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Linux Action News 195

June 27th, 2021  |  22 mins 25 secs

3d, animation, arm, blender, blender lts, canonical, centos, cgi, debian, freebsd, freenas, green obsidian, gregory kurtzer, ixsystems, kubernetes, linux action news, linux news podcast, my book live, red hat, rhel, rocky linux, rocky linux 8.4, secure boot, secured core, sifive risc-v, tpm, truenas scale, trusted computing, ubuntu, western digital, windows 11, zfs

The news this week that pushes Linux ahead in the enterprise, the challenges Windows 11 might bring, and we go hands-on with the new Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE.

Linux Action News 194

June 20th, 2021  |  24 mins 26 secs

boiling steam, bpfprogram, centos, cloudlinux, debian, ebpf, freebsd developer summit, improved linux firewire support, isrg, kernelcare, lennart poettering, librarycare, linus torvalds, linux action news, linux news podcast, matthew ahrens, miguel ojeda, nano 5.8, openzfs, oracle, os-release file update, prossimo, raidz expansion, red hat, rust linux kernel, steam on chromeos, systemd, systemd-firstboot, tuxcare, ubuntu, uchecker, valve, vdev, zfs, zpool

Linux's résumé got a nice boost this week; why Google is paying for more kernel development, and how CloudLinux might be pulling ahead of the CentOS pack.

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 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.

Linux Action News 181

March 21st, 2021  |  23 mins

android, canonical, dalton durst, etcher, f1, fedora 34, fuschia, gjs, gnome 40, gnome extensions, gnome os, google, google i/o, gtk 4+, just perfection, legacy apps on wayland, linux action news, linux news podcast, linux phone, milestone release, mutter, ota-16, overscan, pinephone, pixel 3a, raspberry pi, raspberry pi imager, red hat, sri ramkrishna, ssh, ubuntu mobile, ubuntu touch, volla phone, wayland, wi-fi, x11, xorg, xwayland 21.1, zircon

Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.

Linux Action News 179

March 7th, 2021  |  29 mins 41 secs

5.12, 5.12-rc1, canonical, cgroups, chrome, chromeos, chromium, cinnamon de, container plumbing days, containers, dart, data loss, double ungood, electron, extended stable, firefox, flutter 2, fuschia, google, gtk, hot reload, ken vandine, linus torvalds, linux action news, linux desktop apps, linux mint, linux news podcast, memory leak, namespaces, native applications, package manager, red hat, security, security updates, snap packages, snapcraft, software updates, swap, swap partition, swapfile, ubuntu, ubuntu installer, ui, update manager, virtualization

Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.

Linux Action News 178

February 28th, 2021  |  25 mins 52 secs

almalinux, asus, browser wars, canvas, centos, centos stream, clang, cloud native, containers, dell, expansion card, facebook, fedora, firefox 86, framework, gnome, google, gpu, gustavo silva, hacker laptop, kernel self protection project, konveyor, kubernetes, kubevirt, kvm, laptop, linux action news, linux foundation, linux news podcast, llvm, memory safety, modular, mtv, multiple picture-in-picture, nathan chancellor, nirav patel, nvme, oculus, openshift 4.7, openshift virtualization, orchestration, peter lauterbach, reader mode, red hat, repairable, rhel, rhel for open-source infrastructure, rocky linux, security, total cookie protection, upgradeable, usb-c, virtual machines, vm, webgl, wifi 6e, windows

Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.

Linux Action News 174

January 31st, 2021  |  20 mins 54 secs

almalinux, app store, ars technica, aws, baron samedit, bleepingcomputer, brian exelbierd, broadcam, centos, cloudlinux, ctrl iq, cve-2021-3156, debian, element, federated chat, fedora, gamestop, google, greg kroah-hartman, gregory kurtzer, hpc, jim salter, linux 5.10, linux action news, linux news podcast, lts, matrix, mattermost, play store, qualys, red hat, robinhood, rocky linux, root, samsung, scott branden, security, software bug, sudo, telegram, the register, ubuntu, vulnerability, wallstreetbets

Google removes Matrix chat-client Element from the Play store, sudo has a major flaw with a long-tail, and Rocky Linux gets a boost.

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 172

January 17th, 2021  |  30 mins 45 secs

almalinux, anti-cheat, apple m1, asahi linux, blizzard, breeze theme, centos, chrome, chromium, cloudlinux, containers, destiny 2, direct3d, docker, docker-compose, fedora, fingerprint manager, fingerprint reader, fractional scaling, google, haswell gt1, hector martin, iboot, igor seletskiy, igpu leak, intel, kde, ken thomases, kickoff menu, krunner, kubernetes, kwin, linux action news, linux gaming, linux news podcast, macos, meltdown, microsoft edge, pe, plasma 5.21, podman, red hat, security mitigations, spectre, systemd, vulkan, wayland, windows, wine 6.0, xfce, xfce 4.16

Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born.