Stallman returns to the FSF, Microsoft buys Discord, and GNOME 40 is out ! - Linux News - March 21

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01:30 Linux
05:24 Open Source
10:22 Gaming
11:31 Hardware
12:25 Apps

Ubuntu published a much needed blog post explaining the rationale behing their full on support for Flutter.
https://ubuntu.com//blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far

GNOME 40 was released, and it's probably the biggest change to GNOME since GNOME 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV2KNvtejJw&t=15s

Ubuntu will implement desktop icons in a more feature-complete way in Ubuntu 21.04.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ding-ubuntu-21-04-fixes-my-biggest-pet-peeve

Most of you probably knew about the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that lets you run Linux inside of a windows terminal, and use the Linux command Line and even some graphical apps from inside windows. Well, there is now a new project, just as badly named, called LSW, for Linux Subsystem for Windows.
https://bit.ly/3fnNZTq


The first instance of the Elementary Developer Weekend will be held on the 26th and 27th of June 2021.
https://edw.elementary.io/

Wikipedia has launched a new service dedicated to companies, called Wikimedia Enterprise.
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-finally-asking-big-tech-to-pay-up/


Richard Stallman announced his return to the Free Software Foundation board of directors. An open letter to push the FSF to remove him was co-signed by people from Igalia, KDE, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Apache, Mozilla, Solus, OBS Studio, or elementary OS and GNOME. This open letter seems to have done its job, as the FSF announced some changes to the board, where all board members, including existing ones, will be nominated through a more transparent process

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/22/richard_stallman_back_on_fsf_board/

https://www.fsf.org/news/preliminary-board-statement-on-fsf-governance

Google and Microsoft are trying to fix web browser compatibility issues. The effort is called Compat2021, and it aims to solve the main pain points for developers, like CSS Flexbox, CSS Grid, or how 3D animations are rendered in the browsers.
https://www.engadget.com/google-microsoft-browser-compatibility-issues-104040745.html

GNOME announced the creation of Libadwaita. This new library aims to de-couple GTK, GNOME, and the Adwaita look and feel.
https://aplazas.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/blog/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwaita.html


The Funkey S is a super small handheld running Linux, and which will please a lot of retro gamer. Basically it's something you can affix to your keys, and play games on to pass the time, but it's probably not going to become your go-to handheld any time soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMBeDmGHzl0

Wine 6.5 was released
https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.5

Sytem76 released a new version of their Pangolin laptop, running on a full AMD base.
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin
rem-tunnel-is-leaving-ios/

Firefox 87 makes more efforts towards privacy, by trimming down the HTTP referrers being to sent to the websites you visit.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/03/22/firefox-87-trims-http-referrers-by-default-to-protect-user-privacy/

Microsoft might end up buying Discord, for the hefty sum of 10 billion dollars.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/26/22352028/microsoft-discord-acquisition-analysis-report

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