
Episode 4:15: Fox, Socks, Inbox, Knox
03/18/24 • 93 min
Coming up in this episode
- Telemetry helps us all
- Immutability blues
- A correction or two
- And more feedback
📽️The video version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y04YTkEC5Y
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 The GOOD Telemetry
23:33 Gnome Classic & Friends
31:16 The Incredible Immutables
44:00 A Slight Correction
50:25 A Little Backstory
59:24 mintCast, CKP, FCWN & DHD
1:02:31 So Lightweight!
1:10:23 Another Dive into Notes
1:21:48 Fix GRUB, Add Color
1:29:49 Next Time
1:31:58 Stinger
🔥Warm up🔥
Dan Johansen in Matrix
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
Fragmentation? Not on My Watch!
Muesli from Matrix
- Gnome Classic
- Is it healthy co-opetition or fragmentation? Let us know.
- Secureblue
- beginning of the year
- BlueBuild
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
A quick correction
jensmander1223 on Youtube
The history of Dan and Leo
visamp from Matrix
- Leo and Dan both did Linux Spotlight Episodes with our former co-host Rocco. Dan's episode and Leo's
- We plan to drop some more tidbits in the not too distant future.
Peter Jones
- Thanks for the support and for listening.
- Mintcast
- Crowbar Kernel Panic
- Full Circle Weekly
Emiliano from Argentina
- Thanks for the message, the Spanish test and the support.
QOwnNotes & Joplin
Scott
Another Vote for Obsidian. Then Anki, RemNote and LogSeq
DesertDoug
- Doug searched long and hard recently for a note taking app too. Doug bumped into Obsidian, Anki, RemNote and Logseq.
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
Coming up in this episode
- Telemetry helps us all
- Immutability blues
- A correction or two
- And more feedback
📽️The video version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y04YTkEC5Y
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 The GOOD Telemetry
23:33 Gnome Classic & Friends
31:16 The Incredible Immutables
44:00 A Slight Correction
50:25 A Little Backstory
59:24 mintCast, CKP, FCWN & DHD
1:02:31 So Lightweight!
1:10:23 Another Dive into Notes
1:21:48 Fix GRUB, Add Color
1:29:49 Next Time
1:31:58 Stinger
🔥Warm up🔥
Dan Johansen in Matrix
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
Fragmentation? Not on My Watch!
Muesli from Matrix
- Gnome Classic
- Is it healthy co-opetition or fragmentation? Let us know.
- Secureblue
- beginning of the year
- BlueBuild
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
A quick correction
jensmander1223 on Youtube
The history of Dan and Leo
visamp from Matrix
- Leo and Dan both did Linux Spotlight Episodes with our former co-host Rocco. Dan's episode and Leo's
- We plan to drop some more tidbits in the not too distant future.
Peter Jones
- Thanks for the support and for listening.
- Mintcast
- Crowbar Kernel Panic
- Full Circle Weekly
Emiliano from Argentina
- Thanks for the message, the Spanish test and the support.
QOwnNotes & Joplin
Scott
Another Vote for Obsidian. Then Anki, RemNote and LogSeq
DesertDoug
- Doug searched long and hard recently for a note taking app too. Doug bumped into Obsidian, Anki, RemNote and Logseq.
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
Previous Episode

Episode 4:14: Spill the Tea
Coming up in this episode
- The AI Revolution is Coming
- The History of MATE
- We Read the Tea Leaves
- Then Look to Lighten the Load
The Video
https://youtu.be/rKEIwDb1R9Q
0:00 Cold Open
4:09 Embrace the AI Overlords
21:45 The History of MATE
42:22 How Is MATE?
1:05:16 Next Time
1:07:51 Stinger
Preshow - The Computer Shopper
- Dan is sitting on a gold mine with his collection of Computer Shoppers
🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
The History of Mate
- The first MATE org blogpost
- The initial Arch Linux forum post
- Perberos described the fork as...
- Phoronix August 2011
- ingeek 2011
- Perberos attempted to grow the community on the Ubuntu forums and Linux Mint forums
- Perberos, Clement Lefebvre, Stefano Karapetsas, and Steve Zesch were the founders.
- The initial migration script
- Salix had been one of the very first distributions to headline MATE
- The GNOME team created GNOME Flashback
- MATE University
- GhostBSD features the Mate desktop
- By the end of the year and into 2014, MATE was officially available in Arch, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Sabayon, Salix and Ubuntu.
- Stefano Karapestas stepped up to lead the team.
- Clem had his part-ownership of MATE removed. He had this to say
- The big scoop MATE 1.28 and1.28.1 were recently released!
More 📣Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch all the great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord or Lemmy.
Next Episode

Episode 4:16: Super PCMan
Coming up in this episode
- Themes Are More Global Than You Think
- Kdenlive Does Some Layering
- The History of LXDE
- To Qt, or not to Qt?
- Then, we call an audible
0:00 Cold Open
2:17 Theme of the Crop
16:22 The Lost Edit
28:11 The History of LXDE
55:51 How'd LXQt and LXDE Go?
1:24:28 Next Time
1:31:13 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/Y8_rMTmnIXc
🔥Warm Up🔥 - AI on the Linux Desktop
KDE's Attack Surface?
Kdenlive gave Leo a hard time
- 24.02.0 was hot off the press and Leo couldn't resist.
- Thankfully 24.02.1 followed to hopefully resolve the issues.
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
The History of LXDE (and some LXQt)
- The LXDE mailing list goes back to 2008
- Ubuntu Lite
- later known as U-lite commited to using LXDE.
- DesktopLinux.com coverage
- Elemental Linux, MoonOS and WattOS followed with a commitment
- A PCManFM review from 2008
- The blog appears
- December 2008 status update
- Sidux adds an unofficial LXDE flavor
- Mandriva adds LXDE
- Fedora too
- LXDE Translation project
- PCMan asks the community for feedback
- FOSDEM 2009
- Lubuntu enters the chat
- LXDE on android phones
- LXDE on Solaris
- LXDE in Centos
- PCLXDE
- First Lubuntu test ISO
- Fedora success
- OpenSUSE status update
- Refactor time
- Rewrite, and make it faster
- ...
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