Linux Action News 142
01/27/20 • 27 min
The real reason Rocket League is dropping support for Linux, Wine has a massive release, and the potential for Canonical's new Android in the cloud service.
Plus, our take on the FSF's Upcycle Windows 7 campaign, and the clever Chrome OS strategy upgrade for education in 2020.
Links:
- Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March | Ars Technica — Change comes eight months after Epic Games acquired the game's creators.
- Update on Refunds for macOS and Linux Players
- Support for macOS and Linux (SteamOS) – Psyonix Support
- Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
- Thanks to Psyonix dropping Linux support, we're getting anti-Linux statements like this from game devs again
- Wine 5.0 Released — This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,400 individual changes.
- Wine Is Approaching Six Million Lines
- Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud — The service is designed to offload workloads from x86 or Arm-based devices to containers in the cloud.
- The latest Chrome OS education devices will get updates for eight years — Previously, most Chrome OS devices recieved six years of software support.
- Chromebooks will now get up to eight years of Chrome OS updates
- Improving 40 million Chromebooks for education
- Upcycle Windows 7 — We call on them to release it as free software, and give it to the community to study and improve.
- Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions
The real reason Rocket League is dropping support for Linux, Wine has a massive release, and the potential for Canonical's new Android in the cloud service.
Plus, our take on the FSF's Upcycle Windows 7 campaign, and the clever Chrome OS strategy upgrade for education in 2020.
Links:
- Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March | Ars Technica — Change comes eight months after Epic Games acquired the game's creators.
- Update on Refunds for macOS and Linux Players
- Support for macOS and Linux (SteamOS) – Psyonix Support
- Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)
- Thanks to Psyonix dropping Linux support, we're getting anti-Linux statements like this from game devs again
- Wine 5.0 Released — This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,400 individual changes.
- Wine Is Approaching Six Million Lines
- Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud — The service is designed to offload workloads from x86 or Arm-based devices to containers in the cloud.
- The latest Chrome OS education devices will get updates for eight years — Previously, most Chrome OS devices recieved six years of software support.
- Chromebooks will now get up to eight years of Chrome OS updates
- Improving 40 million Chromebooks for education
- Upcycle Windows 7 — We call on them to release it as free software, and give it to the community to study and improve.
- Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions
Previous Episode
Linux Action News 141
Nextcloud's new release is so big it gets a rebrand, why Mozilla had a round of lay-offs, and the real possibility of Steam coming to Chrome OS.
Plus, the sad loss of a community member, and more.
Links:
- Peppermint project lead Mark Greaves has passed away. — His contributions to both Peppermint and to the desktop Linux world as a whole are incalculable and he will be sorely missed.
- Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue — Mozilla has a strong line of sight to future revenue generation, but we are taking a more conservative approach to our finances.
- Readying for the Future at Mozilla
- DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
- Nextcloud Hub Announced — New generation of leading content collaboration platform integrates office document editing and collaboration apps, introduces workflows, rich work spaces, file locking and more
- Nextcloud 18 Changelog
- Huawei pitches its alternative to Google Play Store — Huawei Mobile Services wants to make a big splash in Europe, with thousands of apps already signed up
- Huawei Quick Apps is Huawei's alternative to Google Instant Apps
- Exclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS — The Chrome team is working—very possibly in cooperation with Valve—to bring Steam to Chromebooks.
Next Episode
Linux Action News 143
The upcoming Linux kernels are packed full of goodies, Qt changes its licensing terms, and Thunderbird gets a new home.
Plus our thoughts on IBM's CEO stepping down, and Google's new open-source security key project.
Links:
- Qt offering changes 2020 — Moving forward, Qt Long-Term Support (LTS) releases will be restricted to commercial customers.
- Use our stuff for free and sell your application? That's Qt.
- Qt LTS Releases To Be Restricted To Commercial Customers
- About “Qt offering changes 2020” – Fading Memories
- Nikolai Marchenko's message about TheQtCompany's presumed business model
- Linux 5.5 Released — So this last week was pretty quiet, and while we had a late network update with some (mainly iwl wireless) network driver and netfilter module loading fixes, David didn't think that warranted another -rc. And outside of that, it's really been very quiet indeed - there's a panfrost driver update too, but again it didn't really seem to make sense to delay the final release by another week.
- 10 Best Features in Linux 5.5
- Some 5.5 kernel development statistics
- WireGuard + Multi-Path TCP Were Merged Tonight Into Linux 5.6
- Indie VPN WireGuard gets the Torvalds seal of approval with inclusion in Linux kernel 5.6
- Linus Torvalds pulled WireGuard VPN into the 5.6 kernel source tree
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Adds WireGuard Support
- The Time Namespace Support Has Been Added To The Linux 5.6 Kernel
- Linux 5.6 Is The First Kernel For 32-Bit Systems Ready To Run Past Year 2038
- USB4 Support Lands In The Linux 5.6 Kernel
- Staging Changes Lighten The Linux 5.6 Kernel By More Than Thirty Thousand Lines
- Thunderbird’s New Home — As of today, the Thunderbird project will be operating from a new wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, MZLA Technologies Corporation.
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