Shows and Videos: KaOS, Openbox, and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 25, 2023,
updated Feb 25, 2023

• mintCast 406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener

  First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

  In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

  Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

  In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

• Hackaday Podcast 207: Modular Furniture, Plastic Prosthetics, And Your Data On YouTube

  Join Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi as they explore the best and most interesting stories from the last week. The top story if of course the possibility that at least some of the unidentified flying objects the US Air Force valiantly shot down were in fact the work of amateur radio enthusiasts, but a quantitative comparison of NASA’s SLS mega-rocket to that of popular breakfast cereals is certainly worth a mention as well.

• How to install KaOS 2023.02 - Invidious

  In this video, I am going to show how to install KaOS 2023.02.

• Athena OS 2023.02.20 overview | a Arch Linux-based distro focused on Cybersecurity - Invidious

  In this video, I am going to show an overview of Athena OS 2023.02.20 and some of the applications pre-installed.

• How to install Viber on Linux Lite 6.2 - Invidious

  In this video, we are looking at how to install Viber on Linux Lite 6.2.

• Openbox Was My First Window Manager (It's Still Great!) - Invidious

  The very first standalone window manager that I ever used was Openbox. That was about 15 years ago, but I have used Openbox off-and-on several times of those years. But not recently. So today, I'm revisiting my old Openbox configs that I haven't tried out in probably 4 or 5 years.

• This Wayland Change Will Improve Linux Forever - Invidious

  One of the most devastating things to happen to your Linux desktop is it crashing it making you lose all of your unsaved work but there is a change in progress to Wayland to fix that.