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Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews
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Episode 113: This Week in Linux 113: Red Hat + Flatpak, KDE Neon, Darktable, RetroArch, HBO Max Drops Linux
18/08/2020 Duration: 42minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news and also a few unfortunate things to talk about. Red Hat announces their Flatpak Runtime for Desktop Containers. Darktable announced the 3.2 release of their Open Source RAW photo editor. LibRetro announced the release of RetroArch 1.9.0 and we also got some unfortunate news from the LibRetro related to some of their servers being hacked. KDE ships the 20.08 updates for their Application Suite and KDE Neon has been rebased on Ubuntu 20.04. An Open Source Earthquake Early-Warning Project has been announced, plus we got the news that the FSF has elected a new President of the foundation. We've also got some unfortunate news with HBO Max reportedly dropping Linux Support and the NSA discloses discovery of malware which is targeting Linux systems. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Sponsored by: Digital Ocean - https
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Episode 112: This Week in Linux 112: LibreOffice 7.0, Ubuntu 20.04.1, elementary OS 6, Kdenlive, Mageia 8 & More
09/08/2020 Duration: 43minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big news from LibreOffice with the release of LibreOffice 7.0! Ubuntu has announced the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I'm going to show you a cool app that lets you view and interact with your Android device from your Linux desktop. We've got some news about some upcoming releases for Mageia 8, KDE's video editor Kdenlive, and elementary OS 6. Later in the show, we'll check out some new app releases from auto-cpufreq (an automatic CPU speed & power optimizer), Pinta image editor and Mastodon. We'll also check out some Humble Bundles including a game you can get for free for a limited time! 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 Show Notes: - https://tuxdigital.com/twinl112 Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tux
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Episode 111: This Week in Linux 111: Linux 5.8, BootHole & GRUB2 Flaws, Firefox 79, JellyFin, Nitrux, & More
05/08/2020 Duration: 45minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a jam packed episode, in fact, so much I might even need break out one of the topics into a separate video so it can be more thoroughly covered, we'll see though. We're going to be covering new releases including the Linux kernel itself with version 5.8. In App News we got releases from Firefox, Jellyfin and Nano. In Distro News we got new releases from Nitrux, BunsenLabs Linux and Gecko Linux. Then we'll tackle the big Security News for GRUB2 called BootHole that came out 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 Show Notes: - https://tuxdigital.com/twinl111 Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://fron
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Episode 110: This Week in Linux 110: AMD Ryzen Linux Laptops, Thunderbird 78, Cooler Master Raspberry Pi Case
28/07/2020 Duration: 44minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some really cool hardware news, we've finally got some Linux laptops equipped with an AMD Ryzen 4000H series processor. These laptops are thanks to Tuxedo Computers and KDE Slimbook. Cooler Master has launched a kickstarter campaign to make a pretty slick Case for the Raspberry Pi 4. We've also got a LOT of App News this week with the latest release of the most popular open source email client, Thunderbird 78 from Mozilla. KDE has released version 7.0.0 of digiKam. If you've been wanting an open source way to control your RGB lights on your devices then OpenRGB may be the tool for you. And finally, PeerTube has announced the 2.3.0 release that comes with the much anticipated Global Search feature! 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 Become a Patron:
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Episode 109: This Week in Linux 109: Flutter Apps to Linux, 3GB RAM PinePhone, Mobian, Stop Using BountySource!
21/07/2020 Duration: 54minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Distro News from Linux Mint, openSUSE and there may be a way to have a Rolling Release of Ubuntu now. We've also got some Linux Mobile news thats to the team at XDA Developers making it possible to put Ubuntu Touch from UBports on a lot of Android based devices. We're going to talk about a new Kickstarter that is going on right now to develop a Raspberry Pi based Tablet called the CutiePi. In App News, were going to talk about a new Task Manager app called Planner and there's some changes coming to the Matrix Client, Riot.im which is much needed so I am excited for that. We've also got some odd news from Microsoft as they have decided to release an Antivirus for Linux called Microsoft Defender ATP. Apple recently announced they are dropping Intel for their own processor platform and we'll discuss how that will relate to people wanting to run Linux on
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Episode 108: This Week in Linux 108: Linux Mint 20, openSUSE 15.2, CutiePi Raspberry Pi Tablet, and more!
