This Week in Linux

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we got a ton of big news. We've got distro news from Red Hat for RHEL 8.4, SUSE made a lot of announcements at SUSECON, we've got a new release from GeckoLinux making some interesting changes. In App News, we'll talk about the latest releases of the popular text editor, Sublime Text and Element's new featured called Spaces and why I'm excited for it. Then we'll just into the Hardware space with new laptops from Entroware and Tuxedo Computers plus a really cool hardware topic involving Space and Satellites. Later in the show, we've got a topic to cover that has quite a bit of Drama attached to it, that is the news regarding the situation around Freenode IRC network. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil152 01:22 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.4 Released 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 152 04:41 = SUSE IPO SUSECON & More 11:47 = GeckoLinux 999.210517.0 Released 15:05 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 16:29 = Freenode IRC Fiasco 25:00 = Element Spaces (Matrix Chat) 32:38 = Sublime Text 4 Released 37:28 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 40:17 = Entroware's Proteus Linux Laptop 43:28 = TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Linux Laptop 47:47 = Femtostar: Satellite Communication 50:24 = Wine 6.9 Released 52:03 = Coreboot 4.14 Released 53:50 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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 Mobile market to check out the latest release for Ubuntu Touch with OTA-17 and we've got some updates for the JingPad A1 Linux tablet. Later in the show, we've got an update for the Audacity Telemetry topic we discussed last week and we'll check out some Wi-Fi Security Flaws that were revealed this week. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil151 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 151 01:20 = Framework Modular Laptop Pre-Orders 08:26 = System76’s Launch Keyboard 16:11 = KDE Plasma 5.22 Beta Released 21:08 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 40:00 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 22:37 = FragAttacks Wi-Fi Security Flaws 30:20 = Ubuntu Touch OTA-17 Released 33:36 = JingPad A1 Linux Tablet Updates 42:31 = Audacity Responds To Telemetry Criticism 50:17 = Bodhi Linux 6.0 Released 54:15 = Zstandard v1.5.0 Released 56:02 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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, QEMU 6.0 and more. We're also going to do a follow up to some news last week related to Humble Bundle and so much more including new version of WINE and Proton and even a milestone for the Linux kernel to celebrate. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil150 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 150 01:18 = Linux Kernel Reaches 1 Million+ Git Commits 03:07 = Muse Group Acquires Audacity 11:28 = Ubuntu 16.04 End of Life . . . Sort Of 17:34 = Salient OS, Nitrux, UwUntu (Lightning Round) 21:11 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 22:41 = RISC-V Giveaway: 1,000 RISC-V Dev Boards 26:07 = Kdenlive 21.04 Released 29:56 = MusE 4.0 Released (DAW) 32:17 = QEMU 6.0 Released 34:44 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 37:20 = Humble Bundle Bringing Back Sliders 40:53 = IBM Develops ‘World's First’ 2nm Chip 44:10 = StarBook Mk V Linux Laptop 48:54 = WINE 6.8 & Proton 6.3-3 Released 51:55 = Termite Project Ends & Suggests Alacritty 56:06 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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 Distro news, I did say it was stacked . . . we also got some Enterprise Distros to discuss with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 aka RHEL then we'll check out the CentOS alternatives with AlmaLinux 8.4 Beta & Rocky Linux 8.3 RC. We've got some cool mobile hardware news this week with updates from Pine64 about the PinePhone Keyboard Addon and the PineTime SmartWatch. There's just so much good news this week but there's also a new Linux Backdoor Malware that was found being named RotaJakiro so we'll talk about that. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twilEP# 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 149 01:37 = Linux 5.12 Released 04:26 = Fedora Linux 34 Released 07:42 = openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC & Tumbleweed 10:53 = elementary OS 6 Beta Released 14:49 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 16:32 = Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 (RHEL) 21:45 = Rocky Linux 8.3 RC & AlmaLinux 8.4 Beta 24:35 = Calculate Linux 21 Released 27:41 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 29:44 = Pine64's PinePhone Keyboard Addon 32:57 = InfiniTime 1.0 for PineTime SmartWatch 36:44 = RotaJakiro: Linux Backdoor Malware 40:35 = Humble Spring Sale & Some Drama 46:22 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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 App News, KDE has announced the first release of the Application Suite after the renaming to KDE Gear with KDE Gear 21.04. We'll also check out the latest version of the Geary Email Client and Jellyfin's new media player. Then we'll jump right into so Drama because IBM has been a little bit of hot water with some confusion over their employee development policies and it turns out Research Papers can get an entire university banned from Linux Kernel contributions. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil148 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 148 01:33 = Flying On Mars Fueled By Open Source 04:48 = Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsuite Hippo Released 08:28 = Ubuntu Flavours 21.04 Released 15:14 = EndeavourOS 2021.04 Released 18:22 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 19:51 = IBM Clarifies Stance On Employee Development Policies 24:38 = Linux Kernel Bans University of Minnesota 33:43 = Linux GUI Apps on Microsoft's WSL 37:05 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 39:32 = KDE Gear 21.04 Released 43:20 = Geary 40 Email Client Released 45:39 = Jellyfin Media Player Released 48:17 = Humble Bundles: Games & Programming 50:33 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Humble Bundles - Humble New Couch Classics Bundle = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-new-couch-classics Head First Programming by O'Reilly = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-head-first-programming-oreilly-books Ultimate Python Bookshelf Packt Books = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-ultimate-python-bookshelf-packt-books --- Humble Lego Built To Bundle = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-lego-built-to-bundle Humble New And Classic DND IDW Books = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-new-and-classic-dnd-idw-books Humble Warhammer 40000 Stories 2021 Black Library Books = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-warhammer-40000-stories-2021-black-library-books Spring 2021 Anime Season Books = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-spring-2021-anime-season-books Biggest Graphics Ever Software = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-biggest-graphics-ever-software Spring Into Vr Bundle = https://tuxdigital.com/go/humble-spring-into-vr-bundle Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

