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This Week in Linux

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This Week in Linux (TWIL) is the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. “Your Source for Linux GNews”

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Jul 5, 2026

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300: TWIL 300, Fish Shell, Gentoo, NVIDIA, Mozilla mess, COSMIC Alpha 6 & more Linux news 02.03.2025

video: https://youtu.be/9-KlMwQA2v4 Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we are celebrating the 300th episode of the show, and we're going to do a giveaway! Also this week we're going to go fishing well not exactly we will talk about the Fish Shell's latest release then we'll also take a look at the new drivers from NVIDIA and are they being good to Linux now we'll see mozilla is also in...

299: Mesa 25, Pi-hole v6, openSUSE, Serpent OS, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 & more Linux news 22.02.2025

video: https://youtu.be/7MiImqaw6k8 Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a jam packed episode. We have the new version of the Mesa graphics drivers. There's some changes happening with Serpent OS project. There's a new release of the Rust programming language and that perfectly flows into some updates we have for Rust for Linux. All of this and more on this week in Linux, the week...

298: KDE Plasma 6.3, GIMP 3.0, OBS Studio Threatens Legal Actions on Fedora? & more Linux news 16.02.2025

video: https://youtu.be/EkFtY_K3sxA Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a ton of stuff to talk about. There's so much I couldn't fit at all on the show. And even one of the things I wanted to fit in the show, it's by itself too big to be in the show. So I'm going to split that off into a separate video. And there's also a new release of KDE Plasma 6.3. There's a new website for t...

297: Linux / Rust saga continues, Void Linux, Firefox 135, FOSS funding needs & more Linux news 08.02.2025

video: https://youtu.be/v7ZLEAxoW14 Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about with the Linux kernel getting, or maybe not getting, Rusty. There's a little bit of drama there. Also, the Void Linux project has a new release of their distribution. EA has provided an update regarding Apex Legends and Linux. It's not great news, but we're gonna talk about it. There's als...

296: DeepSeek AI, Steam Brick, Google Open-Sources PebbleOS, Hyprland, Thunderbird & more Linux news 01.02.2025

video: https://youtu.be/_sW55AvLlkA Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, there's a new AI chatbot called DeepSeek making waves and terrifying tech investors. Google has open sourced PebbleOS, the operating system for the old Pebble Watches. The Thunderbird email team announced a new version and a new release strategy. Then we'll take a look at a brand new desktop environment for Linux use...

295: Wine 10, SDL 3, AMD dedicates more to Linux, Intel's Modular PCs & more Linux news 26.01.2025

video: https://youtu.be/LQTqcC0TI-o Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux was kind of insane . . . in a good way because the Wine Project hit the big 1-0 with Wine 10. AMD announced something called the AMDGPU Composition Stack and it has a ton of potential for positively impacting the Linux desktop. Intel announced a modular PC idea they are trying to push that could positively impact ever...

294: Linux 6.13, Linux Mint 22.1, Rsync Security Bugs, openSUSE & more Linux news 19.01.2025

video: https://youtu.be/qAHxogc8QTc Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a brand new version of the Linux kernel to talk about. Well, maybe. Technically, the 6.13 release is not until this Sunday, and I'm recording this before Sunday, so we're just going to roll the dice, and hopefully it doesn't get delayed. Also, we have some distro news this week to talk about with a new releas...

293: COSMIC Alpha 5, KDE Plasma 6.3 beta, SteamOS beyond Steam Deck & more Linux news 11.01.2025

video: https://youtu.be/xtHmj__P-rY Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We're gonna talk about some alphas and some betas and also some big news from Valve. So we have KDE Plasma 6.3 beta that is coming out with System76 releasing the Alpha 5 of the COSMIC Desktop Environment and Valve announced that SteamOS is going to expand beyond the Steam Deck. All of th...

292: Ghostty terminal, Nobara, CachyOS, GIMP, & more Linux news 06.01.2025

video: https://youtu.be/ZM_CqPmI7cQ Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We have a new terminal emulator that's getting a lot of attention lately with Ghostty. And also we have two distros to talk about with their latest releases, one being CachyOS and the other one, Nobara Linux. And we're also gonna be talking about the latest release candidate for GIMP with...

This Year in Linux, the Top Linux News of 2024 30.12.2024

video: https://youtu.be/jqzkplxlr9Q Comment on the TWIL Forum This year in Linux was a huge year. So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. So many things. So we're going to be covering everything in the super detail that we normally would on this week in Linux because there's just so many things to talk about. If yo...

291: Xfce 4.20, Steam Winter Sale, openSUSE, Fedora Asahi, Serpent OS, MakuluLinux & more Linux news 28.12.2024

video: https://youtu.be/Za_MPfQ9Zdo Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. So much happened. I took last week off because of the holidays, and there's just a lot happened in that period of time. So let's talk about it. First, we have Xfce because Xfce 4.20 has been released. openSUSE has announced a new package management tool. There is now an alpha release for...

290: RHEL 10 Beta, Raspberry Pi 500, 20 Years of Thunderbird & more Linux news 15.12.2024

video: https://youtu.be/HWf-0_Khx6o Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We have Betas to talk about. We have new hardware to talk about and so much more. So we got Linux Mint 22.1 Beta that's been released. There's also a Beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as AlmaLinux. We also have new hardware from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and we're gonna be celebra...

289: Cinnamon Desktop, COSMIC Alpha 4, NixOS, Flathub LLC & more Linux news 09.12.2024

video: https://youtu.be/rT1HH6BfBPQ Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have so many cool things to talk about. It's kind of absurd. In fact, it's so much, I had to skip a few things. I have enough for two episodes this week, and more, actually, there's a little more than that. So it was kind of hard to pick what to cover. Maybe I'll make some follow-up content this coming week with som...

