LAN 117: Linux Action News 117¶

About this episode¶

Manjaro's news starts us off and leads us into a bigger philosophical question about open source development.

Manjaro to ship FreeOffice by default — We will ship FreeOffice by default. This is possible since we partnered up with Softmaker. Enjoy the best compatibility to MS Office.
Manjaro backtracks — Manjaro will not be installing FreeOffice by default.
GNOME and KDE to co-host the Linux App Summit in November — The GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. are proud to announce Linux App Summit 2019. The Linux App Summit will be held in Barcelona from November 12th to 15th, 2019.
An update on Android for search providers in Europe — Next year, we'll introduce a new way for Android users to select a search provider to power a search box on their home screen and as the default in Chrome (if installed).
Google will use a first-price sealed-bid auction
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Update — We want to understand how often users of Firefox are subject to these network configurations.
Contract for the Web is becoming a reality — Berners-Lee has called it many things since he announced it at the 2018 Web Summit: a contract, a “magna carta” and a Bill of Rights.
Browser vendors win war with W3C over HTML and DOM standards
Solid
Moving the Linux desktop to another reality — Today, we are very excited to announce a new open source project which enables interaction with traditional desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR.