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Linux Action News 213

October 31st, 2021  |  23 mins 52 secs

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New Raspberry Pi hardware has a few surprises, the most impressive things in Linux 5.15, and our reaction to classic functionality under consideration for removal from Fedora.

Linux Action News 212

October 26th, 2021  |  13 mins 32 secs

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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

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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 205

September 5th, 2021  |  16 mins 30 secs

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SUSE's new era kicks off this week, CentOS users get some relief, and how Docker managed to piss off their users.

Linux Action News 201

August 8th, 2021  |  21 mins 6 secs

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Since the announcement of the Steam Deck, things around Linux have started changing, including some big items this week.

Linux Action News 197

July 11th, 2021  |  18 mins 39 secs

4chan, arm, audacity, cloudready, cookiengineer, document signature, fedora test week, firefox decline, in-kernel smb3 server, ksmbd, linux 5.14, linux action news, linux news podcast, microsoft edge market share, neverware, nextcloud circles, nextcloud hub 22, powerpc, rust for the linux kernel, rust risc-v, sneedacity, tenacity, usb low latency audio

Open Source's best hope for alternatives to Microsoft and Google gets a significant update this week, and we cover a plethora of new goodies coming to a Linux near you soon.