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Hey everyone and welcome back to this edition of the Linux and open source news podcast. I’m your host Nick and this is the show where we discuss everything related to Linux, open source, the open web, privacy and everything around those spaces. So in today’s episode we have GNOME or at least the GNOME Foundation announcing a five year plan to get more funding, to get more people on board, to get more users for GNOME. We have Windows and Microsoft announcing a new feature called Recall which looks like a privacy and security nightmare. We have Qualcomm potentially beating Apple’s latest chip in their own ARM CPUs which have full mainstream Linux support or at least they are working on that full mainstream support. We have the first inklings of AI legislation passed in the EU. We have some news about Ubuntu and some problems they might start having with GNOME. We have some big progress on Plasma and a bunch of other things. So as always if you want to learn more about any of these topics all the links that I used are in the show notes and if you don’t really like waiting for the end of the week to get these news well you can also get them in daily format from Monday to Friday if you become a Patreon member the link is in the description of the show as well. So now let’s get started. So GNOME has published a first draft of their five year plan or at least the GNOME Foundation did that. They published it to get a bit of feedback from the community, from developers, from users and other interested parties who might ship or might want to ship GNOME or to even just fund the foundation. So they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives. So the first big goal is to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users. I guess creators mean developers here, developers for GNOME but also for GNOME applications, maybe extensions and everything around GNOME. The three sub-objectives are first to unify the community around the shared vision. I think that’s something GNOME has kind of already did. They do have their own vision of what a desktop environment is. They have been pushing hard for this and yes some people did not like this vision but at least the community around GNOME right now is focused on the same goals and it seems to be working for app developers at least because they have the biggest and best ecosystem for third-party apps on any other desktop environment. The second sub-goal is to make GNOME relevant and attractive to more diverse people and probably this means accessibility, making GNOME something that everyone can use no matter if they are fully able, if they have disabilities, no matter what everyone should be able to use GNOME and they are already working on that with their new accessibility framework. And finally they also want to increase the commercial and economic value of GNOME. Now this one I don’t really know what that means. My mind instantly went to “oh no they want to make distro space to implement GNOME” but that’s really probably not what that is. It’s probably just to make the project a more desirable target for fundraising and for potential investors who would just drop money into the GNOME Foundation to support the GNOME project. So it’s probably more communication around what GNOME is doing and less trying to sell GNOME as a product. Now the second major goal is to create a unified and integrated suite of programs, services and processes. And this seems to encompass building more integrated technologies, so maybe having more GNOME APIs that can be taken advantage of by GNOME itself but also by GNOME applications. But it also seems to target how GNOME is organized. For example they want to reorganize their myriad of little events into a single annual event that can include more people at the same time. So presumably maybe livestreams and people being able to ask questions online and them being addressed, maybe taking more advantage of the current technologies to make a one big GNOME event instead of multiple little guadeks around the year and smaller other little development sprints. Not sure what exactly they mean around that but they do want to conflate all events into one. Finally the third big goal is to strengthen the GNOME Foundation as a non-profit. So presumably to make sure it is well funded and that it works reliably. There are objectives such as documenting their impact and their value, which is going to be absolutely mandatory if they want to showcase what they’ve done with the money they have received. They also want to double the annual expense but also the annual revenue budget of the foundation. So that just means get more money so we can spend it. And the final goal is prioritizing the health and well-being of the foundation. So probably not letting it run as it did in the past by just tapping in their treasury and not really trying to find new avenues for funding. All of this seems to just mean we need more budgets to do good things with GNOME so we need to find more money first and then we can spend it. All in all it is obviously not a plan for GNOME, the desktop environment. It’s not a development roadmap, a feature roadmap, it is a plan for its supporting fundraising and governance organism. And I think it makes sense as a bird’s eye view thing. To make that project work you need to find reliable sources of funding and then you can spend that money towards growing GNOME as a project, whether it’s in terms of having a bigger community, having more developers, having more features, having more resources, having more communication.

This also requires making sure that first you have a big community, people that can be hired with that money to work on GNOME features. And to do that you need a strong vision, you need some big events to draw people in, you need some interesting technology people want to use and you need to document all of this for potential funding partners. It makes a lot of sense, the language here feels extremely corporate to me when reading this, but honestly that’s probably what people would expect from a non-profit like trying to find money, you need to appear like a company but not be a company and I think that’s what they did here. So obviously you can submit your feedback on that draft if you have remarks, just remember it is not feedback on GNOME the project, no one is asking you if you like GNOME, if you think GNOME likes certain features, that’s not what this draft is about, this is a plan for the foundation itself, it’s not a development roadmap, so don’t go around submitting feedback saying hey, we need this feature and minimize button needs to come back because that’s not what they’re looking for here. So there’s a button to submit feedback if you click on the link that I left in the show notes.

Now we also got a few interesting details about the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and you might wonder what that thing is and why I’m even talking about this here, this is an ARM CPU made obviously by Qualcomm for laptops and initially it looked like it would be a partnership with Microsoft and it would only land in Surface laptops but it also looks like Qualcomm is upstreaming a lot of that support to the mainline Linux kernel, they already have the CPU support in place and they’re already upstreaming more and more parts of the entire system on a chip including how to handle the battery, the USB host, potential webcams plugged into it and everything in between. So this is a really cool CPU or system on a chip to follow if we’re a Linux user and we’re also looking to move to ARM or at least interested in ARM computing. And the benchmarks are really not bad for this chip as well because they seem to indicate it will more than compete with Apple’s latest computers. In Geekbench 6 they apparently beat the Apple M3 by a pretty solid margin, if I remember correctly, the M3 is like 88% of the performance of the Qualcomm chip, so not bad. It also looks like the Qualcomm chip beats an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H as well. Now the chip seems to run a little hotter than Apple’s M3 but it still manages to beat it in battery life as well, apparently the M3 gets 16% less battery life than Qualcomm’s chip while playing local video files. In terms of graphics though, the chip from Qualcomm seems a little bit less interesting, it’s being beaten in blender render tests by the M3 and by the Intel chip as well. But it’s still pretty impressive and of course it’s just benchmarks and Qualcomm and other manufacturers have a bad habit of optimizing for specific benchmarks to appear more powerful than they are in actual real use. But in the end it still looks like a pretty decent chip and while for now I think it’s only been announced to be used in a Surface laptop from Microsoft, with Qualcomm submitting all the code and contributing everything upstream and in the right places not with proprietary modules and weird things like that although there will be proprietary firmware in the default Linux firmware packages, it’s a good option that we might have to run ARM devices with Linux with native support and it might also be way better supported than anything from Apple because as much as the Azahi developers have been doing an insane amount of work, it’s still reverse engineering and it’s taking a lot longer for them to actually manage to find how things work and to develop drivers and to get these drivers to acceptable performance levels compared to just having the company contribute all the drivers to the Linux kernel itself. So it looks like an interesting thing and I will definitely keep an eye on it to see how good of a support it gives to Linux.

Now we need to talk about Windows and Microsoft because Microsoft held a big conference about AI in Windows and what they call AI PCs which they will brand Copilot Plus PCs and among all the usual AI features that was one that stood out as being particularly bad it’s Windows Recall and if you only look at it from a bird’s eye view, this thing seems insanely useful. You just ask your local AI on your PC something and it’s able to find anything you did on that PC that’s remotely linked to that. So for example if you were browsing for I don’t know Warhammer miniatures and you completely forgot what website you saw this super deal on and you just remember the image on the box. You ask your AI to find this exact image, you type I don’t know golden warriors with lenses and it’s gonna find an entire screenshot of the website you were browsing fully analyzed by the AI and perfectly representing what you were looking for. You could also just be remembering hey I saw this super cool bag that I wanted to buy the other day but I don’t quite remember I just remember it was a brown bag. You type find me a website where I browse for a brown bag and it’s gonna display that for you. Seems insanely useful. In fact it’s screenshots that is displaying to you because the way this thing works is the dumbest I have ever seen. It’s just taking screenshots every few seconds and it’s storing those screenshots on disk and it’s learning from those to identify objects and themes. And obviously this should raise a huge red flag because this means you will have screenshots that might display very private information or very private activities stored without your knowledge. It can use up to 25 gigs of storage on your PC to do so, that’s more than an entire Linux distro’s worth of disk space, and anyone who logs into your PC with your account or anyone who can just access the disk’s content will have access to these screenshots which feels pretty bad. Now Microsoft said that they will not take screenshots when you’re using private browsing in Edge but they didn’t mention other browsers or if they could integrate with that. And they also said it won’t take screenshots of copyrighted materials although how it will identify these is unknown as well. The feature will of course be on by default and fortunately it seems that it might be encrypted which lessens the risk a little bit. All the screenshots could be encrypted on disk but since disk encryption only exists for Windows Pro and Enterprise users because they have access to BitLocker it is unclear if Windows Home users will have those screenshots encrypted on disk or not. And if they don’t it means that anyone with a live CD or a live USB drive could just go and grab those screenshots and pass through them and see any credentials, login information, passwords or whatever else the user might have been doing or any weird activity that they might have been doing on their PC that has been screenshotted by this really fantastic AI. So obviously the problematic use cases are plenty on public PCs if the person managing this PC is ill intentioned or has forgotten to disable this feature anyone who logs into this PC could see what you did, including your credentials potentially or your personal emails. A work laptop will have all of that accessible by the IT team or even by your boss. A family PC that shares a single account is a major issue as well or if you just get your laptop stolen and they manage to log into your account. That last one is already a big big problem for you even if you weren’t using the recall feature but it only adds insult to injury because for example you might have a password manager that has a master password, the attacker that stole your laptop cannot enter that but they could just go and look at your screenshots to see that exact password that you unlocked and maybe you displayed in a full text which yeah that’s bad. So in the end it’s another let’s do AI stuff way too quickly without looking at the consequences type of features and it’s really creepy in my opinion and it also looks like there’s already some investigations at least in the US in terms of privacy to see if this feature might even be legal at all. So yeah, well done Microsoft, that’s another great use of AI that we’ve definitely built trust and confidence from the public in these technologies.

And since we’re talking about AI let’s get this other topic out of the way. Unfortunately, or unfortunately depending on where you stand on AI regulation, it looks like AI regulation is starting to appear with EU member countries agreeing on an AI act. Under this new legislation any company developing AI systems and wanting to put them into the hands of EU citizens will have strict transparency obligations to let people and regulators the type of data they use to train with detailed summaries of where they grab this data, they also will have to explain the specific biases, they ironed out of the model or they voluntarily added to it, they will also have to conduct more testing, do audits and do some reporting on their energy use and cybersecurity measures. This new act also restricts the government’s use of biometric surveillance in public spaces using AI technology. And companies providing AI tools in the EU will have to comply in the next 12 months if they are doing general purpose AI models and they will have more time, 36 months, if they are building, let’s call them more sensitive AI tools, stuff related to weapons, warfare, law enforcement and the like. This means that US companies will also not be exempt from these regulations if they aim to provide their AI tools in the EU market. The fines can go up to 7% of the company’s global turnover. And this law also seems to ban the use of AI on social scoring, on predictive policing and on scraping of facial images from CCTV footage or the internet, which is also a very good thing because it already gives countries a clear no-no on using AI to basically do mass surveillance of their citizens. There are other ways to do that, but at least AI won’t add to the pile. All in all, it is a first barrier to make sure that these tools aren’t trained on anything and everything or at least if they are, we’ll know what they use. And it also will help various countries to ensure that these AI companies are not just going fast and breaking things and just doing whatever they please. It doesn’t address the content property side of things or the licensing side of the material used to train the AI, but I’m sure that this will slowly be fixed through court cases across the world.

Now let’s talk Ubuntu. We have some more information about Ubuntu 24.10, its codenamed “Oracular” or “Riole”, which apparently is a form of small bird. Apparently this new version will be focused not on adding a ton of features, but on polishing what is already there. The installer, for example, will finally gain its TPM backed disk encryption feature, it won’t be experimental anymore. The installer will also give the user more feedback when issues arise, when, for example, the system is trying to configure a specific device but fails, you will get clear error messages and you will know what hasn’t worked when you’re trying to install the NVIDIA drivers. If there’s an issue, it will tell you so. And Ubuntu will also get a new welcome wizard that will presumably replace the one from GNOME.

And the App Center from Ubuntu should also get better at recommending apps and displaying user ratings. As per using Flutter, there were some doubts and issues with Google laying off a sizeable part of the Flutter team, but Ubuntu will keep using it, they are not abandoning this technology and they will keep investing on it, for example, they will migrate Flutter’s GTK backend from GTK3 to GTK4 for better performance. And in 24.10, there’s also one major change which is that Wayland will be the default for everyone, including NVIDIA users, they are probably banking on explicit sync support being released for everyone by the time October rolls in, GNOME will have support for it, so Ubuntu also will. And if the NVIDIA drivers have been updated then, and they’re already in beta with updates for that, I’ll talk about this later in this episode, then probably things should be a lot better for Wayland, so they are going to move that to the default. Now there were also some interesting comments from Ubuntu’s desktop lead, they said they want to focus on the desktop, and they plan to expand Ubuntu’s desktop team by at least 50% over the next year, and this is really good news, because it means that they would like to push the desktop a bit more when it’s been fixed in place for a while now, and it feels like they tried to add a few things, but they also aren’t really focusing a lot of that. So yeah, it’s interesting to see that they do have plans to make the Ubuntu desktop a priority, or at least more of a priority at Canonical.

And still on Ubuntu, they are having a few problems with GNOME. GNOME shipped a major feature in a point release, in GNOME 46.1 they delivered explicit sync in Mutter and the GNOME shell. This is something they don’t usually do in GNOME, usually, or at least for the longest time point updates have just contained bug fixes, security fixes, and some minor changes to the core applications of the desktop, but that’s rare. Features are generally not a big part of those point updates, especially major features like explicit sync. And the fact that they changed this for GNOME 46 makes their relationship with Ubuntu a bit uneasy, because GNOME shell and Mutter will no longer be covered by Ubuntu’s micro release exception, or MRE. MRE is a policy that Ubuntu has to allow releasing point updates to certain components of the distro without having to do any QA or, well, no extra testing, no backboarding of fixes or patches that they apply. So basically they say, okay, we have our patch set, we can just apply that to this minor version, it will work exactly in the same way as previously. And we know that because we agreed on that with the upstream project. This is something that they do with GNOME shell and Mutter, for example, because Ubuntu has a bunch of patches that they apply on top of that to enable certain features or to add stuff that hasn’t been upstreamed yet, like the triple buffering patch for Mutter.

Ubuntu doesn’t tend to ship new features to its applications in its repos, and tend to not ship new features to the desktop either along the life of a distro. So GNOME shipping this major feature here breaks this confidence that they have. And this means that Ubuntu will no longer just ship any point update for GNOME, they will have to look through it to backboard their own fixes and improvements, and to do a lot more testing, they will have to check every single point update on a case by case basis to see if it can be added as is or if they have to do a lot of extra work. And honestly, in this case, I’m not sure if GNOME or Ubuntu is right or wrong, I think both viewpoints are perfectly fine. GNOME needs to add explicit sync as fast as possible, because without it, the experience with Nvidia and Wayland is really bad for a lot of people. So if they had the opportunity to ship that in a point update instead of waiting for September for GNOME 47, I think they really should and they really did well shipping this right now. But on the Ubuntu side, they had basically an unspoken agreement as far as I can understand that GNOME would not break or would not bring major features to certain parts of the desktop in between big releases. And this unspoken agreement is apparently now broken, meaning that Ubuntu cannot just grab the latest version of GNOME, apply their patches, do some automatic QA and publish that because they know nothing has been significantly changed or broken.

Now in the end, I think GNOME doesn’t have just Ubuntu to work with. They ship GNOME to a lot of other distributions and those distributions tend to ship a much closer to vanilla experience of GNOME. So they absolutely should bring more features whenever they feel they can, and they should not really limit themselves to having features only every 6 months.

