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Linux Action News 187

May 2nd, 2021  |  23 mins 58 secs

almalinux, apple m1, arm64, asahi linux, btrfs, centos, cloudlinux, elementary os 6 beta, fedora 34, gallium driver, gnome 40, hypocrite commits, hypocrite patches, i see dead µops, kernel ban, linux action news, linux kernel, linux news podcast, m1 gpu, m1 mesa driver, mesa, micro-op cache, new spectre exploits, opengl, pipewire, plasma wayland, red hat enterprise linux 8.4, resf, rhel 9, rocky linux 8.3 rc1, rosenzweig, stream 9, systemdoomd, transparent compression, ubuntu efi bug, umn, unified grub, university of california san diego, university of minnesota, university of virginia

A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.

Linux Action News 186

April 25th, 2021  |  24 mins 41 secs

5.11, aarch64, academia, active directory, al viro, amd radeon, btrfs, budgie, canonical community team, cbl-mariner, fedora 34, ffmpeg, freerdp, git, github, gnome 3.38.5, gnome settings, greg kroah-hartman, grsecurity, human research, hypocrite commits, ieee, immature vulnerability, ingenuity, irb, jpl, kubuntu, linux 5.12, linux action news, linux foundation, linux kernel, linux news podcast, linuxcopter, lubuntu, maintainer, mars, mars 2020 helicopter mission badge, microsoft, n64, nasa, nintendo, opengl, patches, perseverance, plasma 5.21, power mode selector, private home directories, pulseaudio, red hat summit 2021, research ethics, security, static analysis, systemd-oomd, ubuntu 21.04, university of minnesota, vrr, wayland, weston, wsl, wsldvcplugin, wslg, xubuntu

The University of Minnesota has been banned from the Linux kernel. We'll share the history, the context, and where things stand now around the controversial research that led to the ban.

Linux Action News 185

April 18th, 2021  |  25 mins 30 secs

android, arm, c, carl richell, clock sync, cloud native, containers, cosmic, dash-to-dock, dell, dock, element, element matrix services, emc, ems, extensions, gnome shell, google, gtk, hangover 0.6.5, hig, hybrid cloud, isilon, javascript, kernel, linus, linux 5.12, linux action news, linux news podcast, linux systems group, luks, matrix, matrix bridge, memory allocation, michael dell, microsoft teams, nintendo 64, oom, open-source, pop shell, pop!_os, power, ppa, rfc, rust, security, steve klabnik, system76, tanzu, virtualization, vmware, vsphere, windows 10, windows insiders, wsl, wsl 2

The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.

Linux Action News 184

April 11th, 2021  |  22 mins 17 secs

adblockers, amazon, apple, arm, asahi linux, aws, azure, browser extensions, browser performance, cloud, cname-unmasking, edid, firefox, fragmentation, freedesktop.org, google, google chrome, hector martin, icloud, ingenuity, iommu, kde qt 5 patch collection, linux 5.13, linux action news, linux desktop, linux graphics, linux kernel, linux news podcast, linux-next, m1, mars, michael larabel, microsoft, mouser electronics, mozilla, nasa, nvidia, pcie, perseverance, phoronix, plasma, qt, qt 6, quantum, risc-v, rust, science, servo, sifive hifive unmatched, space exploration, ublock origin, vaapi, vgpu, vgpu_unlock, virtual gpu, virtualization, wayland, webrender

Don't buy that M1-powered Apple machine just yet, solving Wayland-driven fragmentation, and why Firefox is about to get an upgrade on Linux.

Linux Action News 183

April 4th, 2021  |  27 mins 58 secs

almalinux, arch installer, archinstaller, centos, cloudlinux, eglstreams, gbm, georges stavracas, gnome 41, gnome hig, ibm, libadwaita, libhandy, linux, linux action news, linux news podcast, microsoft, nvidia, obs, obs studio wayland, openserver, pipewire, portals, red hat, rhel, rocky linux, sco, ubuntu on windows preview, ubuntuwsl, unix, unixware, wayland mesa patches, windows, wsl 2, wslconf, xinuos

The first CentOS clone is out, but it's the second part of their announcement that might be the most important.

