This Week in Linux

https://youtu.be/V-tcH_ol29g Forum Discussion Thread We have a very flavorful episode this week with all the flavors of Ubuntu 24.04. Proton 9.0 was released this week to make gaming on Linux even better. Then Nvidia is back on the show with some more positive news, this time about supporting GeForce Now on the Steam Deck. All of this and so much more coming up on This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Ubuntu Flavours of 24.04 LTS 07:37 Proton 9.0 Released 09:01 NVIDIA to support GeForce NOW on Steam Deck 10:11 Sponsored by Kolide 11:21 Golf With Your Friends' Speed Golf mode 12:31 EndeavourOS Gemini Released 13:56 systemd's "run0" is a sudo alternative 15:56 nano 8.0 Released 16:56 LibreELEC 12 Released 18:27 Amarok 3.0 Released 19:25 Announcement for TWIL next week 20:00 Outro Links: Destination Linux https://destinationlinux.net Ubuntu Flavours of 24.04 LTS https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-24-04-lts https://lubuntu.me/noble-released/ https://ubuntubudgie.org/2024/04/ubuntu-budgie https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-24-04-released/ https://ubuntustudio.org/2024/04/ubuntu-studio https://ubuntucinnamon.org/?p=1310 https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/ubuntu-mate https://ubuntuunity.org/posts/ubuntu-unity-2404 https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/edubuntu-24-04 https://www.ubuntukylin.com/news/ubuntukylin2404 Proton 9.0 Released https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/proton-9 NVIDIA to support GeForce NOW on Steam Deck https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/geforce-now-thursday https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/download/ https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5337 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nvidia-make-it-easier Golf With Your Friends' Speed Golf mode https://store.steampowered.com/app/431240/Golf_With_Your_Friends/ https://www.humblebundle.com/games/team17-from-golf-greens https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/golf-with-your-friends https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/pick-up-golf-with-your EndeavourOS Gemini Released https://endeavouros.com/news/plasma-6-with-wayland-or-x11-option systemd's "run0" is a sudo alternative https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654 https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-run0 https://lwn.net/Articles/971745/ https://outpost.fosspost.org/d/19-systemd-wants-to-expand-to-include Nano 8.0 Released https://www.nano-editor.org/news.php https://lwn.net/Articles/971980/ LibreELEC 12 Released https://libreelec.tv/2024/05/01/libreelec-nexus-12-0-0/ https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-omega-release/ https://9to5linux.com/libreelec-12-adds-raspberry-pi-5-support Amarok 3.0 Released https://apps.kde.org/amarok/ https://blogs.kde.org/2024/04/29/amarok-3.0-castaway-released/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/amarok-3-0-released [https://9to5linux.com/amarok-3-0-open-source-music-player]https://9to5linux.com/amarok-3-0-open-source-music-player-officially-released-heres-whats-new()

https://youtu.be/4jr0_g-JTW8 Forum Discussion Thread This week's episode is so jam packed that it is kind of ridiculous. Let's rapid fire this intro and you'll see what I mean. Fedora Linux 40 is out, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is out, Nextcloud has a new release of Nextcloud Hub and the release notes feel like they never end, the Flathub has released a new design refresh making it even better to use Flatpaks, and we recently had an awesome interview on the Destination Linux podcast that I gotta tell you about and all of this in one episode. I mean there's so much just in the Ubuntu topic that I didn't have time to cover the flavours, I'll tell you about those next week. Yea, this is going to be one of those episodes. Welcome to This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: LINBIT - thisweekinlinux.com/linbit Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:16 Fedora Linux 40 Released 10:01 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Released 14:32 Sponsored by LINBIT 15:56 Flathub Design Refresh 17:43 Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 18:28 Nextcloud Hub 8 Released 23:35 Destination Linux interview of Jon "maddog" Hall 24:43 Bazzite 3.0 Released 27:13 Tails 6.2 Released 28:17 Outro Links: Fedora 40 Released https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-workstation-40/ https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-in-fedora-kde-40/ https://fedoramagazine.org/slimbook-fedora-2-new-ultrabooks-for-fedora-linux-40/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/rebeccablackos/ Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Released https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-desktop-24-04-noble-numbat-deep-dive https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-released https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-now-supports-heif-images Flathub Design Refresh https://flathub.org/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/flathub-website-new-look Red Hat Summit https://www.redhat.com/en/summit https://destinationlinux.net https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmBj2sJnzLc Nextcloud Hub 8 Released https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2BQu2dWZY Destination Linux interview of Jon "maddog" Hall https://destinationlinux.net https://destinationlinux.net/366 Bazzite 3.0 Released https://bazzite.gg/ https://universal-blue.org/ https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/announcing-bazzite-3-0/1218 Tails 6.2 Released https://tails.net/news/version_6.2/index.en.html Other TWIL episodes I mentioned https://thisweekinlinux.com/258 https://thisweekinlinux.com/257 https://thisweekinlinux.com/256 https://thisweekinlinux.com/255 https://thisweekinlinux.com/253 https://thisweekinlinux.com/246