I’m sure a lot of people will think that it’s GNOME being GNOME again, GNOME being little dictators, but if you look at Plasma or KDE, they always shipped major big features in point updates. Plasma 6.0 got some big big updates as well along its life, and Plasma 6.1 will probably have the same. And no one really said that Plasma has a problem doing that or that Plasma is dictating how distro should work. So I think it’s the distribution’s job to adapt to the desktop that they decide to ship, it is their job to backport their patches or to apply their patchset or to tweak their patchset for every version of the desktop or to decide to just not ship a point update if they feel it’s gonna break the experience. But I don’t think desktop environments or applications should just limit themselves because distributions might have more work to do. I think it’s fair to let desktops and apps do their work and it’s fair to let distros apply an update policy that they want and that they decide it upon. But let me know what you think.

Now we gave GNOME some time in the spotlight, so it’s only fair we do the same with KDE and Plasma. And KDE developers are still working on Plasma 6.1, it should be released in a bit less than a month. One of the things that they fixed in 6.1 is theming of their applications on other desktops, notably on GNOME. I reported on this, I think it was two weeks ago, but some applications when run under GNOME with the Advita theme as the default just had no icons in a lot of places because they assumed Advita was a complete icon theme when in fact it was just an icon theme designed for GNOME and it never wanted to have all the icons KDE apps could want. So this is going to be fixed in Plasma 6.1 and with applications released after that point. The fix will be that KDE applications will first try to use the user defined icon theme, whether it’s Advita or not, and if certain icons aren’t in that theme, they’ll look at the theme that it inherits from. So for example if you used, I don’t know, let’s call it Tango icons and it inherits from Advita. They’re going to look in Tango, if they cannot find what they want they’re going to look in Advita, and if they cannot find what they want in Advita then they’re just going to use Breeze icons instead, and Breeze icons will always be provided alongside KDE apps that implement this. For now only Kate, Console and Dolphin support this, but any application could opt in to do this as well. On top of that, in 6.1 Dolphin will be able to generate, well, I’m saying 6.1, it’s also in the KDE Gear Compilation that should land a bit later. So Dolphin will be able to generate previews for remote locations, although it will warn you that this is very very consuming in terms of network resources, so it might be very slow. Discover will let you know when a Flatpak app is end of life and has been replaced by a new one, and it also will let you switch to that new app in one click. And also you will get a much easier way to get admin privileges in Dolphin, you just have a menu entry to act as administrator, you get a nice big warning pop up telling you if you delete anything, well, we won’t stop you, so be careful. And once you’ve done that, you’re in admin mode and you can browse Dolphin and move files around just like you were using Windows.

Now there are also some details on how you will be able to edit the desktop in Plasma 6.1, and how you will change the widgets, how you will add more widgets or tweak the current panel or add a new panel. Currently to do that you right click on the panel or on the desktop, you choose edit mode and then everything just layers on top of your existing desktop, meaning that some elements are hidden behind others. If you display for example the widget sidebar and you wanted to drag a widget where that side by sidebar appears, you have to drag the widget out of the sidebar, then close the sidebar that move the widget right where you want it. If you have a top panel, it’s gonna be hidden by the configuration bar that appears in Plasma to let you tweak the entire desktop. It’s a bit messy and it’s hard to notice when you’re actually in or out of that entire mode, so they’re gonna tweak that entirely. In 6.1, when you enter the edit mode, your actual desktop and wallpaper will zoom out, your panels will still occupy their current places on screen, but they won’t be on top of your desktop and wallpaper. And everything else that appears, the widget sidebar, the little pop-ups that appear when you try to edit your panels, they will appear outside of your zoomed out desktop, meaning that they will never hide the desktop itself and you are able to interact with elements without hiding whatever you’re doing and it’s also a lot clearer that you’re actually into edit mode. When you’re done with edit mode, the desktop zooms back in, occupies the entire screen and you know that you are done. I think it looks pretty good, I think it’s a lot clearer that you’re entering a special mode when you’re trying to customize your desktop. I think it’s an improvement over the current way of doing things in Plasma. There’s a little video you can watch in the article that I linked in the show notes, so you can see how it looks like. It’s pretty hard to describe, but basically if you know what the overview looks like in KD Plasma, it’s gonna look the same. Your desktop will zoom out and you will have elements to customize it on the right and on the left side of that desktop.

And finally on KDE, they just dropped the KDE Gear Compilation, it’s version 24.05, because we’re in May and they use kind of the same numbering scheme that Ubuntu does. So updates to the core KDE apps include first, improved animations for Dolphin, when you’re moving through and navigating through files and folders, when you’re dragging and dropping items, animations will convey what you’re doing in a more user-friendly fashion. You will also get more detailed information about files, for example in the recent files view, you’ll see the modification time and date, and if you’re in the trash, you will see the origin of the file. Now Kdon Live, the video editor, now can let you apply effects to multiple clips simultaneously, which is really important for productivity, and they also have an AI-powered tool to translate subtitles automatically, and they have some performance improvements. They also update to NeoChat, the Matrix client, it has a dedicated search popup, and it’s can now scan PDFs and documents for travel-related data, and they will display this information in the conversation. Tokodon, the Mastodon client, will let you write new posts in a separate window, Elisa, the music player, now gives you either a list or a grid view to navigate your music collection, and there are also updates to the Archive Manager arc, to the aggregator RSS feed reader, and there are some new apps joining the compilation, there’s Francis, a Pomodoro timer to know when to take breaks when you’re working, there’s Calm, that’s an app to give you guided breathing exercises to reduce stress, and there’s Oidex, which is an app to let you rip music CDs. So depending on your distro, you will get these updates more or less quickly, or not at all until your next major update. There’s nothing revolutionary that everyone absolutely needs right now, apart from maybe Kdon Live users, and if you absolutely need that, you can probably install any and all of these apps through Flatback or Snap to always use the latest version available.

Now this week there was also an interesting blog post about fixed kernel versions, as in a distribution ships with a specific kernel version, and they will not move to the latest stable version, they will instead backboard fixes to the specific version that they decided to stop on. And according to this post, this is not a good way to build a kernel at all. Now the research was conducted by CIQ, that’s a company that offers commercial support for Rocky Linux, and their analysis seems to point to the fact that a frozen kernel is less secure, and a lot less secure than the stable kernel the Linux team makes, and it’s also buggier, and it does tend to get buggier and buggier over time. So they have a white paper on the topic, and as with all white papers, take it with a grain of salt, there’s generally an ulterior motive, it’s made by a company, it’s why it’s not called a research paper, it’s a white paper, it’s made by a commercial for-profit company. But the data behind it seems sound, they took the example of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and they tracked the number of open bugs against their fixed kernel version, and that number has been increasing to insane numbers. And we’re not talking about general bugs that everyone has, we’re talking about bugs that do have fixes in the more recent stable kernels as well, meaning that the fixed version of the kernel shipped by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 just did not get bug fixes that could have been there for more than 4000 bugs, and if they had just used the latest kernel available, then they would have had those bug fixes. Now, first, CIQ is a company built by the person who created Rocky Linux, they provide commercial support for Rocky Linux, and their incentive here is probably to just say “hey, you know what, we’re making clones of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, we have to be fully compatible with it, so we have to have the same problems they have with their kernel”. So maybe if we tell people that “hey, you know what, this kernel is really buggy and problematic, maybe at some point it will change and we also will be able to ship better versions of the kernel”. And also they are advantageous for a distribution, to stick to a specific kernel version, you have a stable platform, your users know that their hardware support isn’t going to break from under them, a specific feature will also not break along the line of the distro. This is a good thing, sometimes when you update to the newer version of the stable kernel, some drivers are removed, some drivers just flat out don’t work with your older hardware, it happens sometimes, but also this research seems to indicate that the frozen kernel model is really not a rock solid option that most distributions want to emphasize. And it’s pretty understandable, if you have bugs that you have to backport fixes for every single day, you basically need as many developers as the Linux kernel has to maintain your own version of the kernel, you have to track every single day which patch has been applied and backport it, except if your current version of the kernel is end of life, you probably have to modify these patches as well and change the code, to make it fit to the older version that you’re using that is no longer officially supported. The new patches are for the newer versions of the kernel that you’re not using, so you probably have to rewrite a bunch of that stuff and that’s probably why a bunch of those bugs never get fixed on the kernel, they’re marked as low priority and they’re never dealt with and they will only concern themselves with real big security problems and bugs that impact a lot of their users, meaning that the end experience is still worse than just using the latest stable kernel. So I can definitely understand CIQ’s point of view, I can also understand why distros would want to stick to a specific kernel version, but personally I will always prefer using a distro that has the latest stable kernel or at least is not too far from the latest stable kernel instead of using a distro that has a fixed version that they backport fixes to because it’s just worse for everybody, except maybe for the distro.

Mozilla also published this week a roadmap for the features they would like to implement in Firefox over the course of the year and probably into the first half of 2025. From these features, there’s a big one which is tab grouping and vertical tabs, this is something a lot of other browsers have, you can just create tab groups, reopen those tab groups automatically, you can display your tabs vertically instead of on the top of the window which is also pretty useful in some use cases, those are good solid features, you could already do them with extensions but having the browser do it by default is cool. Now to balance these very useful features, they will also add a pretty meaningless one which is tab wallpapers, you will be able to change the wallpaper inside of your empty tabs I presume, which like who cares about this. Menus in Firefox will also be streamlined to make the more important items more visible and more accessible, I don’t really know if that one is very important because Firefox only has a hamburger menu unless you’re using it on Mac OS where you have a menu bar and that hamburger menu is already pretty bare bones so I don’t really see what needs to be improved here but why not, and more importantly they will focus on speed, performance and compatibility, they apparently already have something that should improve responsiveness by 20% although reading the article I’m not sure if this is supposed to already have landed in Firefox or if this is something that is ready but hasn’t been shipped yet, and Firefox has also been working with the Interop project which aims to make it easier for developers to make websites that work on more than just chromium but also support Firefox and Safari and other alternative browser rendering engines.

Finally and because it’s 2024, Mozilla and Firefox will also be working on AI features but fortunately they will run locally without infringing on your privacy, examples, one example at least that they give was generating alt text for images inserted into PDFs that you’re reading in your browser, this is a pretty useful accessibility feature for people who need what’s on screen to be described or read to them, having those alt text being automatically generated could be good for documents that haven’t had this alt text added manually. And it all depends on whether you stand on Firefox, personally I’m getting a bit tired of it being way slower than other things I talked about it in my weekly Patreon cast but basically on my gaming computer I used Nobara, it came with chromium by default and I was just blown away by the speed of that web browser compared to Firefox on the same machine, a lot of patrons and YouTube members told me they didn’t have any speed difference, I tried with a brand new install, with a brand new profile without extensions and yes Firefox is absolutely slower than anything chromium based on multiple computers for me, at least for the websites that I visit, so if Mozilla delivers this 20% responsiveness increase, this might be enough for me to stick with Firefox, if they already have delivered this 20% increase then I haven’t seen it or felt it at all in the past 2 years or 3 years that I’ve been using Firefox, no it’s way more than that, 5 or 6 years, I haven’t noticed it at all, so I don’t know, I hope this is something that is coming and not something that has already been shipped, I wasn’t really able to understand that from their blog post but let me know if you know. Apart from that, this roadmap is pretty limited, I mean I don’t know if Firefox really lacks that many features but the only big thing is like an accessibility feature which is certainly needed but not necessarily insanely useful for everyone and also tab grouping and vertical tabs, that’s cool but that’s it, it’s not a lot, it’s really not a lot, when you compare it with what the Thunderbird team has been doing on Thunderbird and how fast they’ve been moving with updates, I don’t know if Firefox is still a priority for Mozilla these days, it feels weird.

Okay, let’s finish this with the gaming news, first we have an interesting project called Netris, it’s basically Stadia but it’s self hostable and it’s open source, it’s focused on using Steam so it works with your existing game library, you don’t have to buy games from a specific store and you can then stream your Steam games to other devices either from a server that they host or from your own server because you can self host it. It offers Steam library sharing, it offers HD streams, parental controls and apparently low latency thanks to something they called Quick, QUIC, which apparently helps with streaming quality and with responsiveness. Now this solution doesn’t support games that use a third party launcher like EA Games, Ubisoft, Rockstar or Battle.net through their own launchers, I suppose Epic Games, they are not sighted but they are probably also not gonna work if you use heroic or something and they do use ProtonGE to run games so you will only be streaming and playing games that work on Linux obviously, it is still experimental and if you want to self host it, it does require an Nvidia GPU, probably because their streaming improvements rely on CUDA. But it is still an interesting project if you like cloud gaming but you would like to have actual control over the game library that you have, you don’t want to pay monthly for access to a catalogue, you want to own your games, you want to be able to play them on other devices when you’re not streaming, I think it’s a nice solution, the Nvidia requirement will probably be an issue for a lot of people, it is not the most loved GPU manufacturer out there on Linux but yeah, it seems like an interesting project nonetheless.

And since we’re on the topic of Nvidia, they released a beta for their proprietary drivers, it’s version 555 this time and it is a big one. It is not the version where they will switch to their open source modules by default for recent GPUs, this is probably going to be with version 560 but 555 is the version where they add support for explicit sync on Wayland, meaning that with these drivers, most if not all of the graphical glitches, slowdowns, artifacts, latency and performance problems you have with recent Nvidia GPUs on Wayland should have disappeared. At least for all Nvidia GPUs that will be supported by version 555, if you were already stuck on drivers 390 or 435 then obviously you are not going to get any improvements anymore, these are unsupported GPUs from Nvidia, it sucks but that’s just the reality of how hardware works these days, unfortunately. But if your GPU has access to the latest Nvidia drivers then you’re getting those improvements, meaning that you will get a decent Wayland experience at last. These drivers will also move to the GPU system processor firmware by default for RTX cards, that’s something I thought was already the case but apparently not, and you will need at least the kernel 4.15 to use these drivers which should not be a problem because if your GPU can use those drivers you probably want to run that on a distro that is not stuck to the kernel version 4, it’s already very very old. And the new drivers also implement support for 10 bit per component over HDMI and a few more Wayland related features. So obviously these are still beta quality drivers, if you absolutely need to run Wayland right now with Nvidia you can definitely get them from Nvidia’s website and jump through all the usual hoops to install those from this .run package. Personally I will wait for my distro to package and release them because I have not had many or any problems with Nvidia on Wayland but if you have and you really want to use Wayland well you can try and jump in on those beta drivers.

Okay so this will conclude this episode of the show, I hope you enjoyed listening to it, as always if you want to dive deeper into any of these topics all the links that I used are in the show notes and if you want to get a daily version of these news you can also become a Patreon member, at any tier you will get a daily show 5-10 minutes from Monday to Friday with basically everything that is in here is in the daily shows plus a few things that I just cut out of those weekly episodes because they would be way too long if not. So if that’s something that interests you the link to the Patreon page is in the show notes as well. So thank you all for listening and I guess you will hear me in the next one next week. Bye!

Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary

Sat, 18 May 2024 15:25:05 +0000

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01:23 Firefox adds data collection

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/

05:07 France bans TikTok to quell protests

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/french-tiktok-ban-makes-vpn-usage-soar-in-new-caledonia

08:57 Debian maintainer restricts KeePass XC features

https://linuxiac.com/debian-keepassxc-sparked-debate/

12:29 More KDE work on HDR

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/05/11/more-hdr-and-color.html

15:08 Linux kernel 6.9 is out

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Released https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features

17:41 Linux kernel Libre 6.9 is out

https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-9-kernel-released-for-software-freedom-lovers

19:30 Qualcomm’s new ARM SoCs support Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite

22:16 Intel’s latest feature causes problems for Fedora

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Fedora-OSS-Concerns

26:50 EU might bring antitrust charges against MS Teams

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-teams-is-facing-more-antitrust-lawsuits-in-europe

30:28 Google pushes AI everywhere

https://www.engadget.com/google-search-will-now-show-ai-generated-answers-to-millions-by-default-174512845.html

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-io-showcases-new-ask-photos-tool-powered-by-ai-but-it-honestly-scares-me-a-little

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/

35:04 NetBSD bans AI generated code

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

37:35 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, Steam Deck plugins

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nonsteamlaunchers-steam-deck-plugin-in-testing-plus-a-way-to-remote-play-together-anything/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NTSYNC-Broken

41:05 Outro

Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?

