289: Cinnamon Desktop, COSMIC Alpha 4, NixOS, Flathub LLC & more Linux news

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This week in Linux, we have so many cool things to talk about. It's kind of absurd. In fact, it's so much, I had to skip a few things. I have enough for two episodes this week, and more, actually, there's a little more than that. So it was kind of hard to pick what to cover. Maybe I'll make some follow-up content this coming week with some stuff to cover that we didn't have a chance to put in the episode. But this week, we have many new releases to talk about, like the Cinnamon Desktop. NixOS has a new version out. And we got an update for the fourth alpha of the System76's COSMIC Desktop. Then we have some really cool news from Flatpak and KDE. All of this and so much more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:56 Episode 400 Celebration for Destination Linux
02:25 Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Released
07:36 Alpha 4 Update for COSMIC Desktop
11:00 NixOS 24.11 Released
13:39 Alpine Linux 3.21 Released
15:14 Flathub looking for form an LLC
19:59 KDE's Donation Notification seems to work
25:03 Humble Bundles for Linux Gamers
28:15 Support the show

Links:

• Episode 400 Celebration for Destination Linux
  • https://tuxdigital.com/live
  • https://destinationlinux.net/live
• Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Released
  • https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-environment-released-with-revamped-theme-night-light
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cinnamon-6-4-desktop-new-features-theme
  • https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/clutter#notice
• Alpha 4 Update for COSMIC Desktop
  • https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-4
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/cosmic-desktop-alpha-4-changes
• NixOS 24.11 Released
  • https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2024/nixos-2411/
  • https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-release-24.11
  • https://destinationlinux.net/363 (Pipewire Interview)
• Alpine Linux 3.21 Released
  • https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.21.0-released.html
  • https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.21
• Flathub looking for form an LLC
  • https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/flathub-to-become-a-self-sustaining-entity-and-theyre-looking-to-hire-someone-to-help/
• KDE's Donation Notification seems to work
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/kdes-2024-fundraiser-hits-the-goal-clearly-their-donation-pop-up-works/
  • https://mastodon.social/@carl@kde.social/113584216771717051
  • https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
• Humble Bundles for Linux Gamers
  • https://tuxdigital.com/humble
• Support the show
  • https://tuxdigital.com/membership
  • https://tuxdigital.com/store