https://youtu.be/DsQfPv8GqBg Forum Discussion Thread We have some very interesting news this week, we've got a brand new major release of the LXQt desktop environment, there's a strange but potentially good twist in the ongoing saga of Nvidia and open source drivers, Red Hat drops the hardware ball and AlmaLinux catches it. Plus there's a new Linux Tablet trying to get kickstarted. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:34 LXQt 2.0 Released 02:52 Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA 05:51 AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Released 09:04 Sponsored by Kolide 10:26 Mozilla Firefox 125 Released 11:59 Volla Tablet on Kickstarter supports Ubuntu Touch 13:39 Bazzite 2.5.0 Released 15:16 XZ Backdoor Gets the All-Clear 15:44 Outro Links: LXQt 2.0 Released https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/04/15/release-lxqt-2-0-0/ https://lxqt-project.org/ https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-0-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.0-Released https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-2-0-desktop-environment/ Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA https://lore.kernel.org/nouveau/20240416234002.19509-1-bskeggs@nvidia.com/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/former-nouveau-driver-lead-joins-nvidia-and-sent-a-massive-patch-set/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Released https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-94-beta/ https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/3851 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1086 https://jonathanspw.com/posts/2024-03-31-dealing-with-cve-2024-1086/ https://lwn.net/Articles/968299/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Beta Mozilla Firefox 125 Released https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/125.0.1/releasenotes/ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-125-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/mozilla-firefox-125-released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-125-AV1-EME-And-More Volla Tablet on Kickstarter supports Ubuntu Touch https://9to5linux.com/volla-tablet-launches-on-kickstarter-with-support-for-ubuntu-touch https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/libertine.html https://ubports.com/en/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-tablet-simplify-your-digital-life https://ubuntu-touch.io/ Bazzite 2.5.0 Released https://bazzite.gg/ https://universal-blue.org/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/bazzite-v25-has-fixes-for-lenovo-legion-go-and-asus-rog-ally-plus-smoother-installs/ https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-2-5-0-update-released/1108 https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/v2.5.0 XZ Backdoor Gets the All-Clear https://fedoramagazine.org/cve-2024-3094-all-clear/ https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/XZ-Gets-the-All-Clear