Sat, 11 May 2024 15:25:48 +0000

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01:22 New Cosmic DE update

https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix

05:28 GNOME funding seems fine

https://foundation.gnome.org/reports/

08:23 New attack bypasses VPNS

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

12:00 Pokemon Go players are adding fake data to OSM

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/pokemon-go-players-are-altering-public-map-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon/

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413/43?ref=404media.co

16:06 GNOME updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-146/

19:10 elementary OS 8 should be close

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-may-2024/

22:09 Fedora Asahi 40 is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-now-available/

24:13 ClearLinux still out performs Ubuntu and Fedora

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-ubuntu2404-fedora40/6

28:08 AMD opens up more documentation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Firmware-Docs

30:40 Valve contributes to NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Explicit-Sync-Valve

33:40 Google’s Flutter layoffs are worrying for Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap

37:06 Gaming: SteamOS, SteamVR, Playtron OS

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/playtron-give-a-bit-more-detail-on-the-linux-based-playtronos-and-their-plans/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steamvr-25-released-with-multiple-linux-fixes/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/4213757668851885208

43:37 Outro

No, NixOS isn't dying. GNOME icon & funding issues, everyone hates Windows 11

Sat, 04 May 2024 15:30:47 +0000

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01:35 NixOS isn’t dying, but it’s not doing well

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310

https://determinate.systems/posts/on-community-in-nix/

https://paste.shark-harmonic.ts.net/paste/abd339e0-2317-402b-8d8e-97e580537263/md

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing/

09:14 GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons

https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

15:33 GNOME needs some money

https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/

18:28 Windows 11 is very unpopular

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

21:18 Mint forks GNOME apps

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675

26:50 Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 yet

https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/

30:11 KDE Neon explains their failed Plasma 6 upgrade

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/

32:30 More lawsuits against OpenAI

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global

36:56 Proton 9.0 is out

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-1

38:57 Outro

Why Google sucks now, US bans TikTok, Ubuntu 24.04 & Fedora 40

Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:33:01 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:17 The downfall of Google Search

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

07:07 The US really wants a TikTok ban

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban

https://www.techradar.com/news/tiktok-ban-will-the-app-be-banned-in-the-us-and-how-would-that-work

13:33 Nvidia contributes to NVK

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative

16:20 Ubuntu 24.04 is out

https://youtu.be/LGIWeld3Zwc

20:31 Fedora 40 is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

https://linuxiac.com/slimbook-fedora-2-laptop/

23:23 GNOME delivers big improvement in 46.1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.1-Released

25:30 Framework wants more than laptops

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new

28:58 Home Assistant is growing a lot

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/home-assistants-new-foundation-focused-on-privacy-choice-and-sustainability/

31:34 Ecosia launches their browser

https://www.ecosia.org/browser

34:39 Apple’s AI will be ethically trained

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apples-generative-ai-may-be-the-only-one-that-was-trained-legally-ethically

37:47 Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/garrys-mod-forced-to-remove-nintendo-content-after-takedowns/

41:09 Outro

Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 15:31:13 +0000

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01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw

https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/

05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps

https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features

11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions

https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

15:48 Framework is struggling on software

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/

19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration

23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%

https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux

25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle

https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/

28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM

https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/ https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/

32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/

32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404

41:13 Outro

Fedora wants AI, Nvidia + Wayland is fixed, US gains privacy

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:35:42 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:35 Fedora wants to go all in on AI

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/strategy-2028-april-2024-update/

07:52 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released

11:52 Server vulnerability will be left unfixed

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/supply-chain-snafu-causes-intel-and-others-to-ship-hackable-hardware-for-5-years/?comments=1&comments-page=1

14:53 Explicit sync will fix Wayland on nvidia

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html https://www.phoronix.com/news/Explicit-GPU-Sync-XWayland-Go

18:28 Proton buys Standard Notes

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/proton-acquires-standard-notes-to-add-another-tool-to-its-growing-portfolio/

21:56 DE updates to GNOME, KDE, elementary OS, LXQt

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/05/this-week-in-kde-real-modifier-only-shortcuts-and-cropping-in-spectacle/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-142/

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-april-2024/

28:15 Mint tries extra fast repos

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Faster-Repos-Beta

30:25 Small browsers seeing growth in the EU

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/

33:12 US might soon get better privacy laws

https://www.wired.com/story/apra-congress-online-privacy-proposal/

35:41 Gaming: Wayland as fast as X11, League of Legends

https://www.phoronix.com/review/kde-plasma-6-amd-gaming/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcS3bPmBefU&t=435s

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard-anti-cheat-for-league-of-legends-and-why-its-a-no-for-linux/

42:36 Outro

Proposal for Fedora to use Plasma, XZ backdoor repercussions, German state moves to Linux

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 15:02:41 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:44 A proposal for Fedora to leave GNOME for KDE

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-fedora-plasma-workstation-system-wide/111343/60

07:50 XZ backdoor repercussions

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-release-postponed-due-to-security-concerns/

https://linuxiac.com/after-a-recent-ssh-vulnerability-systemd-reduces-dependencies/

https://9to5linux.com/linux-firmware-update-utility-fwupd-will-use-zstd-compression-for-future-releases

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-xz-backdoor-scanner-detects-implant-in-any-linux-binary/

15:41 German state moves to Linux & FOSS

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

19:42 Germany wants to secure right to encryption

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/germany-seeks-to-make-encryption-a-legal-right

21:58 Mint 22 shakes things up

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-to-ship-thunderbird-as-a-native-deb-package-in-linux-mint-22 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/linux-mint-22-adopts-pipewire-hwe-kernels

26:32 AMD will open source more docs and code

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code

28:16 Thunderbird Exchange support & Snap

https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-progresses-with-exchange-compatibility/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thundersnap-why-were-helping-maintain-the-thunderbird-snap-on-linux/

32:57 Nitrux will leave KDE Plasma behind

https://linuxiac.com/nitrux-moves-to-maui-shell-bids-farewell-to-kde-plasma/ https://nxos.org/news/plasma-6-in-nitrux-when/

36:09 Linux gaming back at around 2%

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2024

39:20 Outro

Redis renounces FOSS, the future of Linux is bright, Fedora 40 beta

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 16:34:23 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:33 Redis is forked after licence change

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html

07:25 Fedora 40 Beta is out

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released

09:49 The future of the Linux desktop is looking good

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/

14:05 Ubuntu LTS can get up to 12 years of support

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-long-term-support-to-12-years-starting-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts

16:10 Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/ubuntu-24-04-makes-a-small-tweak-that-dramatically-improves-gaming

18:50 Canonical addresses the scam snap problem

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440

21:54 Flathub improvements and adoption

https://mastodon.social/@flathub@floss.social

https://kodi.tv/article/ubuntu-team-kodi-ppa-officially-retired/

28:29 Mozilla Monitor Plus is gone for now

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mozilla-ditches-privacy-partner-over-conflict-of-interest

30:35 More EU investigations on Apple, Google and Meta

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/alphabet-apple-and-meta-are-under-investigation-in-europe-for-non-compliance-with-the-digital-markets-act

33:12 Gaming: Wayland fixes, new Nvidia driver, anticheat

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Default-For-Now

https://9to5linux.com/red-hat-announces-nova-a-rust-based-gsp-only-driver-for-nvidia-gpus

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ea-anticheat-arrives-for-battlefield-v-in-april-will-break-it-on-linux-steam-deck/

39:48 Outro

USA sues Apple, Plasma themes can wipe your drive, GNOME 46

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:19:32 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:22 The US sues Apple for abusing their dominant position

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/us-doj-sues-apple-iphone-monopoly

07:12 GNOME 46 is out

https://release.gnome.org/46/

10:56 Plasma 6’s Global themes can wipe your drive

https://linuxiac.com/usage-of-plasma-6-global-themes-may-pose-serious-risks/

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/

14:16 Plasma focuses on Dolphin, and porting work

https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/15/this-week-in-kde-dolphin-levels-up/ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2024/03/16/kf6-completing-the-transition.html

17:43 Mozilla stops providing location services

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed

19:30 Mozilla launches a new “almost social network”

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/introducing-didthis-a-new-app-for-hobbyists/

21:52 10 more scam apps in the Snap Store

https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/

24:40 Threads opens up federation with fediverse

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107881/threads-fediverse-beta-launch-mastodon

27:37 Mesa drivers have corporate issues

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf

30:51 New Nvidia drivers are out

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nvidia-driver-550-67-released-fixes-for-vkd3d-wayland-and-more/

32:09 Gaming: new well funded OS, DXVK and Switch emulator

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gitlab-takes-down-nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-due-to-the-dmca/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-continues-on-from-yuzu/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amd-fsr-31-announced-with-vulkan-support-upscaling-quality-improvements/

https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/not-a-fan-of-windows-11-gaming-portables-linux-powered-alternative-to-steam-deck-might-be-the-answer-to-your-prayers

39:12 Outro

Cosmic is delayed, French suffers massive data breach, EU won't regulate FOSS

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:25:08 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:30 Cosmic Alpha is delayed

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-store-for-popos-unveiled/

05:18 France suffers a massive data breach

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/mega_data_breach_at_french/

08:07 Kernel 6.8 is out

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/linux-kernel-6-8-new-features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Awesome-Changes

11:04 Plasma 6 has bugs, but…

https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/ https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/09/how-you-help-with-quality/

14:11 The EU’s CRA law won’t affect FOSS

https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240312-01.fr.html

17:25 The EU investigates itself for using Microsoft 365

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/edps-microsoft-365/

20:20 OpenAI’s ridiculous defence against the New York Times lawsuit

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-times-denies-openais-hacking-claim-copyright-fight-2024-03-12/

22:27 Nintendo vs yuzu is harming emulation in general

https://www.theverge.com/24098640/nintendo-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit-switch-aftermath

24:58 Proton Mail desktop app is on Linux

https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-desktop-app

27:23 Krita’s roadmap for 2024 might include AI

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/2024-roadmap/

30:38 Details about Valve and Epic’s ongoing dispute

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/valve-coo-on-epics-tim-sweeney-you-mad-bro-when-launching-the-epic-store/

36:10 Outro

Linux at 4%, Fedora drops X11, Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 16:19:55 +0000

ADDITIONAL INFO: regarding the Apple & Epic topic, it looks like Apple committed to reinstate Epic’s developer account, right after the EU announced they’d look into it. I didn’t have time to record a new segment for the podcast to add the correction in audio form.

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00:00 Intro

01:26 Linux passes 4% market share

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/

07:01 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install

09:18 Apple makes a mess of the EU’s DMA

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/google-announces-the-new-fees-that-come-with-its-play-stores-dma-compliance-plan/

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-01/a-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-apples-lack-of-dma-compliance/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161

17:39 GTK 4.14 fixes font rendering, GNOME 46 gets VRR

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-RC

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/

20:38 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project

https://liliputing.com/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-to-shut-down-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-lawsuit-from-nintendo/

23:14 Big French company fined for violating the GPL

https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/

25:35 Windows ditches Android support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Dropping-WSA

28:43 Zorin OS 17.1 brings Wine improvements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/zorin-os-17-1-released-debuts-new-education-edition

32:09 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2403-Released

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amdgpu-driver-for-linux-67-enforces-lower-power-limits-from-vbios/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1

https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open

39:42 Outro

Nintendo sues emulator, Nvidia thinks coding is dead, Plasma 6 is out

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:00:05 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:18 Nintendo sues Yuzu Switch emulator

https://www.polygon.com/24085140/nintendo-totk-leaked-yuzu-lawsuit-emulator

04:52 Nvidia CEO thinks we should stop writing code

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai

07:57 Plasma 6 is out, 6.1 is already starting

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/ https://pointieststick.com/2024/02/23/this-week-in-kde-real-fake-session-restore/

14:23 EU investigates Apple dropping PWAs

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083511/apple-eu-investigation-web-app-support

17:09 Open Source isn’t sustainable?

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

20:33 HDMI spec refuses AMD open source drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

23:26 GNOME make progress on some big features

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/02/twig-136/

26:18 Wordpress & Tumblr sell user data to AI companies

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084884/tumblr-midjourney-openai-training-data-deal-report

29:50 Thunderbird makes progress on sync and Exchange

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/

32:00 Gaming: NVK is stable, Wine on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Conformant https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ESO-GPL-Support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-NVIDIA-ReBAR https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Basic-OpenGL

37:20 Outro

Snap scam problem, Warp on Linux, an API for RGB

Sat, 24 Feb 2024 16:23:58 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:29 The Snap store has a scam problem

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

10:35 Flathub gets better validation and metadata

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/improved-build-validation/

13:07 Warp terminal comes to Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/warp-terminal-official-linux-release

16:35 Tuxedo proposes an API to handle RGB on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-API-Modern-RGB

18:48 Fedora wants a Cosmic spin

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-COSMIC-SIG-Interest

21:06 New hackfest planned for HDR & color management

https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-Linux-Display-Hackfest-May

23:01 Intel caught cheating on benchmarks

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2238972/intel-accused-of-inflating-cpu-benchmark-results.html

25:05 OpenSUSE has a roadmap for their new installer

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer-takes-shape/

27:37 Firefox 123 adds a bunch of features

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-firefox-123-features

30:18 Crossover 24 is out, with fixes for MS Office

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/crossover-24-released-with-wine-9-0-plus-codeweavers-still-hiring-developers/

33:36 Gaming: NVK as default, NTSync driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-Update-February

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-NVK-For-NVIDIA-OpenGL

37:42 Outro

Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans ProtonMail

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:33:33 +0000

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00:00 Intro

1:31 Mozilla announced layoffs to refocus on Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-announces-layoffs-firefox-ai-plans

06:09 Cosmic alpha is close, with its own file manager

https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha

11:09 India moves to ban ProtonMail

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/it-ministry-looks-to-block-proton-mail-on-request-of-tamil-nadu-police-101707938167006.html

14:42 Servo engine resuscitated, Firefox gets new feature

https://news.itsfoss.com/servo-rust-web-engine/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/firefox-devs-working-on-tab-hover-previews

18:23 Chromium gains support for WebMonetization API

https://linuxiac.com/chromium-plans-to-roll-out-web-monetization/

21:01 Ubuntu creates a new app & revamps the installer

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-24-04-installer-redesign

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/first-look-at-ubuntus-new-desktop-security-center

26:03 CUDA on AMD GPUs on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda

29:22 Apple commits to not supporting PWAs in the EU

https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-european-union/

32:23 Gaming: x86 on ARM, Asahi & Nvidia drivers

https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2402/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects-opengl-support-on-apple-silicon-officially-surpasses-apples/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-Mode-Patch

38:44 Outro

Mozilla blunders and then gets a new CEO, Ubuntu makes some moves

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 16:32:36 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:34 Mozilla blunders with overpriced service

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Monitor-Plus

04:51 Mozilla has a new CEO

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024 https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/

09:28 VS Code will support Ubuntu 18.04 again

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-recovery-update-for-ubuntu-18-04

11:47 Kubuntu 24.04 won’t use Plasma 6

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/kubuntu-24-04-wont-use-kde-plasma-6

14:30 Ubuntu moves Thunderbird to a snap

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04

16:41 Ubuntu Core Desktop looks interesting, but is delayed

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-core-desktop-delayed

20:44 elementary OS 8 is available in early access

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-february-2024/

22:44 Apple doubles down on malicious compliance

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/

26:14 Mastodon has a critical security flaw

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mastodon-had-to-act-fast-to-patch-a-critical-security-flaw-that-could-have-let-hackers-hijack-user-accounts

27:52 Severe flaw in the Linux kernel & firmware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/

29:36 Mozilla attacks Microsoft for their dark patterns on Edge

https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/mozilla-blows-the-whistle-on-microsoft-over-the-edge-report-accuses-windows-11-maker-of-browser-bias-and-deceptive-tactics

32:52 Gaming: Wine + DXVK on Android, Manjaro handheld

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cassia-Windows-Games-Android

https://linuxiac.com/orange-pi-neo-manjaro-handheld-gaming-consoles/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/nonsteamlaunchers-for-steam-deck-expands-automatic-game-shortcuts-for-more-stores/

39:06 Outro

VSCode & MS Edge troubles, Fedora KDE might keep X11

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 16:29:49 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:18 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed

04:32 Edge grabs Chrome’s browsing data without consent

https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature

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12:16 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40

