Ubuntu 20.04 Beta is ready for public consumption! Firefox comes to Flathub, open-source speed tests, and Qt throws the KDE community a curveball.
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Timestamps:
09:36 Ubuntu 20.04 Beta
13:31 QT vs KDE
18:41 LibreSpeed
22:06 Firefox Flatpack
26:06 PinePhone UBports edition
29:31 Nova King interview
40:58 X86 Pi
47:03 Emails
- Wonderful, it is so nice to have an open source internet speed test that is accurate and without all the fluff!
- It will be nice if more server locations are set up, and a bit closer to where some of us live.
- The Las Vegas location did my speed accurate, 300Mbps symmetric, but my ping was much higher than my usual 2 or 3.
- The code is there if you want to use it.
- Don’t think of the site as a real speed test.
- The reports vary widely by server.
- On the Paris one it defaults to for me, I got 30Mbps down and 9 up.
- On the Germany server I got 198Mbps down and 23 up.
Q stands for Proprietary (RTheren)
- The QT company – you know, the ones who restricted LTS releases to paid subscribers only – have threatened to delay the open sauceness of future QT code by 12 months unless KDE and the Free Qt communities make other concessions.
- KDE person Olaf points out that that change to the LTS license came despite ongoing negotiations.
- Clearly the Qt company wants max short term revenue, and doesn’t seem to realise what will happen if they pull this.
- What will happen is all the businesses who license it will go on like nothing happened.
- If everyone and I mean everyone didn’t immediately start on “Plan-B” in January, KDE leadership has problems.
- That’s easy for me to say after the fact, so I said the same thing back in January when the Qt project made the announcement.
- Might need to revisit the “We can’t fork Qt” argument.
- Somewhere a Miguel de Icaza is saying “told ya”.
- I am having a lot of fun testing the beta release.
- Gnome 3.36 is faster and more polished, and there is a new dark mode setting!
- I also like the do not disturb mode to silence annoying push notifications.
- This is a feature that Wimpy had included with Ubuntu Mate and brought over to Ubuntu main.
- I am also looking forward to upgrading my broadcasting rig to Ubuntu Mate 20.04, which also includes better HiDPI support.
- Martin Wimpress and Alan Pope would love everyone to beta test and file bug reports.
- I’ve been using Ubuntu MATE 20.04 on the laptop since the Alpha.
- It works pretty well!
- This is exciting!
- Sandman just ordered one, and I am looking forward to hearing his thoughts on it, especially since he has helped with the development of UBports.
- “The PinePhone UBports Community Edition ships with a customized case (etched with the project’s mascot – Yumi), a revised PCB (v1.2) featuring improvements based on feedback from Braveheart developers and testers, as well as CE and FCC certification.“
- I too will wait to hear from Sandy.
- Much like the Pinebook Pro, it looks neat but not £money neat.
Firefox stable releases now available on Flathub
- Now that’s how you sandbox.
- Good!
- Now I just wish there were officially supported Firefox AppImages as well.
Nova Kin init
- SCaLE 18x interview with Nova King with an update on his project.
Slice of Pi
- I am legit curious what I can make one of these do.
- Something like a turn-key DAW is not out of the question.
- Neither is making one into a back Hoptiplex.
- It has been really nice to see more x86 chip SBCs being built.
- But as a result, a large heatsink with a fan is included, to cool down that Celeron and memory.
- Having dual gigabit ethernet ports is awesome for a wide variety of applications, including as a router, server, edge device etc.
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