web01.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:00:48 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Linux Action News - Episodes Tagged with “Rolling Release” https://linuxactionnews.com/tags/rolling%20release Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:30:00 -0700 Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you'll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening. en-us episodic Our weekly take on the free and open source world. Jupiter Broadcasting Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you'll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening. no Jupiter Broadcasting chris@jupiterbroadcasting.com Linux Action News 286 https://linuxactionnews.com/286 bfb01254-4fad-4e00-a759-6a8c5cb5975e Thu, 30 Mar 2023 12:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth. 20:52 no What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth. Linux News Podcast, Linux Action News, GNOME 44, Linux desktop, Wayland, GTK4, File Chooser, Device Security, background apps, background app portal, Clutter, Mutter, OpenGL, Quick Settings, GNOME Software, Flatpak, Maps, Console, open source, Ubuntu Touch, OTA-1 Focal, Focal Fossa, UBPorts, Mobile, Linux Mint, Lomiri, Unity8, systemd, notifications, Waydroid, Android, GCC, Qt, Ubuntu, LTS, Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix, Ubuntu Flavor, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Cinnamon, Desktop Environment, Canonical, Lunar Lobster, Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu Unity, Microsoft, CBL Mariner, Python, Perl, Freefont, security, Rust, Vim, Apache, Redis, GitHub, Azure, WSL, Docker, Free Teams, Docker Hub, Docker-Sponsored Open Source, programming, Google, Project Zero, Linux, CentOS, RedHat, RHEL, kernel, vulnerabilities, patches, upstream, distros, bug, CVE, severity, enterprise, rolling release, Nix, Arch, Jann Horn, backporting, backports, CentOS Stream 9, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, Enterprise Linux, Bugzilla, responsible disclosure, stable kernel, What we're liking about GNOME 44, how Microsoft's Linux distro is trying to attract more users, and we bust a CentOS myth.

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]]> Linux Action News 249 https://linuxactionnews.com/249 c4af4596-0fc6-4ff6-bfbb-2acbab8e21cd Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware. 22:26 no Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware. Linux News Podcast, Linux Action News, Google, gLinux Rodete, enterprise Linux, rolling release, desktop Linux, LTS, Debian, Debian Testing, Ubuntu, Sieve, Red Hat, Matt Hicks, Paul Cormier, Arvind Krishna, RHEL, IBM, Linux Hardware, KDE Slimbook 4, System76, Launch Lite, mechanical keyboard, open firmware, open hardware, Plasma, AMD, graphics driver, GPU, package managers, Matthew Garrett, UEFI, Secured-core PCs, Microsoft, Secure Boot, TPM, Thunderbolt, eGPU, X.Org, X11, CVE, security, out-of-bounds access, Wayland, Alan Coopersmith, Oracle, probono, App Image, Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware.