15:47 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/

18:12 Wayland & Wine get big improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag

23:43 Red Hat’s licensing changes hurt their ecosystem

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches

26:41 Purism values itself at $75M

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M

30:07 Plasma 6 RC2 is out

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/

32:46 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024

40:15 Outro

Apple really sucks, Mint's EDGE ISO, Wayland protocol drama

Sat, 27 Jan 2024 16:36:11 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:43 Apple opens up iOS in the worst way

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-finally-letting-people-run-third-party-browsers-unfettered-but-only-in-the-eu-and-not-because-it-wants-to

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says-2024-01-26/

08:22 Mint’s Edge ISO is now available

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635

11:34 Wayland & portals get better, and create drama

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.33

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1175

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/269

17:03 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Next-Month

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/01/25/kdes-6th-megarelease-with-kde-neon-testing-edition/

20:11 Huawei won’t support Android apps at all anymore

https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-makes-break-android-with-next-version-harmony-os-caixin-2024-01-19/

22:30 Meta now lets EU citizens unlink their accounts

https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/

24:30 Bazzite 2.2 is now out

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steamos-alternative-bazzite-v22-out-now-with-lots-of-enhancements/

26:45 Nvidia beta drivers bring cool fixes

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nvidia-550-40-07-beta-driver-released-with-fixes-for-vrr-and-wayland/

30:01 Gaming: Ayaneo drops HoloISO, performance boost, unified Wine

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-no-longer-ships-with-steamos-like-holoiso-linux-windows-11-instead/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-linux-wine-game-launcher-aims-to-improve-windows-games-on-linux-steam-deck/

37:17 Outro

OpenSUSE is going immutable, Snap creates problems, Fuchsia won't be Google's future

Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:33:19 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:26 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be immutable

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-15-6-to-be-the-last-in-its-current-form/

05:24 Google pretty much gives up on Fuchsia

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/

07:45 Steam Snap creates problems for Valve

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap

11:01 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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12:30 Flathub wants better quality apps

https://linuxiac.com/flathub-strategic-shift-to-highlight-high-quality-apps/

15:52 Ubuntu adds patches to improve GNOME’s performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-More-GNOME-Perf

18:10 Plasma 6 will get better fractional scaling

https://blog.broulik.de/2024/01/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-vol-5/

21:02 A proposal to make Ai content more identifiable

https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/framework-for-ai-legislation/

24:28 Online search is getting worse

https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

28:27 Google will let the EU unlink data from their services

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/if-youre-in-the-eu-you-can-now-decide-how-much-data-to-share-with-google

30:34 Gstreamer gets 200K€ funding

https://linuxiac.com/stf-funds-gstreamer-with-203k/

32:20 A new flaw in many AMD, Apple and Qualcomm GPUs

https://www.wired.com/story/leftoverlocals-gpu-vulnerability-generative-ai/

34:26 Gaming: Wine 9.0, the Hangover project

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.0

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released

38:03 Outro

Cosmic Alpha, Linux 6.7, more SteamOS devices & the Wayland saga continues

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:28:10 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:15 Cosmic is working on its first alpha

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

04:56 The Wayland saga continues

https://blog.tenstral.net/2024/01/wayland-really-breaks-things-just-for-now.html

09:48 Chromium gaining hardware accelerate video decoding on Wayland

https://linuxiac.com/chromium-vaapi-comes-to-wayland/

11:54 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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13:20 The Linux kernel 6.7 being released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/linux-kernel-6-7-new-features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Features-Early-Look

16:55 Mint 21.3 is out

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-3-virginia-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

19:37 Cool new mockups for GNOME

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2024/01/09/recent-gnome-design-work/

22:33 Some cool stuff coming to GNOME 46 and beyond

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-Alpha https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-2024

25:30 New Linux malware installs cryptominer

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/a-previously-unknown-worm-has-been-stealthily-targeting-linux-devices-for-a-year/

27:39 Gaming:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-handheld-announced-with-steamos-linux/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Shader-Cache

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Feature-Ends

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/heroic-games-launcher-v2120-brings-lots-of-improvements-and-some-fun-experiments/

37:56 Outro

Fedora & RHEL optimizing packages, Linux is at 4%, GNOME develops an extension

Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:29:39 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:05 Fedora also wants more optimized packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Faster-x86-64

03:24 RHEL 10 might drop older CPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RedHat-RHEL10-x86-64-v3-Explore

07:13 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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08:43 Linux desktop reaches 4% market share

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-hits-nearly-4-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/

12:05 Mozilla pivots towards AI

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/02/mozilla_in_2024_ai_privacy/

17:53 GNOME developing an official extension

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/gnomes-official-system-monitor-extension-for-gnome-shell

21:23 KDE reached their funding goals for Plasma 6

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

23:49 Ubuntu might stop providing their source ISOs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Discontinue-Source-ISOs

27:13 Scribus 1.6 looks like a solid publishing app

https://9to5linux.com/scribus-1-6-open-source-desktop-publishing-app-released-as-a-major-update

31:39 Vanilla OS 2 alpha is out

https://linuxiac.com/what-to-expect-from-vanilla-os-2-orchid/

35:00 Watt OS 13 is out for older PCs

https://www.planetwatt.com/R13-details/

37:59 Gaming: Linux beats its gaming market share record

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linux-use-on-steam-ends-2023-with-a-multi-year-high-thanks-steam-deck/

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4784-4F2B-1321-800A

41:08 Outro

X11 is a bad platform, More AI regulation, FOSS licenses aren't enough

Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:01:02 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:24 X11 is a bad platform, says KDE developer

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/26/does-wayland-really-break-everything/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSjmt5WNl6g

10:58 Ubuntu’s plans to drop older CPUs doesn’t yield much benefits

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-x86-64-v3-benchmark

14:38 KDE gets dynamic triple buffering

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Triple-Buffering-MR

16:56 Enlightenment gets an update

https://linuxiac.com/enlightenment-0-26-window-manager-released/

20:10 Nobara moves to KDE

https://linuxiac.com/nobara-linux-39-released/

24:58 Firefox is building its own local, private AI

https://memorycache.ai/

30:02 The US moves forward on regulating AI

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/22/24012757/ai-foundation-model-transparency-act-bill-copyright-regulation

36:01 Open Source licenses aren’t enough anymore

https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/27/bruce_perens_post_open/

40:30 Gaming: Steam Deck OLED might be underwhelming

https://boilingsteam.com/steam-deck-oled-impressions/index.html

44:27 Outro

Open Source Nvidia drivers are good, Microsoft installs Linux for AI work, HDR support

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:27:19 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:20 Open Source Nvidia drivers are already pretty good

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html

06:53 Color management and HDR work progress

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

10:48 Microsoft’s AI studio runs on Linux only

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsofts-new-windows-ai-studio-developer-tool-makes-you-install-linux-to-use-it

12:30 Firefox 121 adds wayland by default

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Available

15:20 Plasma 6 beta 2, and a new KDE theme

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/kde-plasma-60-beta-2-is-available-for-testing/

https://carlschwan.eu/2023/12/19/announcing-brise-theme/

21:25 Fedora Asahi is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-asahi-remix-39/

24:55 Flipboard and Threads will move to AtivityPub and the Fediverse

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-activitypub-test-mastodon

31:12 Thunderbird for Android progress update

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-november-december-2023-progress-report/

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/12/when-will-thunderbird-for-android-be-released/

34:59 New SSH attack is worrying

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/hackers-can-break-ssh-channel-integrity-using-novel-data-corruption-attack/

37:40 Gaming: VkD3D and Proton Experimental

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/proton-experimental-brings-more-hdr-steam-overlay-hack-for-easy-anti-cheat-from-eos/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/wine-90-release-candidate-2-now-available-plus-vkd3d-proton-2111-out-now/

40:16 Outro

The CEO of Proton (Andy Yen) answers all your questions!

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:43:32 +0000

At the end of November, I asked the community on mastodon to send me all their questions about Proton Mail, Drive, VPN, Pass, their features, their privacy, and their security.

I compiled all of these, and interviewed Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton. I couldn’t ask ALL of the questions, since there were 130 non-duplicates, but over the course of 1h30, we still managed to cover a lot of ground.

So, here is the full interview (also available as a video on the Youtube channel if you prefer that).

00:00 Intro 2:11 How did Proton start? 4:18 Why start with email? 6:57 What is Proton’s business model? 9:28 Why set up in Switzerland? 12:28 What data do you have on customers? 15:33 How is encryption important? 19:14 Do you always need to use a VPN? 21:41 Why focus on building an ecosystem? 25:50 Is an Office Suite planned? 27:23 What differentiates Proton from competitors? 31:20 Is Proton a viable alternative to big tech services? 34:26 Why expand to more products instead of finishing existing ones? 38:14 Does the general public care about privacy? 39:40 What’s next for Proton services? 41:02 What are the plans for native Linux clients? 46:57 Will ProtonVPN offer dedicated IPs to everyone? 48:41 What’s the environmental impact of Proton? 50:21 Proton on F-Droid, without Google Play notifications? 52:57 Why are code repos all separated and hard to find? 54:06 Why are addresses ending in “.me” ? 55:51 When will all apps reach feature parity? 57:18 Will SMTP relay be supported? 58:41 Will Proton focus more on businesses in the future? 1:00:44 Why put all your eggs in one basket with just Proton services? 1:02:18 Will Proton support passkeys? 1:04:16 Does E2E matter is the recipient isn’t using it? 1:05:44 Will Proton disable port forwarding in VPN? 1:07:35 Is encryption enough to make email private? 1:10:01 What protects users from a change in Proton’s code licensing? 1:12:08 How does Proton protect its infrastructure? 1:14:09 Impacts of Quantum Computing on privacy and security? 1:15:19 What’s the future of Proton Bridge? 1:17:19 When will Proton photos be a thing? 1:18:11 Plans for Proton Notes? 1:19:14 Will VPN support the Apple TV? 1:22:07 Support the show

Torvalds on Linux's future, Linux gaming beats windows, Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:44:10 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:59 Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-state-of-linux-today-and-how-ai-figures-in-its-future/

06:07 AMD fixes power efficiency on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-PM-Regulatory-Bugs

08:46 Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

https://ubuntu.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd64-architecture

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-x86-64-v3-Experiment

12:52 X.org and Xwayland have 15 year old bugs again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Security-Two-CVEs-End-2023

15:25 RHEL clarifies what they’ll remove when leaving X.org behind

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html

17:41 LXQt working on Wayland as well

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lubuntu-24.04-LTS-Plans

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

20:42 Cosmic gets more improvements

https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december-updates

23:40 Nextcloud Hub 7 is a huge update

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-7-advanced-search-and-global-out-of-office-features/

29:04 OpenSUSE has their new logos

https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-New-Logo

https://en.opensuse.org/Logocontest#Results

31:21 Smart TVs are spyware

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching

34:13 Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/valve-upgrades-the-steam-workshop-plus-various-steam-deck-improvements-in-new-beta/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html

41:05 Outro

Zorin OS 17, huge flaw on all Linux system & Linux gets BSOD

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:31:46 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:58 Zorin OS 17 beta

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/12/04/a-sneak-peek-at-zorin-os-17/

https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-17-beta-unveiled-with-striking-improvements/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/zorin-os-17-beta-released7

06:55 Mint 21.3 brings Wayland support

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4604

09:53 Giant AI alliance forming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/meta-ibm-assemble-open-source-ai-alliance

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-alliance-launches-international-community-leading-technology-developers-researchers-and-adopters-collaborating-together-advance-open-safe-responsible-ai

13:33 systemd brings blue screen of death

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255

16:53 Giant security flaw affects most Windows and Linux systems

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/

20:09 Vote on OpenSUSE’s new logo

https://www.omglinux.com/voting-for-opensuses-new-logo-ends-december-12/

23:03 Why fingerprint unlock on Linux kinda sucks

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68537.html

25:58 GNOME improves scaling

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Better-Text-Scaling

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-2-released-with-various-fixes-and-performance-improvements

29:34 Is Firefox dying?

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2023/11/firefox-brink/

35:46 Gaming News: Steam Deck, SteamOS, wine on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/review/steam-deck-oled-benchmarks

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/steam-deck-steamos-359-preview-well-paced-edition-brings-more-fixes/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/steam-deck-steamos-358-now-in-preview/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Relative-Mouse

41:48 Outro

Red Hat drops X11, KDE Plasma 6 Beta, big Linux desktop plans

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 16:25:50 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:02 Red Hat will drop X11 in RHEL 10

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RHEL10-Removing-X.Org

04:54 Plasma 6 beta and new features

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/01/this-week-in-kde-changing-the-wallpaper-from-within-system-settings/

10:06 GNOME weekly update

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-124/

13:20 Cool stuff coming to Fedora, and Linux in general

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2023/11/29/fedora-workstation-39-and-beyond/

20:20 Budgie is looking for a new base for their future update

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/budgie_switches_wayland_approach/

27:04 Google Drive loses 6 months of work for users

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/

29:50 Peertube 6 is out with plenty of great features

https://linuxiac.com/peertube-6-launches-introducing-password-protection-for-videos/

33:22 Meta knowingly collected childrens personal data

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/26/business/meta-collecting-data-children-facebook/index.html

35:59 Gaming: Mesa 23.3, Wine Wayland, Heroic Games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/mesa-233-is-out-now-with-the-nvk-vulkan-driver-for-nvidia/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Vulkan-Usable

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCSX2-Disables-Wayland-Default

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/heroic-games-launcher-211-released-with-custom-library-categories/

40:48 Outro

Big Plasma 6, GNOME & COSMIC updates, Youtube's anti user moves

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 16:33:34 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:57 Cosmic Updates

https://blog.system76.com/post/a-cosmic-thanksgiving-2023

06:14 PLasma 6 and GNOME get even better

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/24/this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-6-feature-freeze-approaches/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/11/twig-123/

14:22 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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15:49 Youtube has a 5s delay against adblockers

https://www.404media.co/youtube-says-new-5-second-video-load-delay-is-supposed-to-punish-ad-blockers-not-firefox-users/

https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/youtube-may-now-have-annoying-delays-if-you-use-an-ad-blocker-heres-why

20:25 Google moves forward with manifest v3

https://www.techradar.com/computing/chrome/chromes-ad-blocking-plan-could-be-a-privacy-disaster-and-a-reason-to-switch-to-firefox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWCLhHrblE&pp=ygULbWFuaWZlc3QgdjM%3D

23:04 Linux outperforms Windows 11

https://www.phoronix.com/review/threadripper-7995wx-windows-linux

25:35 Microsoft contributes to Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OpenGL-4.6-D3D12

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Microsoft-MFTs-Prep

28:50 Open Source Nvidia drivers now VUlkan compliant

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-hits-vulkan-10-conformance/

31:16 Linux kernel won’t accept CPU specific patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-No-Uarch-Opts

34:24 Gaming: improved Steam, Wine 8.21, DX12 support

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/valve-gives-steam-a-nice-upgrade-for-controller-friendly-games/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/vkd3d-proton-211-released-with-directx-raytracing-enabled-by-default/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.21

40:11 Outro

Windows will be more open, AMD doubles down on FOSS, Big Peertube improvements

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:29:40 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:51 Microsoft has to open Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963579/microsoft-windows-11-eu-digital-markets-act-feature-changes

05:05 FSF calls to the EU for more open source

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html

09:22 AMD is teasing some FOSS work around AI

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Advancing-AI-Open

13:36 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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15:34 Peertube’s roadmap looks pretty awesome

https://framablog.org/2023/11/14/lets-regain-ground-on-the-toxic-web-framasofts-2023-report/

20:33 GNOME apps will get graphics offloading

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-Graphics-Offloading

22:53 Kernel 6.7 is full of good stuff

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/linux-6-6-kernel-confirms-long-term-support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-rc1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-USB-Thunderbolt

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-linux-67

26:49 App news: Vivaldi on Flathub, Firefox Wayland…

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/vivaldi-web-browser-flathub

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Change-Wayland-Release

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/the-untold-history-of-thunderbird/

33:16 Tuxedo launches a full AMD laptop

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/tuxedo-pulse-14-amd-linux-laptop