https://youtu.be/w-F1Exi4o0U Forum Discussion Thread This week's news is exciting with cool new stuff and pretty bonkers because we narrowly avoided a security nightmare! A backdoor was discovered hidden in a common Linux utility, and it could have infected millions of devices. We'll break down how this almost happened, and what it means for you. Then, we'll switch gears and talk about some exciting upcoming features in Linux Mint 22. Fedora Linux might be getting a whole new look – we'll discuss a proposal to switch the default desktop environment. Flathub is making some changes to make it easier to indentify whether or not a Flatpak is official. Plus there is a new campaign for video game preservation that targets companies effectively breaking their games after an arbitary amount of time. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: LINBIT - thisweekinlinux.com/linbit Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released 05:40 Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware 09:18 Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues 11:56 Sponsored by LINBIT 13:21 Riot Games and their lame anti-cheat 17:25 Lutris 0.5.17 Released 19:12 Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Released 21:25 FFmpeg 7.0 Released 23:27 Outro Links: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-beta-testing/44040 https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-is-now-available... https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Test Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-... https://www.spi-inc.org/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-SPI-Project https://lwn.net/Articles/969373/ Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/kdes-xaver-hugl-on-why... https://9to5linux.com/developer-explains-why-explicit-sync... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Lands-Explicit-Sync https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Release-Plan Riot Games and their lame anti-cheat https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard... https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard... https://lutris.net/games/league-of-legends/ Lutris 0.5.17 Released https://lutris.net/ https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.17 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.17-Released https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/lutris-v0517-brings-... Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Released https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-omega-release/ https://9to5linux.com/kodi-21-0-omega-open-source-media-center... FFmpeg 7.0 Released https://ffmpeg.org/ https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0 https://lwn.net/Articles/968565/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released https://9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-7-0-dijkstra-released-with-...

https://youtu.be/u0475LDXlDg Forum Discussion Thread This week's news is exciting with cool new stuff and pretty bonkers because we narrowly avoided a security nightmare! A backdoor was discovered hidden in a common Linux utility, and it could have infected millions of devices. We'll break down how this almost happened, and what it means for you. Then, we'll switch gears and talk about some exciting upcoming features in Linux Mint 22. Fedora Linux might be getting a whole new look – we'll discuss a proposal to switch the default desktop environment. Flathub is making some changes to make it easier to indentify whether or not a Flatpak is official. Plus there is a new campaign for video game preservation that targets companies effectively breaking their games after an arbitary amount of time. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:06 XZ backdoor found in widespread Linux utility - [link, link] 10:26 Flathub adds Unverified Badge to Flatpaks - [link] 14:42 Sponsored by Kolide - [link] 16:05 Stop Killing Games.com - [link, video] 20:28 Linux Mint 22 Update, Future of Linux Mint - [link] 23:23 Fedora Change Proposal for KDE Plasma Default - [link] 25:24 Redis Changes Their Licensing Model - [link] 28:23 Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs Soon - [link] 30:42 Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released - [link] 32:57 Outro

https://youtu.be/P9LJkwlah2g Forum Discussion Thread On this episode of TWIL, we've got a brand new kernel to talk about with Linux 6.8. GNOME 46 has been released bringing a ton of desktop related goodies. Fedora and openSUSE have released some betas for us all to try out and test. Red Hat announced a new driver project for NVIDIA support on Linux. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Linux 6.8 Released - [link] 03:08 GNOME 46 Released - [link] 06:49 Fedora 40 Beta Released - [link] 10:21 Sponsored by Kolide - [link] 11:44 openSUSE Leap Beta & Tumbleweed Updates - [link] 13:37 Nova: Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs - [link] 15:32 KDE Issues Warning After Theme Wipes User Data - [link] 18:45 Inkscape switching to GTK4 - [link] 20:37 Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years - [link] 22:15 Samba 4.20.0 Released - [link] 22:56 Outro

https://youtu.be/0cCBn-iMOUY Forum Discussion Thread We've got a lot of big news for Linux users this week! We've got everything from marketshare growth to the latest updates for your favorite distros. Desktop Linux hits 4% market share! That's the highest ever by the way. Linux From Scratch just released a new version for those of you who dream of building your own OS. Fedora is considering dropping XOrg entirely on Fedora 41 Workstation. Arch Linux users are getting a pretty big update to their package manager, Pacman. Plus we are so close to 30,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, if you enjoy this show and aren't subscribe to my channel then I'd appreciate it if you help me reach that milestone. That would be awesome. Now let's jump into This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:08 I'm going to SCALE - [link] 03:31 4% Marketshare for Linux on StatCounter! - [link] 06:28 Nintendo says Game Over to Yuzu Emulator with $2.4 Million lawsuit - [link] 11:40 Open Collective Foundation is shutting down - [OCF, OSC comment] 15:04 Sponsored by Kolide - [link] 16:26 Fedora Project Considering Dropping XOrg from Workstation - [link] 20:56 Flock to Fedora Conference - [link] 23:28 HDMI Forum 'blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers' - [link] 24:37 Zorin OS 17.1 Released - [link] 26:37 OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released - [link] 28:40 Arch Linux's Pacman 6.1 Released - [link] 30:10 Linux From Scratch 12.1 Released - [link] 33:34 Outro

