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June 29th, 2023  |  13 mins 55 secs

6.5 release, alma, alyssa rosenzweig, amd p-state driver, apple m2 soc support, bcachefs, btrfs, btrfs stack refinement, bug fixes, centos stream, centos stream repository, comprehensive webui, containerized development, desktop mode, driver updates, enterprise linux community, ext4 performance optimization, extent buffer reading, faster sync, fedora, file system, future improvements, google pixel 8, intel cpu support, io tracking, kernel developers, legal compliance, linux 6.4, linux 6.5, linux action news, linux graphics, linux news podcast, lxd graphical user interface, mm reverts, mouse and keyboard support, official lxd ui tool, panfrost driver, red hat, rhel source, rocky, samsung dex, snap package, stable, tensor g3 soc, tracing updates, ubuntu edge, usb displayport alternate mode, valves software, web ui

Why everyone is excited about the next Linux kernel, Valve's big hire, and Red Hat's clone war.

Linux Action News 270

December 8th, 2022  |  17 mins 25 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, android, android 13, apple m1, apple silicon, arm, asahi linux, buffer overflow, capability-based-security, capsicum, cockpit, cpufreq driver, d-bus, d-installer, fedora, firefox, floppies, floppy disk driver, freebsd, gaming on linux, gl2, gles 2.0, gnome, google, graphics drivers, icmp, linux 6.2, linux action news, linux desktop, linux news podcast, m2 hardware, memory safety vulnerabilities, mobility phosh, opengl, opensuse, ping, purism, rust, rust adoption, security, suse, tumbleweed, vulkan, wayland, web-based installer, x11, yast

The Linux kernel has some exciting updates this week, including a significant Asahi milestone and some good news for Android. Then we take openSUSE's new web-based installer for a spin.

Linux Action News 255

August 25th, 2022  |  20 mins 11 secs

aarch64, alyssa rosenzweig, apple m, asahi, asahi linux by the end of the year, firefox 104, flatpak 1.14.0, flatpak command-line, gpu driver, idle ui, imagination bxe-4-32, kernel patches, kexec, kickstarter, linux action news, linux foundation technical advisory board, linux news podcast, mesa, metal, neverball, opengl, perl, risc-v, risc-v dev board, sifive, starfive, super early bird special, tab, visionfive 2, webmin

Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development.

Linux Action News 212

October 26th, 2021  |  13 mins 32 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, apple magic keyboard linux support, apple silicon pcie driver, corellium, gbm back-end, gpl lawsuit, gpl violations, io_uring, iops, kde plasma, ksmbd, linux 5.15, linux 5.16, linux action news, linux news podcast, m1 pcie driver, newest linux optimizations, nvidia gbm, openbsd, pcie-apple, software freedom conservancy, vizio, wayland

Major performance milestones are being hit with new code inbound for Linux, Plasma and GNOME desktops are set to run Wayland on NVIDIA's binary driver, and why the SFC's new GPL fight could have implications for you.

Linux Action News 207

September 19th, 2021  |  23 mins 49 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, apple m1 gpu support, asahi linux, black lotus labs, cab file, chromeos, fedora, firefox snap, fwupd, gallium3d, gcc, gnome, gtk hdr, high dynamic range, krita, ksmbd, ksmbd vulnerability, linux action news, linux hdr display support, linux news podcast, lvfs, m1, m1 firmware distribution, m1 port, metal, mozilla, opengl, plasma, qt hdr, rebootless firmware update, red hat workstation engineering team, richard hughes, ubuntu, uefi, wayland, wsl elf flaw, x.org developers conference, xdc

Desktop Linux graphics are about to get a significant investment, Mozilla and Canonical work together on a Firefox Snap, and some key new insights into the Linux port to Apple’s M1.

Plus, why WSL’s first Linux malware in the wild matters.

Linux Action News 204

August 29th, 2021  |  20 mins 56 secs

30 years of linux, airpods, alyssa rosenzweig, amd, apple, apple silicon, asahi linux, bluetooth, bpf, bsd, c, codeweavers, core scheduling, dcp, debian, dell, ebpf, faststream, fedora, fuchsia, gaming on linux, gnome on m1, google, gpl, gpu acceleration, greg kroah-hartman, hardware privacy, hyperthreading, intel, isovalent, linus torvalds, linux 5.14, linux action news, linux birthday, linux foundation, linux news podcast, meltdown, microsoft, moxie, opensuse, performance, pipewire 0.3.34, proton, qemu 6.1, raspberry pi 400, red hat, risc-v, rust, sean michael kerner, security, smt, spectre, steam, unicore32, valve, windows, wine, x86

Why the Linux kernel received so much mainstream attention this week, some of our favorite open-source projects get great updates, and why we're concerned about Linux Foundation members transferring innovation from Linux to closed source software at an industrial scale.

Linux Action News 200

August 1st, 2021  |  22 mins 47 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, apple silicon linux support, bento, block device uuid, block layer tree, chrome os persistent desk bar, chromeos virtual desktops, component shortages, debian on apple m1, disk sequence number, disk_event_media_change, framebuffer, high latency systems, ioctl, linux 5.15, linux action news, linux news podcast, mainline kernel, matteo croce, microsoft global counter patch, mozilla vpn, new linux ntfs driver, nixos, split-tunneling, steam beta new ui, surface revenue drop, sysfs, systemd, uevent netlink socket, uevents, windows oem revenue

Microsoft's next kernel patch fixes a long-standing Linux issue, we'll share the details. Plus ChromeOS's next power user feature you haven't heard of, and Valve's broader plans that came into focus this week.

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 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.