36:20 Gaming: Deck OLED, SteamOS update, Wine on Wayland

https://9to5linux.com/steam-deck-oled-is-now-available-to-order-with-hdr-display-and-bigger-battery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.5.5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-HiDPI-Merged

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/wine-820-brings-directmusic-improvements-and-preparations-for-wine-90/

41:57 Outro

GNOME gets €1 million, Amazon wants its own Linux, Steam Deck OLED, Immutable Ubuntu

Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:33:50 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:48 GNOME gets 1M euros

https://linuxiac.com/gnomes-receives-one-million-boost/

07:42 Amazon wants its own Linux based OS

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/amazon-vega-linux-based-os

10:28 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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12:11 Plasma 6 gets new icons and more

https://linuxiac.com/sneak-peek-into-plasma-6-icons/

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/plasma-6-0-alpha-what-this-means/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/11/08/november-plasma-6-update/

18:32 Ubuntu Touch ges a big update

https://ubports.com/en/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-3-focal-release-3905

22:26 Ubuntu’s immutable distro

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/11/08/1957249/canonical-reveals-more-details-about-ubuntu-core-desktop

29:10 Fedora 39 is out with 2 partner laptops

https://fedora.slimbook.com/?private-key=IP8uhjervfgdtycxu

https://youtu.be/69P3IGRaI6M

33:44 Tumblr is in bad shape

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/tumblr-is-reportedly-on-life-support-as-its-latest-owner-reassigns-staff/

36:59 Gaming: Steam Deck OLED, Bazzite 2

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/oled

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/codeweavers-are-hiring-for-a-wine-proton-developer/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/steamos-like-linux-package-bazzite-20-is-out-now-for-steam-deck-and-desktop/

43:04 Outro

Fedora KDE drops X11, Huge Nvidia Wayland fixes, Web DRM is dead, Linux kernel 6.6

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:28:26 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:50 Fedora KDE drops X11

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-plasma-6-drops-x11-entirely/

04:18 Kwin gets HDR support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Initial-HDR-Gaming-MR

07:34 Nvidia drivers get huge wayland improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-545.29.02-Linux-Driver

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14:14 GNOME improves Wayland support

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-shell-and-mutter-45-1-released-with-xwayland-and-wayland-improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-GLAMOR-GL-GLES

16:43 Google abandons Web DRM API

https://9to5google.com/2023/11/02/google-chrome-web-integrity-api/

19:57 Linux kernel 6.6 has massive performance improvements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/linux-kernel-6-6-new-features

24:14 Discord flatpak is now official

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/

27:57 Steam snap brings improvements to all snaps

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/steam-snap-status-improvements/39796

30:25 SystemD gets target storage mode

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-storagetm

33:24 Youtube doubles down on adblock blocking

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/31/23940583/youtube-ad-blocker-crackdown-broadening

38:01 Gaming: Wine, War Thunder open sources engine

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/war-thunder-game-engine-dagor-engine-from-gaijin-now-open-source/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.19

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/steam-deck-officially-hits-over-12000-games-playable-and-verified/

41:5 Outro

Wayland on Mint, is Youtube's adblock blocker legal? Fedora 39 delayed

Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:44:06 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:54 Linux Mint is working on Wayland

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4591

05:26 Youtube’s adblock blocker might not be legal

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/26/privacy_advocate_challenges_youtube/

09:44 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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11:44 Fedora 39 gets delayed twice

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-39-release-delayed-due-to-last-minute-bugs/

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-39-release-delayed-by-a-week-for-the-second-time/

14:36 OpenSUSE wants to replace its logo

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-calls-for-fresh-logo-submissions/

17:54 KDE & GNOME Updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/27/these-past-2-weeks-in-kde-wayland-color-management-the-desktop-cube-returns-and-optional-shadows-in-spectacle/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-119/

22:31 New accessibility framework for Linux

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2023/10/27/a-new-accessibility-architecture-for-modern-free-desktops/

26:46 Ubuntu won’t move to 2 year LTS windows

https://ubuntu.com//blog/linux-kernel-lts

29:05 Performance improvements for Linux and drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Nouveau-Zero-Copy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Feature-Starts

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Framework-Linux-BIOS

https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Halloween-Bugs-2023

34:36 Brave installs apps without consent

https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/brave-browser-under-fire-for-installing-its-vpn-without-user-permission

36:59 Gaming News: SteamVR, 3DS emulator perf boost

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/250820/view/3739736044830869589

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/valve-released-big-new-steam-desktop-steam-deck-and-steamvr-20-updates/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-XDC-2023

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/nintendo-3ds-emulator-citra-gets-a-performance-boost-on-linux-steam-deck/

42:08 Outro

Ubuntu broke deb installs, new GNOME director controversy, OpenSUSE new installer

Sat, 21 Oct 2023 15:43:10 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:00 Ubuntu 23.10 broke graphical deb installs

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/install-deb-ubuntu-23-10-no-app-error

05:46 OpenSUSE working on a replacement to Yast installer

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer/

https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/PH7R3Q36KUBBBV4COQ5ZLDCTJNODHC6N/

10:56 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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12:32 New GNOME Director seems controversial

https://linuxiac.com/gnome-projects-unexpected-ceo-choice/

17:34 FOSS seems to be less maintained than previously

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3708630/report-finds-few-open-source-projects-actively-maintained.html

21:18 Super LTS for the Linux kernel

https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-1-gets-10-years-of-support/

24:18 Drivers and performance improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DRM-GPUVM-Relicensed

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-XDC-2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Ray-Tracing-2023

28:44 OnlyOffice 7.5 has a lot of improvements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/onlyoffice-7-5

32:01 System76 updates their Thelio desktop designs

https://blog.system76.com/post/engineering-an-improved-thelio-desktop-line-with-carl-richell

36:20 Gaming News: HDR, low latency & Nvidia wayland

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/nvidia-looking-to-hook-up-reflex-support-in-proton/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/nvidia-beta-driver-545-23-06-released-for-linux-new-features/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2023-AMD-Colors-HDR

41:51 Outro

Will GNOME drop X11? Ubuntu 23.10, Mastodon is more popular than we thought

Sat, 14 Oct 2023 15:33:46 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:47 GNOME might drop X11 entirely

https://linuxiac.com/gnome-is-taking-steps-towards-dropping-x11-support/

05:36 Ubuntu 23.10 released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/ubuntu-23-10-installer-translations-hijack

https://youtu.be/6sA37fATUyg

11:23 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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13:00 Bottles Next improves running Windows apps on Linux

https://linuxiac.com/bottles-next-revolutionizing-linux-emulation-for-windows-apps/

https://usebottles.com/blog/bottles-next-a-new-chapter/

17:48 Mastodon has 400K more users than we thought

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/09/mastodon-actually-has-407k-more-monthly-users-than-it-thought/

21:42 Worpress joins the Fediverse

https://www.techradar.com/pro/wordpress-websites-are-coming-to-the-fediverse

24:05 New hardware from System76 and Slimbook

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/system76-release-the-thelio-spark-starter-desktop-plus-enhancements-to-other-units/

https://fedora.slimbook.es/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTei_ivtONA

27:07 More performance improvements coming

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Bug-Secondary-Frame-Rates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-SMU-14.0-Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.6-QtWayland-Handoffs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.6-Released

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Curl-8.4-Coming

30:59 Github Copilot is losing Microsoft a lot of money

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-is-reportedly-losing-huge-amounts-of-money-on-github-copilot

35:03 Gaming News: CS2 drops MacOS, Deck no longer top 10

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/after-over-80-weeks-the-steam-deck-leaves-the-top-10-global-sellers-on-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/steamos-3411-for-steam-deck-released-with-a-firmware-upgrade/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/valve-dropped-counter-strike-2-support-on-macos-and-older-hardware/

42:46 Outro

elementary OS 7.1, Snap malware, France wants to ban VPNs

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:30:15 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:56 elementary OS 7.1 released

https://blog.elementary.io/os-7-1-available-now/

08:54 Malware lands in the snap store

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Snap-Store-Malicious-Apps

12:39 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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14:29 France wants to ban VPNs

https://www.techradar.com/pro/vpn/france-vpns-might-be-banned-amid-sren-bills-new-unreasonable-amendments

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/vpn-ban-france-new-law.html

18:28 GNOME weekly app updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/10/twig-116/

20:58 Plasma 6 updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/06/this-week-in-kde-re-organized-system-settings/

24:15 Performance improvements for Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Faster-NV-Prop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-DCC-MSAA-RDNA3

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Hibernation-Patches

https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-Tearing-Control-Merged

27:58 ARM x86 emulator is looking good

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emu-2310-Released

31:25 Studio One DAW comes to Linux

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/10/pro-audio-app-studio-one-now-supports-linux

34:22 X11 and GlibC vulnerabilities

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Vulnerabilities-Since-1988

https://www.phoronix.com/news/MTU1NzA

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/major-linux-distros-targeted-by-hackers-exploiting-this-significant-flaw

37:13 Gaming News: Proton and Linux marketshare

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/proton-80-4-brings-more-game-support-to-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-September-2023

40:37 Outro

Photoshop on the web, Mint + Debian, & COSMIC updates

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 15:31:00 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:50 LMDE 6 is now out

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/lmde-6-officially-released

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4570

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4571

05:43 Photoshop on the web is now available

https://www.techradar.com/computing/internet/photoshop-on-the-web-finally-launches-but-its-still-not-a-free-canva-rival

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13:02 Cosmic desktop updates

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-september-new-window-swapping-mode

19:10 Nvidia open source driver update + Mesa drivers 23.2 released

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Caching-Start

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.2-Branched

23:07 Google won’t fix a new Chrome vulnerability

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/

26:33 Raspberry Pi 5 is available for preorder

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/raspberry-pi-5-officially-announced

30:15 Linux App Store retrospective

https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/there-is-still-no-linux-app-store/

35:27 Gaming News: Steam VR 2, GPU overclocking

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Counter-Strike-2-Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/TuxClocker-1.0

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/chimeraos-linux-44-out-now-with-improved-support-for-various-handhelds/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/250820/view/3666547477701338587

43:14 Outro

Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 15:30:19 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:53 Nouveau maintainer resigns

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Patches-Run-On-GSP-Blob

05:31 LTS kernels will be supported for 2 years instead of 6

https://linuxiac.com/linux-lts-kernels-moves-to-two-year-support-period/

09:51 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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11:24 GNOME 45 was released & GNOME updates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSA0nZaF6M

https://blogs.gnome.org/jangernert/2023/09/22/newsflash-3-0/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-114/

20:20 Ubuntu 23.10 beta

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-23-10-beta

24:09 Fedora 40 might drop X11 for GNOME as well

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-39-beta-released-with-gnome-45-linux-kernel-6-5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-No-X11-Session

28:20 Why we need Wayland, and where it is now

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

34:30 WSL got a big update

https://www.phoronix.com/news/WSL-Big-September-Update

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/

36:52 New hard to detect Linux backdoor

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/never-before-seen-linux-backdoor-is-a-windows-malware-knockoff/

38:27 Gaming News: Wine on Wayland, Valve contributes a lot

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-deck-and-steamos-are-great-for-linux-as-a-whole/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-WM

41:39 Outro

Another Linux tablet, HDR gaming & Linux malware

Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:03:28 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:50 New Linux tablet from Purism

https://www.omglinux.com/purism-librem-11-linux-tablet/

https://puri.sm/products/librem-11/

05:44 Linux malware ran rampant for 3 years

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/password-stealing-linux-malware-served-for-3-years-and-no-one-noticed/

08:51 Plasma 6 and 5.27 updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-kde-more-plasma-6-dev/

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-40-to-offer-kde-plasma-6-desktop/

https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-8-improves-hybrid-sleep-and-monitoring-of-nvidia-gpus

15:37 XFCE unveils a Wayland roadmap

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Wayland-Roadmap-2023

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

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20:38 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-113/

https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2023/09/15/libadwaita-1-4/

25:25 New OpenSUSE rolling release distro, LMDE 6, and Ubuntu encryption

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Slowroll

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-6-faye-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing

https://ubuntu.com/blog/tpm-backed-full-disk-encryption-is-coming-to-ubuntu

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-23-10-to-introduce-an-experimental-tpm-backed-fde/

29:07 GNOME 45 RC is out

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-release-candidate-arrives-with-last-minute-changes

31:39 Linux drivers and performance updates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Prereq-Xe

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.3-Wayland-Tearing

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPUFreq-Boost

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Workqueue

36:28 Gaming News: HDR gaming, Steam Deck sale

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/vkd3d-proton-v2-10-various-game-fixes-directstorage/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/dxvk-nvapi-064-out-now-expanding-hdr-support/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.16

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/valve-puts-the-steam-deck-and-dock-on-sale-again/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/3686804163591367815

41:29 Outro

Plasma 6 not before 2024, new Ubuntu App Store, GNOME breaks extensions

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 15:49:30 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:54 Plasma 6 has a release date, and it’s far away

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/

https://cullmann.io/posts/kf6-release-plan/

07:58 The new Ubuntu App Center looks like a regression

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-app-center-app-arrives

13:45 GNOME 45 will break all extensions

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2023/09/02/extensions-in-gnome-45/

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19:55 Linux drivers and performance updates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-MSAA-Compute-Queue

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Input

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Optimize-Lacking-ERMS

23:48 elementary OS updates

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-august-2023/

27:22 The EU won’t force Apple to use RCS for now

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/eu-apple-imessage-gatekeeper-ruling

31:51 Chrome gets its new tracking tech

https://gizmodo.com/google-privacy-sandbox-now-on-every-chrome-browser-1850812404

36:28 Gaming News: market share, new Valve devices…

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-continues-rising-above-3-desktop-user-share-on-statcounter/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-user-share-remains-above-macos-in-the-latest-steam-survey/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-will-soon-show-better-controller-support-details-like-for-playstation-controllers/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/linux-updates-tease-valve-galileo-and-sephiroth-steam-deck-refresh-or-new-vr/

https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-3-improves-performance-in-tomb-raider-anniversary-and-fixes-many-bugs

42:12 Outro

Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 15:29:38 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:53 Accent colors are added to the XDG desktop portal

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.17.1

https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/815

06:23 Linux Kernel 6.5 was released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-kernel-6-5-features

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-7950x

10:41 Kernel 6.6 will have big performance boosts

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sysctl-Cleaning

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IOmap-Improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Early-Features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-OverDrive-Linux

16:22 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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17:52 GNOME will get more UI updates

https://www.omglinux.com/nautilus-split-pane-gnome-45/

https://feborg.es/gnome-settings-update-2023-2/

22:11 France pushes another censorship law

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-plans-to-boost-internet-censorship-to-combat-online-fraud

https://foundation.mozilla.org/fr/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites-en/

26:53 Intel announces chips with 240% better efficiency

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-says-new-sierra-forest-chip-more-than-double-power-efficiency-2023-08-28/

30:37 Flatpak implements Wayland security features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-Wayland-Security-Ctx

32:02 Alma Linux adds 2 new repos

https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-goes-its-way-adds-two-new-repositories/

36:22 Gaming News: Starfield on Steam Deck, Wine + Wayland

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-returns-to-linux-with-wine/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-deck-os-349-released-with-gpu-fix-for-starfield/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Part-6

40:59 Outro

Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Budgie gets updates

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:07:56 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:59 Ubuntu shared their plans for the desktop

https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-desktop-charting-a-course-for-the-future

07:31 Budgie received a big update

https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10.8-released

https://linuxiac.com/budgie-desktop-10-8-released/

12:51 KDE & GNOME updates

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.0/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/25/this-week-in-kde-tap-to-click-by-default/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-110/

19:25 NVIDIA Bios lock has been broken

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Lock-Broken

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/nvidia-posts-nvapi-core-software-development-kit-on-github/

22:49 Asahi Linux has an OpenGL conformant driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-GLES-3.1-AGX-M1-M2

25:15 Firefox lets you import extensions from Chrome

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/firefox-users-may-import-chrome-extensions-now/

27:35 Ubuntu Deepin 23.04 is finally out

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntudde-remix-23-04-released/

https://ubuntudde.com/blog/ubuntudde-remix-23-04-lunar-release-note/

30:02 Alma Linux is doing better than ever

https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/18/almalinux-leader-says-red-hat-code-crackdown-isnt-threat/

