Untitled Linux Show (Audio)

Steam Machines are expensive! But maybe not too expensive? The Academy Software Foundation, yes like the Academy Awards, has a Wayland Working Group. Akrites is the new game in town for Open Source vulnerability response, and Pine64 is teasing an Open Smart Speaker. The Linux kernel has some big performance wins, and at least one platform with a mixed bag after updates. Then KDE And COSMIC have in...

An AUR safety net arrives with Yay v13, adding visibility into packing timestamps. A developer found and fixed ~4ms of hidden mouse latency in KWin stemming from three separate sources. And Canonical announced a local, private, hotkey-activated speech-to-text tool coming in Ubuntu 26.10. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3Sq5Qi4, and happy Linuxing! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob...

This week the headlines are big! First up, more than 400 packages on the AUR have been compromised. Then, the Linux kernel patches a critical ARM CVE from last year. Plus, Linux 7.1 is about to release with FRED and HDMI 2.1. And the US Government has shut down Anthropic Fable and Mythos. The tips are a bit more mellow, with xxd for terminal hex dumps, schroot for secure chroots, and the keyboard...

Flathub maintainers are sick of AI, Windows broke Jeff's laptop, and Xorg has even more vulnerabilities. Cloudflare covers in glorious detail a bug where Idle wasn't idle, Ardour gets even better with 9.7, and Valve is continuing to improve the gaming on Linux experience. Windows adds rust coreutils, and Ubuntu is looking to the future. For tips, we have Croft, a tui clone of vscode; cachy-chroot,...

This week the trio covers the Latest Ubuntu, Fedora, and CachyOS news. Btrfs has a big performance win, USB4 brings fast data transfers, the latest kernel RC has prompted a classic Torvalds rant. And then Jonathan flies in to wrap up the show with Open Source AI definition news. For tips, we have quein for turbo-charges who is, Shelly for smarter package management, htmlq for querying a web page,...

This week a popular distro adds AI into its offering, Fedora is retiring Deepin, Google is abandoning Gemini CLI, and the fight to give Vizio smart TV owners more control over software running on their TVs. For tips, BleachBit's new TUI is great for headless servers, an update to arch, update-alternatives, and Lynis! You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4f6smWz. Enjoy the show! Host: Jona...

This week we're talking GCC performance wins, then a parade of security issues, (including a security catastrophe on Windows). Debian is moving to reproducible builds, while the kernel updates its security docs. KDE has a beta out of 6.7, Dell and Lenovo back LVFS, and California may save gaming. For tips, we have CoolerControl for fan controls, stow for managing symlinks, and bb for sweet ASCII d...

Raspberry Pi Imager levels up with org support and CM5 Secure Boot tricks. Valve drops a new Steam Controller with a 35-hour battery and Grip Sense, plus a client update to match. Ubuntu's Twitter got hacked — yes, really. Inkscape 1.4.4 squashes 24 crashes and picks up the pace. There's a Dirty Frag kernel flaw letting locals escalate privileges, so patch now. VideoLAN previews dav2d, an early AV...

Ubuntu has announced their AI future, and it's ... not actually terrible. CopyFail has us all patching, though thankfully it's not an "Internet-melter". There's a DDoS on FOSS infrastructure, a new directory in your home folder, and finally good news on the HDMI 2.1 front. For tips we talk toofan for typing practice, why copy and paste needs "shift", and a quicker primer on getting the most out of...

This week we're talking about Distro releases, like Ubuntu's Resolute Raccoon, Fedora's 44, and the scuttlebut about Microsoft Azure Linux. Then there's the latest and greatest Ryzen chip, Linux drivers being retired, and Firefox turns 150. And don't forget the newest Framework, and the LeafKVM launches. For tips, we cover Perch for TUI micro-blogging, f3 for finding fake flash, eget for easy inst...