LWDW 289: 30 Years Of Mispronouncing LINUX

Linux turns 30! Mate 1.26 flirts with Wayland, hacking the AVID Eleven Rack, shouty XFCE desktops, and a POS Pi.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
08:20 Linux turns 30
12:35 MauiKit Frameworks and Maui Apps
16:50 Mate 1.26
20:05 Tenacity updates
23:10 Hacking the Eleven Rack
27:25 Evolution of the Linux desktop
36:50 Shouty XFCE with TwisterOS
44:40 A real POS Pi

30 Years of Linux

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3630374/linux-turns-30.html

So exciting! 30 years ago today, on August 25th,1991 Linux was born!!! \:-D/
It was on that date that 21-year-old Finnish student Linus Benedict Torvalds made his now-famous announcement on the comp.os.minix news group:
- “Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”
Happy 30th Birthday to Linux!
30 years of dominating basically everything except the desktop.
We are the hipsters.
This article starts off right by burning up the GPL and how instrumental it was to the success of Linux.
Linux has been big business for almost two decades and it has been fun watching the different uses people have come up with.
It dominates the supercomputer world, with 100 per cent market share.
It is even used more than Microsoft Windows on Microsoft’s own Azure cloud.
Desktop, not so much, we are the misfits, we are the +/- 3%.
Gaming has been sorted for the mostpart but we still need to dumb down the audio bits so Windows desktop experts can figure out how to use them.

Vvave 2

https://nxos.org/maui/maui-2-release/

Maui2 is the new stable version of the NXOS frontend framework.
The point seems to be to allow the one bit of software with that frontend to scale and transform correctly when it’s displayed on different devices/screens.
So you would have the one codebase for both the desktop and mobile releases of your software.
I have enjoyed the Debian based Nitrux OS, and their NX Desktop overlay on KDE Plasma and MauiKit apps.
I really like the Maui Index file manager.
It is so easy to bookmark folders, select multiple files from different locations, and how it previews files and shows their info.
Maui is what exactly, a KDE replacement that requires KDE?
I see plenty of apps so I’m guessing it’s more than that.
Does this do a better job keeping things sane between mobile & desktop?

MATE 1.26

https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2021-08-08-mate-1-26-released/

Yeh, after 18 month of development, the Mate 1.26 Desktop has been released with lots of new features, updated apps and initial Wayland support.
The Caja file manager has been updated and includes:
- Support for formatting disk drives from the context menu.
- And a new Bookmarks sidebar.
The Power Manager component offers users a new option to enable keyboard dimming.
And the Display dialog has a new option for display scaling.
And the new Mate 1.26 will probably be included by default in the upcoming Ubuntu MATE 21.10 Impish Indri release.
Speed calculator!
Now with vastly improved integer factorization speed and recent computation history.
Sorted some memory leaks in the screensaver.

Tenacity cmake ..

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/90#issuecomment-901585714

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/blob/master/BUILDING.md

It requires wxWidgets 3.1 and Debian 11 shipped with 3.0.
Not going to tango with that.
Replace libjack-dev with libjack-jackd2-dev as a dependency.
Nobody should be running Jack1 unless they have a specific reason.
Still, good on them for cleaning up the build system and updating the documentation.
Will make it easier to package.
I guess this is the popular fork?
Previous maintainer got 4chan’ed, so this must be the popular fork.
Looking forward to the stable binary, so I can use it as an alternative to Audacity.

AVID Eleven Rack

https://sites.google.com/site/elevenhack

The Eleven Rack is a “vintage” Amp modeler from AVID.
2009 counts as vintage now, right?
These things were £899 back in the day but in 2021 you can pick on up for $200 ish.
This will let you load hundreds of presets from other users.
You can often find these NIB because (like the MBOX) for a time it was a cheap way to get protools.

Linux evolution

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-evolution-of-linux-on-the-desktop-distributions-are-so-much-better-today/

Wow, I have been using Linux for 28 years thanks to installing lots of Slackware floppy disks!
And so true Jack Wallen, the Linux desktop has come a long way, but I still rock classic Window Maker, Blackbox, and Enlightenment on my desktop!
And I love the modern productivity takes on Mate and Pop!_OS COSMIC!
I read this article and I remembered Ross Scott’s GUI video, which makes the argument that the old GUI design was much better.
Honestly, I’m glad GNOME is not the sole dominant DE anymore.
GNOME 3 was the best thing that ever happened to the DE development scene
Except for GNOME, itself. For that one, GNOME 3 was the proverbial straw that broke its domineering back.
There is a much bigger need for an alternative and that has promoted the development of the other DEs.
I like to think we have a healthier development now.
If nothing else, this gives me more ammunition to snark all over stuff.
The Linux desktop was perfected in 1996.
Thank you for attending my TED talk.
I will not be taking questions.

Slice of Pi

XFC-Shouty

https://twisteros.com/

I was made aware of this from a video from Explaining Computers
You can install the UI standalone on x86 for Ubuntu XFCE variants like Xubuntu or Mint XFCE.
Also available on Manjaro XFCE X86_64
But you can also get the complete OS image for the Raspberry Pi and other ARM SOCs.
They even link to cutesy Pi cases: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EsotericAvenue
Great find Pedro! I had heard of Twister OS, but didn’t know about the Twister UI until you posted it in our Discord chat.
And like a lot of good distros, Lutris is installed by default, and you can run it on your Pi via the x86 emulator Box86 that is preinstalled.
Also includes CommanderPi for easy overclocking of your Single Board Computer.
Just installed the Twister UI and love it.
Next I am going to install Twister OS on my Raspberry Pi 400!
What have you done to mah boy!?
Box86 I get but help me with the logic of Lutris on a Pi.