Coming up in this episode
1. The Never Ending History
2. A Cassidy James Experience
3. And we go berry picking
Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:30 Vivaldi 5.7... Again
3:20 Itty Bitty Server Things
18:44 EndlessOS History, 2010-2012
21:51 2013-2015
25:36 2016-2018
29:25 2019-2021
32:57 2022-2023
36:08 (A Short) How'd It Go?
42:33 A Cassidy James Experience
1:15:31 Next Time: Topics and Feedback
1:19:53 Stinger
See this episode on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5AvLAusUIs)
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Banter
Vivaldi 5.7 (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-5-7-on-desktop/) fixes Leo's scrolling woes. (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1270089#c27)
Dan installs Proxmox VE (https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve) on a couple of HP mini pcs. (https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c04816235)
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EndlessOS the History
Endless Mobile Inc.'s was founded (https://web.archive.org/web/20180519033528/https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=241000702).
Computers started shipping in (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers/posts/1276655) late June 2015.
The Endless Mini (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mini-review/).
August 2016 Endless 3.0 was released as was the very First Linux distro to adopt Flatpak (https://flatpak.org/about) for apps and have it configured for use out of the box.
October 2016 Netflix and Flash were broken (https://community.endlessos.com/t/attention-new-users-flash-and-netflix-temporarily-broken/327).
Jan 4, 2017 Endless Mission One and Mini (https://venturebeat.com/business/endless-expands-into-the-u-s-with-launch-of-129-mission-mini-and-249-mission-one-computers/) released (https://www.cnet.com/pictures/mission-mini/null/).
Mission Mini Review (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mini-review/)
Mission One Review (https://www.cnet.com/reviews/endless-mission-one-review/)
March 2017 3.1.3 Released (https://community.endlessos.com/t/release-endless-os-version-3-1-3/1835) and now ISOs are now available (https://community.endlessos.com/t/iso-images-available-for-endless-os/1840).
November 1 2018, 3.5 Released, but was then quickly withdrawn (https://community.endlessos.com/t/release-endless-os-3-5-1/8252). 3.5.1 was quickly delivered on November 16th addressing the issue.
April 1, 2020 Endless drops its for-profit status and becomes a not-for-profit (https://www.endlessos.org/post/launching-endless-os-foundation).
November 2020 Hack and friends go fully open source (https://www.hack-computer.com/post/update-hack-is-now-fully-open-source)!
June 2021 The Endless Laptop (https://www.endlessos.org/endless-laptop).
January 2023 5.0 Released (https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os/release-notes/5).
4.0.14 (https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os/release-notes/4-0-14) delivers the ability to upgrade to 5.0 which was previously not possible.
March 7, 2023 Endless announces backing for Flathub (https://discourse.flathub.org/t/flathub-in-2023/3808)
Huge thanks to Cassidy James Blaede for taking the time to join us! Cassidy's web page is here (https://cassidyjames.com)
Endless OS links
Main web site (https://endlessos.com/home/)
The Forum (https://community.endlessos.com/)
The Wiki (https://support.endlessos.org/en/endless-os)
Endless OS Foundation (https://www.endlessos.org/)
The Early History (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers/description)
The Release History (https://community.endlessos.com/t/what-about-a-release-history/5277/3)
The Early PC's (https://web.archive.org/web/20170223110116/https://endlessos.com/our-computers/)
All Old Github Tagged versions ~2.0.0 (https://web.archive.org/web/20201117023525/https://github.com/endlessm/eos-desktop/tags?after=Release_2.0.1-rc1_debian)
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