Post #1068203

2026-04-11 08:38 UTC

Time for our #Linux and #OpenSource news video! In this one, France is announcing a move to Linux and to Open Source solutions, with each ministry being required to provide a plan to do so! We also have more distros speaking on age verification, KDE revamping some themes to give you more options, and a lot more: https://youtu.be/Hbfyv7HJZrc

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@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social 2026-04-11 08:39

And here is the audio podcast: https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/france-is-moving-the-country-to-linux-and-foss-kde-gets-more-themes As usual you can follow it straight from the fediverse @tlenewspodcast Or subscribe to it from any good podcast client!

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@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-04-11 09:16

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Great show as always, Nick! Thank you very much for providing this :)

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@ibigfoot@chaos.social 2026-04-11 09:41

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Liberté, Égalité, Open Sourcé! ✊

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@Siucraym@mastodon.cloud 2026-04-12 11:07

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Kudos to France 🇫🇷 on embracing more FLOSS. 👍🏻

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@Siucraym@mastodon.cloud 2026-04-13 08:47

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Surely Age Attestation being implemented doesn't matter too much since folk can just put in a fake DOB. :thinking_ie:

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@Siucraym@mastodon.cloud 2026-04-13 14:53

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Although KDE wasn't really my thing, I did love the look of the old Oxygen theme.

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@matis_live@fosstodon.org 2026-04-14 08:02

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social I enjoyed it, and I did watch it in the background. Not sure if you wanna know about it, but here it is anyways:

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