System76 unveils the new COSMIC desktop with dock and split-workspace ideas. Slackware 15.0 beta brings modern packages like Python3 and Plasma 5. LXQt 0.17 and JDE 2.0 deliver lightweight and web-based desktop updates. Manjaro 21 and Zorin OS 16 beta introduce refreshed installers and Windows-like layouts. Legal drama surfaces as Xinuos takes action against IBM and Red Hat.

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 plus GNOME Designers are exploring the possibility of having a bottom panel. Then we'll round out the show with some Humble Bundles about programming in Python. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/community FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil146 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 146 01:18 = Initial M1 Mac Support For Linux 5.13 05:05 = GNOME Designers Exploring Possible Bottom Panel 13:20 = KDE Announces KDE Qt 5 Patch Collection 20:24 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 21:53 = Google v. Oracle: U.S. Supreme Court Decision 27:29 = Google Open Sources Lyra Speech Codec 29:23 = Sway 1.6 Released 30:50 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 33:33 = PipeWire 0.3.25 Released 36:29 = IBM Announced COBOL Compiler For Linux 39:00 = JingOS v0.8 Released 40:47 = Humble Bundles: Python Programming & More 42:54 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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 announce the ARMv9 Architecture. In Distro News, we've got Ubuntu 21.04 Beta & Ubuntu Testing Week. Plus we'll also check out some news from, Arch Linux, Nitrux Linux and Parrot Security. Then in Mobile News, Lineage OS has announce the release of version 18.1. That's not all, back by popular demand we're going to jump into everyone's favorite Legal News with SEC vs LBRY and How It Affects Crypto. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil145 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 145 01:36 = AlmaLinux OS Gets Stable Release (CentOS Alternative) 04:34 = Ubuntu 21.04 Beta (+ Flavours) & Testing Week 09:57 = NVidia GeForce GPU Passthrough & Wayland 13:22 = ARMv9 Architecture Announced 15:21 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 16:46 = Lineage OS 18.1 Released 20:00 = OBS Studio 27.0 RC1 & Wayland 25:56 = Raspberry Pi Now Officially Supports Netflix Hulu & More 27:37 = Linux Mint's New Update Notifications System 32:35 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 35:01 = Arch Linux Installer 37:49 = Nitrux 1.3.9 Released 43:09 = Parrot 4.11 Security OS Released 46:33 = SEC vs LBRY: How It Affects Crypto 51:08 = GIMP 2.10.24 Released 53:17 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast

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 has announced their new Pangolin laptop which is a high anticipated AMD-Powered Laptop. We'll also check out the latest release of OpenRazer which is a project to make Razer products work with Linux based systems. Then later in the show, we'll check out some news that might make Linux Get A Bit RUSTy and we'll check out the latest release of the man-pages project with 5.11. There's also some big news related to Richard Stallman being back on FSF Board of Directors, so I guess we'll talk about that. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! SPONSORED BY: Digital Ocean ►► https://do.co/dln Bitwarden ►► https://bitwarden.com/dln TWITTER ►► https://twitter.com/michaeltunnell MASTODON ►► https://mastodon.social/@MichaelTunnell DLN COMMUNITY ►► https://destinationlinux.network/contact FRONT PAGE LINUX ►► https://frontpagelinux.com MERCH ►► https://dlnstore.com BECOME A PATRON ►► https://tuxdigital.com/contribute This Week in Linux is produced by the Destination Linux Network: https://destinationlinux.network SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/twil144 00:00 = Welcome to TWIL 144 01:54 = GNOME 40 Released 10:28 = Fedora Linux 34 Beta Released 14:56 = openSUSE MicroOS Desktop with GNOME Reaches Beta 19:45 = Digital Ocean: VPS / App Platform ( https://do.co/dln ) 21:21 = Pinebook Pro Pre-Orders in April 25:16 = System76 Pangolin AMD-Powered Laptop 29:24 = OpenRazer 3.0 Released 31:35 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln ) 34:01 = KDE Plasma 5.22 Getting \Quick Settings\ 36:16 = KaOS Linux 2021.03 Released 40:21 = Linux Might Get A Bit RUSTy? 44:38 = man-pages 5.11 Released 46:49 = Microsoft Edge Sync Features on Linux 48:51 = Microsoft To Acquire Discord? (Rumor) 51:32 = Richard Stallman Back on FSF Board of Directors 57:05 = Outro Other Videos: 7 Reasons Why Firefox Is My Favorite Web Browser: https://youtu.be/bGTBH9yr8uw How To Use Firefox's Best Feature, Multi-Account Containers: https://youtu.be/FfN5L5zAJUo 5 Reasons Why I Use KDE Plasma: https://youtu.be/b0KA6IsO1M8 6 Cool Things You Didn't Know About Linux's History: https://youtu.be/u9ZY41mNB9I Thanks For Watching! Linux #TechNews #Podcast