Linux Action News

Our weekly take on the free and open source world.

About the show

Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you'll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening.

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Episodes

  • Linux Action News 91

    February 3rd, 2019  |  27 mins 38 secs
    cfr, facebook container, firefox, fosdem, hp lvfs, jupiter broadcasting, kodi, linux action show, linux news podcast, man in the middle, mitm attacks, mozilla, pine64, pinebook pro, pinetab

    Firefox is standing out, Pine64 has a lot more cheap Linux hardware coming, and the good and the bad with the new Kodi Release.

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    Linux Action News 90

    January 27th, 2019  |  33 mins 11 secs
    ad block, apt fix, chromium, debian, declarativenetrequest, dell, fuchsia, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux news podcast, manifest v3, multipass, proton, steam for linux, ubuntu core, vulkan, webrequest api, windows core os, wine

    Debian has a big fix, Chromium might block ads, Valve makes another big investment in Linux, and Google gets serious about bringing Fuchsia to market.

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    Linux Action News 89

    January 20th, 2019  |  30 mins 25 secs
    android-x86 8.1-r1, debian, documentdb, fedora, firefox, freebsd 13, greg kh, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux news podcast, mongodb, mozilla, project trident, red hat, server side public license, simd vectorized checksums, sspl, test pilot program, trueos, vector-based checksum, zfs on linux, zol

    Another troubling week for MongoDB, ZFS On Linux lands a kernel workaround, and 600 days of postmarketOS.

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    Linux Action News 88

    January 13th, 2019  |  26 mins 39 secs
    51-percent attack, aws, crostini, documentdb, ethereum classic, github, homebrew, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux news podcast, linux on chrome os, lvfs, phoenix, private repos, rollback attack

    Choose your own Linux is coming to Chrome OS, GitHub private repos go free, LVFS gets another win, and Amazon released their MongoDB competitor DocumentDB.

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    Linux Action News 87

    January 6th, 2019  |  29 mins 21 secs
    eu bug bounty, firefox ads, freebsd, jupiter broadcasting, linux 4.21, linux action show, linux news podcast, mips, raspberry pi, risc-v, thunderbird, zfs, zfs on freebsd, zol

    Raspberry Pi joins the RISC-V Foundation, MIPS is going open source, and Mozilla is experimenting with more ads in Firefox.

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    Linux Action News 86

    December 30th, 2018  |  26 mins 25 secs
    apple, bitcoin, electron, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux news podcast, microsoft, predictions, steam, ubuntu

    We take a look back at our 2018 Linux predictions, and make some bold new ones for the year ahead.

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    Linux Action News 85

    December 23rd, 2018  |  36 mins 8 secs
    18.04, azure sphere, chrome os, code of conduct, coreos, crostini, fedora, github, ibm, jupiter broadcasting, kernel, linus torvalds, linux action show, linux news podcast, meltdown, microsoft, oin, open invention network, pixel slate, proton, red hat, samba, spectre, steam, steam play, stratis, ubuntu, valve, vulkan

    It’s been a huge year for Linux and FOSS news, and we take a look at some of the major stories that shaped the industry over the last 12 months.

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    Linux Action News 84

    December 16th, 2018  |  18 mins 28 secs
    android aosp, clear linux, cuchsia sdk, deep learning, freebsd 12, fucshia, horovod, intel, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux foundation, linux news podcast, michael larabel, oneapi initiative, open source fsp, raja koduri, uber, x32 subarcitecture

    Intel developers are working to open source the FSP, Fuchsia SDK and device repos show up in Android AOSP, and our BSD buddies have some big news.

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    Linux Action News 83

    December 9th, 2018  |  24 mins 59 secs
    blink, chromium, emby, emby goes proprietary, firefox, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, microsoft edge, mozilla, nvidia, physx open sourced, spectre slow down fix, steam link raspberry pi, wordpress 5

    Microsoft is moving to Chromium, and Mozilla isn't too thrilled about it.

  • Linux Action News 82

    December 2nd, 2018  |  30 mins 10 secs
    amp, amp governance, clear linux, fedora 31 delay, fedora annual release, linux action show, linux foundation, linux news podcast, necuno mobile, plasma mobile, risc-v, risc-v foundation

    Clear Linux doubles down on the desktop, Fedora 31 is likely canceled or delayed, and why Firecracker is being called the new "Docker killer".

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    Linux Action News 81

    November 25th, 2018  |  27 mins 46 secs
    ci, drone.io, ec2, huawei fuchsia test, linux action show, linux news podcast, predictive scaling, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, sierra, steam link, streaming, valve

    The Fuchsia bomb ticks closer, Valve's Steam Link end of life shocks us, and Amazon's new, rather obvious feature.

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    Linux Action News 80

    November 18th, 2018  |  31 mins 33 secs
    3a+, android q, bitcoin, canonical investors, essential phone, folding screens, kodak 3d printer, linux action show, linux news podcast, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 3 model a+, raspbian, red hat enterprise linux, rhel 8

    Mark Shuttleworth announced 10 years support of Ubuntu 18.04, but there's a catch. Why we're buying the new Raspberry Pi, and we have a laugh at folding Android screens.

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    Linux Action News 79

    November 11th, 2018  |  30 mins 34 secs
    booting linux, devkit, dex, gsconnect, kde connect, librem 5, linux action show, linux news podcast, mac mini, maru, nexus end of life, notepad, prototype, samsung, secure boot, t2, ubuntu, wsl

    Ubuntu on select Samsung devices goes into beta, we cover the technicalities of Linux on the new Macs, one of our favorite desktop projects gets a big update, and the Librem 5 slips.

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    Linux Action News 78

    November 4th, 2018  |  25 mins 28 secs
    desktop linux, dnf, endless os, fedora 29, ghostbsd, ibm, jonathan riddell, kde plasma, linux news podcast, red hat, rhel 7.6, sailfish os 3, software modularity, system76m thelio

    The new Fedora has a neat trick, The Register's KDE klickbait, and GhostBSD impresses.

  • Linux Action News 77

    October 28th, 2018  |  24 mins 47 secs
    apache, coc, code of conduct, firefox vpn, htc blockchain phone, ibm, ibm buys red hat, kde phone, linus torvalds, linux kernel, linux news podcast, pine64, red hat, red hat acquired, risc os

    Linus is back in charge with the whole world watching, IBM is buying Red Hat, and Pine64 says they’re working on a Plasma phone.

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    Linux Action News 76

    October 21st, 2018  |  31 mins 5 secs
    android europe license, cosmic cuttlefish, elementary os, juno, linux action show, linux news podcast, mongodb license, ubuntu 18.10

    The Cosmic Cuttlefish is out, and we share our quick take. Juno finally lands and this one sets the bar, MongoDB gets hip to the license changes, and watch out Linux... Here come the pros!