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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Linux Mint disables unverified flatpaks
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4719
06:35 Windows Recall is already hacked
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/06/05/0040225/hacker-tool-extracts-all-the-data-collected-by-windows-new-recall-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
08:42 Google wants its own Windows Recall like feature
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2358215/google-is-working-on-a-version-of-recall-too.html
13:43 KDE wants you to help them set their goals
https://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2024/06/05/what-should-kde-focus-on-for-the-next-2-years-you-can-propose-a-goal/
15:42 elementary OS 8 updates
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-june-2024/
19:26 Thunderbird making solid progress on Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-may-2024/
22:03 Proton pass is available for Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/proton-pass-for-linux
24:46 Nouveau drivers will gain more features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Misc-6.11-Nouveau-Intel-NPU
26:36 Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon Macs
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html
29:24 Open AI employees warn about the dangers of AI
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-right-to-warn-open-letter-ai-risk/
33:32 Duck Duck GO offers anonymous AI chatbots
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/duckduckgo-offers-anonymous-access-to-ai-chatbots-through-new-service/
35:33 Linux passes the 2% market share on Steam
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/linux-user-share-on-steam-breaks-2pc-thanks-to-steam-deck/
39:09 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:40 Unknown trouble at the GNOME foundation
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-149/
https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/31/gnome-development-initiative-update/
09:25 EU looks into AI tools GDPR potential violations
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/eu-chatgpt-taskforce-a-road-to-gdpr-enforcement-on-ai
14:28 F-Droid, micro G and /e/ band together
https://linuxiac.com/mobifree-challenging-the-tech-giants/
17:32 AWS is strangling some Fedora mirrors
http://smoogespace.blogspot.com/2024/05/where-did-5-million-epel-7-systems-come.html
20:02 Fedora installer delayed again
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Anaconda-Web-UI-Fedora-42
23:35 Internet archive & wayback machine being targeted by DDOs
https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/28/internet-archive-and-the-wayback-machine-under-ddos-cyber-attack/
26:13 WSL gets graphical settings
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/wsl-gui-settings-apps-coming-soon
28:58 Real Time Ubuntu is now available
https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-now-offers-a-real-time-kernel-but-there-is-a-catch/
30:55 RavynOS tries to run macOS apps on BSD
https://ravynos.com/
34:23 Rhino Linux is back with a rolling Ubuntu
https://rhinolinux.org/news-13.html
37:30 Steam Deck now has 15 000 games
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-deck-hits-15000-games-rated-playable-and-verified/
41:19 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:23 GNOME’s 5 year plan
https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/
07:08 Qualcomm’s ARM CPUs beat Apple’s M3
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/snapdragon-x-elite-cpu-has-been-put-through-its-paces-early-and-appears-to-be-every-bit-as-strong-as-qualcomm-claims
10:12 Windows Recall looks like an absolute nightmare
https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried
15:00 EU passes AI legislation
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-countries-back-landmark-artificial-intelligence-rules-2024-05-21/
17:28 Ubuntu 24.10 will focus on polish
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-the-roadmap/45120
19:55 Ubuntu doesn’t like GNOME’s point releases
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRE-Over-Mutter-Shell
24:32 Plasma makes big progress
https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/17/this-week-in-kde-all-about-those-apps/
https://notmart.org/blog/2024/05/new-plasma-edit-mode-in-6-1/
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.05.0/
30:56 Is the “frozen kernel” model broken?
