Episode 39: Destination Linux EP39 – The Bit You Should Read

Welcome to Episode 39 of Destination Linux for 10/02/17

Correction from last week

Just to set things straight, ArchMerge is a separate project from ArchLabs with a completely separate team. There is no collaboration between ArchLabs and ArchMerge and they have a completely different vision about a distro. They each go their own way. I apologize for confusing the two together.

News

Ubuntu Is Dropping 32-bit Desktop Images

Last year OMGubuntu ran a poll asking how which version of Ubuntu you use: 32-bit or 64-bit. The results of that poll revealed that 92% run Ubuntu 64-bit already.

Badges and progress bar on Ubuntu Dock

Ubuntu Dock Now Supports Progress Bars and Badge Counts

Bad News for Users of TopIcons Plus…

Ubuntu Beta 2 Download

Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 Beta 2

Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 Beta 2 Download

Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Beta 2

Ubuntu Mate Beta 2 Download

It’s Beta season for all the ‘buntu’s…..Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kylin
Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 2

Kubuntu 17.10 Beta 2 Download

KDE Plasma 5.11 Desktop Will Be Coming to Kubuntu 17.10 Soon After Its Release

Adapta Theme is Now Available for the KDE Plasma Desktop

Adobe Brackets 1.11 Released

Opera Web Browser Now Has Built-In WhatsApp And FB Messenger

Chrome Extension Embeds In-Browser Monero Miner That Drains Your CPU

Linux 4.14 Is Up To Around 23.2 Million Lines Of Code

Linux Kernel Grows Past 15 Million Lines of Code 2012

Gaming

What have I been playing:

This week has been full of Half Life 2 gameplay. It’s a relic that’s sat in my Summer Sale games archive for a while and considered by many to be one of the best games ever created by Valve. I’ve finally broken it out and starting to play through the story. It runs beautifully on Linux and so far find the very hurried pace and a solid story to be incredibly engaging. The fact that I am playing this means Half-Life 3 is confirmed!

Half-Life: C.A.G.E.D. from former Valve worker should hopefully come to Linux

Might be worth letting them know in the post if you’re interested.

‘SC Controller’ has a pre-release to support more gamepads

Atari is launching a new gaming system, the ‘Ataribox’

Official Website

WWI FPS ‘Tannenberg’ from the developers of Verdun to see day-1 Linux support

Rocket League’s huge ‘Autumn Update’ is now available

The SNES Classic Mini Uses the Same Hardware as the NES Mini

Admin

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Where Can You Find Us This Week

• Rocco and Ryan will be playing Rocket League live this week on DasGeek Channel
• Friday Night Live on the BigDaddyLinux Channel

Twitter @dasgeekchannel @bigdaddylinux

A big thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us and Thank you For Watching Destination Linux

Have a great week and remember the Journey ITSELF is just as important as the Destination