Jordan has also published a companion blog post: “X11 Session Removal FAQ”
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Jordan works at Centricular and helps develop GStreamer. He is currently a release manager for Flatpak, GNOME OS, and other projects related to the GNOME Foundation. Jordan assists GNOME with building CI pipelines and organizing GNOME’s versions with major Linux distributions. He currently resides in Greece.
Referenced
- Jordan’s breakdown of (now former) Fedora’s Project Leader, Matthew Miller’s, inaccuracies about Flatpak
- GNOME Podcasts, Jordan’s first Linux application.
- GNOME Builder is a development tool for working GNOME tools like GTK, GLib, dconf, and other APIs.
- GNOME OS is GNOME’s flagship way to use and test the most recent releases of GNOME.
- openSUSE Aeon Desktop. Currently in Release Candidate stage, not for daily use.
- The Washington Post’s Joseph Menn’s article: “Apple yanks encrypted storage in U.K. instead of allowing backdoor access” (Soft paywall)
- Jordan’s talk from Linux App Summit 2025: Flathub: A paradigm shift for distributing applications
- Matthias Clasen’s call for fixing GNOME’s documentation
- GNOME’s help application yelp
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) became a GNOME Infrastructure Partner
- Signal’s president Meredith Whittaker and dev lead Joshua Lund’s blog post: “Privacy is priceless, Signal is expensive”
- After leaving WhatsApp and selling it to Facebook, the Signal Foundation was created by Brian Acton, who invested $50M into Signal.
- Android Authority’s C. Scott Brown: “Own an Android phone? You might be 30% less likely to get a match on dating apps”
- Brodie Robertson’s Tech Over Tea interview with KDE’s Nate Graham at 1:21:06 and how KDE’s telemetry is not very useful.
- Richard Brown’s talk at FOSDEM 2025: “FDE is almost there, how do we tackle the last hurdles?”, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution
- Igalia is a Spanish consultancy that has dedicated time to working on GNOME’s screen reader (orca).
- Jordan’s Blog Post: “An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal”
- Jean Baptiste Lallement’s (jibel) Ubuntu Discourse post: “Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg”
- The infamous GitLab issue that created conspiracies about GNOME sabotaging Ubuntu
- The Register’s Simon Sharwood: “Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos”
Video Intro
Warning: the following articles and videos either miss context of the original developer discussions or could spread incorrect assumptions about interactions between GNOME and Ubuntu developers.
- OMG! Ubuntu’s Joey Sneddon: Ubuntu 25.10 Drops Support for Using GNOME on Xorg/X11
- The Register’s Liam Proven: Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
- Brodie Robertson: Ubuntu Linux And The GNOME Wayland Problem
- Michael Tunnell: ⧸e⧸OS 3.0, GNOME Dropping X11, Alpine Linux, Ubuntu wants a Rusty Sudo, & more Linux news
Track Listing
- Intro: Khaim - Maybe
- Outro: Khaim - Neon Lamp
Bonus Content:
Patrons and YouTube Members get access to Jordan and Winward nerding out over Apple products for half an hour.