEM 2021 open source conference – and there was an awkward silence when someone asked whether changing the end-of-life (EOL) date for a released project is something that might happen again.
- Events/Dojo/FOSDEM2021 - CentOS Wiki
- CentOS Dojo 2021: Board of Directors - YouTube
- Ubuntu Backports a Major App Update to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS — Ubuntu 20.04 LTS shipped with Thunderbird 68.x but this version is no longer supported upstream. This leaves Ubuntu developers will a problem: backport individual security fixes to Thunderbird 68, or port the newer (and still-supported) Thunderbird 78 to LTS users?
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- Our first release of 2021 has arrived – EndeavourOS
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- Linux on Laptops: ASUS Zephyrus G14 with Ryzen 9 4900HS | Ars Technica
- AUR: snap-pac-grub — Pacman hook to update GRUB entries for grub-btrfs after snap-pac made snapshots.
- Feedback: Browser Sync
- xBrowserSync — Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free!
- Feedback: Gaming on Wayland
- A free, open-source future for Mailspring - Information - Mailspring Community — Today, I am excited to announce that I am open-sourcing mailsync - the C++11 core of Mailspring that performs email sync - under the same GPLv3 license used by the rest of the app, making Mailspring entirely free software.
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- Pick: bottom — Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, written in Rust.