Episode Details

Coming up in this episode

1. We try to contain ourselves.
2. Clearly, all the history you need
3. Our clear hindsight
4. We plan to install the most popular distro of all time

0:00 Cold Open
1:19 VM's, Containers and Bundles, oh my!
16:09 The Origin Story
18:21 The History: 2015
20:00 2016
22:08 2017
22:59 2018
24:09 2019
25:34 2020
27:05 2021
27:41 2022
29:00 Thoughts on Clear Linux
1:09:26 Next Time: Emacs, Topics (and Alpine)
1:15:45 Stinger

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Clear Linux the History

• 2015 - February 6th Clear Linux was officially released. The only reference we found
• 2015 - February 9 - The first downloadable images, marked 300, 310, 320, 330 and 340, show up at clearlinux.org .
• Arjan van de Ven penned an article
• 2016 - April 22 - Announcement that the Container-only OS will now start shipping a desktop for developers.
• In parallel, Robert Nesius announces
• Enter, Flatpak.
• The auto-updater is here
• XFCE, while still available, is no longer the default desktop. It's Gnome 3.24.
• The first Issue in Github about ffmpeg not being included shows up.
• "How to Clear"
• Wireguard is added
• Snap was and will remain unavailable and unsupported.
• A new installer beta is floating around
• The public forum is live!
• Cups enabled by default.
• version 2.0 of the new installer is released with a full graphical interface!
• An appeal to Linux developers.
• Offline installations are now available
• exFAT is available
• The distro will

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