https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/
35:12 Firefox has a roadmap
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694
39:19 Gaming: Open source, self-hostable Stadia, Nvidia driver update
https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris
https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/
43:11 Outro
Transcript
Note: this is auto-generated by Davinci Resolve, it might have errors, badly worded things, I’m not responsible if anything is not representative of what I actually said :D
Hey everyone and welcome back to this edition of the Linux and open source news podcast. I’m your host Nick and this is the show where we discuss everything related to Linux, open source, the open web, privacy and everything around those spaces. So in today’s episode we have GNOME or at least the GNOME Foundation announcing a five year plan to get more funding, to get more people on board, to get more users for GNOME. We have Windows and Microsoft announcing a new feature called Recall which looks like a privacy and security nightmare. We have Qualcomm potentially beating Apple’s latest chip in their own ARM CPUs which have full mainstream Linux support or at least they are working on that full mainstream support. We have the first inklings of AI legislation passed in the EU. We have some news about Ubuntu and some problems they might start having with GNOME. We have some big progress on Plasma and a bunch of other things. So as always if you want to learn more about any of these topics all the links that I used are in the show notes and if you don’t really like waiting for the end of the week to get these news well you can also get them in daily format from Monday to Friday if you become a Patreon member the link is in the description of the show as well. So now let’s get started. So GNOME has published a first draft of their five year plan or at least the GNOME Foundation did that. They published it to get a bit of feedback from the community, from developers, from users and other interested parties who might ship or might want to ship GNOME or to even just fund the foundation. So they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives. So the first big goal is to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users. I guess creators mean developers here, developers for GNOME but also for GNOME applications, maybe extensions and everything around GNOME. The three sub-objectives are first to unify the community around the shared vision. I think that’s something GNOME has kind of already did. They do have their own vision of what a desktop environment is. They have been pushing hard for this and yes some people did not like this vision but at least the community around GNOME right now is focused on the same goals and it seems to be working for app developers at least because they have the biggest and best ecosystem for third-party apps on any other desktop environment. The second sub-goal is to make GNOME relevant and attractive to more diverse people and probably this means accessibility, making GNOME something that everyone can use no matter if they are fully able, if they have disabilities, no matter what everyone should be able to use GNOME and they are already working on that with their new accessibility framework. And finally they also want to increase the commercial and economic value of GNOME. Now this one I don’t really know what that means. My mind instantly went to “oh no they want to make distro space to implement GNOME” but that’s really probably not what that is. It’s probably just to make the project a more desirable target for fundraising and for potential investors who would just drop money into the GNOME Foundation to support the GNOME project. So it’s probably more communication around what GNOME is doing and less trying to sell GNOME as a product. Now the second major goal is to create a unified and integrated suite of programs, services and processes. And this seems to encompass building more integrated technologies, so maybe having more GNOME APIs that can be taken advantage of by GNOME itself but also by GNOME applications. But it also seems to target how GNOME is organized. For example they want to reorganize their myriad of little events into a single annual event that can include more people at the same time. So presumably maybe livestreams and people being able to ask questions online and them being addressed, maybe taking more advantage of the current technologies to make a one big GNOME event instead of multiple little guadeks around the year and smaller other little development sprints. Not sure what exactly they mean around that but they do want to conflate all events into one. Finally the third big goal is to strengthen the GNOME Foundation as a non-profit. So presumably to make sure it is well funded and that it works reliably. There are objectives such as documenting their impact and their value, which is going to be absolutely mandatory if they want to showcase what they’ve done with the money they have received. They also want to double the annual expense but also the annual revenue budget of the foundation. So that just means get more money so we can spend it. And the final goal is prioritizing the health and well-being of the foundation. So probably not letting it run as it did in the past by just tapping in their treasury and not really trying to find new avenues for funding. All of this seems to just mean we need more budgets to do good things with GNOME so we need to find more money first and then we can spend it. All in all it is obviously not a plan for GNOME, the desktop environment. It’s not a development roadmap, a feature roadmap, it is a plan for its supporting fundraising and governance organism. And I think it makes sense as a bird’s eye view thing. To make that project work you need to find reliable sources of funding and then you can spend that money towards growing GNOME as a project, whether it’s in terms of having a bigger community, having more developers, having more features, having more resources, having more communication.
This also requires making sure that first you have a big community, people that can be hired with that money to work on GNOME features. And to do that you need a strong vision, you need some big events to draw people in, you need some interesting technology people want to use and you need to document all of this for potential funding partners. It makes a lot of sense, the language here feels extremely corporate to me when reading this, but honestly that’s probably what people would expect from a non-profit like trying to find money, you need to appear like a company but not be a company and I think that’s what they did here. So obviously you can submit your feedback on that draft if you have remarks, just remember it is not feedback on GNOME the project, no one is asking you if you like GNOME, if you think GNOME likes certain features, that’s not what this draft is about, this is a plan for the foundation itself, it’s not a development roadmap, so don’t go around submitting feedback saying hey, we need this feature and minimize button needs to come back because that’s not what they’re looking for here. So there’s a button to submit feedback if you click on the link that I left in the show notes.
