Linux Action News

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 248

July 7th, 2022  |  21 mins 11 secs

arm, canonical, centralization, cgroups, chrome, code repository, copilot, coreboot, deepcomputing, fedora, fedora 37, foss, git, github, give up github, lemur pro, lennart poettering, linux action news, linux kernel, linux news podcast, memory pressure, mesa, oom, opengl, psi, pulseaudio, raspberry pi 4, red hat, risc-v, roma, sfc, software freedom conservancy, swap, system76, systemd, systemd-oomd, ubuntu, ubuntu mate, vcs, vulkan, xcalibyte

The new movement to leave GitHub, an Ubuntu bug biting 22.04 users, the hardware platform Fedora might start taking seriously, and a major desktop dev departs Red Hat.

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 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 186

April 25th, 2021  |  24 mins 41 secs

5.11, aarch64, academia, active directory, al viro, amd radeon, btrfs, budgie, canonical community team, cbl-mariner, fedora 34, ffmpeg, freerdp, git, github, gnome 3.38.5, gnome settings, greg kroah-hartman, grsecurity, human research, hypocrite commits, ieee, immature vulnerability, ingenuity, irb, jpl, kubuntu, linux 5.12, linux action news, linux foundation, linux kernel, linux news podcast, linuxcopter, lubuntu, maintainer, mars, mars 2020 helicopter mission badge, microsoft, n64, nasa, nintendo, opengl, patches, perseverance, plasma 5.21, power mode selector, private home directories, pulseaudio, red hat summit 2021, research ethics, security, static analysis, systemd-oomd, ubuntu 21.04, university of minnesota, vrr, wayland, weston, wsl, wsldvcplugin, wslg, xubuntu

The University of Minnesota has been banned from the Linux kernel. We'll share the history, the context, and where things stand now around the controversial research that led to the ban.

Linux Action News 166

December 6th, 2020  |  29 mins 34 secs

aks, alsa, apple m1, budgie 10.5.2, chromium 84, cinnamon 4.8, cncf, containers, eks, eqt, gks, gnome 3.38.2, gnome 5.20.4, gnome os, graphics drivers, igalia, k3s, k8s, kde plasma 5.20.4, kubernetes, linux action news, linux hardware, linux mint 21, linux news podcast, mesa, michael larabel, phoronix, phoronix test suite, pulseaudio, rancher, rancher labs, raspberry pi os, suse, v3dv, vulkan, wayland

Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.