DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 469

Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DistroWatch Weekly! It has been an interesting week for the open source community, especially in the realm of desktop interfaces. The Common Desktop Environment was released as open source software, Debian is switching its default desktop to Xfce and the GNOME team is planning GNOME OS.
Further, in this issue we introduce a new feature -- a lot goes on in the world of open source operating systems, more than we can cover in this space. With that in mind we hope you will enjoy a new section of the Weekly we are trying called Around The Web which will provide links to more news, more reviews and interesting podcasts. Let us know what you think of this new information digest in the comments section below. We here at DistroWatch wish you a pleasant week and happy reading!
Contents:
Reviews: Hello, Peppermint Three
News: CDE goes open source, Qt changes hands, SUSE's view on Secure Boot, plans for GNOME OS
Questions and answers: Transferring email to Linux
Released last week: Scientific Linux 6.3, antiX 12, ROSA 2012 "GNOME"
Around the web: Reviews, podcasts and newsletters
New additions: Oz Unity
New distributions: noop linux
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AV Linux 2018.4.12, Zenwalk Current-180419, Ubuntu MATE 18.04
| Progress on Plasma Wayland for 5.13
In February after Plasma 5.12 was released we held a meeting on how we want to improve Wayland support in Plasma 5.13. Since its beta is now less than one month away it is time for a status report on what has been achieved and what we still plan to work on.
Also today started a week-long Plasma Sprint in Berlin, what will hopefully accelerate the Wayland work for 5.13. So in order to kick-start the sprint this is a good opportunity to sum up where we stand now.
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First set of Bionic (sort-of) RC images for 18.04.
Adam Conrad of the Ubuntu Release Team is pleased to announce the first
set of Bionic RC images for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Over the next couple of hours, builds for Bionic Final should be added
to the tracker[1] for all flavours. The builds have some intentional
omissions, but please do test them anyway.
Known issues that will be addressed Sunday/Monday:
– Volume label still set to Beta
– base-files still not the final version
– kernel will have (at least) one more revision
Despite the above, please, please, please test your images. Do not
wait for a “final” build to test, as that guarantees your final build
will be broken. We need you testing now, iterating uploads to get
your bugs fixed, filing bugs and escalating where you need help.
Again: DO NOT DELAY, TEST NOW, FIX BUGS, FILE BUGS, ESCALATE FOR HELP.
Happy testing everyone, and here’s hoping we push out another smooth
and stress-free release on Thursday.
… Adam Conrad
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