Linux Action News

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

300 episodes of Linux Action News since the first episode, which aired on May 5th, 2017.

  • Linux Action News 171

    January 10th, 2021  |  26 mins 40 secs
    alyssa rosenzweig, app grid, apple m1, asahi linux, collabora, commercial software, decentralized, dock, erik kurzinger, federation, gnome 40, gnome shell, gpu, gtk, hector martin, kde, library, linux action news, linux news podcast, live streaming, lts, mesa, nvidia, overview, panfrost, peertube, plasma, qt, qt 5.15, qt 6, the qt company, toolkit, touch gestures, tuukka turunen, video hosting, video streaming, wayland, wendell wilson, x11, xorg, xwayland

    We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release.

  • Linux Action News 170

    January 3rd, 2021  |  22 mins 32 secs
    amd, amd radeon, bfs, big navi, centos, centos stream, con kolivas, concurrency, exfat, facebook, gnome, gnome 40, gnome circle, gnome os, google stadia, graphics drivers, gtk 4, intel, intel xe graphics, kde, ktask, kvm, lennart poettering, linus torvalds, linux, linux action news, linux news podcast, microsoft, oomd, oracle, plasma, radeon rx 6000, rdp, red hat, ryzen 5000, samsung, scheduling, spinlocks, systemd, systemd-homed, udev, wayland, wsl2, zen 3

    A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.

  • Linux Action News 169

    December 27th, 2020  |  27 mins 26 secs
    2021 linux predictions, bitcoin prediction, linux action news, linux predictions, review

    Our annual predictions episode kicks off with a review of what we got right and wrong for 2020, and then we speculate wildly about what could happen in 2021.

  • Linux Action News 168

    December 20th, 2020  |  31 mins 24 secs
    3d modeling, accelerated mobile pages, ai, amp, amp cache, android things, android updates, ar, aws, blender, blender foundation, borealis, cerulean, chromebooks, chromeos, chromium os, cloudready os, crostini, decentralized, dendrite, facebook, gnome 40, google, gtk 4.0, header bidding, iot, java, linux action news, linux containers, linux news podcast, matrix, matrix social network, matrix.to, microsoft, neverware, project treble, qualcomm, raspberry p 3, security updates, snapdragon 888, steam, terence eden, unity, vr

    Another Google project meets an untimely demise, but we find the silver lining.

  • Linux Action News 167

    December 13th, 2020  |  30 mins 34 secs
    alder lake, amd zen 3, capabilities, centos, centos stream, creative labs soundblaster ae-7, fedora, fuchsia, google, gregory kurtzer, intel, linux 5.10, linux action news, linux news podcast, lts kernel, nintendo switch, nosymfollow, pci express, raspberry pi vc4, red hat, rocket lake, rocky linux, security, universal base image, v3dv, zircon

    We explain the major changes to CentOS this week and break down the top four criticisms.

  • Linux Action News 166

    December 6th, 2020  |  29 mins 34 secs
    aks, alsa, apple m1, budgie 10.5.2, chromium 84, cinnamon 4.8, cncf, containers, eks, eqt, gks, gnome 3.38.2, gnome 5.20.4, gnome os, graphics drivers, igalia, k3s, k8s, kde plasma 5.20.4, kubernetes, linux action news, linux hardware, linux mint 21, linux news podcast, mesa, michael larabel, phoronix, phoronix test suite, pulseaudio, rancher, rancher labs, raspberry pi os, suse, v3dv, vulkan, wayland

    Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.

  • Linux Action News 165

    November 29th, 2020  |  30 mins 10 secs
    alexa, amazon, android, aws, breaking change, browser wars, canonical, cloud, cognito, containers, docker, email, feed reader, google, kinesis, linux action news, linux filesystems, linux news podcast, memory, microsoft, ntfs, oomd, outage, paragon, project astoria, project latte, psi, rate limiting, rdp, roomba, status page, systemd, ubuntu lts, udev, verified publisher program, vivaldi mail, wayland, weston, windows 10, wsl, wslg

    What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.

