Late Night Linux – Episode 74

Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more.

 

News

Software as a Service Dangers

Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts

Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week

Chromium will be a snap

ARM reacts to RISC-V

What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

 

 

KDE Korner

HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps, Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6

 

 

Admin

Come to OggCamp!

OggCamp panel questions

 

 

Campbell Barton from Blender

Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.

 

 

Digital Ocean

This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.

 

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.