It’s Wes & the Beard this week as we cover tons of stories. TopIcons is officially unmaintained, KDE launches the XFree kwin project in an attempt to rid themselves of XWayland, Synergy goes closed source, Microsoft & Canonical build a custom linux kernel & more!

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Show Notes:

Pre-Show

• GitHub – diracdeltas/FastestWebsiteEver: ultrafast single TCP packet audio/visual experience

Follow Up / Catch Up

• Bill Gates now uses an Android phone – The Verge

• LineageOS Changelog #14 Brings Burn-in Protection and Changes

• Google Extends Security Support for Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X Until November 2018

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

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• Bad News for Users of TopIcons Plus, development has been put on a pause

• Announcing the XFree KWin project – Martin’s Blog

• “Spaceborne” Linux Supercomputer Starts Running In Space, Achieves 1 Teraflop Speed

• Atari are launching a new gaming system, the ‘Ataribox’ and it runs Linux

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

• Microsoft and Facebook just laid a 160-terabits-per-second cable 4,100 miles across the Atlantic

• Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want | Ars Technica

• Canonical & Microsoft Make a Custom Linux Kernel

• The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer – Site Feedback – Caddy Community

• Synergy 2.0 goes closed source : linux

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

• Start Your Engines – Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition – The Mozilla Blog

• Firefox Quantum (Beta) vs Chrome – YouTube

• Firefox Memory Usage in the Quantum Era – Eric Rahm

• Firefox with client side decorations on Linux coming soon

• Mozilla Adds Tracking Protection to Firefox for iOS, Focus Gets Multitasking

• Pale Moon 27.5.0 released! – Pale Moon forum

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