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Linux Action News 171

January 10th, 2021  |  26 mins 40 secs

alyssa rosenzweig, app grid, apple m1, asahi linux, collabora, commercial software, decentralized, dock, erik kurzinger, federation, gnome 40, gnome shell, gpu, gtk, hector martin, kde, library, linux action news, linux news podcast, live streaming, lts, mesa, nvidia, overview, panfrost, peertube, plasma, qt, qt 5.15, qt 6, the qt company, toolkit, touch gestures, tuukka turunen, video hosting, video streaming, wayland, wendell wilson, x11, xorg, xwayland

We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release.

Linux Action News 170

January 3rd, 2021  |  22 mins 32 secs

amd, amd radeon, bfs, big navi, centos, centos stream, con kolivas, concurrency, exfat, facebook, gnome, gnome 40, gnome circle, gnome os, google stadia, graphics drivers, gtk 4, intel, intel xe graphics, kde, ktask, kvm, lennart poettering, linus torvalds, linux, linux action news, linux news podcast, microsoft, oomd, oracle, plasma, radeon rx 6000, rdp, red hat, ryzen 5000, samsung, scheduling, spinlocks, systemd, systemd-homed, udev, wayland, wsl2, zen 3

A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about.

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.

Linux Action News 165

November 29th, 2020  |  30 mins 10 secs

alexa, amazon, android, aws, breaking change, browser wars, canonical, cloud, cognito, containers, docker, email, feed reader, google, kinesis, linux action news, linux filesystems, linux news podcast, memory, microsoft, ntfs, oomd, outage, paragon, project astoria, project latte, psi, rate limiting, rdp, roomba, status page, systemd, ubuntu lts, udev, verified publisher program, vivaldi mail, wayland, weston, windows 10, wsl, wslg

What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.

Linux Action News 159

October 18th, 2020  |  39 mins 4 secs

apache openoffice, atennapod, bluetooth, bluez, cups, document foundation open letter, dual license, exfat, intel, jupiter broadcasting, kernel 5.10, libreoffice, linux action show, linux news podcast, microsoft, oin, open invention network, plasma 5.20, wayland

The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6.

Linux Action News 155

September 20th, 2020  |  33 mins 48 secs

android intent uris, azure, chris moberly, chrome os, chromebooks, cloud hypervisor, extensions rebooted initiative, firefox mobile, firefox notes, firefox send, gnome 3.38, gnome 40, gnome versioning scheme, hyper-v, jupiter broadcasting, kvm, lacros, linux action news, microsoft, orbis, pipewire, root partition, ssdp engine, tracker, wayland, weekly linux news podcast, xen

We try out the new GNOME "Orbis" release and chat about Microsoft's new Linux kernel patches that make it clear Windows 10 is on the path to a hybrid Windows/Linux system.

Linux Action News 125

September 29th, 2019  |  21 mins 41 secs

android 10 go, centos 8, centos stream, cockpit, debian wheezy, dnf, docker, dsu, fsf, gnome foundtation patent fight, gnu, jupiter broadcasting, linux academy, linux action show, linux news podcast, microsoft edge on linux, podman, richard stallman, rms, wayland

CentOS Stream and 8 have a lot for us to talk about, Docker's struggles go public, and the GNOME Foundation is facing a patent fight.

Linux Action News 97

March 17th, 2019  |  31 mins 24 secs

3.32, android desktop mode, android q, communitybridge, debian, elasticsearch, gnome, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux foundation, linux news podcast, nginx acquired, open distro, performance, project leader, red team, wayland

We try out the latest GNOME 3.32 release, and why it might be the best release ever. New leader candidates for Debian emerge, we experience foundation inception, and NGINX is getting acquired.

Linux Action News 39

February 3rd, 2018  |  30 mins 57 secs

coreos, fsf bitcoin donation, gnome, gtk, kubernetes, lan, librem 5, libreoffice, linux action news, linux action show, linux news podcast, matrix, qt, red hat, riot.im, satus.im, snapcraft summit, snaps, testing plasma mobile, wayland

Red Hat shakes up the container world with its CoreOS purchase. Skype ships as a snap and Chris has a report from Canonical's recent development sprint.

Linux Action News 38

January 28th, 2018  |  34 mins 33 secs

bsd usage, convergence, intel, linus torvalds, linux action show, linux news podcast, meltdown, mycroft mark ii, pursim, spectre, ubuntu lts, wayland, xorg

Ubuntu is switching back to Xorg, Linus calls out Intel, and are the BSDs dying?

Plus how you can start testing Plasma Mobile, Pursim aims for convergence, and Mycroft is back!