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 23, 2018 • 35min
Episode 33: 25 Years of Slackware, PowerShell Snap, REAPER on Linux, Linux Geek Bundle | This Week in Linux 33
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Slackware, Humble Bundle is running a “Linux Geek Bundle”, Microsoft makes PowerShell Available as a Snap, and we get a sneak peak at System76 Manufacturing Facility. We got a lot of App News this week with a new release of Latte… Read more
Jul 16, 2018 • 30min
Episode 32: Red Hat & WINE Turn 25, Python's BDFL Steps Down, Browsh, PacVim and more | This Week in Linux 32
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we celebrate an awesome milestone for both Red Hat and the WINE Project, both reaching their 25th Anniversary. Ubuntu shares a some news about a new Minimal ISO for Containers and the Cloud. We take a look at some cool developments from the Nouveau project and Firefox.… Read more
Jul 9, 2018 • 34min
Episode 31: Linux Mint 19, ElementaryOS Juno, GIMP 2.10.4, Redcore Linux, SUSE Acquired | This Week in Linux 31
Linux Mint 19 “Tara” was Released. Elementary releases a Developer Preview for their new version called “Juno”. Kdenlive issues a request to the community for beta testing of the next generation of Kdenlive. We do a follow up on the EU’s Copyright Reform Directive, this time it’s good news, at least for now. We discuss… Read more
Jun 25, 2018 • 1h
Episode 30: Peppermint 9, Plasma 5.13, Ubuntu Report, Linux Mint 19, Devuan, GeckoLinux | This Week in Linux 30
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we take a look at some Distro News with Peppermint 9, Devuan 2.0, GeckoLinux which is based on openSUSE Leap 15 and then we take a closer look at Linux Mint 19 which should release soon. New version of KDE Plasma with 5.13 and PulseAudio 12.0 have… Read more
Jun 5, 2018 • 48min
Episode 29: openSUSE Leap 15, LXQt, Linux Mint 19 Beta, Bodhi, Atari VCS, CRUX, Knoppix | This Week in Linux 29
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we got some big distro releases from openSUSE, Linux Lite, CRUX and Knoppix as well as some beta releases for Linux Mint and Bodhi Linux. The new Atari VCS is now available for Pre-Order on Indiegogo. LXQt released the 0.13.0 version the desktop environment. The EU’s General… Read more
May 14, 2018 • 46min
Episode 28: Fedora 28, Firefox 60, GNOME, Lubuntu, Valve, Linux Apps on ChromeOS & more! | This Week in Linux 28
On this episode of This Week in Linux, check out some big distro release news from Fedora, CentOS, CoreOS, KaOS and more. There’s new versions of Firefox, Kdenlive, GNOME and Cinnamon available. Lubuntu announces their switch to LXQt by default. If you’re interested in learning Python, Humble Bundle has a great Python Development bundle available.… Read more
Apr 30, 2018 • 38min
Episode 27: Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu Flavours, GIMP 2.10, FFmpeg 4.0, neofetch, Clonezilla | This Week in Linux 27
On this jam packed episode of This Week in Linux, we’ll check out the BIG 18.04 releases from Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Flavors like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and more. Then we’ll take a look at some application news for GIMP, FFmpeg, MenuLibre, neofetch and more. Later in the show, we got some more distro news… Read more
Apr 1, 2018 • 34min
Episode 26: Linux Kernel 4.16, GIMP 2.10 RC, Firefox Facebook Container, Qubes OS & more | This Week in Linux 26
Facebook is still under fire for privacy violations but Mozilla is trying to help users mitigate these issues with their new Facebook Container Extension for Firefox. There was some very exciting news from the GIMP team regarding the long awaited next release of the software. We got some updates for a couple photo related applications… Read more
Mar 26, 2018 • 35min
Episode 25: Krita 4.0, LG Open Sources webOS, Mintbox Mini 2, AMD Radeon-Rays, Wayfire | This Week in Linux 25
Krita 4.0 was released bringing a lot of great performance improvements and features. LG open sourced the Linux-based webOS. We’ll talk about a new Wayland compositor, called Wayfire and BitKey, a cool crypto-currency distro based on Debian. In App News, we saw some new releases from Darktable and Inkscape. Then we’ll check out some distro… Read more
Mar 18, 2018 • 35min
Episode 24: GNOME 3.28, Raspberry Pi 3B+, Firefox 59, Private Internet Access VPN & more | This Week in Linux 24
We’ll check out the release notes for GNOME 3.28, Firefox 59, HexChat, MX Linux, Netrunner, LibreELEC, Sparky Linux and more. There’s a new Raspberry Pi that was released this week and we’ll dive into that. Private Internet Access made a major announcement about going Open Source. All that and much more! Segment Index 00:44 =… Read more