05/07/2020 Duration: 54minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Distro News from Linux Mint, openSUSE and there may be a way to have a Rolling Release of Ubuntu now. We've also got some Linux Mobile news thats to the team at XDA Developers making it possible to put Ubuntu Touch from UBports on a lot of Android based devices. We're going to talk about a new Kickstarter that is going on right now to develop a Raspberry Pi based Tablet called the CutiePi. In App News, were going to talk about a new Task Manager app called Planner and there's some changes coming to the Matrix Client, Riot.im which is much needed so I am excited for that. We've also got some odd news from Microsoft as they have decided to release an Antivirus for Linux called Microsoft Defender ATP. Apple recently announced they are dropping Intel for their own processor platform and we'll discuss how that will relate to people wanting to run Linux on
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Episode 107: This Week in Linux 107: Krita 4.3, FFmpeg 4.3, FreeNAS on Linux, postmarketOS PinePhone
23/06/2020 Duration: 47minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news with a bunch of App releases. We've got new releases from Krita, FFMpeg, Strawberry music layer, nativefier which is a really cool desktop app creator for webapps, and more. We've also got some news from Pine64 about a new community edition of the PinePhone for the postmarketOS project. Later in the show, we'll check out some Distro news from TrueNAS aka FreeNAS and elementaryOS. Then we'll round out the show with some looks at the latest Humble Bundles available. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://frontpagelinux.com - https://michaeltunnell.com Segment Index: Show Notes - https://tuxdi
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Episode 106: This Week in Linux 106: Linux 5.7, SpaceX, Plasma 5.19, Mint vs Snaps, PineTab, Lenovo, System76
16/06/2020 Duration: 55minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got so much news it's kind of ridiculous! We've got a new kernel release with Linux 5.7. SpaceX Used Linux to send NASA Astronauts into Orbit. KDE released the latest version of their Plasma desktop environment with Plasma 5.19. We've got a lot of hardware news this week because Pine64 announced that the PineTab is now available for PreOrder. Lenovo announced that they will certify their full ThinkPad line for Linux. System76 announced their New 12-Core AMD Ryzen powered laptop, the Serval. Linux Mint has been in the news with a controversial topic related to Snaps and Chromium. Destination Linux, a podcast that I co-host, had a livestream this week at the SouthEast LinuxFest conference. Peertube announced the release of version 2.2.0 which brings some much needed improvements to this YouTube alternative software. I found some really interesting projects that we'
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Episode 105: This Week in Linux 105: 8GB RAM Raspberry Pi, Ardour 6.0, Audacity, Kali Linux, DirectX on Linux?