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  • How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops — Today, the life of a gLinux team member looks very different. We have reduced the amount of engineering time and energy required for releases to one on-duty release engineer that rotates among team members. We no longer have a big push to upgrade our entire fleet. No more need for multi stage alpha, betas and GAs for new LTS releases while simultaneously chasing down older machines that still were running Ubuntu Precise or Lucid.
  • Red Hat names new CEO — In a move many will find surprising, Red Hat announced that Paul Cormier, the company's CEO and president since 2020, is stepping over to become chairman of the board. Matt Hicks, a Red Hat veteran and the company's head of products and technologies, will replace Cormier as president and CEO.
  • KDE Announces Powerful Slimbook 4 Linux Laptop — The laptops are powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor with eight cores. They use USB-C for charging and power, like many other modern laptops. There are two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, and a wired Ethernet jack.
  • System76 Launch Lite Teaser — Launch, but Lite. Launch Lite is the everyperson's keeb — comfortable, portable, and configurable.
  • System76 Teases the Launch Lite Open-Source Configurable Keyboard, Coming July 14th
  • AMD Is Hiring To Improve Its Linux Graphics Driver Installation Experience — In addition to their recent hiring for a open-source Linux GPU driver developer with multimedia experience, this week they have posted a new role looking for Linux build engineer(s) to focus on their graphics driver.
  • Linux Build Engineer — Our team works on open-source GPU drivers for Linux. We are leading contributors to the Radeon Mesa graphics and multimedia drivers included in popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and Debian. Our software is used in exciting products such as the Tesla Model S and the Steam Deck.
  • Matthew Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem — So, to have Microsoft, the self-appointed steward of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem, turn round and say that a bunch of binaries that have been reviewed through processes developed in negotiation with Microsoft, implementing technologies designed to make management of revocation easier for Microsoft, and incorporating fixes for vulnerabilities discovered by the developers of those binaries who notified Microsoft of these issues despite having no obligation to do so, and which have then been signed by Microsoft are now considered by Microsoft to be insecure is, uh, kind of impolite?
  • X.Org Server Hit By New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-2319 and CVE-2022-2320 were made public this morning and both deal with the X.Org Server's Xkb keyboard extension not properly validating input that could lead to out-of-bounds memory writes. Hopefully though in 2022 you aren't relying on your xorg-server running as root.
  • Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend - Phoronix
  • Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything! — tl;dr: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point.
  • X.Org Security Advisory: July 12, 2022
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  • How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops — Today, the life of a gLinux team member looks very different. We have reduced the amount of engineering time and energy required for releases to one on-duty release engineer that rotates among team members. We no longer have a big push to upgrade our entire fleet. No more need for multi stage alpha, betas and GAs for new LTS releases while simultaneously chasing down older machines that still were running Ubuntu Precise or Lucid.
  • Red Hat names new CEO — In a move many will find surprising, Red Hat announced that Paul Cormier, the company's CEO and president since 2020, is stepping over to become chairman of the board. Matt Hicks, a Red Hat veteran and the company's head of products and technologies, will replace Cormier as president and CEO.
  • KDE Announces Powerful Slimbook 4 Linux Laptop — The laptops are powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor with eight cores. They use USB-C for charging and power, like many other modern laptops. There are two USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI port, and a wired Ethernet jack.
  • System76 Launch Lite Teaser — Launch, but Lite. Launch Lite is the everyperson's keeb — comfortable, portable, and configurable.
  • System76 Teases the Launch Lite Open-Source Configurable Keyboard, Coming July 14th
  • AMD Is Hiring To Improve Its Linux Graphics Driver Installation Experience — In addition to their recent hiring for a open-source Linux GPU driver developer with multimedia experience, this week they have posted a new role looking for Linux build engineer(s) to focus on their graphics driver.
  • Linux Build Engineer — Our team works on open-source GPU drivers for Linux. We are leading contributors to the Radeon Mesa graphics and multimedia drivers included in popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and Debian. Our software is used in exciting products such as the Tesla Model S and the Steam Deck.
  • Matthew Garrett: Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot ecosystem — So, to have Microsoft, the self-appointed steward of the UEFI Secure Boot ecosystem, turn round and say that a bunch of binaries that have been reviewed through processes developed in negotiation with Microsoft, implementing technologies designed to make management of revocation easier for Microsoft, and incorporating fixes for vulnerabilities discovered by the developers of those binaries who notified Microsoft of these issues despite having no obligation to do so, and which have then been signed by Microsoft are now considered by Microsoft to be insecure is, uh, kind of impolite?
  • X.Org Server Hit By New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities — CVE-2022-2319 and CVE-2022-2320 were made public this morning and both deal with the X.Org Server's Xkb keyboard extension not properly validating input that could lead to out-of-bounds memory writes. Hopefully though in 2022 you aren't relying on your xorg-server running as root.
  • Many Old X.Org Components Saw New Releases This Weekend - Phoronix
  • Boycott Wayland. It breaks everything! — tl;dr: Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet, and maybe never will. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better of not using Wayland at this point.
  • X.Org Security Advisory: July 12, 2022
]]> Linux Action News 234 https://linuxactionnews.com/234 95db305e-a64c-4ab4-9d9c-9f7506d685f5 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:30:00 -0700 Jupiter Broadcasting full Jupiter Broadcasting 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. 15:18 no 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 News Podcast, Linux Action News, Ubuntu, Canonical, Rolling Rhino Remix, Martin Wimpress, MrBeeBenson, rolling release, apt, Debian, Linux, AMD, CXL, Compute Express Link, HPC, high performance computing, PipeWire, JACK, Linux Audio, Pulseaudio, WirePlumber 0.4.9, Zoom, Linux gaming, Bluetooth, Linux 5.18, NVMe, Google, kernel shutdown time, async, aarch64, ARM64, Arm, Alibaba, ShadowCallStack, shadow call stack, GCC, llvm, security, stack buffer overflow, power management, Intel, HFI, Hardware Feedback Interface, thermal subsystem, P-State, power state, idle, power usage, battery life, ReiserFS, filesystems, XFS, deprecation, kernel maintenance, Darrick Wong, Dave Chinner, XFS online repair, design review, Phoronix, LWN, RNG, random number generator, Linus jitter dance, Linus Torvalds, entropy, urandom, 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.

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