[09:40] schestowitz[TR2][09:40] schestowitz[TR2]Rough start. Very much so. A time travel back into the past, but not in a good way, if you will. I was not very happy the first time I tried Kubuntu 24.04. The distro felt extremely unpolished. Just a few weeks later, the distro had a major update, and along the way, a good few dozen bugs and issues went away. Rather quickly, Kubuntu became reasonably pleasant to use. You could say, just w [09:40] schestowitz[TR2] ait a few months. Or you could say, don't release the distro when it's not ready, just wait a few months. 24.07 or 24.09 sounds just as good as any other sequence of numbers, as long as the user experience is great. No one ever said, oh, I don't want to use that particular version, the numbers are all wrong.
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[10:35] schestowitz[TR2][10:35] schestowitz[TR2]While an immutable desktop edition will be new for Canonical, it isn't being built entirely from the ground up. It will be based on the company's existing Ubuntu Core product. Core 24 shipped in June, and we previously took a high-level look at the previous release, Core 22.
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[11:37] schestowitz[TR2][11:37] schestowitz[TR2]Fedora 41 was recently released, capturing much of the attention, as expected. However, the new Atomic Desktops brand comes alongside it, which unifies all of Fedoras rpm-ostree-based (immutable) spins under one umbrella and introduces several exciting updates in its version 41. So, lets take a look at whats new.
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[11:52] schestowitz[TR2][11:52] schestowitz[TR2]The most notable addition in the new release is the introduction of Wayland sessions through its new component, lxqt-wayland-session. And guess what? LXQt now supports seven different Wayland compositors, including Labwc, KWin, Wayfire, Hyprland, Sway, River, and Niri.
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[11:52] schestowitz[TR2][11:52] schestowitz[TR2]Two weeks after its previous 6.2.2 release, the KDE team rolled out a new bugfix update to its Plasma 6.2 series, version 6.2.3. While generally small, these bug fixes improve system stability and usability.
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[11:53] schestowitz[TR2][11:53] schestowitz[TR2]OPC Unified Architecture OPC UA in short is a cross-platform, open-source machine-to-machine communication protocol for industrial automation. It was developed by the Open Platform Communications (OPC) Foundation and is defined in detail in the IEC 62541 standard.
[11:53] schestowitz[TR2]With the release of the Arduino_OPC_UA library we enable users to convert any product from our Arduino Opta range into an OPC UA-enabled device.
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[11:56] schestowitz[TR2][11:56] schestowitz[TR2]November 6, 2024, marks the end of the 20th anniversary year for the Inkscape project, and the beginning of a new decade of adventure. There were a few milestones this past year, among them an informal global celebration, a bug-fix program, an About Screen Contest, an Inkscape Summit, a summer of code, and the launch of version 1.4.
[11:56] schestowitz[TR2]Heres a brief look at some of those milestones: [...]
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[11:57] schestowitz[TR2][11:57] schestowitz[TR2]Inkscape is a professional solution for creating beautiful and scalable vector graphics. The best part is that its completely free, open-source software that gives you the tools to design all sorts of visualslogos, illustrations, icons, maps, and morewithout needing to spend a dime on expensive software.
[11:57] schestowitz[TR2]Today marks the incredible 21st anniversary of this amazing software, and we cant miss out. But before we go any further, wed like to introduce our readers to the story behind its creation briefly.
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[11:57] schestowitz[TR2][11:57] schestowitz[TR2]Immich, an open-source, self-hosted photo and video backup solution, has reached an impressive milestone: 50,000 stars on GitHub. To celebrate, the devs released a new v1.120, packed with new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements. Here they are.
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