# EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone.md Podcast: [Linux & Open Source News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837) Published: 2025-12-13T11:02:12+00:00 Episode link: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone Audio file: https://op3.dev/e,pg=e407bff5-dc32-54c1-b1a7-8edd8a885d8f/podcast.thelinuxexp.com/audio/@tlenewspodcast/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone.mp3 Processing state: processed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone Duration seconds: 1508 ## Resource πŸ’» Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, TuxedoπŸ’» https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# πŸ‘ Support the show here: πŸ‘ Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ πŸ‘• Buy TLE Merch: πŸ‘• https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ πŸ“Ή Watch Linux videos: πŸ“Ή https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment πŸŽ™οΈ Leave your feedback here: πŸŽ™οΈ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:38 France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-momentum-france/ 03:42 German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/ 05:52 Jolla launches new Linux smartphone https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/06/jolla-phone-launch-specs-price-sailfish-linux-os/ https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder 08:04 Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released https://system76.com/pop/ 11:14 KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/ 12:43 Proton launches Proton Sheets https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive 14:19 Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-yaru-theme-gnome-shell-changes 16:06 Ubuntu MATE and Unity won’t be LTS https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status 18:10 Major library goes unmaintained https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-becomes-officially-unmaintained/ 19:50 HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html 22:03 D7VK released for older, DX7 games https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.0-Rel… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.