Plus our reaction to SCO reigniting their decades-long fight with IBM and Red Hat, and the big news in GTK-land you might have missed.

Linux Action News 182

March 28th, 2021  |  22 mins 24 secs

1.1.1h, carl richell, chip shortage, computer chips, cpu, cve, daniel newman, desktop environment, digital rights, elliptic curve, extensions, foss, free software, free software foundation, fsf, gesture, gnome 40, gnome foundation, gnome shell, gnu, gpu, gtk 4, hardware, kif leswing, libreplanet, linux action news, linux desktop, linux news podcast, mutter, neil mcgovern, open letter, openssl, patch, richard stallman, rms, security, silicon, system76, touchpad, upgrade, vulkan, workspaces

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release.

Linux Action News 181

March 21st, 2021  |  23 mins

android, canonical, dalton durst, etcher, f1, fedora 34, fuschia, gjs, gnome 40, gnome extensions, gnome os, google, google i/o, gtk 4+, just perfection, legacy apps on wayland, linux action news, linux news podcast, linux phone, milestone release, mutter, ota-16, overscan, pinephone, pixel 3a, raspberry pi, raspberry pi imager, red hat, sri ramkrishna, ssh, ubuntu mobile, ubuntu touch, volla phone, wayland, wi-fi, x11, xorg, xwayland 21.1, zircon

Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.

Linux Action News 180

March 13th, 2021  |  24 mins 1 sec

apple m1, asahi linux, boothole, bootloader, cloud, corellium, cosign, devicetree, eqt, fulcio, gnome 40 virtual monitors, grub 2.06, kubernetes, kvm, let's encrypt, linux action news, linux audio, linux foundation, linux news podcast, linux on m1, m1n1, nodejs, npm, paravirtualized drivers, purdue google, python, rancher labs, rekor, security, signature transparency log, signing service, sigstore, software supply chain, supply chain attack, suse ipo, tumbleweed, u-boot, virtio sound driver, virtual machines, webpki

The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.

Linux Action News 179

March 7th, 2021  |  29 mins 41 secs

5.12, 5.12-rc1, canonical, cgroups, chrome, chromeos, chromium, cinnamon de, container plumbing days, containers, dart, data loss, double ungood, electron, extended stable, firefox, flutter 2, fuschia, google, gtk, hot reload, ken vandine, linus torvalds, linux action news, linux desktop apps, linux mint, linux news podcast, memory leak, namespaces, native applications, package manager, red hat, security, security updates, snap packages, snapcraft, software updates, swap, swap partition, swapfile, ubuntu, ubuntu installer, ui, update manager, virtualization

Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.

Linux Action News 178

February 28th, 2021  |  25 mins 52 secs

almalinux, asus, browser wars, canvas, centos, centos stream, clang, cloud native, containers, dell, expansion card, facebook, fedora, firefox 86, framework, gnome, google, gpu, gustavo silva, hacker laptop, kernel self protection project, konveyor, kubernetes, kubevirt, kvm, laptop, linux action news, linux foundation, linux news podcast, llvm, memory safety, modular, mtv, multiple picture-in-picture, nathan chancellor, nirav patel, nvme, oculus, openshift 4.7, openshift virtualization, orchestration, peter lauterbach, reader mode, red hat, repairable, rhel, rhel for open-source infrastructure, rocky linux, security, total cookie protection, upgradeable, usb-c, virtual machines, vm, webgl, wifi 6e, windows

Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.

