Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday

Your weekly dose of all thing Linux and open source with a slice of Pi thrown in for good measure.

LWDW 209: Thread Boopin!

System 76 rips some Threads, Mate 1.24 HiDPIs all the things, OpenShot gets hardware acceleration, and Linux-based Windows 12?

02-12
51:28

LWDW 214: Pi Sized Ryzen

Debian 11 prepares to chill, Only Office gets a massive update, AMD needs a kernel maintainer, and a Pi sized Ryzen R1000-based SBC. Then Jill has a chat with Georg Link, PhD Director of Sales at Bitergia and with Ana Jimenez Marketing Specialist at Bitergia.

03-18
50:07

LWDW 213: See The Bling Bling

The era of distribution-specific laptops begins! IRC gets a GTK3 makeover, PLEX alternative Jellyfin looks towards the future, OBS is getting a proper browser source, and we're launching a new show.

03-11
39:00

LWDW 212: Superman.wtf

Let's Encrypt issues their billionth cert! UKUI 3.0 goes full Windows, teaching old MIDI new tricks, and 8 things you might not know about your Raspberry Pi.

03-04
42:29

LWDW 211: Discord Discord

Firefox Private Network enters closed beta! Pipewire learns how to Jack, GIMP transforms 3D, and the Raspberry Pi 4 pulls a sneaky.

02-27
40:31

LWDW 210: Unsolicited Pi NAS

Thunderbird is hiring! Lenovo expands their Linux lineup, Blender simulates balloons, and ClearOS goes fast.

02-19
48:14

Miniature Raspberry HATs

GNOME 49 lands with Do Not Disturb, per-monitor brightness, and better scaling. Cloudflare backed Ladybird, the non-Chromium browser. Raspberry Pi has a new $15 M.2 Hat Compact that fits in the Pi 5 case, and LattePanda shows up with a Pi-sized Intel N150 single board computer.

09-24
28:09

KDE Linux Enters Alpha

This week we cover the first alpha release of KDE Linux, OpenRGB’s new home on Codeberg, Canonical adding CUDA to the Ubuntu repositories, and a clever Waveshare add-on that brings Ethernet and USB ports to the Raspberry Pi Zero without dongles.

09-17
30:26

Linux Is The Bogeyman

Firefox finally pulls the plug on 32-bit support, Raspberry Pi announces a 1TB SSD, lossless audio over WiFi with JackTrip, and dispelling some popular Linux myths.

09-10
34:12

Heavy XFCE Vibes

System76’s COSMIC desktop hits a milestone with its first setup wizard. BSD users get Gershwin, a GNUstep-powered DE with heavy XFCE vibes.

09-03
39:03

34 Candles For Old Man Penguin

This week we celebrate Linux turning 34, check out a plugin that makes GIMP great for thumbnails, look at a powerful new Jetson dev kit, and try out UEFI on the Rock 5 ITX+ for easy USB Linux installs.

08-27
51:26

RIPinephone Pro

Pebble Time 2 arrives, running the open source PebbleOS. Pine64 sunsets the PinePhone Pro, Raspberry Pi introduces a new 5 inch Touch Display 2, and an accordion gets transformed into a

08-20
30:35

Debian 13 Gets Big Updates, Firefox’s AI Causes Chaos

Ubuntu 24.04.3 brings a new kernel, updated graphics, and better support for old GPUs. Debian 13 improves real-time performance and hardware compatibility.

08-13
39:30

Pi-Powered Ballistic Sugar

PixiEditor 2.0 is an all-in-one 2D editor with raster, vector, animation, and FX on a single canvas. Greentea OS hits alpha with its own stack built to run Windows apps. Modos shows off a high-refresh ...

08-06
38:08

Snapdragon X Elite Is Getting There on Linux

Kernel 6.16 brings major hardware support upgrades, Ubuntu changes how it handles kernels, Snapdragon X Elite Linux support advances, and an ARM SBC embarrasses x86 in Jellyfin transcoding.

07-30
32:28

Intel Cancels Clear Linux OS

Intel pulls the plug on Clear Linux, Mozilla crams more AI into Firefox, ESWIN Computing partners with Ubuntu for a new RISC-V SBC, and finally something worth shoving into the PCIe slot on a Raspberry Pi 5.

07-23
33:43

Open-Source Mirrored Gerbils

An open-source MX Master 3S mod for left-handers, System76 updates a laptop, OBS adds multitrack video support on Linux, and Milk-V announces a RISC-V board with upgradeable memory RAM.

07-16
39:25

Ubuntu’s RISC-V Decision

For the first time, Linux hits 5 percent desktop market share. Wayback aims to bridge the gulf between X11 and Wayland, Ubuntu 25.10 raises the bar for RISC V support, and hardware accelerated HDR to SDR tone mapping on ARM for fun and entertainment.

07-09
37:38

USB Hockey Pucks

Ploopy releases a high-resolution Knob, advanced profile management for GPUs on Linux, a new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module from RasPi, and a glimpse at the future of gaming on ARM.

07-02
40:26

Fedora Proposal To Drop i686

Fedora proposes dropping support for i686, Apple finally kills off FireWire, installing Linux on a $1600 mixing console, and Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads.

06-25
31:31

Recommend Channels