Now we also got a few interesting details about the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and you might wonder what that thing is and why I’m even talking about this here, this is an ARM CPU made obviously by Qualcomm for laptops and initially it looked like it would be a partnership with Microsoft and it would only land in Surface laptops but it also looks like Qualcomm is upstreaming a lot of that support to the mainline Linux kernel, they already have the CPU support in place and they’re already upstreaming more and more parts of the entire system on a chip including how to handle the battery, the USB host, potential webcams plugged into it and everything in between. So this is a really cool CPU or system on a chip to follow if we’re a Linux user and we’re also looking to move to ARM or at least interested in ARM computing. And the benchmarks are really not bad for this chip as well because they seem to indicate it will more than compete with Apple’s latest computers. In Geekbench 6 they apparently beat the Apple M3 by a pretty solid margin, if I remember correctly, the M3 is like 8
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00:00 Intro
01:23 Firefox adds data collection
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/
05:07 France bans TikTok to quell protests
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/french-tiktok-ban-makes-vpn-usage-soar-in-new-caledonia
08:57 Debian maintainer restricts KeePass XC features
https://linuxiac.com/debian-keepassxc-sparked-debate/
12:29 More KDE work on HDR
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/05/11/more-hdr-and-color.html
15:08 Linux kernel 6.9 is out
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features
17:41 Linux kernel Libre 6.9 is out
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-9-kernel-released-for-software-freedom-lovers
19:30 Qualcomm’s new ARM SoCs support Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite
22:16 Intel’s latest feature causes problems for Fedora
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Fedora-OSS-Concerns
26:50 EU might bring antitrust charges against MS Teams
https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-teams-is-facing-more-antitrust-lawsuits-in-europe
30:28 Google pushes AI everywhere
https://www.engadget.com/google-search-will-now-show-ai-generated-answers-to-millions-by-default-174512845.html
https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-io-showcases-new-ask-photos-tool-powered-by-ai-but-it-honestly-scares-me-a-little
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/
35:04 NetBSD bans AI generated code
https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html
37:35 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, Steam Deck plugins
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nonsteamlaunchers-steam-deck-plugin-in-testing-plus-a-way-to-remote-play-together-anything/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NTSYNC-Broken
41:05 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:22 New Cosmic DE update
https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix
05:28 GNOME funding seems fine
https://foundation.gnome.org/reports/
08:23 New attack bypasses VPNS
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/
12:00 Pokemon Go players are adding fake data to OSM
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/pokemon-go-players-are-altering-public-map-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon/
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413/43?ref=404media.co
16:06 GNOME updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-146/
19:10 elementary OS 8 should be close
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-may-2024/
22:09 Fedora Asahi 40 is out
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-now-available/
24:13 ClearLinux still out performs Ubuntu and Fedora
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-ubuntu2404-fedora40/6
28:08 AMD opens up more documentation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Firmware-Docs
30:40 Valve contributes to NVK
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Explicit-Sync-Valve
33:40 Google’s Flutter layoffs are worrying for Ubuntu
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap
37:06 Gaming: SteamOS, SteamVR, Playtron OS
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/playtron-give-a-bit-more-detail-on-the-linux-based-playtronos-and-their-plans/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steamvr-25-released-with-multiple-linux-fixes/
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/4213757668851885208
43:37 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:35 NixOS isn’t dying, but it’s not doing well
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-is-not-dying-please-dont-spread-fear-actively/44310
https://determinate.systems/posts/on-community-in-nix/
https://paste.shark-harmonic.ts.net/paste/abd339e0-2317-402b-8d8e-97e580537263/md
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/much-ado-about-nothing/
09:14 GNOME breaks non GNOME apps with Adwaita icons
https://cullmann.io/posts/kate-and-icons/
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288
15:33 GNOME needs some money
https://ramcq.net/2024/04/26/update-from-the-gnome-board/
18:28 Windows 11 is very unpopular
https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/
21:18 Mint forks GNOME apps
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4675
26:50 Don’t upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 yet
https://linuxiac.com/do-not-try-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-at-this-time/
30:11 KDE Neon explains their failed Plasma 6 upgrade
https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/04/29/kde-neon-post-plasma-6-updates-review/
32:30 More lawsuits against OpenAI
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/30/microsoft-openai-lawsuit-copyright-newspapers-alden-global
