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https://www.techradar.com/pro/all-amd-zen-cpus-hit-by-a-major-security-flaw-heres-what-we-know

00:00 Intro

00:52 Security flaws in CPUs mean less performance

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/downfall-inception-amd-intel-security/

05:22 SUSE & Oracle create a foundation to provide RHEL compatible code

https://openela.org/news/hello_world/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-suse-and-ciq-go-after-red-hat-with-the-open-enterprise-linux-association/

https://linuxiac.com/rocky-oracle-and-suse-join-forces-against-red-hat-in-openela/

10:51 Red Hat hires to work on bootloaders

https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100038/principal-software-engineer/job

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Hiring-Bootloader

13:40 Wayland on Plasma 6 looks pretty great

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html

18:27 GNOME 45 might add native screencasting support

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-45-native-screencast-support/

21:32 Application updates for the week

https://www.omglinux.com/xournal-plus-plus-handwritten-notes-update/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/firefox-117-private-translation

25:47 NVK improves and AMD performance increase

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NVK-Linux-6.6-DRM-Next

29:27 Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu with some nice tools

https://rhinolinux.org/news-6.html

32:50 The LXD project gets forked after Canonical shenanigans

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Containers-LXD-Incus

36:47 Gaming News: Refurbished Steam Decks, Overwatch 2 on Steam

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/now-official-you-can-buy-a-refurbished-steam-deck-from-valve/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/overwatch-2-out-on-steam-works-fine-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/

41:13 Outro

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Mozilla layoffs, Cosmic DE alpha, India bans ProtonMail

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02/17/24 • 39 min

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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/mozilla-announces-layoffs-firefox-ai-plans

00:00 Intro

1:31 Mozilla announced layoffs to refocus on Firefox

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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Fedora KDE abandons X11, Android's giant security flaw, Meta gets EU'd again

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05/27/23 • 42 min

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https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-x11-support-in-plasma-6/

00:00 Intro

01:02 Fedora KDE proposes to stop supporting X11

05:56 Thunderbird’s New Logo

https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-x11-support-in-plasma-6/

08:47 Android has a big fingerprint vulnerability

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/researchers-detail-bruteprint-attack-android-fingerprint-sensors

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-brute-force-fingerprint-attack-could-break-into-your-android-phone

13:38 KDE weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/20/this-week-in-kde-preliminary-hdr-support/

18:27 Fedora Onyx is now an official spin for Fedora

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-onyx-approved-as-immutable-fedora-linux-39-spin-with-budgie-desktop

VanillaOS, immutable distro review: https://youtu.be/qHMgFLOim5o

21:30 Bodhi Linux has a new beta for Enlightnement users

https://www.bodhilinux.com/release/7-0-0/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/bodhi-linux-7-0-beta

24:12 AMD devs improve suspend and resume on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-One-Liner-System-Resume

26:20 Intel proposes a lighter x86 architecture

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/25/intel_proposes_dropping_16_bit_mode/

29:31 Neeva, the private search engine, stops and pivots to AI

https://www.techradar.com/news/private-search-engine-neeva-to-give-up-its-dream-of-replacing-google

https://neeva.com/blog/may-announcement

33:42 Meta’s business in the EU is in trouble

https://www.techradar.com/news/meta-hit-with-record-dollar13bn-fine-for-its-handling-of-eu-user-data

38:30 Gaming News: VKD3D update, Wine on Wayland, and Yuzu Steam Deck support

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/nintendo-switch-emulator-yuzu-gets-a-nice-steam-deck-upgrade/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/wine-and-wayland-take-another-step-closer-with-more-code-merged/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/05/vkd3d-proton-v29-out-now-with-multiple-performance-improvements/

42:11 Outro

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KDE gets big donations, Discord supports Wayland, SteamOS devices coming

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12/07/24 • 27 min

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00:00 Intro

02:04 KDE donation notification gets them big donations https://pointieststick.com/2024/12/02/i-think-the-donation-notification-works/ https://kde.org/community/donations/previousdonations/

04:41 Discord finally adds Wayland support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/looks-like-discord-finally-fixed-linux-screen-and-audio-sharing-with-wayland/

06:55 Guidelines confirm SteamOS on other devices https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/valves-new-branding-guidelines-hint-at-steam-decks-steamos-for-more-devices/

09:00 Wayland color management could land soon https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Color-Management-Nears

10:24 Cosmic alpha 4 is out https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-4

12:58 Google hit with another anti competition lawsuit https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-hit-with-another-major-anti-competition-lawsuit-could-be-forced-to-break-up-ad-business

15:32 Intel shows new Arc GPUs with Linux support https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-b580-battlemage

18:22 Mozilla unveils rebrand and new logo https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-brand-next-era-of-tech/

20:27 New stable Nvidia drivers https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/nvidia-565-77-stable-driver-for-linux-released/

22:31 Torvalds doesn’t want CPU level optimization in the kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Mind-Fart-x86_64-Level

24:59 Vulkan 1.4 is out, most FOSS drivers already ready https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4-Mesa-Drivers https://linuxiac.com/vulkan-1-4-expands-cross-platform-gpu-capabilities/

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Windows will be more open, AMD doubles down on FOSS, Big Peertube improvements

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11/19/23 • 42 min

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23963579/microsoft-windows-11-eu-digital-markets-act-feature-changes

00:00 Intro

00:51 Microsoft has to open Windows

05:05 FSF calls to the EU for more open source

https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html

09:22 AMD is teasing some FOSS work around AI

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Advancing-AI-Open

13:36 Sponsor: Thunderbird

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15:34 Peertube’s roadmap looks pretty awesome

https://framablog.org/2023/11/14/lets-regain-ground-on-the-toxic-web-framasofts-2023-report/

20:33 GNOME apps will get graphics offloading

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-Graphics-Offloading

22:53 Kernel 6.7 is full of good stuff

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/linux-6-6-kernel-confirms-long-term-support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-rc1

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.7-USB-Thunderbolt

https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-linux-67

26:49 App news: Vivaldi on Flathub, Firefox Wayland...

