Episode 14: The WOW Factor

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

New "Rough" TimelineFedora --> wait some years --> Centos Stream --> wait a few weeks --> RHEL

Rocky Linux

Project Lenix

Oracle Linux

Mozilla Watch...

Visual refresh meta bug AKA proton --> photonhttps://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

DanI 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.

LeoPine/Pi Moar Cores! Enthusiast server platform.

Firefox becomes a major player again. Nature abhors a monoculture.

JoeMy 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

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