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

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)

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App Focus

Gnome Boxes
This episode's app: Gnome Boxes

• Boxes on flathub

Next Time

We discuss January's distro of the month, Solus

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