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/vivaldi-web-browser-flathub

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Change-Wayland-Release

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/11/the-untold-history-of-thunderbird/

33:16 Tuxedo launches a full AMD laptop

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/tuxedo-pulse-14-amd-linux-laptop

36:20 Gaming: Deck OLED, SteamOS update, Wine on Wayland

https://9to5linux.com/steam-deck-oled-is-now-available-to-order-with-hdr-display-and-bigger-battery

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.5.5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-HiDPI-Merged

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/wine-820-brings-directmusic-improvements-and-preparations-for-wine-90/

41:57 Outro

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Adblockers are dead, Valve talks Steam Deck 2, Nvidia wants better drivers

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10/19/24 • 30 min

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00:00 Intro

01:34 Chrome has now officially killed certain adblockers https://www.techradar.com/pro/google-chrome-manifest-v2-support-has-officially-ended-adios-ublock-origin https://www.xda-developers.com/google-automatically-disabling-ublock-origin-in-chrome/ https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox#browser-launch

05:01 Valve talks Steam Deck 2 https://www.reviews.org/au/games/valve-steam-deck-australia-interview/

08:16 Nvidia wants better hybrid laptop support on Linux https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/6/contributions/297/attachments/193/267/Mux_presentation_XDC_2024.pdf

11:43 Nvidia keeps patching multi GPU code on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GPU-P2P-DMA-Device-Priv

13:39 Intel & AMD partner up to form an x86 board https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-10-15-intel-and-amd-form-x86-ecosystem-advisory-group-to-accelerate.html

15:59 AMD GPUs will get a perf boost on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-More-Aggressive-Power

18:35 Winamp’s repo was deleted after too many problems crop up https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/opensourcing_of_winamp_goes_badly/

21:31 Microsoft won’t stop devs from accessing the kernel https://www.securityweek.com/microsofts-take-on-kernel-access-and-safe-deployment-practices-following-crowdstrike-incident/

23:46 Weird drama on the Decky Loader and NonSteamLaunchers https://steamdeckhq.com/news/nonsteamlaunchers-plugin-removed/

25:52 The Junk Store plugin is removed from Steam https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/that-didnt-last-long-the-junk-store-for-steam-deck-has-its-steam-page-removed/

28:18 Nexus mods app gets better on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nexus-mods-new-cross-platform-app-adds-support-for-heroic-games-launcher-and-baldurs-gate-3/ https://trello.com/b/gPzMuIr3/nexus-mods-app-roadmap

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Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?

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07/06/24 • 41 min

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-User-Metrics-Opt-In

00:00 Intro

01:36 Fedora 42 might have opt-in telemetry

04:28 Deepin 23 adds local AI assistants

https://www.deepin.org/en/uos-ai-gets-a-major-upgrade/?ref=news.itsfoss.com

09:39 ChromeOS Flex might be abandoned

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-might-abandon-chromeos-flex-next-heres-why/

14:51 New serious OpenSSH flaw

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/thousands-of-servers-could-be-at-risk-due-to-major-openssh-security-flaw

16:06 Linux gets a black screen of death

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Black-BSoD https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Monochrome-Logo

18:31 OpenSUSE unveils their new installer

https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-unveils-agama-9-installer-with-enhanced-ui/

21:12 Mint 22 beta is out

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4725

24:55 Meta gives 5% perf boost to the Linux kernel

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BOLT-5p-Performance

16:41 Proton launches Proton Docs

https://proton.me/blog/docs-proton-drive

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24190732/proton-docs-document-editor-privacy-google

29:43 Microsoft says all content is freeware for AI

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-ai-ceo-says-content-published-online-is-freeware-to-help-train-ai

31:51 CloudFlare uses AI to block AI bots

https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/03/cloudflare-rolls-feature-blocking-ai-companies-web-scrapers/

34:11 Gaming: ARM emulation, market share, Wine

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-June-2024-Survey

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2407

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/wine-9-12-brings-a-rewrite-of-cmdexe-engine-mono-updates/

41:15 Outro

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06/29/23 • 43 min

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Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features

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07/29/23 • 40 min

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https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why

00:00 Intro

01:12 Google wants to add DRM to the web

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

07:20 GNOME has a new way of managing windows

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

14:33 GNOME weekly news

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/07/twig-105/

17:23 Plasma 6 removes a few features

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6

23:17 Fedora improves firmware handling on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Server-Alert-FW-Updates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-DNF5-Fedora-39

26:59 Zorin OS 16.3 is out

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/07/27/zorin-os-16.3-is-released/

30:49 Canonical drops LXD maintainers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-Maintainership-Canonical

32:56 FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Merge-Request-Mesa

35:20 Linux drivers speed boost & battery life improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPU-Perf-Boost

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-anv-mod-boost

36:58 Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update

https://linuxgameconsortium.com/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/heroic-games-launcher-29-out-now-with-amazon-games-support/

40:04 Outro

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Linux at 4%, Fedora drops X11, Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA

Linux & Open Source News

03/09/24 • 40 min

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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