Linux Action News 177

February 21st, 2021  |  20 mins 21 secs

5.12, alexandros frantzis, apple, btrfs, codeweavers, collabora, containerd, containers, darrick wong, f prime, f´, gl, helicopter, idmapped mounts, ingenuity, jpl, linaro, linus torvalds, linux action news, linux gaming, linux kernel, linux news podcast, linuxcopter, lxd, m1, mars 2020, nasa, nvidia, openbsd, perseverance, proton, runc, space exploration, spaceflight, sparkfun, steam play, systemd, systemd-homed, virtio-fs, virtual machines, virtualization, vulkan, wayland, wine, wine-staging, x11, xfs, xwayland, zoned storage

We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.

Linux Action News 176

February 14th, 2021  |  27 mins

amd, android, azure, azure marketplace, breeze twilight, btrfs, canonical, cloud, custom keyboard, drm, epyc, fosdem 2021, fuchsia, google, intel xe graphics, kate, kde, kickoff menu, launch, launch configurable keyboard, lenovo, linux 5.11, linux action news, linux gaming, linux news podcast, microsoft, open hardware, plasma 5.21, rsync, rust, ryzen, ryzen 5000, skroutz, ssh tunnels, starnix, syscall emulation, syscall user dispatch, system76, tcp, ubuntu, wayland, wifi 6e, wine, zircon

Microsoft and Ubuntu's relationship is under a new spotlight this week.

Linux Action News 175

February 6th, 2021  |  22 mins 35 secs

almalinux beta, apache rust, centos, cloud native computing foundation, container registry, docker distribution, docker hub backend, eben upton, encryption, github, gpg key, guacamole, harbor, hector martin, internet security research group, linux action news, linux news podcast, lts, memory safe, microsoft repository, mod_tls, openssl, raspberry pi os, raspbian, rust, rustls, security, snap packages, snapcraft, ssl, stack overflow developer survey, tiobe index, tls, ubuntu core 20, vs code

The story behind a Microsoft repo shipping in Raspberry Pi OS, Canonical updates a special version of Ubuntu, and a couple of milestones the Linux world hit this week.

Linux Action News 174

January 31st, 2021  |  20 mins 54 secs

almalinux, app store, ars technica, aws, baron samedit, bleepingcomputer, brian exelbierd, broadcam, centos, cloudlinux, ctrl iq, cve-2021-3156, debian, element, federated chat, fedora, gamestop, google, greg kroah-hartman, gregory kurtzer, hpc, jim salter, linux 5.10, linux action news, linux news podcast, lts, matrix, mattermost, play store, qualys, red hat, robinhood, rocky linux, root, samsung, scott branden, security, software bug, sudo, telegram, the register, ubuntu, vulnerability, wallstreetbets

Google removes Matrix chat-client Element from the Play store, sudo has a major flaw with a long-tail, and Rocky Linux gets a boost.

Linux Action News 173

January 24th, 2021  |  33 mins 58 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, apple m1, apple silicon, asahi linux, aws, centos, corellium, elastic, elasticsearch, foss, gnome 3.38, gnome 40, gtk4, hector martin, kibana, let's encrypt, linux action news, linux desktop, linux news podcast, mariadb, microcontrollers, mysql, nvme, open source, openzfs, osi, pi pico, project sandcastle, raspberry pi foundation, red hat, red hat developer program, rhel, rocky linux, security, ssl, sspl, tls, ubuntu

Why we don't think Red Hat's expanded developer program is enough, our reaction to Ubuntu sticking with an older Gnome release, and a tiny delightful surprise.

Linux Action News 172

January 17th, 2021  |  30 mins 45 secs

almalinux, anti-cheat, apple m1, asahi linux, blizzard, breeze theme, centos, chrome, chromium, cloudlinux, containers, destiny 2, direct3d, docker, docker-compose, fedora, fingerprint manager, fingerprint reader, fractional scaling, google, haswell gt1, hector martin, iboot, igor seletskiy, igpu leak, intel, kde, ken thomases, kickoff menu, krunner, kubernetes, kwin, linux action news, linux gaming, linux news podcast, macos, meltdown, microsoft edge, pe, plasma 5.21, podman, red hat, security mitigations, spectre, systemd, vulkan, wayland, windows, wine 6.0, xfce, xfce 4.16

Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born.