36:56 Proton 9.0 is out
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-9.0-1
38:57 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:17 The downfall of Google Search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
07:07 The US really wants a TikTok ban
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1245594589/house-approves-bill-tiktok-ban
https://www.techradar.com/news/tiktok-ban-will-the-app-be-banned-in-the-us-and-how-would-that-work
13:33 Nvidia contributes to NVK
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-Conservative
16:20 Ubuntu 24.04 is out
https://youtu.be/LGIWeld3Zwc
20:31 Fedora 40 is out
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/
https://linuxiac.com/slimbook-fedora-2-laptop/
23:23 GNOME delivers big improvement in 46.1
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-46.1-Released
25:30 Framework wants more than laptops
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138475/framework-laptop-product-categories-new
28:58 Home Assistant is growing a lot
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/home-assistants-new-foundation-focused-on-privacy-choice-and-sustainability/
31:34 Ecosia launches their browser
https://www.ecosia.org/browser
34:39 Apple’s AI will be ethically trained
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/24/apples-generative-ai-may-be-the-only-one-that-was-trained-legally-ethically
37:47 Gaming: NVK performance, Nintendo strikes again
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Implicit-Pipeline-Caching
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/garrys-mod-forced-to-remove-nintendo-content-after-takedowns/
41:09 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw
https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/
05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps
https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features
11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions
https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/
15:48 Framework is struggling on software
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/
19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration
23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux
25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle
https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/
28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/
https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/
32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1
https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/
32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404
41:13 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:35 Fedora wants to go all in on AI
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/strategy-2028-april-2024-update/
07:52 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS beta
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released
11:52 Server vulnerability will be left unfixed
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/supply-chain-snafu-causes-intel-and-others-to-ship-hackable-hardware-for-5-years/?comments=1&comments-page=1
14:53 Explicit sync will fix Wayland on nvidia
https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Explicit-GPU-Sync-XWayland-Go
18:28 Proton buys Standard Notes
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/proton-acquires-standard-notes-to-add-another-tool-to-its-growing-portfolio/
21:56 DE updates to GNOME, KDE, elementary OS, LXQt
https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/05/this-week-in-kde-real-modifier-only-shortcuts-and-cropping-in-spectacle/
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-142/
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-april-2024/
28:15 Mint tries extra fast repos
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Faster-Repos-Beta
30:25 Small browsers seeing growth in the EU
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/
33:12 US might soon get better privacy laws
https://www.wired.com/story/apra-congress-online-privacy-proposal/
35:41 Gaming: Wayland as fast as X11, League of Legends
https://www.phoronix.com/review/kde-plasma-6-amd-gaming/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcS3bPmBefU&t=435s
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard-anti-cheat-for-league-of-legends-and-why-its-a-no-for-linux/
42:36 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:44 A proposal for Fedora to leave GNOME for KDE
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-fedora-plasma-workstation-system-wide/111343/60
07:50 XZ backdoor repercussions
https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-release-postponed-due-to-security-concerns/
https://linuxiac.com/after-a-recent-ssh-vulnerability-systemd-reduces-dependencies/
https://9to5linux.com/linux-firmware-update-utility-fwupd-will-use-zstd-compression-for-future-releases
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-xz-backdoor-scanner-detects-implant-in-any-linux-binary/
15:41 German state moves to Linux & FOSS
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
19:42 Germany wants to secure right to encryption
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/germany-seeks-to-make-encryption-a-legal-right
21:58 Mint 22 shakes things up
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-to-ship-thunderbird-as-a-native-deb-package-in-linux-mint-22
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/linux-mint-22-adopts-pipewire-hwe-kernels
26:32 AMD will open source more docs and code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-More-OSS-Hardware-Docs
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code
28:16 Thunderbird Exchange support & Snap
https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-progresses-with-exchange-compatibility/
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thundersnap-why-were-helping-maintain-the-thunderbird-snap-on-linux/
