elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet.

Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with Dalton about the new Ubuntu Touch release and we find a real Photoshop replacement for Linux.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Dalton Durst, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress.

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• Tiny Palm smartphone baffles gadget fans - BBC News — A tiny Android smartphone designed to be a "companion phone".
• KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation | KDE.news — We are excited to announce that the KDE e.V. received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation.
• elementary OS 5 Juno is Here — Refinement, Productivity, & an Improved Developer Platform.
• Allen questions the Flatpak FUD - Pastebin.com
• Flatpaks, sandboxes and security — What Flatpak brings to this is understanding of the specific desktop app problem space
• Should GNOME Drop Support for GTK3 Themes? — It seems that our love of customisation is merely an illusion
• Restyling apps at scale — tl;dr: If you want to change how an app looks, you need a designer in the loop.
• DXVK 0.90 released : linux
• Pumpkin Carving Contest #JackOLinux — Submission deadline is October 24, 2018, and the top 3 winners will be announced on October 31st!
• Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
• Did Microsoft Really Just “Open Source All Its Patents”?? — This means the company can use or distribute ‘Linux System’ technologies without risk that another OIN participant may assert their patents against such ‘Linux System’ technologies.
• Ubuntu 18.10 Release Date and New Features [Updated] | It's FOSS
• GPD Pocket 2 Preview — The GPD Pocket 2 is a handheld computer that looks like a laptop, but which is small enough to fold up and slide into your pocket.
• UBports — Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu. This operating system is developed and maintained by UBports: An international community of passionate volunteers. This means Ubuntu Touch is 100% community driven and independent.
  
  Read more about the OS
• Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 —
  While many have already joined the community on 16.04 with OTA-4, in addition to the long-term support of upstream Ubuntu development, OTA-5 will include a more stable experience, new tweaks, and new features to show off this next stage of Ubuntu Touch development.
• Dalton Durst's GitHub
• DaltonDurst - Ubuntu Wiki
• Automation System Naming
• Jupiter Broadcasting · GitHub
• Photopea