02/06/2020 Duration: 01h07minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new 8GB RAM version of the Raspberry Pi and there's a new release of Kali Linux. We've also got some big updates for two audio editors in Ardour 6.0 and Audacity 2.4.1. We've got a new version of the Enlightenment window manager with 0.24 and a new tool for making Bootable USBs called Ventoy. We've got an update on the GNOME "Patent Troll" Case, it's been resolved. EA is releasing Source Code for 2 Command & Conquer Games. Microsoft is back in the news with 2 new items this week . . . one shows they may be really changing announcing DirectX for Linux . . . yea not really, of course there is a catch, it's Microsoft. Also Microsoft figured that pretending they are doing something good for Linux wasn't enough so they created a name collision with the Maui Project. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Sponsor
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Episode 104: This Week in Linux 104: UBports Ubuntu Touch, Pine64, PineTab, KDE Plasma 5.19, Pi-hole 5.0, Zabbix
19/05/2020 Duration: 59minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, We've got a lot of news related to Linux Mobile like UBPorts' Ubuntu Touch OTA-12, a plethora of Pine64 news, and MauiKit 1.1.0 was released. We'll also talk about the current Beta release of KDE's Plasma 5.19. We've got many more project releases like Pi-hole 5.0, Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04, Zabbix 5.0 LTS, Coreboot 4.12 We're also going to talk about an interesting revelation from Microsoft where they admitted the company was wrong about Open Source. Then we'll finish out the show with another great round of Humble Bundles. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://frontpagelinux.com - https://michaeltunnell.com Segment In
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Episode 103: This Week in Linux 103: XRdesktop, 700% Increase to Linux Marketshare, Firefox, MNT Reform
12/05/2020 Duration: 58minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some new releases from Firefox, xrdesktop, herbstluft window manager, and more. We'll also check out 2 hardware announcements this week, one from Manjaro & Star Labs and a DIY Open Source laptop from MNT. Later in the show we'll check out a new ncurses ToDo Manager app called NOAFtodo. There were reports this week for a large increase for Linux Marketshare and Munich is back in the new regarding Public Code. Then we'll round out the show with a Bonanza of bundles from Humble Bundle. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://frontpagelinux.com - https://michaeltunnell.com Segment Index: Show Notes - https://tuxdig
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Episode 102: This Week in Linux 102: Inkscape 1.0, Fedora 32, Ubuntu Flavours, Pop!_OS, Red Hat, openSUSE & More
05/05/2020 Duration: 01h10minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have SO MUCH DISTRO NEWS! In fact, we've got news from Fedora, PopOS, Red Hat, openSUSE, and a follow up for the Ubuntu 20.04 release. Last week, I said we're going to give the official Ubuntu Flavours an extra week to discuss their 20.04 releases since there are so many to discuss and that time has come. There are 7 Ubuntu Flavours and all of them have a 20.04 release with some really interesting stuff happening in each one. If that wasn't enough, Inkscape 1.0 has finally be released after 16 Years of continuous develop so this episode is just jam packed with Linux News. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://michae
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Episode 101: This Week in Linux 101: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Manjaro 20, LXQt, Lenovo / Fedora ThinkPads, Void Linux
28/04/2020 Duration: 01h01minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, the amount of news we have to cover is just crazy! We've got multiple big stories in Distro News with Ubuntu 20.04 releasing, Manjaro 20 releasing, Fedora announcing that Fedora is coming to Lenovo's ThinkPads, and even more from Void Linux and Intel's Clear Linux. In the housekeeping section were going to be talking about the new DLN News & Article website, Front Page Linux. There's just so much news this week. LXQt 0.15 was released and there's a little bit of weirdness around the LXQt project to discuss. We've also got some new releases in the App News section for Kdenlive 20.04, BleachBit 4.0 and Vivaldi 3.0. All that and much more coming up. I'm Michael Tunnell with TuxDigital and this is your Weekly Source for Linux GNews. Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://t
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Episode 100: This Week in Linux 100: Inkscape, KWinFT Fork, PulseAudio + Bluetooth, Pop!_OS Beta, Umix OS & More!
