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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:33 Sponsor: SquareSpace
01:50 France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale
03:53 German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice
06:04 Jolla launches new Linux smartphone
08:16 Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released
11:26 KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year
12:54 Proton launches Proton Sheets
14:31 Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks
16:18 Ubuntu MATE and Unity won't be LTS
18:22 Major library goes unmaintained
20:01 HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux
22:14 D7VK released for older, DX7 games
24:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

France starts adopting Nextcloud on a big scale
https://nextcloud.com/blog/digital-sovereignty-momentum-france/

German state saves 15M€ per year moving to LibreOffice
https://itsfoss.com/news/german-state-ditch-microsoft/

Jolla launches new Linux smartphone
https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/12/06/jolla-phone-launch-specs-price-sailfish-linux-os/
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

Cosmic and PopOS 24.04 released
https://system76.com/pop/

KDE reaches 275K euros in funding this year
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

Proton launches Proton Sheets
https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive

Ubuntu adopts vanilla GNOME shell style with a few tweaks
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-yaru-theme-gnome-shell-changes

Ubuntu MATE and Unity won't be LTS
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-unity-mate-26-04-lts-status

Major library goes unmaintained
https://linuxiac.com/libxml2-becomes-officially-unmaintained/

HDMI 2.1 still not possible on AMD on Linux
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Valve-HDMI-Forum-Continues-to-Block-HDMI-2-1-for-Linux-11107440.html

D7VK released for older, DX7 games
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.0-Released

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