32:57 Nitrux will leave KDE Plasma behind
https://linuxiac.com/nitrux-moves-to-maui-shell-bids-farewell-to-kde-plasma/
https://nxos.org/news/plasma-6-in-nitrux-when/
36:09 Linux gaming back at around 2%
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2024
39:20 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:33 Redis is forked after licence change
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html
07:25 Fedora 40 Beta is out
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released
09:49 The future of the Linux desktop is looking good
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/
14:05 Ubuntu LTS can get up to 12 years of support
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-long-term-support-to-12-years-starting-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts
16:10 Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/ubuntu-24-04-makes-a-small-tweak-that-dramatically-improves-gaming
18:50 Canonical addresses the scam snap problem
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440
21:54 Flathub improvements and adoption
https://mastodon.social/@flathub@floss.social
https://kodi.tv/article/ubuntu-team-kodi-ppa-officially-retired/
28:29 Mozilla Monitor Plus is gone for now
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mozilla-ditches-privacy-partner-over-conflict-of-interest
30:35 More EU investigations on Apple, Google and Meta
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/alphabet-apple-and-meta-are-under-investigation-in-europe-for-non-compliance-with-the-digital-markets-act
33:12 Gaming: Wayland fixes, new Nvidia driver, anticheat
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Default-For-Now
https://9to5linux.com/red-hat-announces-nova-a-rust-based-gsp-only-driver-for-nvidia-gpus
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ea-anticheat-arrives-for-battlefield-v-in-april-will-break-it-on-linux-steam-deck/
39:48 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:22 The US sues Apple for abusing their dominant position
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/us-doj-sues-apple-iphone-monopoly
07:12 GNOME 46 is out
https://release.gnome.org/46/
10:56 Plasma 6’s Global themes can wipe your drive
https://linuxiac.com/usage-of-plasma-6-global-themes-may-pose-serious-risks/
http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/
14:16 Plasma focuses on Dolphin, and porting work
https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/15/this-week-in-kde-dolphin-levels-up/
https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2024/03/16/kf6-completing-the-transition.html
17:43 Mozilla stops providing location services
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed
19:30 Mozilla launches a new “almost social network”
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/introducing-didthis-a-new-app-for-hobbyists/
21:52 10 more scam apps in the Snap Store
https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/
24:40 Threads opens up federation with fediverse
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107881/threads-fediverse-beta-launch-mastodon
27:37 Mesa drivers have corporate issues
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf
30:51 New Nvidia drivers are out
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nvidia-driver-550-67-released-fixes-for-vkd3d-wayland-and-more/
32:09 Gaming: new well funded OS, DXVK and Switch emulator
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gitlab-takes-down-nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-due-to-the-dmca/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-continues-on-from-yuzu/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amd-fsr-31-announced-with-vulkan-support-upscaling-quality-improvements/
https://www.techradar.com/computing/gaming-pcs/not-a-fan-of-windows-11-gaming-portables-linux-powered-alternative-to-steam-deck-might-be-the-answer-to-your-prayers
39:12 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:30 Cosmic Alpha is delayed
https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-more-alpha-more-fun
https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-store-for-popos-unveiled/
05:18 France suffers a massive data breach
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/mega_data_breach_at_french/
08:07 Kernel 6.8 is out
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/linux-kernel-6-8-new-features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Awesome-Changes
11:04 Plasma 6 has bugs, but…
https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/
https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/09/how-you-help-with-quality/
14:11 The EU’s CRA law won’t affect FOSS
https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240312-01.fr.html
17:25 The EU investigates itself for using Microsoft 365
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/edps-microsoft-365/
20:20 OpenAI’s ridiculous defence against the New York Times lawsuit
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-york-times-denies-openais-hacking-claim-copyright-fight-2024-03-12/
22:27 Nintendo vs yuzu is harming emulation in general
https://www.theverge.com/24098640/nintendo-emulator-yuzu-lawsuit-switch-aftermath
24:58 Proton Mail desktop app is on Linux
https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-desktop-app
27:23 Krita’s roadmap for 2024 might include AI
https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/2024-roadmap/
30:38 Details about Valve and Epic’s ongoing dispute
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/valve-coo-on-epics-tim-sweeney-you-mad-bro-when-launching-the-epic-store/
36:10 Outro
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ADDITIONAL INFO: regarding the Apple & Epic topic, it looks like Apple committed to reinstate Epic’s developer account, right after the EU announced they’d look into it.
