Linux Action News 166
12/06/20 • 29 min
Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.
Plus Michael Larabel from Phoronix joins us to discuss the state of Linux hardware support in 2020.
Special Guest: Michael Larabel.
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- Budgie 10.5.2 Desktop Environment Released with Support for the GNOME 3.38 Stack
- Budgie 10.5.2 Released
- KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Is Out with More Than 40 Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Plasma 5.20.4 complete changelog
- GNOME 3.38.2 Desktop Environment Is Out with Even More Improvements and Bug Fixes
- 3.38.2/NEWS
- Cinnamon 4.8 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
- New Raspberry Pi OS release — The traditional end-of-year new release of Raspberry Pi OS, which we launch today.
- Raspberry Pi’s V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland — Raspberry Pi fans were celebrating that the V3DV driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for supporting this modern high-performance graphics/compute API atop the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer.
- Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE’s Rancher acquisition? — SUSE, a major Linux and cloud company, finalized its acquisition of Rancher Labs earlier this year.. Rancher, formerly a privately held open-source company, had over 37,000 active users and 100-million downloads of its flagship Kubernetes management program, Rancher.
- Rancher Labs - Wikipedia
- Network World
- SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs - YouTube
Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.
Plus Michael Larabel from Phoronix joins us to discuss the state of Linux hardware support in 2020.
Special Guest: Michael Larabel.
Sponsored By:
- Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account.
- Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one!
Links:
- Budgie 10.5.2 Desktop Environment Released with Support for the GNOME 3.38 Stack
- Budgie 10.5.2 Released
- KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Is Out with More Than 40 Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Plasma 5.20.4 complete changelog
- GNOME 3.38.2 Desktop Environment Is Out with Even More Improvements and Bug Fixes
- 3.38.2/NEWS
- Cinnamon 4.8 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
- New Raspberry Pi OS release — The traditional end-of-year new release of Raspberry Pi OS, which we launch today.
- Raspberry Pi’s V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland — Raspberry Pi fans were celebrating that the V3DV driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for supporting this modern high-performance graphics/compute API atop the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer.
- Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE’s Rancher acquisition? — SUSE, a major Linux and cloud company, finalized its acquisition of Rancher Labs earlier this year.. Rancher, formerly a privately held open-source company, had over 37,000 active users and 100-million downloads of its flagship Kubernetes management program, Rancher.
- Rancher Labs - Wikipedia
- Network World
- SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs - YouTube
Previous Episode
Linux Action News 165
What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.
Plus our reaction to Microsoft's Android subsystem that's in the works.
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- Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet — Amazon noted that the issues are only affecting one of its 23 geographic AWS regions. But the problem was significant enough to take out a large number of internet services.
- Geoff Belknap on Twitter — “I... can’t vacuum... because us-east-1 is down.”
- Canonical publishes LTS Docker Image Portfolio on Docker Hub — The LTS Docker Image Portfolio comes with up to ten years Extended Security Maintenance by Canonical.
- Vivaldi Integrates Email Client, Feed Reader, and Calendar in a Browser — The Vivaldi team announced that they are bringing an Email client, a Feed Reader, and a Calendar – all of these together in the latest Vivaldi technical preview release.
- Introducing Vivaldi Mail in Technical Preview
- How to use the built-in GPG feature for Thunderbird
- Systemd 247 Released With Experimental Out-of-Memory Daemon, New Credentials Capability — systemd 247 is very heavy on new features, and one big change for udev.
- [systemd-devel] systemd 247 released
- NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software — The Paragon NTFS kernel driver patch is now on its 13th iteration
- Microsoft is working on an Android subsystem for Windows 10 — This new initiative is called 'Project Latte,' and similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), will create a virtualized Android environment running directly within Windows 10.
Next Episode
Linux Action News 167
We explain the major changes to CentOS this week and break down the top four criticisms.
Plus Google makes their Fuchsia intentions a bit more clear, and why Linux 5.10 is a BIG deal.
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- Before You Get Mad About The CentOS Stream Change, Think About... — But, before you get angry, please read this. I’ve been surfing Twitter, Reddit, and HackerNews threads just like many others. I’ve gathered some major buckets of complaints which seem to come up, and I’d like to address each of them.
- CentOS project lead disappears
- Usage Statistics and Market Share of Linux for Websites, December 2020
- Red Hat and the CentOS Project Join Forces to Speed Open Source Innovation
- Transforming the development experience within CentOS
- CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
- FAQ: CentOS Stream Updates
- Google is opening Fuchsia OS development to the public — To both support developers and make the Fuchsia development process less skunkworks and more public, Google is opening Fuchsia’s bug tracker to the public.
- Expanding Fuchsia’s open source model | Google Open Source Blog
- Linux 5.10 LTS Released As One Of The Biggest Kernel Releases In A While
- Linux 5.10 Released — Besides being the last kernel release of 2020, this is a significant milestone in that it's also a Long Term Support (LTS) kernel to be maintained for at least the next five years and also is a huge kernel update in general with many new features.
- The 10 Most Interesting Features Of Linux 5.10
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