{"podcast":{"title":"Linux & Open Source News","slug":"linux-open-source-news-5948837","podcast_index_feed_id":5948837,"rss_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast","image_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/media/podcasts/tlenewspodcast/cover_feed.png","author":"Nick","episode_count":175,"summary":"Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics. This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel. I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837"},"episode":{"title":"EU keeps moving to Open Source, New Linux smartphone","slug":"eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone","published_at":"2025-12-13T11:02:12+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837","url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone","audio_url":"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","summary":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 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/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ 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…","meta_description":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux &am…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1508,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/eu-keeps-moving-to-open-source-new-linux-smartphone.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}