I didn’t have time to record a new segment for the podcast to add the correction in audio form.
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Linux passes 4% market share
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/
07:01 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install
09:18 Apple makes a mess of the EU’s DMA
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/google-announces-the-new-fees-that-come-with-its-play-stores-dma-compliance-plan/
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-03-01/a-letter-to-the-european-commission-on-apples-lack-of-dma-compliance/
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161
17:39 GTK 4.14 fixes font rendering, GNOME 46 gets VRR
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-RC
https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/07/on-fractional-scales-fonts-and-hinting/
20:38 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project
https://liliputing.com/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-to-shut-down-pay-2-4-million-to-settle-lawsuit-from-nintendo/
23:14 Big French company fined for violating the GPL
https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/
25:35 Windows ditches Android support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Dropping-WSA
28:43 Zorin OS 17.1 brings Wine improvements
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/zorin-os-17-1-released-debuts-new-education-edition
32:09 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2403-Released
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/amdgpu-driver-for-linux-67-enforces-lower-power-limits-from-vbios/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-r550-open
39:42 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:18 Nintendo sues Yuzu Switch emulator
https://www.polygon.com/24085140/nintendo-totk-leaked-yuzu-lawsuit-emulator
04:52 Nvidia CEO thinks we should stop writing code
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/jensen-huang-advises-against-learning-to-code-leave-it-up-to-ai
07:57 Plasma 6 is out, 6.1 is already starting
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
https://pointieststick.com/2024/02/23/this-week-in-kde-real-fake-session-restore/
14:23 EU investigates Apple dropping PWAs
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/26/24083511/apple-eu-investigation-web-app-support
17:09 Open Source isn’t sustainable?
https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/
20:33 HDMI spec refuses AMD open source drivers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected
23:26 GNOME make progress on some big features
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/02/twig-136/
26:18 Wordpress & Tumblr sell user data to AI companies
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/27/24084884/tumblr-midjourney-openai-training-data-deal-report
29:50 Thunderbird makes progress on sync and Exchange
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/
32:00 Gaming: NVK is stable, Wine on Wayland
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Conformant
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-ESO-GPL-Support
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-NVIDIA-ReBAR
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Basic-OpenGL
37:20 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:29 The Snap store has a scam problem
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/
https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/
10:35 Flathub gets better validation and metadata
https://docs.flathub.org/blog/improved-build-validation/
13:07 Warp terminal comes to Linux
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/warp-terminal-official-linux-release
16:35 Tuxedo proposes an API to handle RGB on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-API-Modern-RGB
18:48 Fedora wants a Cosmic spin
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-COSMIC-SIG-Interest
21:06 New hackfest planned for HDR & color management
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2024-Linux-Display-Hackfest-May
23:01 Intel caught cheating on benchmarks
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2238972/intel-accused-of-inflating-cpu-benchmark-results.html
25:05 OpenSUSE has a roadmap for their new installer
https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer-takes-shape/
27:37 Firefox 123 adds a bunch of features
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-firefox-123-features
30:18 Crossover 24 is out, with fixes for MS Office
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/crossover-24-released-with-wine-9-0-plus-codeweavers-still-hiring-developers/
33:36 Gaming: NVK as default, NTSync driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTSYNC-Linux-Update-February
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zink-NVK-For-NVIDIA-OpenGL
37:42 Outro
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00:00 Intro
1:31 Mozilla announced layoffs to refocus on Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-announces-layoffs-firefox-ai-plans
06:09 Cosmic alpha is close, with its own file manager
https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha
11:09 India moves to ban ProtonMail
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/it-ministry-looks-to-block-proton-mail-on-request-of-tamil-nadu-police-101707938167006.html
14:42 Servo engine resuscitated, Firefox gets new feature
https://news.itsfoss.com/servo-rust-web-engine/
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/firefox-devs-working-on-tab-hover-previews
18:23 Chromium gains support for WebMonetization API
