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<p>This week we discover the good word of Xfce and admit Joe was right all along. And share our tips for making Xfce more modern.</p>
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<p>Plus a new Debian leader, the end of Scientific Linux, and behind the scenes of Librem 5 apps.</p><p>Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, and Ell Marquez.</p><p><a href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946" rel="payment">Support LINUX Unplugged</a></p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://spacenews.com/pepsi-drops-plans-to-use-orbital-billboard/" title="Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard" rel="nofollow">Pepsi drops plans to use orbital billboard</a> — “This was a one-time event; we have no further plans to test or commercially use this technology at this time.”</li><li><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/04/ataris-vcs-delayed-until-december-does-anyone-even-care-at-this-point" title="Ataris VCS Delayed, But Does Anyone Even Care?" rel="nofollow">Ataris VCS Delayed, But Does Anyone Even Care?</a> — There’s no prototype (yet). There’s no Ubuntu-based OS (yet). There’s not even a convincing demo of any of the games which will run on it (yet).
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</li><li><a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2019/01/30/adaptive-fractal-contract/" title="Announcing my Contract with Purism for an Adaptive Fractal UI" rel="nofollow">Announcing my Contract with Purism for an Adaptive Fractal UI</a> — Overall, I’m very excited that Purism accepted my proposal and that I get to work on this. I have been looking forward to the day where I can run Fractal on my phone, and I’m glad to be bringing that closer.</li><li><a href="https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1904&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&P=817" title="Scientific Linux Discontinued" rel="nofollow">Scientific Linux Discontinued</a> — Fermilab will continue to support Scientific Linux 6 and 7 through the remainder of their respective lifecycles. Thank you to all who have contributed to Scientific Linux and who continue to do so.</li><li><a href="https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_001" title="Debian Project Leader Elections 2019" rel="nofollow">Debian Project Leader Elections 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/platforms/hartmans" title="DPL Platform for Sam Hartman" rel="nofollow">DPL Platform for Sam Hartman</a> — One of my key roles as DPL will be to make sure Debian is a community where we can be heard, and where we have the opportunity to reach understanding regardless of whether our ideas are chosen. I will do this by personally participating in such mediation and recruiting others to these mediation efforts. Eventually, I hope many of us will get better at seeking to understand and avoiding escalating discussions on our own.</li><li><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/2019" title="Red Hat Summit 2019" rel="nofollow">Red Hat Summit 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://www.docker.com/dockercon/" title="DockerCon San Francisco 2019" rel="nofollow">DockerCon San Francisco 2019</a></li><li><a href="https://linuxacademy.com/join/pricing" title="Linux Academy Sale!" rel="nofollow">Linux Academy Sale!</a></li><li><a href="https://manjaro.org/download/xfce/" title="Manjaro XFCE Stable Edition" rel="nofollow">Manjaro XFCE Stable Edition</a> — This edition is supported by the Manjaro team and comes with XFCE, a lightweight and reliable desktop with high configurability.</li><li><a href="https://xubuntu.org/" title="Xubuntu" rel="nofollow">Xubuntu</a> — Xubuntu is a community developed operating system that combines elegance and ease of use.
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</li><li><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/04/17/i-cant-believe-im-writing-this-linux-article-about-loving-the-xfce-desktop-environment/#788a93f434d7" title="I Can't Believe I'm Writing This Linux Article About Loving The Xfce Desktop Environment" rel="nofollow">I Can't Believe I'm Writing This Linux Article About Loving The Xfce Desktop Environment</a> — At this point, my Xfce desktop looks just as good or better than the Gnome DE I'm accustomed to.</li><li><a href="https://techeulogy.com/linux/ulauncher-the-linux-desktop-application-launcher/" title="Ulauncher - The Linux Desktop Application Launcher" rel="nofollow">Ulauncher - The Linux Desktop Application Launcher</a> — It has a minimal design, searches fast and uses less system resources, which makes it one of the best desktop launcher for Linux.</li><li><a href="https://openaudible.org/" title="OpenAudible" rel="nofollow">OpenAudible</a> — An open-source cross-platform audible audiobook manager. Download, view, convert to MP3, and manage all your audible.com content with our easy-to-use desktop application.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/subspacecloud/subspace" title="Subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI" rel="nofollow">Subspace: A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI</a></li><li><a href="https://portal.cloud/app/subspace" title="Subspace by Portal Cloud" rel="nofollow">Subspace by Portal Cloud</a> — Subspace is an open source WireGuard® VPN server that supports connecting all of your devices to help secure your internet access.
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</li><li><a href="https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst" title="Dunst: Lightweight and customizable notification daemon" rel="nofollow">Dunst: Lightweight and customizable notification daemon</a>
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</li><li><a href="https://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/" title="ARandR: Another XRandR GUI" rel="nofollow">ARandR: Another XRandR GUI</a> — ARandR is designed to provide a simple visual front end for XRandR. Relative monitor positions are shown graphically and can be changed in a drag-and-drop way.
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</li><li><a href="https://wavebox.io/" title="Wavebox" rel="nofollow">Wavebox</a> — The best of the web, in one focused place.</li><li><a href="https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier" title="nativefier" rel="nofollow">nativefier</a> — Make any web page a desktop application
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</li><li><a href="https://github.com/pop-os/icon-theme" title="pop-os/icon-theme" rel="nofollow">pop-os/icon-theme</a> — System76 Pop icon theme for Linux</li></ul>
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