https://youtu.be/lBhgKsPp0GY Forum Discussion Thread KDE has finally blessed us with the latest release of KDE Plasma and this isnt just any release but a massive megarelease as they call it. That's right, KDE Plasma 6 is here! We also got some new distro releases from the privacy focused distro Tails, Tiny Core Linux and apparently one project is trying to see just how accessible coconuts can be. CIQ is in the news this week by making some controversial moves. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kasm - thisweekinlinux.com/kasm Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:50 KDE Plasma 6 Released - [link] 07:03 Tails 6.0 Released - [link] 09:14 Will CIQs Paid-Only Programs Hurt Rocky Linux? - [ciq blog, messmer blog, resf.org, resf faq, rockylinux.org] 18:57 Sponsored by Kasm - [link] 20:25 Tiny Core Linux 15 Released - [link] 21:50 Sway 1.9 Released - [link] 22:51 Accessible-Coconut 22.04.3 Released - [link] 24:42 HexChat 2.16.2 is the Latest & Final Release - [link] 26:32 Ardour 8.4 Open-Source DAW Released - [link] 28:26 Giada Loop Machine 1.0 Released - [link] 29:49 Outro

https://youtu.be/kUPp8Ieg8d0 Forum Discussion Thread February seems to be a really big month for desktop environment news because KDE Plasma is almost upon us with the release next week. GNOME has announced the beta release of GNOME 46. LXQt has dropped some big news that LXQt 2.0 is on its way. and there may be another distro already interested in System76's COSMIC desktop. We're also going to take a look at a few laptops coming on the marketing in a new Linux Hardware News segment. Valve is releasing more of their software as Open Source proving once again Valve is a great member of the community. Plus we got some news from the movie animation studio DreamWorks and what they are doing with Open Source. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide - thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:08 CrossOver 24 Released - [link] 03:05 DreamWorks OpenMoonRay 1.5 Released - [link] 06:30 Linux Hardware News Roundup - [KDE Slimbook, System76, Juno Saturn, Manjaro Slimbook] 12:05 Sponsored by Kolide - [link] 13:27 Valve Releases Steam Audio as Open Source - [link] 14:31 GNOME 46 Beta Released - [link] 16:13 Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered - [link] 18:42 Miracle-WM: Tiling WM for Wayland Compositor - [link] 23:25 Last Development Release before GIMP 3.0 - [link] 29:05 LXQt 2.0 Desktop Coming in April - [link] 32:30 Outro

https://youtu.be/1h1WnfnonI4 Forum Discussion Thread On this episode of TWIL (253), Fedora has announced a new branch of their distro for immutable operating systems, called Fedora Atomic Desktops. System76 says we are getting close to an Alpha version of the COSMIC desktop. Then we're going to talk about Linux kernel security. Mozilla is refocusing on the Firefox browser while also doing some weird stuff too. Plus we have some potentially good news regarding AI and Patents. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: LINBIT - thisweekinlinux.com/linbit Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Fedora Atomic Desktops - [link] 03:41 Mozilla's New CEO, Refocusing on Firefox & more - [new ceo, layoffs] 09:51 Getting Close to COSMIC Alpha - [link, Destination Linux 270] 11:40 Sponsored by LINBIT - [link] 13:04 CVEs & CNAs for Linux Kernel - [link] 15:49 ONLYOFFICE 8 Released - [link] 17:13 LibreOffice 24.2 Released - [link] 19:21 Ubuntu Touch to change their Release Model - [link] 21:29 LineageOS 21 Released - [link] 22:56 "SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel - [link] 24:11 USPTO says AI models can’t hold patents - [link] 26:33 Outro