https://linuxiac.com/chromium-plans-to-roll-out-web-monetization/
21:01 Ubuntu creates a new app & revamps the installer
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-24-04-installer-redesign
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/first-look-at-ubuntus-new-desktop-security-center
26:03 CUDA on AMD GPUs on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/review/radeon-cuda-zluda
29:22 Apple commits to not supporting PWAs in the EU
https://9to5mac.com/2024/02/15/ios-17-4-web-apps-european-union/
32:23 Gaming: x86 on ARM, Asahi & Nvidia drivers
https://fex-emu.com/FEX-2402/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/asahi-linux-projects-opengl-support-on-apple-silicon-officially-surpasses-apples/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-GSP-Mode-Patch
38:44 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:34 Mozilla blunders with overpriced service
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Monitor-Plus
04:51 Mozilla has a new CEO
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/
09:28 VS Code will support Ubuntu 18.04 again
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-recovery-update-for-ubuntu-18-04
11:47 Kubuntu 24.04 won’t use Plasma 6
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/kubuntu-24-04-wont-use-kde-plasma-6
14:30 Ubuntu moves Thunderbird to a snap
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04
16:41 Ubuntu Core Desktop looks interesting, but is delayed
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/ubuntu-core-desktop-delayed
20:44 elementary OS 8 is available in early access
https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-february-2024/
22:44 Apple doubles down on malicious compliance
https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/
26:14 Mastodon has a critical security flaw
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mastodon-had-to-act-fast-to-patch-a-critical-security-flaw-that-could-have-let-hackers-hijack-user-accounts
27:52 Severe flaw in the Linux kernel & firmware
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/
29:36 Mozilla attacks Microsoft for their dark patterns on Edge
https://www.techradar.com/computing/browsers/mozilla-blows-the-whistle-on-microsoft-over-the-edge-report-accuses-windows-11-maker-of-browser-bias-and-deceptive-tactics
32:52 Gaming: Wine + DXVK on Android, Manjaro handheld
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cassia-Windows-Games-Android
https://linuxiac.com/orange-pi-neo-manjaro-handheld-gaming-consoles/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/nonsteamlaunchers-for-steam-deck-expands-automatic-game-shortcuts-for-more-stores/
39:06 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:18 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without notice
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed
04:32 Edge grabs Chrome’s browsing data without consent
https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature
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12:16 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40
15:47 Thunderbird plans to add native Exchange support
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/
18:12 Wayland & Wine get big improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag
23:43 Red Hat’s licensing changes hurt their ecosystem
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CentOS-RHEL-Kernel-Headaches
26:41 Purism values itself at $75M
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M
30:07 Plasma 6 RC2 is out
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/
32:46 Gaming: HoloISO goes immutable, Mesa 24, Linux marketshare
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024
40:15 Outro
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Apple opens up iOS in the worst way
https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-finally-letting-people-run-third-party-browsers-unfettered-but-only-in-the-eu-and-not-because-it-wants-to
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-faces-strong-action-if-app-store-changes-fall-short-eus-breton-says-2024-01-26/
08:22 Mint’s Edge ISO is now available
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635
11:34 Wayland & portals get better, and create drama
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.33
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1175
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/269
17:03 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Next-Month
https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/01/25/kdes-6th-megarelease-with-kde-neon-testing-edition/
20:11 Huawei won’t support Android apps at all anymore
https://www.reuters.com/technology/huawei-makes-break-android-with-next-version-harmony-os-caixin-2024-01-19/
22:30 Meta now lets EU citizens unlink their accounts
https://www.neowin.net/news/meta-now-lets-eu-users-unlink-their-facebook-messenger-and-instagram-accounts/
24:30 Bazzite 2.2 is now out
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steamos-alternative-bazzite-v22-out-now-with-lots-of-enhancements/
26:45 Nvidia beta drivers bring cool fixes
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nvidia-550-40-07-beta-driver-released-with-fixes-for-vrr-and-wayland/
30:01 Gaming: Ayaneo drops HoloISO, performance boost, unified Wine
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-no-longer-ships-with-steamos-like-holoiso-linux-windows-11-instead/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-linux-wine-game-launcher-aims-to-improve-windows-games-on-linux-steam-deck/
37:17 Outro
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