This Week in Linux

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news to get to. We'll first check out some Hardware News as PreOrders are now available for the Framework Modular Laptop and System76's new Keyboard. KDE announced the Beta release for Plasma 5.22 and I personally have given it a test run already and can easily say I am very excited about this release. Then we'll jump to the Linux Mob...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of news to cover with some big news from Audacity in that the project has been acquired by the Muse Group, Ubuntu 16.04 Reaches End of LIfe . . . we'll sort of. Then we'll check out some great hardware news from IBM & also from Star Labs. In App News this week, we've got new releases from MusE Digital Audio Workstation, Kdenlive 21.04, QEM...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we're going to check out the latest release of the namesake of this show, the Linux Kernel with Linux 5.12 being released. This episode is just stacked with Distro news with the release of Fedora Linux 34, the Release Candidate of openSUSE Leap 15.3, elementary OS 6 Beta has been released, and we'll check out version 21 of Calculate Linux. That's not all for...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, NASA has successfully flown a Linux and Open Source powered craft on Mars! In Distro News, Ubuntu has released "Hirsuite Hippo" so if you're an Ubuntu user you will certainly want to check out Ubuntu 21.04 or perhaps one of the 21.04 Ubuntu Flavours which have also been released. Then we'll check out the latest release of the Arch Linux based EndeavourOS. In...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, System76 made some waves when they announced their new COSMIC Desktop Environment. Slackware is back with a vengence ok not really with a vengence but Slackware did announce the Be..00ta version of Slackware 15.0. In addition to Slackware, we've also got some other great topics in Distro News this week with Manjaro 21.0, Zorin OS 16 Beta and we're even going...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got an update for Linux support on Apple's M1 Mac hardware. KDE Announces a new patch-set for Qt 5. IBM Announced COBOL Compiler For Linux. Then later in the show we're bringing back everyone's favorite Legal News segment with Google v. Oracle reaching U.S. Supreme Court. We've also got new releases to talk about such as PipeWire 0.3.25 and JingOS v0.8...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, CloudLinux has released the stable version of their rebuil of RHEL or CentOS Alternative, AlmaLinux OS. We've got some exciting media streaming news for the Raspberry Pi. OBS Studio announced some great news for those running Wayland. Vidia Support for Wayland may be coming and Nvidia also announced support for GPU Passthrough. In other hardware news, ARM has...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big releases to talk about such as GNOME releasing of the anticipated GNOME 40. We've also got some distro news with Fedora 34 Beta, we're going to talk about openSUSE's MicroOS distro, and we'll also check out the latest release of KaOS Linux. In hardware news, Pine64 has announces that pre-orders for the Pinebook Pro are coming soon. System76...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some core news to discuss the latest Mesa graphics driver. We've also got a lot of distro news related to SUSE, MakuluLinux, Sparky Linux, and Salient OS. In Hardware news, Tuxedo Computers and System76 have announced some new Linux powered computers. We've also got everyone's favorite, Legal News, with patent trolls and IPOs. All that and much more...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we're going to try something different with the show. Let me know what you think of the changes. This episode is completely stacked with exciting news, we've got a ton of Distro News from Ubuntu, openSUSE, Linux Mint, SystemRescue, IPFire, and even Linux From Scratch. A vulnerability was found in GRUB 2 that lets someone bypass Secure Boot so we'll talk about...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some updates for Red Hat's CentOS and RHEL topic that is still making waves. We've also got a lot of distro releases this week from Mageia, Kali Linux, and one of the smallest distros around, Tiny Core Linux. GNOME has announced the beta release of GNOME 40 so there's a lot to talk about there. Then we'll check out a new exciting modular laptop that...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a HUGE week of news with the latest release of the Linux kernel with Linux 5.11. KDE has announced the release of Plasma 5.21. We've got a lot of Distro news from Fedora, Linux Mint & Devuan. Later in the show, we'll talk about news from Pine64 about the PinePhone, Kodi entertainment center has a new release and we've got some exciting news for...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of App News this week with the latest release of Lightworks video editor, Shutter screen capture project has returned, we've got updates about OBS Studio on Wayland and we'll celebrate 20 Years of VLC. System76 announced a new project that will give people a chance to win a Thelio desktop. A 24 year old bug was found in the Linux Kernel and in...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, Ubuntu announced that they are working on a new Desktop Installer. CloudLinux announced the Beta Release for their CentOS Replacement called AlmaLinux. There are some big changes for this year's Google Summer of Code and it has some people disappointed and even considering about not participating. We've also got a lot more Distro News to discuss with a follow...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we're going to talk about the pretty nasty bug discovered in the Sudo tool which has been named "Baron Samedit". We've got some distro news to discuss for Ubuntu 21.04 and Tails OS. Then we'll check out some news in the desktop environment space from KDE Plasma and CDE, the Common Desktop Environment of all things. In App news, we'll check out the latest rele...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, Red Hat Announces new updates for the CentOS situation in that you can now get RHEL at No-Cost. We're also going to be talking about a new piece of hardware from the Raspberry Pi Foundation called the Pico. Then we will check out some more Enterprise-y goodness from SUSE. Plus we've got some updates related to running Linux on Apple M1 Mac. We've also got som...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some Distro releases for Linux Mint and Puppy Linux. We've got a follow up for a topic about running Linux on Apple Silicon with a project called Asahi Linux. Linus Torvalds is in the news this week for some comments he made about Intel's policies on ECC. We've also got some great news for NVIDIA users and those looking for a way to doing self-hoste...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some roadmap news to talk about for some upcoming changes for KDE's Plasma desktop and Application Suite, Ubuntu announced improvements for theming of Snaps and we'll check that out. We've also got some hardware news for a much anticipated device with the Dragonbox Pyra. We've got some distro releases to discuss with Slackel & Septor Linux. Then...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Desktop Environment news with the latest release of Xfce with 4.16 and GNOME announced UX Changes Coming to GNOME 40. There's a lot of App News this week with releases for Kdenlive and Darktable, plus we'll check out some new apps such as NeoChat which is a new Matrix client frome the KDE team and a Markdown Editor called Zettlr. We've also...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of big updates like the latest release of Linux kernel with version 5.10. A major version update for the GTK toolkit has been released with GTK 4. We've got a follow up to the Cen-toss topic from last week. OBS Studio released version 26.1.00 that has a lot of cool Linux related features and I am so excited to try this latest version! We've al...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some interesting and somewhat Rocky news for CentOS to talk about. There's a new Flatpak App Store released this week called Souk. Linux Gaming news with Cyberpunk 2077 running on Linux thanks to Proton. We've also got many new releases this week from PAPPL 1.0, OpenRGB, Qt 6.0 toolkit, CRUX Linux, and QEMU. Then we'll round out the show with some g...

On this episode of This Week in Linux, SUSE's acquisition of Rancher Labs is now complete and I'll tell you why this matters. System76 announced their first entry into the world of AMD powered Linux Laptops with the new Pangolin laptop. A developer seems to want to prove me wrong about Linux Support for Apple's M1 Mac so we'll talk about that. Pine64 announced that the KDE PinePhone is available f...