  • Linux Action News 164

    November 22nd, 2020  |  30 mins 6 secs
    apple m1, arm, browser wars, canonical, cef, chrome embedded framework, docker, docker desktop, eff, electron, epiphany, eqt, gimp, github, golang, google, librem 5, linux action news, linux foundation, linux news podcast, michael catanzaro, microsoft, mozilla, oauth, phosh, purism, riaa, servo, suse, ubuntu, youtube-dl

    The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home.

  • Linux Action News 163

    November 15th, 2020  |  26 mins 45 secs
    accountsservices, backups, bitcoin, breaking changes, cilium, containers, cryptocurrency, cve, dbus, debian, ebpf, encryption, gdm3, gnome, kubernetes, kvm, linux action news, linux news podcast, lxc, networking, paypal, pine64, pinephone, plasma mobile, proxmox, proxmox backup server, rust, security, systemd, ubuntu, udev, user space, zfs

    The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd.

  • Linux Action News 162

    November 8th, 2020  |  26 mins 2 secs
    android, arm, bpf, btf, cillium, co-re, dell, dell privacy driver, dell privacy screen, dtrace, ebpf, firefox, google root program, hardware kill switch, https, identrust, internet security, kubernetes, let's encrypt, linux action news, linux desktop, linux news podcast, monitoring, networking, raspberry pi 400, raspberry pi keyboard, raspbian, root certificates, ssl, tls

    We review the Raspberry Pi 400. Then discover new features coming to Linux powered Dells.

  • Linux Action News 161

    November 1st, 2020  |  25 mins 15 secs
    boothole, btrfs, codeplay, conservancy, fedora iot, gnome 3.38, james prior, linux action news, linux news podcast, microsoft, riaa, risc-v, risc-v linux pc, rolling cipher circumvention, secure boot flaw, sifive, ubuntu wsl, youtube-dl takedown

    A RISC-V development PC is in the works, we have the details and try to set expectations.

  • Linux Action News 160

    October 25th, 2020  |  37 mins 46 secs
    cryptocurrency, digital currency, dmca takedown, github, google stadia free trial, jupiter broadcasting, kubuntu, linux action show, linux news podcast, microsoft edge, microsoft takedown, parallels desktop for chromebook, paypal bitcoin support, plasma, raspberry pi desktop, riaa, ubuntu 20.10, ubuntu kylin, xubuntu, youtube-dl

    Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown.

  • Linux Action News 159

    October 18th, 2020  |  39 mins 4 secs
    apache openoffice, atennapod, bluetooth, bluez, cups, document foundation open letter, dual license, exfat, intel, jupiter broadcasting, kernel 5.10, libreoffice, linux action show, linux news podcast, microsoft, oin, open invention network, plasma 5.20, wayland

    The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6.

  • Linux Action News 158

    October 11th, 2020  |  32 mins 8 secs
    ai, coinbase, firefox, hub dashboard, hybrid cloud, ibm split, irc, jetson nano, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux news podcast, machine learning, matrix, mission focused company, mozilla, ms teams, nextcloud 20, nvidia, red hat, slack, sponsored top sites, talk bridging, video ai

    NextCloud makes some significant changes, and we share our reaction; IBM is planning to split into two, but we have some questions, and Firefox may soon display sponsored "top sites."

  • Linux Action News 157

    October 4th, 2020  |  27 mins 37 secs
    android tv, atari vcs, awesim, digitalocean, duckduckgo, emby, github spam, google play, google tv, hacktoberfest, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux action show, linux news podcast, plex, search menu

    Quite a bit from Google this week, with new products and notable changes coming for developers and users.

  • Linux Action News 156

    September 27th, 2020  |  31 mins 25 secs
    business browser, endeavouros arm, european ai fund, jupiter broadcasting, killed by mozilla, lenovo, linux action news, microsoft edge, mozilla, right-to-repair, telemetry, timescale license, timescaledb, tsl, ubuntu thinkpads, webthings, weekly linux news podcast

    Lenovo expands its Linux lineup in a big way, with 30 Ubuntu systems. And why Microsoft Edge on Linux might be more significant than you think.