32:59 LibreOffice 7.6 is a big update

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-7.6

36:20 Gaming News: Apex bans players, Roblox Linux support…

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-players-getting-banned-on-apex-legends-again/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/steamos-35-for-steam-deck-gets-a-screen-colour-temperature-setting/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/ge-proton-8-13-and-8-12-released-fsr-no-longer-default-and-many-game-fixes/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-is-coming-back-to-wine-on-linux/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/over-11000-games-now-rated-steam-deck-playable/

41:05 Outro

New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 15:25:51 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:49 StarLabs launches their Microsoft Surface equivalent

https://linuxiac.com/starlite-5-linux-tablet/

07:09 SUSE is going private

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/suse_delisting/

12:28 GNOME 45 is getting a cool feature, plus the beta is out

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-adds-keyboard-backlight-control/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/gnome_45_beta/

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-beta-released-heres-whats-new

17:38 The KDE team fixes how they handle icon themes

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/

21:26 Plasma 6 wallpaper competition

https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-wallpaper-competition/

https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773

23:58 Does Linux have a Firefox problem?

https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/

30:55 Application updates: WPS and Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/wps-office-for-linux-updated-2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/mozilla-firefox-for-android-to-support-extensions

34:39 Discord.io suffers a big data breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discordio-confirms-breach-after-hacker-steals-data-of-760k-users/

37:27 Gaming News: Nvidia problems, ray tracing and mitigations

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/

https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.14

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-kernel-gets-an-amd-zenbleed-fix-for-the-steam-deck-apu/

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks

43:53 Outro

New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support

Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:58:54 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:52 Security flaws in CPUs mean less performance

https://www.techradar.com/pro/all-amd-zen-cpus-hit-by-a-major-security-flaw-heres-what-we-know

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/downfall-inception-amd-intel-security/

05:22 SUSE & Oracle create a foundation to provide RHEL compatible code

https://openela.org/news/hello_world/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-suse-and-ciq-go-after-red-hat-with-the-open-enterprise-linux-association/

https://linuxiac.com/rocky-oracle-and-suse-join-forces-against-red-hat-in-openela/

10:51 Red Hat hires to work on bootloaders

https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100038/principal-software-engineer/job

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Hiring-Bootloader

13:40 Wayland on Plasma 6 looks pretty great

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html

18:27 GNOME 45 might add native screencasting support

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-45-native-screencast-support/

21:32 Application updates for the week

https://www.omglinux.com/xournal-plus-plus-handwritten-notes-update/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/firefox-117-private-translation

25:47 NVK improves and AMD performance increase

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NVK-Linux-6.6-DRM-Next

29:27 Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu with some nice tools

https://rhinolinux.org/news-6.html

32:50 The LXD project gets forked after Canonical shenanigans

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Containers-LXD-Incus

36:47 Gaming News: Refurbished Steam Decks, Overwatch 2 on Steam

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/now-official-you-can-buy-a-refurbished-steam-deck-from-valve/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/overwatch-2-out-on-steam-works-fine-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/

41:13 Outro

ChromeOS becomes a Linux distro, GNOME Activities changes, Mint 21.3

Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:43:43 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:02 Chrome OS becomes a real Linux distro

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-is-finally-separating-chrome-from-chromeos-for-easier-updates/

07:12 GNOME is working on a replacement for the Activities button

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-test-activities-button-replacement/

11:57 Mint outlines their plans for 21.3 and Debian Edition

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-mint-21-3-plans

16:45 Fedora Asahi Linux brings Fedora to Apple Silicon

https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/

19:39 Plasma 6 progress report

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/03/august-plasma-6-progress-update/

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2023/08/04/announcing-kde-neon-experimental/

22:23 Red Hat continues their anti community behavior

https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-discovers-working-with-red-hat-isnt-easy/

25:55 Battery life focused driver updates

https://9to5linux.com/mesa-23-2-brings-opengl-3-1-opengl-es-3-0-support-on-asahi-new-radv-features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-cpupower

28:18 Thunderbird Sync features are delayed

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/an-update-on-thunderbird-sync/

31:31 Meta caves to the EU, Apple locks their APIs down

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/01/1452226/meta-to-seek-user-consent-for-targeted-ads-in-the-eu

https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-is-bringing-in-new-app-store-rules-to-stop-user-fingerprinting

35:43 Gaming News: Linux passes macOS in Steam market share

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/ubisoft-connect-broke-again-but-valve-fixed-it-in-proton-experimental/

41:11 Outro

Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features

Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:28:52 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:12 Google wants to add DRM to the web

https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

07:20 GNOME has a new way of managing windows

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

14:33 GNOME weekly news

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/07/twig-105/

17:23 Plasma 6 removes a few features

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6

23:17 Fedora improves firmware handling on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Server-Alert-FW-Updates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-DNF5-Fedora-39

26:59 Zorin OS 16.3 is out

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/07/27/zorin-os-16.3-is-released/

30:49 Canonical drops LXD maintainers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-Maintainership-Canonical

32:56 FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Merge-Request-Mesa

35:20 Linux drivers speed boost & battery life improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPU-Perf-Boost

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-anv-mod-boost

36:58 Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update

https://linuxgameconsortium.com/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/heroic-games-launcher-29-out-now-with-amazon-games-support/

40:04 Outro

EU's new law will hurt FOSS, Intel performance boost, repairable laptops

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:45:49 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:02 The UE’s Cyber Resilience Act is a nightmare for Open Source

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-the-impending-tragedy-of-the-cyber-resilience-act

https://cnll.fr/news/le-cnll-alerte-sur-les-dangers-du-cyber-resilience-act-pour-la-fili%C3%A8re-du-logiciel-libre-en-europe/

10:41 The Framework 16 can be preordered with a removable GPU module

https://frame.work/fr/en/products/laptop16-amd-7040/configuration/edit

15:49 Lenovo also wants a repairable device

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovos-tiers-of-sustainability/#dt-heading-futuristic-design

https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/lenovos-aurora-project-repairable-laptops-could-be-a-major-breakthrough-in-the-war-on-e-waste

19:52 First FOSS Nvidia driver lands in Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Initial-NVIDIA-RTX-40

24:25 Interesting article about how Wayland is being adopted

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/wayland_is_coming/

29:57 The GIMP has finished their porting process to GTK3

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/gimp-dev-release-completes-gtk3-port-adds-headerbar-option

https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/07/09/gimp-2-99-16-released/

32:51 Meta being fined 100 000 euros per day

https://www.engadget.com/meta-facing-a-100000-daily-fine-if-it-doesnt-fix-privacy-issues-in-norway-102557370.html

36:18 Threads is not working out for Meta

40:13 Gaming News: Intel performance boost, Nvidia drivers

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nvidia-driver-535-86-05-out-now-linux/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/valve-adds-ability-to-see-steam-deck-verification-in-desktop-steam/

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-10p-faster

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-More-Gaming-Perf

44:41 Outro

SUSE takes on Red Hat, Mint 21.2 released & Thunderbird Supernova

Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:00:42 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:16 SUSE makes their own 1:1 RHEL compatible distro

https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/

08:10 Linux Mint 21.2 released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xLugqOo1U

11:58 Thunderbird 115 is now live, and it’s awesome

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/whatsnew/

18:22 Linux passes 3% market share on the desktop

https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-3-percent-market-share/

21:54 China has its own from scratch Linux distro

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/

https://news.itsfoss.com/openkylin-linux-os/

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-05/OpenKylin-becomes-China-s-1st-open-source-desktop-operating-system-1lcms33vj7G/index.html

26:21 A copy of the Windows task manager for Linux

https://www.omglinux.com/mission-center-system-monitor-linux/

28:13 The US and EU can now share user data freely again

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/big-tech-can-transfer-europeans-data-to-us-in-win-for-facebook-and-google/

31:21 Google sued for scraping user data and violating copyright

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html

35:02 Gaming News: FidelityFX, Meta’s graphics library, Yuzu

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.12

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/amd-opens-up-the-fidelityfx-sdk-and-its-now-on-github/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/meta-announced-igl-a-high-performance-cross-platform-graphics-library/

42:52 Outro

New Ubuntu Store promotes snap only, GNOME 45 alpha and France privacy breaches

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 16:00:25 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:48 Ubuntu’s new app store favors snaps over debs

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-23-10-new-app-store-deb-support

06:22 GNOME 45 alpha is out

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-alpha-is-now-available-for-public-testing-heres-whats-new

11:00 Canonical takes control of the Linux Container Daemon

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/canonical-takes-full-control-of-lxd

https://linuxiac.com/lxd-containers-project-goes-under-canonical-wing/

14:24 Ubuntu will let you pick the apps you want at install

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-new-unified-install-plans-sound-meh

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rethinking-ubuntu-desktop-a-more-thoughtful-default-installation/36736

19:24 BlendOS 3 supports all Linux packaging formats

https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-blendos-3-now-officially-available-based-on-arch-linux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOm_zATjgqU

23:21 Alma and Rocky answer to Red Hat

https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

27:06 France just voted for surveillance

https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772

31:42 Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-passes-2-million-downloads-in-2-hours/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.instagram.barcelona&gl=it

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

35:45 Gaming News: Steam Deck wins Linux gaming, Steam beta

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/steam-beta-improves-openbox-support-and-fixes-focus-issues-with-amd-intel/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nearly-40-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-are-on-steam-deck/

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/

39:14 Outro

Kernel 6.4 boosts AMD, FOSS Nvidia Driver, GNOME gaming improvements

Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:36:34 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:39 Linux Kernel 6.4 brings big AMD improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Guided-Auto

https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-6-4/

05:08 FOSS NVK driver makes good progress

https://9to5linux.com/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-now-supports-older-gpus-new-extensions

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-update-enabling-new-extensions-conformance-status-more.html

10:56 GNOME fixes Wayland gaming

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Wayland-Gaming-No-Block  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3080

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-102/

15:08 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/30/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-continues/

17:41 New Installer might debut in Fedora 39

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-39-workstation-to-ship-with-a-more-modern-installer

20:48 ReactOS isn’t dead and is super interesting

https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-102/

23:41 Canonical redesigns the snap store

https://ubuntu.com//blog/snapcraft-io-reloaded-check-out-the-new-look-and-feel

26:46 Zorin OS brings an in place updater tool

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/06/28/the-zorin-os-upgrader-has-arrived/

30:06 System76 releases their Thelio cases as a standalone

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/system76-reveal-the-nebula-a-new-pc-case-for-everyone/

https://system76.com/components

32:57 Irish Data Protection Commission legal shenanigans

https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/data-security/2023/06/26/last-minute-law-change-bid-to-muzzle-critics-of-data-protection-commission-iccl/

36:57 Gaming News: AMD driver improvements, Valve hiring, and more

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/amd-radv-gets-feature-to-help-emulation-and-translation-layers/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/valve-pulls-in-another-graphics-driver-developer-for-linux-gaming/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/steam-deck-hits-over-10000-verified-and-playable-games/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.11

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/blob/771e442af16228a977eebba82224f06f6d0202fe/ANNOUNCE

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/part-4-of-the-wine-work-for-wayland-is-now-merged/

43:30 Outro

Special: Interview with Tuxedo

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:32:31 +0000

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Red Hat vs open source, Mint Beta, Plasma 6 progress report

Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:33:23 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:44 Red hat restricts access to their source code

https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-restricts-access-to-its-source-code/

07:44 Linux Mint 21.2 is a huge update

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4523

https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_victoria_cinnamon_whatsnew.php

15:16 Plasma 6 progress report

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/18/on-the-road-to-plasma-6/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/23/this-week-in-kde-sddm/

22:39 GNOME’s weekly progress

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-101/

27:16 A new Linux malware uses SSH to infect servers

https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/54647/

29:22 The EU makes removeable batteries mandatory

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96210/making-batteries-more-sustainable-more-durable-and-better-performing

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/this-is-ridiculous-apple-fans-arent-happy-about-new-european-mobile-law

33:51 LibreOffice and Thunderbird want to integrate better

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/06/community-voice-5-ways-to-make-thunderbird-and-libreoffice-better-together/

36:36 Adobe Stock creators are unhappy about Adobe’s AI

https://www.techradar.com/pro/software-services/creators-slam-adobe-over-firefly-ai-training

40:27 Gaming News: emulation on Deck and Devilution

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/devilutionx-continues-improving-classic-diablo-and-hellfire/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/retrodeck-got-a-lot-bigger-and-better-for-emulation-on-steam-deck/

Big Nextcloud improvements, PopOS Cosmic tiling changes, and Steam redesign

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 15:22:31 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:09 Nextcloud Hub 5 adds some big improvements

https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-hub-5-first-to-deliver-self-hosted-ai-powered-digital-workspace/

09:09 System76 unveils how tiling works in the new Cosmic desktop

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing

15:17 GNOME mobile has a roadmap

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/06/16/berlin-mobile-hackfest/

20:54 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-100/

25:39 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/16/this-week-in-kde-nicer-digital-signing-in-okular/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/09/this-week-in-kde-major-plumbing-work-in-plasma-6/

29:08 Youtube cracks down on Invidious

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88xxex/youtube-tells-open-source-privacy-software-invidious-to-shut-down

31:50 System76 had a user data leak for a year

https://hn.svelte.dev/item/36349400

34:10 Thunderbird for Android progresses nicely

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/06/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-may-2023-progress-report/

37:36 Gaming News: Steam redesign, AMD ray tracing

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3687931965598906184

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/steam-ui-scaling-should-work-even-better-in-the-latest-beta/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/removing-non-steam-apps-now-cleans-up-on-steam-deck-and-linux-desktop/

https://pixelcluster.github.io/RADV-Raytracing-ON/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.10

43:08 Outro

France arrested people for using Linux, Windows 11 loses users, better FOSS firmware

Sat, 10 Jun 2023 15:35:07 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:51 France arrested people for being private and using Linux

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/

06:40 Windows 11 is losing users

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-lost-users-this-month-should-microsoft-be-worried

10:59 System76 announces big updates to their FOSS firmware

https://blog.system76.com/post/major-updates-for-system76-open-firmware-june-2023

16:47 Debian 12 is now out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfgPmUsirs

21:38 OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 is out as well

https://news.opensuse.org/2023/06/07/leap-release-matures-sets-up-tech-transition/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSaUj_Okbnw

24:23 BlendOS 3 offers a new spin on immutable distros

https://blendos.co/blend-os-v3/

28:50 Cinnamon 5.8 is released

https://www.techgoing.com/cinnamon-5-8-desktop-environment-released-support-for-gesture-dark-mode-and-more/

32:56 Gaming News: Apple uses Wine and VKD3D, Proton updates

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/proton-experimental-fixes-up-halo-mcc-ubisoft-connect-creativerse/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/ge-proton-8-4-is-out-now-with-game-fixes-and-other-upgrades/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752164/apple-mac-gaming-game-porting-toolkit-windows-games-macos

39:54 Outro

Ubuntu goes immutable, big GNOME updates, Touchpad gestures on Mint

Sat, 03 Jun 2023 15:33:27 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:53 Ubuntu plans an immutable desktop distro

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/cups-snap-ubuntu-23-10#comment-6196766355

06:14 GNOME will get a flatpak syncing tool and a revamped System panel

https://blog.timfb.dev/posts/2023/05/31/biweekly-gsoc-update-reaching-flatsyncs-mvp.html

https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/settings-mockups/-/blob/master/system/system-panel.png

https://medium.com/@gautamy672/gsoc-2023-week-1-report-create-a-new-system-panel-in-gnome-settings-cf6401463c13

11:19 GNOME could get a full light theme, and official fractional scaling support

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2324

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-fractional-scaling-settings-design/

17:43 Linux Mint 21.2 will bring touchpad gestures

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-2-with-cinnamon-5-8-is-getting-support-for-gestures

23:05 Portals will now work better with all DEs or tiling WMs

https://www.bassi.io/articles/2023/05/29/configuring-portals/

26:59 The Linux Foundation pushes RISC-V hard

https://linuxfoundation.eu/newsroom/rise-project-launches-to-accelerate-development-of-risc-v

31:38 Reddit prices everyone out of their API

https://www.techradar.com/news/reddit-follows-twitter-in-killing-off-good-apps-with-monstrous-fees

