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Linux Action News 287

April 5th, 2023  |  14 mins 58 secs

android, apache arrow, beta release, bloomberg, btrfs, canonical, celery, chromeos, cpufreq, curl, desktop linux, discourse, django, encryption, fde, fedora, flutter, flutter installer, foss, foss contributor fund, fscrypt, full disk encryption, gnome 44, google, kde, kde discuss, keyboard backlight, kvm, kvm-cpufreq, linux 6.2, linux 6.4, linux action news, linux news podcast, mesa 23, msi, msi laptops, msi-ec driver, netboot, netboot iso, networkmanager, nikita kravets, open-source funding, pipewire, power management, power profile, python, saravana kannan, systemd, tpm, trusted platform module, ubuntu, ubuntu 23.04, virtual machines, virtualization, zfs, 🦞

A fresh take on open-source funding, Fedora’s plan for better encryption out of the box, and our impressions of the latest Ubuntu Beta.

Linux Action News 273

December 29th, 2022  |  17 mins 33 secs

akademy 2022, anaconda, apple hardware, apple silicon, application themeing, arm, arm acquisition, asahi linux, canonical, christian schaller, cpufreq, d-installer, dbus, drm, fedora, flutter, gaming on linux, gles, gnome, gnome shell, gpu, gtk4, hector martin, kde, libadwaita, linux action news, linux kernel, linux news podcast, m1, m2, nvdla, nvidia, open-source graphics drivers, opengl, opensuse, pipewire, plasma, proton, raspberry pi, rust, sdd, steam deck, steamos, trim, ubuntu, valve, wayland, web-based installer, wireplumber, yast

There are some stories so big they need a little more air time.

Linux Action News 272

December 22nd, 2022  |  15 mins 16 secs

act, actions, amd, audio, automation, bluetooth, christopher barnatt, ci/cd, continuous deployment, continuous integration, desktop linux, eben upton, electronics, explaining computers, git, gitea, gitea actions, gpu acceleration, graphics, hardware, hardware acceleration, kde, linux action news, linux news podcast, nvidia, open-source, pi 5, pipewire, plasma, pulseaudio, qt, raspberry pi, samsung, security, software, software development, supply chain, technology, vulnerabilities, wayland, wireplumber, x11, xfce, xfce 4.18

Why we won't see a new Raspberry Pi until 2025, the first steps to Plasma 6 are being taken, and PipeWire gets a major Bluetooth upgrade.

Linux Action News 264

October 27th, 2022  |  11 mins 57 secs

22.10, 486 support, apple m1, asahi, btrfs, canonical, cpufreq, fedora 37, gitea, gnome 43, gpio, gpu driver, gtk4, hyperpixel, i486, kinetic kudu, linux action news, linux news podcast, lvm, m2, micropython, openssl, openssl 3.0.7, pipewire, raspberry pi pico w, steam snap, stratis, ubuntu, virtual linux workstation, wireplumber, xfs, zfs

The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea's surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop another architecture.

Linux Action News 251

July 29th, 2022  |  18 mins 33 secs

abb, automotive linux, bios, btrfs, bytedance, c++, carbon, centos, compression, copy-on-write, desktop linux, dm-crypt, ecryptfs, encryption, ext4, filesystems, fscrypt, general motors, gnome 43, go, google, gpl, hardware initialization, hybrid cloud, ibm, intel, kernel scheduler, kexec, linutronix, linux 5.20, linux action news, linux news podcast, linux server, llvm, locking, luks, matt hicks, native filesystem encryption, open source, performance-critical software, pipewire, plasma, preempt_rt, preemption, programming languages, raspberry pi, realtime, red hat, rust, snapshots, this week in gnome, this week in kde, tiktok, ultifi, uncompressed kernel, x86, zfs

Red Hat hints at its future direction, why realtime might finally come to Linux after all these years, and our reaction to Google's ambitious new programing language.

Linux Action News 242

May 26th, 2022  |  16 mins 10 secs

5.19, android, automation, broadcom, btrfs, calyx institute, calyxos, copy-on-write, cuda, david box, david sterba, debian, dell, eightwave, emc, f-droid, ffmpeg, foss, gimp, gnome, google summer of code, gpl, gsoc 2022, hans-christoph steiner, kde, libreoffice, linus torvalds, linux 5.18, linux action news, linux foundation, linux news podcast, pat gelsinger, pipewire, plasma, pulseaudio, sdsi, software defined silicon, stretch, suse, tor, ubuntu 22.10, vlc, vmware

Linux Action News 241

May 19th, 2022  |  21 mins 13 secs

alsa, arch linux, assured open source, audio, copyleft, copyright, fuzzing, google, google cloud, gpl, linux action news, linux news podcast, openssf, oss-fuzz, pipewire, pulseaudio, right to repair, sfc, software freedom conservancy, vizio, wireplumber

Why Google's new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem.

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 234

March 31st, 2022  |  15 mins 18 secs

aarch64, alibaba, amd, apt, arm, arm64, async, battery life, bluetooth, canonical, compute express link, cxl, darrick wong, dave chinner, debian, deprecation, design review, entropy, filesystems, gcc, google, hardware feedback interface, hfi, high performance computing, hpc, idle, intel, jack, kernel maintenance, kernel shutdown time, linus jitter dance, linus torvalds, linux, linux 5.18, linux action news, linux audio, linux gaming, linux news podcast, llvm, lwn, martin wimpress, mrbeebenson, nvme, p-state, phoronix, pipewire, power management, power state, power usage, pulseaudio, random number generator, reiserfs, rng, rolling release, rolling rhino remix, security, shadow call stack, shadowcallstack, stack buffer overflow, thermal subsystem, ubuntu, urandom, wireplumber 0.4.9, xfs, xfs online repair, zoom

A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release.

Linux Action News 220

December 19th, 2021  |  19 mins 56 secs

airplay, alibaba cloud security team, apache, arm smmu, asahi, check point, christian brauner, cisa, crowdstrike, cve-2021-45046, cybersecurity, dave jones, echo-cancel module, ext4, hector martin, icloud, jack, java, jen easterly, linux 5.17, linux action news, linux news podcast, log4j, log4shell, m1, macos 12.1, mandiant, mount api, obs, pipewire, podcast index, podcasting 2.0, raw image mode, steam, wireplumber

The nasty Log4Shell vulnerability isn't solved yet, this week saw a new round of attacks and patches.