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Linux Action News 243

June 2nd, 2022  |  17 mins 24 secs

almalinux 9.0, benchmarking, calamares, david airlie, decentralization, dendrite, embedded recipes 2022, federation, firmware, fwupd, hwardware, linux 5.18, linux action news, linux news podcast, lvfs, marcelo tosatti, matrix rocket.chat, mesa, michael larabel, nix, nixos 22.05, nixos-conf-editor, nouveau, nvidia, open source graphics drivers, phoronix, red hat, rhel 9, richard hughes, selinux, vlinkz

Our thoughts on NixOS' new GUI installer, winning hearts and minds one firmware update at a time, the performance bug that hit Linux 5.18, and preparation begins for the open-source NVIDIA driver.

Linux Action News 240

May 11th, 2022  |  21 mins 21 secs

christian schaller, cuda, driver, fedora, firmware, foss, gaming, gaming on linux, graphics, hardware, hardware acceleration, linux action news, linux news podcast, mesa, nouveau, nvidia, open-source, red hat, vulkan

NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement.

Linux Action News 237

April 21st, 2022  |  18 mins 15 secs

chrome qt, drm, efi, exfat, fedora 36, fedora sig, gnome 42, kde, legacy bios, linux action news, linux news podcast, nvdla, nvidia, nvidia's linux strategy, open-source graphics, plasma wayland, sony patch, ubuntu 22.04, uefi, wayland

Our take on why Fedora's Legacy BIOS plans have stirred up such a strong debate, how NVIDIA's Linux strategy seems to be changing, and a surprising kernel patch from Sony.

Linux Action News 236

April 14th, 2022  |  20 mins 49 secs

adaptable linux platform, alp, ampere, arch, audio editing, debian, debian /usr merge, debootstrap, fedora, jack, linux action news, linux news podcast, linux4tegra, mutter, nouveau, nvidia, openssh 9.0, opensuse, pipewire, pro audio, quantum cryptography, raspberry pi os, reiser5, scp, sle, ssh, stefan behlert, tegra, ubuntu, userconf, usr, vst, wayland, wine

SUSE has a skunkworks distro in development, the transition Debian is struggling with, and some long-awaited improvements to Raspberry Pi OS.

Linux Action News 227

February 10th, 2022  |  18 mins 49 secs

ahrens, arm, freecad, greg roh, intel, intel foundry services, kde, linux action news, linux news podcast, nvidia, open-source firmware foundation, osff, plasma 5.24, raid-z expansion, risc-v, semiconductor, softbank, steam deck, steamdeck, steamos, valve, vlv0100

A last-minute kernel patch for the Steam Deck, why Intel is supporting RISC-V development, and we go hands-on with Plasma 5.24.

Linux Action News 225

January 27th, 2022  |  16 mins 24 secs

ads, advertisement, anti-cheat, arm, cpu, cve-2021-4034, dynamic cloud sync, gaming on linux, gpu, hifive unmatched, iot, kde, linux action news, linux news podcast, marketing, mobile, nvidia, plasma, policykit, polkit, proton, pwnkit, qt, qt digital advertising platform, risc-v, sifive, silicon, softbank, steam, steam deck, valve

The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck.

Linux Action News 218

December 5th, 2021  |  21 mins 42 secs

amd, best known configuration, blender 3.0, centos stream 9, cycles x, epel 9, fedora, fwupd, linux action news, linux news podcast, lvfs, michael larabel, nvidia, richard hughes, uefi

Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize.

Linux Action News 190

May 22nd, 2021  |  26 mins 47 secs

alpine, amd, andrew lee, android 12, apple, automotive linux, browser, centos, christian schaller, chrome os 91, chromebooks, cups, decentralized, dns, f-droid, federation, firefox, fosdem, freenode, freenode limited, gentoo, google, gpu acceleration, greg kroah-hartman, hypocrite commits, infotainment, instant messaging, intel, irc, libera.chat, linux 5.13, linux action news, linux apps, linux graphics, linux news podcast, macos, matrix, mattermost, matthew hodgson, mesa, michael larabel, mike sweet, mozilla, nvidia, oauth, openprinting, phoronix, printers, printing, private internet access, process isolation, red hat, security, setrequireuseraction, site isolation security architecture, slack, snap packages, snapcraft, spaces, umn, web

Our take on the Freenode exodus, Linux Apps going public in Chrome OS, and Red Hat's desktop hiring spree.

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.