35:11 The Windows XP product key algorithm has been cracked

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_keygen/

37:29 Gaming News: Nvidia Wayland support, Heroic, Wine…

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/heroic-games-launcher-280-adds-a-dlc-manager-for-epic-games-side-loading-browser-apps/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.9

41:45 Outro

Fedora KDE abandons X11, Android's giant security flaw, Meta gets EU'd again

Sat, 27 May 2023 15:33:33 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:02 Fedora KDE proposes to stop supporting X11

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-x11-support-in-plasma-6/

05:56 Thunderbird’s New Logo

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-x11-support-in-plasma-6/

08:47 Android has a big fingerprint vulnerability

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/researchers-detail-bruteprint-attack-android-fingerprint-sensors

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-brute-force-fingerprint-attack-could-break-into-your-android-phone

13:38 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/20/this-week-in-kde-preliminary-hdr-support/

18:27 Fedora Onyx is now an official spin for Fedora

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-onyx-approved-as-immutable-fedora-linux-39-spin-with-budgie-desktop

VanillaOS, immutable distro review: https://youtu.be/qHMgFLOim5o

21:30 Bodhi Linux has a new beta for Enlightnement users

https://www.bodhilinux.com/release/7-0-0/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/bodhi-linux-7-0-beta

24:12 AMD devs improve suspend and resume on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-One-Liner-System-Resume

26:20 Intel proposes a lighter x86 architecture

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/

29:31 Neeva, the private search engine, stops and pivots to AI

https://www.techradar.com/news/private-search-engine-neeva-to-give-up-its-dream-of-replacing-google

https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement

33:42 Meta’s business in the EU is in trouble

https://www.techradar.com/news/meta-hit-with-record-dollar13bn-fine-for-its-handling-of-eu-user-data

38:30 Gaming News: VKD3D update, Wine on Wayland, and Yuzu Steam Deck support

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-gets-a-nice-steam-deck-upgrade/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/wine-and-wayland-take-another-step-closer-with-more-code-merged/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/vkd3d-proton-v29-out-now-with-multiple-performance-improvements/

42:11 Outro

More HDR work for Linux, Ubuntu revamps PPAs, KeePass security breach

Sat, 20 May 2023 15:20:17 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:54 More HDR work on Linux

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/05/18/hdr-and-color-management-in-kwin.html

04:20 Ubuntu makes PPAs more secure

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/significant-changes-to-ppas-coming-in-ubuntu-23-10

07:55 KeePass is vulnerable to an exploit

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/05/17/cve-2023-32784/

10:15 Discord suffered a privacy breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-discloses-data-breach-after-support-agent-got-hacked/

12:12 Cinnamon joins the official variants of AlmaLinux

https://linuxiac.com/cinnamon-can-join-almalinuxs-family-of-live-images/

15:08 Rhino Linux makes its own XFCE based desktop

https://rhinolinux.org/unicorn/index.html

19:25 Red Hat’s layoffs affected Fedora as well

https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2023/05/12/inaction-bcotton/

22:33 OpenAI will release a new open source language model

https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-readies-new-open-source-ai-model-information-2023-05-15/

25:55 Windows now snoops inside your password protected zips

https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-is-searching-within-your-secure-folders-for-malware-even-if-you-have-a-password

28:44 Apple under investigation for planned obsolescence

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/17/apple-planned-obsolescence-france-hop/

31:42 Gaming News: Valve sued, Big Picture on Nvidia, Wine 8.8…

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/roblox-still-plan-to-make-it-work-with-wine-on-linux/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/lutris-0-5-13-released

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/immersion-corporation-sues-valve-over-steam-deck-and-valve-index-haptics-tech/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/valve-tries-to-improve-big-picture-mode-on-linux-for-nvidia-gpus/

40:43 Outro

AMD moves to FOSS firmware, COSMIC panel customization, & Plasma 6 changes

Sat, 13 May 2023 15:35:58 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:50 AMD moves to open source firmware

https://linuxiac.com/amd-opensil-firmware/

04:56 COSMIC will be heavily customizable

https://blog.system76.com/post/may-flowers-spring-cosmic-showers

10:53 KDE Plasma 6 will change the defaults

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/plasma-6-better-defaults/

18:32 Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/microsoft-wants-firefox-to-ditch-google-switch-to-bing

21:17 Firefox 113 and 114 add some cool new features

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/firefox-113-released-etc

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-114-beta-revamps-dns-over-https-feature-adds-cookie-banner-reduction

23:37 Thunderbird is thriving, and working on an iOS app

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/

26:23 Flathub passes 1 billion downloads

https://linuxiac.com/flathub-reaches-billion-downloads/

28:48 Ubuntu ups their RISC V game

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/ubuntu-23-04-risc-v-support

31:44 Gaming News: no more Roblox, Nintendo fights emulation, Steam client scaling…

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/05/nintendo-files-dmca-takedowns-on-switch-emulation-tools-just-before-tears-debut/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-gets-a-huge-performance-boost/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/goodbye-to-roblox-on-linux-with-their-new-anti-cheat-and-wine-blocking/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/steam-will-now-scale-better-with-kde-and-gnome/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-23.1-Released

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/direct3d-8-to-vulkan-translator-d8vk-production-ready-10-is-out-now/

HDR & VRR Linux support, AMD challenges Apple Silicon, Microsoft Edge abuse

Sat, 06 May 2023 15:34:42 +0000

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01:05 HDR, VRR and color management on Linux

https://emersion.fr/blog/2023/hdr-hackfest-wrap-up/

04:43 Microsoft’s dominant position abuses continue

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/16/discover-new-ways-to-multitask-with-microsoft-365-and-edge/

https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-google-chrome-feature-broken-edge-1850392901

07:32 AMD unveils Apple Silicon-killer chips

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-promises-its-new-laptop-chips-will-crush-the-apple-m2-and-its-got-reciepts

11:09 Framework laptop with new AMD chips

https://frame.work/fr/en/blog/announcing-the-framework-laptop-13-powered-by-amd-ryzen

12:11 Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 refresh with a huge battery

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen8

14:23 Linux Mint 21.2 will go further on appearance changes

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4513

17:01 Fedora Onyx, the immutable Fedora Budgie

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-onyx-an-immutable-os-with-budgie-desktop/

19:37 Ubuntu 18.04 is end of life at the end of May

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/ubuntu-18-04-end-of-support

21:41 Maui Shell unveils more technical details

https://mauikit.org/blog/configuring-maui/

24:10 KDE Plasma 6 revamps panel editing

https://pointieststick.com/2023/04/28/this-week-in-kde-the-bug-slaughterfest-continues/

27:07 Plasma Mobile introduces new adaptive apps

https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/05/05/this-month-plasma-mobile/

28:26 Mastodon makes a controversial change to onboard users

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

35:33 Gaming News: Wine 8.7, 9000 games on Deck, and more

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.7

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/fna-direct3d-11-support-on-linux-using-dxvk-and-vkd3d/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/cartridges-is-another-linux-game-launcher-and-its-super-clean/

40:11 Outro

Flathub redesign, Linux 6.3 + Intel performance boost, EU vs big platforms

Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:08:47 +0000

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01:03 Flathub’s redesign and verified apps are live

https://linuxiac.com/redesigned-flathub-is-now-live/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MysPjElfpok

05:59 Linux Kernel 6.3 brings performance improvements

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/linux-kernel-6-3-features

10:20 Intel iGPUs will get a 10-15% performance boost

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-RPS-Threshold-Linux-Tune

13:06 EU’s Digital Services Act makes big platforms more transparent

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/google-runs-5-of-the-19-platforms-that-must-follow-eus-new-internet-rules/

19:37 BlendOS 2 is out with native Android app support

https://blendos.co/blend-os-v2/

22:46 Brave Search ditched Bing for its search results

https://brave.com/search-independence/

25:46 Microsoft Edge leaks data to Bing

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

27:39 Kdenlive will work on hardware acceleration and uses Ai tools

https://kdenlive.org/en/2023/04/kdenlive-23-04-0-released/

31:27 Ubuntu 23.04 still doesn’t support AppImage out of the box

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/appimages-libfuse2-ubuntu-23-04

32:50 Gaming News: Steam redesign, Steam Deck revision, new AMD CPUs

https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/

https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-deck-hardware-revision-in-the-wild-with-pictures/

https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-ryzen-z1-handheld-gaming-chips-lay-down-gauntlet-for-the-nintendo-switch-2

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3686801719529689367

41:06 Outro

Fedora 38, Ubuntu 23.04, Solus survives & big KDE app updates

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:00:50 +0000

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00:52 Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 released

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6TYolrk0eo&t=473s

https://ubuntu.com//blog/firefox-snap-updates-and-upgrades

07:40 Solus has a plan to stay alive

https://getsol.us/2023/04/18/a-new-voyage/

12:22 KDE Gear 23.04 bring a lot of cool apps to your KDE desktop

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.04.0/

19:10 Reddit will now charge for its API access

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-bots-trained-reddit-conversations-145900986.html

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates

21:55 AI tool runs linux terminal commands from plain text prompts

https://itsfoss.com/linux-terminal-ai/

23:47 System76 announced 3 new beastly workstation laptops

https://system76.com/laptops-powerful

26:12 Small guide to theming GTK3 and GTK4 flatpak apps

https://blog.tingping.se/2023/04/20/Themes-and-Flatpak.html

https://github.com/Fausto-Korpsvart/Tokyo-Night-GTK-Theme

30:01 Microsoft makes Windows worse with updates

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-latest-windows-11-update-bug-is-making-the-taskbar-vanish-for-some-users

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-start-menu-ads-look-set-to-get-even-worse-this-is-getting-painful-now

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-gets-a-security-fix-but-it-has-broken-some-pc-games

33:40 Gaming news: Proton 8, Lutris Beta with proton support

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-8.0-1c

https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.13-beta2

37:29 Outro

Solus is dying, OpenAI defamation suit, EU builds its own Google

Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:34:06 +0000

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01:08 Solus is basically dead

https://linuxiac.com/solus-linux-loses-active-status-on-distrowatch/

05:59 OpenAI is sued for defamation

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/chatgpt-falsely-told-voters-their-mayor-was-jailed-for-bribery-he-may-sue/ar-AA19yfxF

11:03 A new european Google in the making?

https://tekdeeps.com/ovh-shadow-and-qwant-join-forces-to-create-a-european-google/

17:28 KDE Plasma 6 updates

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3859

https://pointieststick.com/2023/04/14/this-week-in-kde-make-multi-gpu-not-suck/

20:24 KDE Connect will get better this year

https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/the-road-to-kde-connect-2-0/

22:08 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/04/twig-91/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/04/twig-90/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPWdA0OYXVU&t=75s

26:06 Windows might get a gaming handheld mode

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-windows-could-make-it-work-better-on-steam-deck-style-pcs/

30:02 Did Microsoft throttle Firefox on Windows for the past 5 years?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/1782236

33:02 Samsung employees leaked their own source code using chatGPT

https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-software-engineers-busted-for-pasting-proprietary-code-into-chatgpt

35:49 Tesla employees accessed footage from multiple vehicle’s cameras

https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/4/6/23673339/tesla-camera-privacy

38:00 Gaming News: no more stutters on AMD, Valve removes negative reviews

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/14/175246/valve-restricts-accounts-of-2500-users-who-marked-a-negative-game-review-useful

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/ge-proton-7-55-released-essential-fix-for-easy-anti-cheat-steam-deck/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/driver-updates-for-amd-radv-to-give-nice-boost-for-linux-and-steam-deck/

41:40 Outro

Linux Mint theme changes, System76 in house laptop, Google Drive backtracks

Sat, 08 Apr 2023 15:59:18 +0000

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01:01 Linux Mint 21.2 brings easier theming

https://linuxiac.com/linux-mint-21-2-will-undergo-some-visual-changes/

07:23 System76 is working on an internally designed laptop

https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell

12:27 Google will mandate more privacy features for Android apps

https://www.engadget.com/google-will-require-that-android-apps-let-you-delete-your-account-and-data-170618841.html

15:04 Google Drive backtracks their 5M file limit policy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/

19:40 Linux kernel 6.4 will add Apple M2 support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M2-Device-Tree-Linux-6.4

22:48 elementary OS 7 progress report

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-march-2023/

27:33 GTK implements Wayland fractional scaling in the next version

https://blog.gtk.org/2023/04/05/gtk-4-11-1/

https://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2023/04/03/webkitgtk-accelerated-compositing-rendering/

31:49 youtube-dl’s hosting provider will have to close the website

https://torrentfreak.com/music-labels-win-legal-battle-against-youtube-dls-hosting-provider-230404/

36:35 Gaming News: Wine, game compatibility, 3M Steam Decks sold

https://support.halowaypoint.com/hc/en-us/articles/14589112499348

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/04/the-last-of-us-now-unsupported-on-steam-deck-bad-look-for-valve-and-naughty-dog/

https://omdia.tech.informa.com/pr/2023/04-apr/omdia-steam-deck-installed-base-to-surpass-three-million-during-2023

45:23 Outro

Ubuntu 23.04 beta, Mobile Linux improvements, Italy blocks chatGPT

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:38:39 +0000

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00:56 Ubuntu 23.04 beta is live, with tons of improvements

https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-23-04-beta-released-with-gnome-44-linux-kernel-6-2-and-new-installer

06:12 Ubuntu Cinnamon is an official Ubuntu flavor

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-cinnamon-joins-the-official-flavor-family/

09:43 Ubuntu Touch adds Waydroid support out of the box

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-1-focal-release-3888

15:20 Plasma Mobile apps get tons of improvements

https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/03/29/this-month-plasma-mobile/

19:13 Italy blocks ChatGPT

https://www.barrons.com/news/openai-s-chatgpt-blocked-in-italy-privacy-watchdog-b096269f

22:56 Twitter actually open sourced their algorithm code

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2023/a-new-era-of-transparency-for-twitter

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm

26:34 Facebook implements the worst op-out in history

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/facebook-gets-to-decide-whether-eu-users-can-object-to-invasive-targeted-ads/

30:24 CentOS fails to patch older kernel versions in time

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-discloses-centos-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities-following-failure-to-issue-timely-fixes/

34:23 Valve will stops supporting Windows 7 and 8

https://www.techspot.com/news/98099-valve-ending-steam-support-windows-7-8-81.html

38:09 Gaming News: AMD performance improvements, Dolphin on Steam

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/amd-radv-driver-will-soon-stop-eating-ram-with-some-games/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/dolphin-emulator-for-gamecube-and-wii-is-coming-to-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/the-last-of-us-on-steam-deck-is-not-great/

43:17 Outro

Giant Nextcloud update, Twitter goes Open Source, Wayland screen sharing fixed

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:37:32 +0000

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01:14 Nextcloud Hub 4 is a giant update

https://nextcloud.com/blog/hub-4-pioneers-ethical-ai-integration-for-a-more-productive-and-collaborative-future/

08:02 Twitter will open source its algorithm at the end of march

https://bgr.com/tech/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-open-source-its-recommendation-code-on-march-31/

11:37 Screen sharing on Wayland is fixed

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/xwaylandvideobridge/

15:17 GNOME 44 released, with a lot of user focus

https://youtu.be/_HZIHvACggs

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/03/22/endless-contributions-to-gnome-44/

19:21 Tuxedo Control Center update, and Tuxedo OS 2

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-Control-Center-2-0-introduces-new-modules.tuxedo

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Tailor-made-operating-system-TUXEDO-OS-2-finished-and-ready-for-use-.tuxedo#

26:46 Framewok announces a 16 inch laptop with upgradeable GPUs

https://boilingsteam.com/framework-laptop-13th-gen-improves-on-every-aspect-announces-new-laptop-with-upgradable-gpu/

30:05 Ubuntu wants your help to test their Steam Snap package

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/03/ubuntu-steam-snap-candidate-testing

33:20 The father of Unix leaves macOS for Linux

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/03/18/237211/unix-pioneer-ken-thompson-announces-hes-switching-from-mac-to-linux

35:12 The aCROPalypse is a big screenshot cropping vulnerability

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/pixel-acropalypse-exploit

38:22 Gaming News: FSR3, AMD driver updates, Wine 8.4

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/emulationstation-desktop-edition-20-is-out-now/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-6.4-Steam-Deck-PWR

