This week, we have #Ubuntu working on an immutable system using Snaps, Red Hat dropping the LibreOffice RPMs to use the Flatpak instead (also impacts Fedora), and a lot of cool @gnome projects being worked on!
In this week's Linux, Open Source and Privacy News video, we have Fedora KDE proposing to drop X11 when Plasma 6 is out, a nasty vulnerability in Android and its fingerprint reader implementation, Meta receiving an enormous $1.3B fine from the EU, and Intel proposing a new x86 architecture that would drop bare metal support for 32 and 16 bit!
This week, in our #Linux and #OpenSource News podcast, we have more work on HDR support, #Ubuntu improving their PPA system, and a security flaw in #KeePass, the open source password manager, plus #cinnamon being adopted by more distros, and a new XFCE spin.
This week, we have more details about the Cosmic desktop, with a lot of customization for their panels, we have AMD going full FOSS for their firmware, and some interesting changes in the defaults for KDE Plasma 6!
In this week's episode, we have a plan to add support for HDR and Variable Refresh Rate on Linux, chips from AMD that surpass Apple Silicon, and more dominant position abuse from Microsoft, plus updates on LinuxMint 21.2, some new GNOME apps, progress on KDE Plasma 6, and more!
In this week’s #Linux and #OpenSource news video, we have the redesign of #Flathub and their verified apps, big performance improvements coming to the Linux kernel with version 6.3, and the EU cracking down on the biggest internet platforms, which for some reason include #Wikipedia
This week, we have Ubuntu 23.04 and all its variants, Fedora 38, plus a bold new plan to revive Solus, that will change a lot of things for the distro.
We also have some amazing new apps joining the KDE Gear compilation, some GNOME updates, new laptops from System76, and more!
Time for the #Linux and #OpenSource News podcast! In this one, we have one more mail in the potential coffin of Solus, ChatGPT being sued for defamation, a potential Google competitor brewing in the EU, and a lot more!
In this week’s Linux and OpenSource video, we have System76 unveiling more details about their Cosmic desktop, which looks close to alpha quality, and working on a new in house laptop design, plus Linux Mint implementing better theming, Halo MCC now playable on Steam Deck, and more!
In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News Podcast, I cover the #Ubuntu 23.04 beta, interesting developments for Mobile Linux, especially Ubuntu Touch, as well as Italy blocking ChatGPT, but not for the reasons you might expect...
Time for the weekly Linux and OpenSource news Podcast!
In this one, we have Framework announcing a 16 inch laptop, with replaceable GPU expansion modules, we have Nextcloud releasing Hub 4, a new version with integrated AI tools, and a lot of updates to the core apps, and we have Twitter planning to open source their algorithm at the end of the month.
Plus, screen sharing on Wayland should now work for every single app, and more!
Time for your weekly #Linux and #OpenSource news podcast! In this one, we have #Docker Hub being pretty hostile to open source projects, we have the beta for #Fedora 38, #Ubuntu and #Debian trying to curb Python issues by limiting access to Pip, and more!
In this week's Linux and OpenSource News Podcast, we have Meta creating a Twitter clone that would use the ActivityPub standard and integrate with the Fediverse, a roadmap for Flathub for the coming year, and DuckDuckGo launching their own AI assisted search features, based on ChatGPT
In this week's #Linux and #opensource news podcast, we have a proposal to fund #flathub to add payments, donations and subscriptions for apps, we have #HP giving up on the Dev One, and likely the chance of their devices shipping with Linux out of the box, and we have most companies seemingly using #FOSS wrong and keeping unsecure versions of the software instead of updating it.
In this week's episode, we have Ubuntu preventing their official flavors to have flatpak installed out of the box, we have the beta of GNOME 44, with plenty of refinements to the desktop (thumbails in the file picker, anyone?), and we have 2 new anti-consumer / anti-competitive moves from Microsoft, plus news from Solus, Google Play Store's privacy labels being misleading, and more!
In this week's #Linux and #opensource news podcast, we have the fundamentally broken #FOSS funding model, embodied by the troubles of core-js, the demise of Mycroft, leaving their backers hanging, @thunderbird redesign, Real Time #Ubuntu being announced, or the release of @kde 5.27, and a lot more!
Here is this week's episode: In this one, we have Windows 11 being conformed spyware, sending data to third parties without user consent, Fedora moving to Flathub, an AI tool that violates FOSS licenses, Thunderbird sharing a roadmap for their revamp, and GNOME Software getting some performance improvements!
Here is this week's episode of our #Linux and #OpenSource news podcast, wits tons of updates for Cosmic DE, Mint, Budgie, and with wayland support coming to Mint and XFCE, plus elementary OS 7 is released, and Plasma Mobile apps get some nice improvements:
Here is your new weekly dose of Linux and Open Source news! In this one, we have the EU working on a new law that might make FOSS unsuitable to be used by companies, Google laying off a lot of their open source talent, and the GNOME 44 alpha, on top of a lot of updates to our favorite desktop environments, and future improvements to Linux gaming!
Here is episode 3, fresh off the mic, with the Linux Foundation building an open source version of the #metaverse, the beta for @kde Plasma 5.7, the last version of KDE 5, and Stable Diffusion AI being sued for using copyrighted images without consent, plus some interesting results following @gnome telemetry data:
Episode 2 is now live, with more privacy violations from Apple and Google, and a lot of Fediverse related stuff, plus UnityX being a better variant of the Unity DE, and more!