21/04/2020 Duration: 49minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have a lot of interesting news to cover including some Application News from Inkscape and a command-line search tool called "fd". We've also got some Distro News from Ubuntu, PopOS, and Umix OS. We'll cover a really cool tip that was shared on the r/linux subreddit this week related to Bluetooth and PulseAudio. We've also got a really interesting new fork in the KDE world because theres a new project that is a fork of KWin. Oh yea, I almost forgot to mention . . . this episode 100! of This Week in Linux! and so as a special bonus . . . I recorded this episode LIVE on YouTube! All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://destinationlinux.network/store - https://mi
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Episode 99: This Week in Linux 99: Linux 5.6, Qt Diverting from Open Source?, PinePhone, UbuntuDDE, SUSE
15/04/2020 Duration: 59minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have a ridiculously packed episode for you with a new release from the Linux kernel itself, KDE announced they are working on Plasma for TVs and we've got some distro news from SUSE, Endeavour OS and a new Deepin Remix for Ubuntu. In hardware news, Pine64 announced a new UBports edition of the PinePhone and we've got two new Linux powered laptops announced recently. Tuxedo Computers teamed up with the Manjaro project to make some Manjaro branded laptops and System76 announced their new Lemur Pro. GNOME announced a new challenge they they are doing with Endless Computers called the Community Engagement Challenge and we've also got some interesting news for the future of the Calamares installer to cover. There's also a topic that as a KDE Plasma fan, I'm not too excited to discuss this one and that's Qt's new roadmap wher
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Episode 98: This Week in Linux 98: Relieving Quarantine Boredom, OBS, Linux Mint, KaiOS, & Purism's Librem Mini
24/03/2020 Duration: 41minhttps://tuxdigital.com/contribute || https://tuxdigital.com/linuxiseverywhere Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we're going to cover a lot of great news like the latest release of OBS Studio, Mozilla is teaming up with KaiOS, System76 announced they're going to be making a Keyboard and Linux Mint's LMDE 4 was Released this week. We're also going to check out some ideas that the community came up with for what to do while in Club Quarantine. We'll also check out a new project related to Linux Printing, called PAPPL. (just rolls right off the tounge) Later in the show, we're going to discuss a few controversial topics. Purism announced a new product called the Librem Mini and it's been met with mixed reactions. Microsoft announced some news related to WSL2 and that they are buying, npm, a very sizeable package manager for the JavaScript programming language. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.co
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Episode 97: This Week in Linux 97: Firefox, Darktable, Manjaro on Pinebook Pro, AMD & Intel Security Issues
17/03/2020 Duration: 54minThis Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we're going to be talking about some new releases from Firefox and Darktable. We've got a bunch of Distro News this week related to Manjaro, Mabox Linux, LibreELEC, Clonezilla, NuTyX, and Arya Linux. Then we're going to talk about what the Open Source community is doing to help fight the COVID-19 virus. Later in the show, we'll look at the security issues found for AMD and Intel hardware. Then we'll finish out the show with some great deals in the latest Humble Bundles. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! Become a Patron: - https://tuxdigital.com/patreon - https://tuxdigital.com/sponsus - https://tuxdigital.com/contribute Other Links: - https://michaeltunnell.com - https://tuxdigital.com/linuxiseverywhere - https://tuxdigital.com/linuxiseverywhereeu Segment Index: Show Notes - https://tuxdigital.
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Episode 96: This Week in Linux 96: GNOME 3.36, APT 2.0, systemd, Jellyfin, Collabora Online & More
10/03/2020 Duration: 30minOn this episode of This Week in Linux, we’ve got some big news from GNOME, APT & systemd. We’ve also got some new releases from Jellyfin media server, Collabora Online (an online office suite), and a new release from ZorinOS. We’re going to round out this episode with some Linux Gaming news for playing Tetris… Read more
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Episode 95: This Week in Linux 95: Manjaro 19, Raspberry Pi, UBports’ Lomiri, Arch Linux, IPFire, Shotcut, OBS
03/03/2020 Duration: 41minOn this speical I’m Sick edition of This Week in Linux, We got a lot of Distro News for Manjaro 19, IPFire (firewall), and Arch Linux announces a new project leader. UBports announce that Unity8 has been rebranded to “Lomiri” and we got an awesome announcement from Raspberry Pi because the baseline $35 version has… Read more
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Episode 94: This Week in Linux 94: Mesa 20, PipeWire, Linux Be Scary, MyPaint, GTK, Microsoft Defender
25/02/2020 Duration: 45minOn this episode of This Week in Linux, we got some new releases from core projects like Mesa & PipeWire and we also got some App News from MyPaint, GTK and a new convergent apps project called Maui. Then we’ll check out some distro news regarding the Untangle Firewall and some Red Hat news about… Read more