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.4

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/amd-detail-more-on-fsr-3-and-their-new-open-source-fidelityfx-sdk/

44:46 Outro

Docker vs Open Source, Ubuntu wants less Python issues, Fedora 38 beta

Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:21:16 +0000

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00:00 Intro

00:57 Docker Hub kicks out FOSS projects using free accounts

https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/

06:34 Fedora 38 Beta is now available with GNOME 44

https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-38-beta/

10:16 OpenSUSE enjoys a surge in popularity

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-grows-in-popularity/

13:44 Ubuntu and Debian fight against PiP and the issues it causes

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/03/next-debianubuntu-releases-will-likely.html

19:40 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/17/this-week-in-kde-more-wayland-fixes/

23:14 GNOME and Libadwaita weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/03/twig-87/

https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2023/03/17/libadwaita-1-3/

28:46 Thunderbird unveils more work on their Android client

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-february-progress-report/

32:33 NordVPN open sources their Linux client, and core parts of their VPN

https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-linux-open-source/

35:49 Microsoft fires their Ethical AI team

https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its

40:17 Gaming News: Steam Deck discount and updates

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/steam-spring-sale-is-live-steam-deck-gets-a-first-sale-and-startup-movie-customization/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/steam-deck-os-346-out-now-with-doom-eternal-ray-tracing/

44:19 Outro

Meta in the Fediverse, Duck Duck Go works on AI, Flathub Roadmap

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:35:29 +0000

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01:19 Meta wants to make an ActivityPub enabled Twitter competitor

https://www.platformer.news/p/meta-is-building-a-decentralized

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/startup/meta-mulls-a-twitter-competitor-codenamed-p92-that-will-be-interoperable-with-mastodon-10223961.html

07:20 AMD might work on Coreboot Support for their CPUs

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Open-Source

10:53 Duck Duck Go wants in on the AI Search craze

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/duckassist/

17:29 Flathub unveils their roadmap for 2023

https://ramcq.net/2023/03/07/flathub-in-2023/

22:58 Vanilla OS will move from Ubuntu to Debian

https://vanillaos.org/2023/03/07/vanilla-os-2.0-orchid-initial-work.html

26:41 elementary OS 7 gets some really cool upgrades

https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-february-2023/

30:27 GNOME Weekly Updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/03/twig-85/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/03/twig-86/

35:44 KDE Weekly Updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-begins/

https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/10/this-week-in-kde-qt-apps-survive-the-wayland-compositor-crashing/

39:43 The HP Dev One actually sold well

https://hpdevone.com/

42:40 Gaming News: Wine 8.3, No Steam Deck 2 for now

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.3

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/no-trunext-gen-steam-deck-for-a-few-years-valve-say/

46:58 Outro

HP gives up, Flathub & paid apps, companies are using FOSS wrong

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:27:40 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:09 DEs pull together to put the “store” in Flathub’s app “store”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-22-04-2-is-as-predictable-as-an-operating-system-can-be-and-thats-a-good-thing/

https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator/blob/main/proposals/flathub-linux-app-store.md

06:03 Companies are using outdated and unpatched FOSS

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3688911/at-least-one-open-source-vulnerability-found-in-84-of-code-bases-report.html

09:40 HP discontinues the Dev One laptop

https://liliputing.com/hp-dev-one-linux-laptop-has-been-discontinued-but-hp-will-offer-support-through-january-2026/

14:34 The PineTab 2 is a Linux tablet you’ll actually get to use

https://linuxiac.com/pinetab2-linux-tablet-comes-in-april/

19:29 You can’t use an M1 Mac with the Linux Kernel 6.2 just yet

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/02/27/0457206/asahi-linux-disputes-report-that-linux-62-will-run-on-apple-m1-chips

22:27 GNOME Circle’s 50th app, and weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/02/twig-84/

28:06 New GTK client for KDE Connect

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2023/02/valent-is-kde-connect-client-for-gtk.html

29:59 OpenAI is everything but

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit

35:16 Google deleted incriminating messages during an investigation

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/23/doj-says-google-destroyed-chat-messages-it-should-have-saved.html

37:38 Gaming News: Wine on Wayland and 8000 games on Deck

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/wayland-driver-for-wine-is-getting-closer/

https://boilingsteam.com/8000-playable-games-on-the-steam-deck-including-3000-verified-ones/

42:59 Outro

Ubuntu hates flatpak, Microsoft's anti consumer practices, GNOME 44 beta

Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:40:46 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:01 Ubuntu prevents official flavours from preinstalling flatpak

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-flavor-packaging-defaults/34061

07:05 Flathub’s redesign

https://blog.jimmac.eu/2023/flathub-brand-refresh/

10:39 Microsoft’s anti-consumer practices for Windows and Edge

https://gizmodo.com/windows-11-system-requirements-not-met-watermark-messag-1850114052

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-now-injecting-full-size-ads-on-chrome-website-to-make-you-stay-on-edge/

15:08 GNOME 44 Beta

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-44-features/

21:17 No, Solus isn’t dead

https://linuxiac.com/whats-going-on-with-solusos/

24:04 The Linux Kernel version 6.2 is now out

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/linux-kernel-6-2-new-features

27:06 Peertube published a roadmap, with great new features coming

https://joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-v6

30:33 Mozilla finds Play Store’s privacy labels to be false

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-study-data-privacy-labels-for-most-top-apps-in-google-play-store-are-false-or-misleading/

32:48 Maui looks better and better every month

https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-21/

35:40 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/17/this-week-in-kde-a-smooth-release-of-plasma-5-27/

37:50 Gaming News: Steam Linux client on ARM, new Mesa drivers…

https://boilingsteam.com/box64-can-now-run-the-full-steam-linux-client-on-arm-hardware/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/steam-now-allows-transferring-games-between-pcs-and-steam-deck-too/

https://9to5linux.com/mesa-23-graphics-stack-released-with-radeon-memory-visualizer-support-rise-of-the-tomb-raider-fixes

42:19 Outro

FOSS funding is broken, Mycroft shuts down, KDE Plasma 5.27

Sat, 18 Feb 2023 17:00:27 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:25 Core-js shows that open source funding is broken

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

08:01 Mycroft will cease operations and leave their backers in the dust

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-mark-ii-the-open-voice-assistant/posts/3729060

10:58 Kubuntu revamps their miniPC with a weird pricetag

https://kfocus.org/order/order-nx.html

13:45 Apple used audiobooks to train their voice AI

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/14/audiobook-narrators-complain-apple-may-have-used-them-to-train-ai-voices

17:50 An ex-Google explains why the company is currently stuck

https://medium.com/@pravse/the-maze-is-in-the-mouse-980c57cfd61a

24:31 KDE Plasma 5.27 is out, the last one before Plasma 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onPUaAKoGIM

29:04 Thunderbird shows more of their redesign

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/thunderbird-115-supernova-preview-the-new-folder-pane/

31:50 Fedora wants your input to shape where it’s going

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/help-shape-the-fedora-strategy/

34:20 Sudo has a new security flaw

https://medium.com/@dev.nest/how-to-bypass-sudo-exploit-cve-2023-22809-vulnerability-296ef10a1466

35:43 PyPI is pretty unsafe, watch for typos when installing packages

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/451-malicious-packages-available-in-pypi-contained-crypto-stealing-malware

37:16 Canonical introduces Real Time Ubuntu

https://ubuntu.com//blog/real-time-ubuntu-is-now-generally-available

39:33 Gaming News: Lutris update, shader fixes, DX8 compatibility…

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/lutris-0513-beta-adds-proton-support-itchio-integration-battlenet-integration/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/d8vk-is-an-in-progress-implementation-of-direct3d-8-for-dxvk/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/amd-releases-source-code-for-fidelityfx-fsr2-v22/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/shader-cache-downloads-being-a-nuisance-valve-may-have-solved-it/

45:35 Outro

Windows is spyware, Fedora adds Flathub, AI tool violates FOSS

Sun, 12 Feb 2023 16:57:48 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:39 Windows 11 sends data to third parties right after install, without user consent

https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/how-to-disable-annoying-ads-on-windows-11

06:11 Fedora will now use the full flathub, instead of their subset of it

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-38-will-offer-unfiltered-flathub-access-out-of-the-box/

09:38 An AI tool uses FOSS libraries without respecting their licenses

https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/08/voiceai_open_source/

13:18 Stable Diffusion is now proved to regurgitate images it was trained on

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/03/1067786/ai-models-spit-out-photos-of-real-people-and-copyrighted-images/

16:56 Mycroft, the FOSS voice assistant, will close down

https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1

19:57 GNOME Software is receiving performance improvements

https://feaneron.com/2023/02/07/profiling-optimizing-gnome-software/

23:14 Thunderbird shares their roadmap and history

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

28:49 Malware developers are abusing Google ads to distribute their software

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/until-further-notice-think-twice-before-using-google-to-download-software/

32:25 Google and Mozilla are working on “real” versions of their browsers for iOS

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/03/googles_chromium_ios/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/07/mozilla_google_apple_webkit/

37:11 GNOME Weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/02/twig-81/

40:00 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/02/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-starts-to-take-shape/

41:49 Gaming News: ray tracing support, and SSD upgrades for the Steam Deck

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/nvidia-vulkan-beta-5254707-supports-extension-to-help-vkd3d-proton-dxr/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/framework-begin-offering-2tb-ssd-upgrades-for-steam-deck/

44:46 Outro

A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:01:10 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:03 System 76 shares some designs for their Cosmic DE

https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023

07:09 Linux Mint teases Wayland support for Mint 21.2

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4470

https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-20-desktop-environment-will-finally-bring-wayland-support

11:21 elementary OS 7 HORUS is out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxtGVoYEws

16:42 Budgie 10.7 brings a lot of cool updates

https://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org/budgie-10-7-released/

21:42 KDE Plasma Mobile apps are moving fast

https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/01/30/january-blog-post/

26:25 Google expands their open source bug bounty program

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-expands-open-source-bounties-will-soon-support-javascript-fuzzing-too/

29:48 Microsoft and Github Copilot get a second lawsuit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit

33:18 The US and the EU agree on building joint AI models

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/us-and-eu-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-artificial-intelligence-agreement/97394092?redirect=1

35:13 Gaming news: less stutters and New Big Picture for everyone

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-fix-dead-space-steam-deck/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ge-proton-7-48-out-now-with-updates-to-dxvk-vkd3d-proton/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-gpu-driver-linux-steam-deck-big-improvement-stuttering-problems/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/heroic-games-launcher-260-out-now-adding-auto-updates-new-theme/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3682291055854286778

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/ubisoft-broke-their-games-on-linux-desktop-and-steam-deck/

New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:43:38 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:42 New EU laws might make using FOSS really difficult

https://devclass.com/2023/01/24/eus-proposed-ce-mark-for-software-could-have-dire-impact-on-open-source/

07:59 GNOME 44 alpha is out for testing

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-44-alpha-released-with-new-stream-deck-app-file-chooser-grid-view

13:01 Firefox loses to Chrome badly in benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

15:42 Google’s Fuchsia OS might be in trouble

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/big-layoffs-at-googles-fuchsia-os-call-the-projects-future-into-question/

18:09 Ubuntu Pro is now available for free for up to 5 PCs

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-pro-subscription-what-it-means-for-users/

20:15 BlendOS looks like a very interesting distro

https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu

22:51 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-79/

25:39 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/20/this-week-in-kde-the-best-plasma-5-version-ever/

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/01/21/kf6-branched.html

28:35 Google presents big updates to their Flutter toolkit

https://9to5google.com/2023/01/25/flutter-forward-teaser/

31:48 The US might deal a big blow to user generated content

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/20/tech/meta-microsoft-google-supreme-court-tech-algorithms/

37:31 Gaming news: performance improvements, Wine 8, and EA games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ea-games-playable-on-steam-deck-sims-4-jedi-fallen-order/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/more-ea-games-steam-deck-playable/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/direct3d-to-vulkan-translation-layer-dxvk-21-adds-hdr-support-improves-shader-stutter/

45:54 Outro

Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:14:53 +0000

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Timecodes and links:

00:00 Intro

01:43 Linux Foundation is trying to build an open metaverse

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/open-metaverse-foundation

https://www.openmv.org/on-the-path-to-an-open-metaverse/

07:09 Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit

12:50 Adobe clarifies their use of user data regarding AI

https://petapixel.com/2023/01/18/adobe-says-it-isnt-using-your-photos-to-train-ai-image-generators/

15:53 KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is now out for testing

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.90/

21:27 GNOME telemetry data shows it needs a notification tray

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/01/18/gnome-info-collect-what-we-learned/

27:38 India builds the Ministry of Truth

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/india-proposes-social-media-firms-rely-on-fact-checking-by-government-agencies/

https://www.altnews.in/pib-fact-check-blunders-again-incorrectly-declares-up-stf-advisory-on-chinese-apps-as-fake-news/

32:11 The new Ubuntu installer looks identical to the old one

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-new-flutter-installer-first-look

35:32 Fedora wants your feedback on their new installer

https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-web-ui-storage-feedback-requested/

39:11 Wikipedia gets a new redesign that looks the same

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/wikipedia-redesign-vector-2022-skin.html

43:36 Gaming News: AyaneoOS is coming, and Stadia is now dead

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ayaneo-confirm-their-linux-based-ayaneo-os-arrives-this-year/

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/18/googles-stadia-shuts-down-today/

49:09 Outro

Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:04:55 +0000

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Timestamps and links:

00:00 Intro

01:39 Apple fined for violating their user’s privacy

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-fined-1-mln-euros-by-paris-commercial-court-over-app-store-practices-2022-12-19/

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

06:42 Google settles yet another privacy violation

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-23-million-dollar-search-privacy-settlement

09:51 Newly arrived Mastodon users aren’t all sticking around

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-musk-drove-more-than-a-million-people-to-mastodon-but-many-arent-sticking-around

14:57 Mozilla joins the fediverse

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

18:11 New full AMD laptop being announced by System76

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser

21:40 GNOME lets you test a new UI change with an extension

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/try-gnome-44-focus-indicator-animation

27:01 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-77/

30:06 UnityX brings customization to Unity DE

https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/

33:59 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/06/this-week-in-kde-big-ui-improvements/

36:35 PopOS makes performance better for potato computers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/pop_os_zram-update

39:42 Chromium now scrolls correctly on Linux

https://linuxiac.com/chromium-109-update-brings-faster-scrolling-to-linux-users/

41:08 Gaming News: FOSS Nvidia driver, Dolphin emulator gets better

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin-got-a-big-speed-boost-for-steam-deck/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-begins-to-run-games/

45:40 Outro

Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:15:09 +0000

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🕰️ Timestamps:

00:00 Intro (listen to it, it’s important)

02:00 Is Arch Linux the most popular distribution?

https://linuxiac.com/most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit/

05:18 X.org is dead at that point

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-2022-Development-Pace

08:35 Meta gets huge fines from the EU for breaching GDPR

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/04/facebook-instagram-gdpr-forced-consent-final-decisions/

13:56 Finally a full AMD (including GPUs) Linux computer

https://9to5linux.com/meet-the-slimbook-kymera-ventus-amd-black-limited-edition-linux-pc

https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kymera/kymera-ventus-amd-6-comprar

17:08 Google is working on a moderation tool for small websites

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/google-develops-free-terrorism-moderation-tool-for-smaller-websites/

21:13 Google is porting Android to RISC V

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/

27:07 System76 shares more details about COSMIC

https://blog.system76.com/post/2022-at-system76-a-year-in-review

29:46 GNOME application updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/12/twig-76/

32:30 KDE has quality of life improvements

https://pointieststick.com/2022/12/30/this-week-in-kde-end-of-year-goodies/

35:30 The MAUI project is very much alive

https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-20/

37:19 Budgie and Sway get their official Fedora spins

https://9to5linux.com/its-official-fedora-linux-38-will-offer-fedora-budgie-and-sway-spins

39:09 Gaming news: HDR for Linux gaming, and AMD Ray Tracing

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/latest-steam-survey-sees-a-minor-dip-for-linux-steam-deck-still-trending-nicely-overall/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-dev-teases-hdr-support-for-linux-gaming/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-ray-tracing-on-linux-gets-closer-with-mesa-enabling-specific-games/

42:10 Outro