FOSS Weekly #36 - Godot 4, Linux Tablet and mini PC, Flatpak app store, and more

Sai Phanindra
March 03, 2023
Welcome to this week's edition of FOSS Weekly! This week, we have a bunch of software releases including Godot which finally reached v4.0, and we have a couple of Linux hardware updates from Pine64 and PlanetPC.
📰 News
- Godot Engine 4.0 released after 3 years of development [godotengine.org]
- Pine64 February update: PineTab2 starts at $159 [pine64.org]
- PlanetPC XR: a Linux mini PC with a touchscreen and ARM processor [liliputing.com]
- SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) is taking place next week [socallinuxexpo.org]
🐧 Linux updates
- GNOME and KDE are exploring the idea of uniting, using Flatpak [zdnet.com]
- Linux 6.3 adds Thunderbolt/USB4 DisplayPort bandwidth allocation mode [phoronix.com]
- Contribute at GNOME, i18n, and DNF during Fedora test days [fedoramagazine.org]
- KDE Plasma development branch switches to Qt6-only [phoronix.com]
📝 Releases
- FFmpeg 6.0 [ffmpeg.org]
- Mixxx 2.3.4 [mixxx.org]
- ShinyProxy 3.0 [shinyproxy.io]
- KDE Gear 22.12.3 [kde.org]
🔗 Also read
- This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]
- This Week in KDE [pointieststick.com]
- The Month in WordPress [wordpress.org]
- Fedora weekly round up [fedoraproject.org]
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