288: elementary OS 8 released, FreeCAD hits major milestone, Kernel Drama Revisited & more Linux news 02.12.2024

video: https://youtu.be/lrU-ZPoiuTI Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have a lot of new releases to talk about. First, we have elementary OS 8.4. Then we're also having a huge milestone to talk about with the FreeCAD project because FreeCAD 1.0 has been released. Also, FLTK, the toolkit that I thought didn't exist anymore, has a new release with FLTK 1.4, as well as we're going to rev...

287: Linux 6.12, Arch Linux, Blender 4.3, Security Flaw Found & more Linux news 23.11.2024

video: https://youtu.be/7UWLmx7vpKQ Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we saw the release of the latest version of the Linux Kernel with Linux 6.12. Plus Qualys announced that they found some security vulnerabilities in the needrestart package used by Ubuntu. I'll break it down for you and let you know whether you should panic or not. Then we've got a bunch of releases to talk about from...

286: Valve talks Anti-Cheat, RHEL 10 Beta, Mozilla is doing what now & more Linux news 16.11.2024

video: https://youtu.be/ffIUXuC4qiM This week in Linux, we've got a response from Valve on the recent Anti Cheat issues. Red Hat has announced the release of RHEL 9.5 & and the beta release of RHEL 10. We've also got some exciting news from Fedora as they will be promoting the KDE Spin to a full Edition with Fedora 42. Then we'll talk aboue Mozilla and how they are continuing the drop the ball...

285: LXQt desktop, GIMP 3.0, Manjaro Data Collection & more Linux news 11.11.2024

video: https://youtu.be/k1abyzx5QkE This week in Linux, we've got a lot of good news with a new release of the LXQt desktop environment, a new accessory from Raspberry Pi. Valve has announced the official launch for the Steam game recording feature and GIMP 3.0 is finally at a point where we can just might have it at some point soon. We also have a bit of controversial news with Manjaro announcing...

284: Fedora 41 Released, TUXEDO OS 4, Thunderbird for Android & more Linux news 03.11.2024

video: https://youtu.be/GjvxiT7W0uM Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have new distro releases from Fedora Linux, TUXEDO Computers, and the Raspberry Pi crew. Then we're going to take a look at the latest Alpha for the COSMIC Desktop and there's an exciting interview coming up on my podcast Destination Linux with one of the founders of Zorin OS. All of this and more on This Week in Li...

283: Linux removes Russian maintainers, System76 ARM Desktop, New Raspberry Pi Hardware & more Linux news 26.10.2024

video: https://youtu.be/XcfttIaxPKQ This week in Linux, the Linux kernel has some more drama to talk about this time related to International Sanctions of all things. We've also got some new hardware announcements from System76 and Raspberry Pi. Plus we've got a new Libre Software fund that was launched to help financially assist some open source projects. All of this and more on This Week in Linu...

282: Ubuntu Flavours, Android running Linux apps, Inkscape, Rocky Linux from CIQ & more Linux news 19.10.2024

video: https://youtu.be/RbRO0083v0Q Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we're going to talk about the 24.10 release of all of the Ubuntu Flavours. Google seems to be doing some work to get Linux apps to work on Android devices. Asahi Linux is doing some great work with getting Linux support on Apple Silicon even Gaming on Linux on Macs. We also have a brand new release from the really cool...

281: Ubuntu 24.10 Released, KDE Plasma 6.2, Linux Drama & more Linux news 12.10.2024

video: https://youtu.be/onTWvyFkHzY Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we saw a lot of good news this week because we have the latest release of Ubuntu 24.10. We also have a new release of KDE Plasma with 6.2. And there's also some news with KDE Neon as well as Kubuntu. And we even have some drama news with the Linux kernel. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show...

280: Xfce's Next Release, umu for Proton, E-Ink Tablet, Mozilla Drama & more Linux news 05.10.2024

video: https://youtu.be/hgSiToyxHHw Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool news to talk about. We have stuff that's upcoming, we have stuff that was released this week, and so much. So I am super excited about one thing. It's not coming out till December, but I just had to tell you about it, and that is the next release of the XFCE desktop with XFCE 4.20. We also have so...

279: CUPS Vulnerability, Tails OS + Tor, Ubuntu 24.10, COSMIC Alpha 2 & more Linux news 28.09.2024

video: https://youtu.be/Oh9D8KVjMcA This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news and a little bit of some unfortunate news regarding a vulnerability with the CUPS printing system. Now, it's not as bad as people are claiming, but we'll get to that in a bit. We also have the merger of the Tor project and the Tails OS project, which is really cool, and Ubuntu 24.10 beta is now available, as well a...

278: Linux 6.11, GNOME 47, Microsoft kernel mode changes, Zorin OS, & more Linux news 21.09.2024

video: https://youtu.be/CNETMkgDNUs Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have a lot of news, just a crazy amount and some big stuff like the Linux kernel 6.11 is out. GNOME 47 has been released. Microsoft is making kernel mode changes and we're gonna talk about what that means for Linux and Linux gaming. Zorin OS 17.2 is out. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news sh...

277: Lutris creator joins Playtron, Hyprland window manager, Cinnamon design update & more Linux news 14.09.2024

video: https://youtu.be/_ZlIPhB-Fws Forum Discussion Thread This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool news from the Ubuntu team announcing that they're going to have new Snap Permissions for users in 24.10. Also, the GNOME Foundation is doing a open search for their new Executive Director. And we have a lot of new releases, as well as some Linux gaming news with the Lutris creator joining the Play...

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