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S3 Ep 24Big X.org code reverts, giant 16B entries data breach, KDE 6.4

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Jun 21, 202527 min

S3 Ep 23X11 fork, Denmark moves to Linux, Android gets more locked down

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Jun 14, 202530 min

S3 Ep 22Microsoft could fix USB C, GNOME OS is coming for your PC, AMD ditches proprietary drivers

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Jun 7, 202526 min

S3 Ep 21SteamOS "destroys" Windows, kernel 6.15, Nice Firefox changes

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May 31, 202525 min

S3 Ep 20Fedora and GNOME remove X.org, Microsoft open sources WSL

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May 24, 202527 min

S3 Ep 19Plasma 6.4 beta, BIG Web Search changes, AI isn't fair use

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May 17, 202525 min

S3 Ep 18GNOME's new leadership, Mint themes libadwaita, OpenSUSE ditches Deepin

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May 10, 202526 min

S3 Ep 17KDE planning big changes, Wikipedia adopts AI, OpenSUSE leaps into the future

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May 3, 202525 min

S3 Ep 16OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, final COSMIC alpha, Fedora could drop X11 entirely

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Apr 26, 202526 min

S3 Ep 15Fedora 42, Manjaro Immutable, Arco Linux shuts down

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Apr 19, 202525 min

S3 Ep 14Firefox's AI summary, Wayland restores windows, Framework 12 preorders open

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Apr 12, 202524 min

S3 Ep 13Thunderbird's paid service, open source DNA database deleted, EU takes aim at encryption

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Apr 5, 202528 min

S3 Ep 12AI harms Open Source projects, Android goes private

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Mar 29, 202529 min

S3 Ep 11EU push for open source, GIMP3 is out, Firefox gets webapps back

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Mar 22, 202527 min

S3 Ep 10New Webkit browser for Linux, NVK becomes default, KDE splits X11 code

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Mar 15, 202524 min

S3 Ep 9AMD wins at open source, GNOME makes drastic Wayland progress

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:15 AMD open sources entire AI model https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/artificial-intelligence/introducing-instella-3B/README.html 04:37 Latest AMD GPus aren’t all there yet on Linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-radeon-rx9070-linux/7 08:14 GNOME adds global shortcuts, cursor shape protocol, and more https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-189/ 10:25 Firefox & Thunderbird 136 are huge updates https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefox-136-released-with-vertical-tabs-new-sidebar-more https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/136.0/releasenotes/ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-for-android-january-february-2025-progress-report/ 14:34 Apple refuses to add backdoor for UK gov https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple-break-encryption-to-allow-govt-spying-worldwide-reports-say/ 16:44 Freedesktop.org found hosting, will be down for a week https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeDesktop-Down-1-Week-Soon 18:19 Huawei apparently has some Linux powered laptops coming https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/huawei-matebook-laptops-linux-leak 20:21 EA releases Command and Conquer source code https://www.techradar.com/gaming/ea-is-releasing-the-source-code-for-command-and-conquer-and-adding-steam-workshop-support-to-further-empower-the-community-to-create-content-for-the-classic-games 22:15 Path of Exile 2 devs support Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/path-of-exile-2-gets-a-fix-for-linux-steam-deck-being-detected-as-cheating/ 23:10 Wine adds DX11 to Vulkan Video translation layer https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Direct3D-Video-To-Vulkan 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

Mar 8, 202525 min

S3 Ep 8Torvalds says Yes to Rust, Fedora doesn't get Flathub

💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# LINK TO CUSTOMIZATION POLL: https://forms.gle/i3s5Ep1N2vpEa35N8 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:53 Torvalds settles the Rust in Linux debate https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-On-Rust-Maintainers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-On-New-Rust-Code 06:03 Fedora project lead seems to misrepresent Flathub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKP1hgdFJKo https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/02/19/the-fedora-project-leader-is-willfully-ignorant-about-flathub/ https://thelibre.news/why-obs-and-bottles-got-in-a-fight-with-fedora/ 08:54 Flathub posts detailed explanation of their security model https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-source-to-user 10:08 HDR support is now stable and merged in Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-CM-HDR-Merged https://www.phoronix.com/news/MPV-SDL-Land-Wayland-Color-HDR 11:45 GNOME 48 beta is released with triple buffering https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/02/twig-187/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-48-Beta-Released 13:41 FSF finally speaks about Red Hat’s source code clamp down https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/128837/fsf-opposes-rhel-going-closed-source-two-years-after-the-fact/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/ 15:56 Mozilla changes leadership, direction again https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/ 18:02 Meta tries to argue torrenting without seeding isn’t piracy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its-vast-book-torrenting-were-just-a-leech-no-proof-of-seeding/ 20:31 Valve publishes Team Fortress 2 source code https://gamerant.com/team-fortress-2-source-code-full-client-released/ 22:15 Codeweavers recruiting more Wine and Proton devs https://www.codeweavers.com/about/jobs#job-dev 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

Feb 22, 202524 min

S3 Ep 7OBS could sue Fedora, GNOME's new site & branding

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Feb 15, 202530 min

S3 Ep 6Fedora looks at adding AI, kernel maintainer resigns over Rust issues, GNOME 48 changes

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Feb 8, 202524 min

S3 Ep 5Mesa, Wayland & X.org in trouble, Debian leaves X, GNOME 48 alpha

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Feb 1, 202523 min

S3 Ep 4Intel rediscovers Modular PCs, Arch Survey results, Kernel 6.13

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Jan 25, 202526 min

S3 Ep 3Facebook bans Fediverse Links, big Valve interview on SteamOS, Apple pulls their AI

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Jan 18, 202528 min

S3 Ep 2Linux Foundation endorses Chromium, SteamOS ISO is coming

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Jan 11, 202528 min

S3 Ep 1Github's fake stars, Nvidia's $700M open source bet, KDE looks healthy

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Jan 4, 202524 min

S2 Ep 51Open Source worth $7B, no Apple search, custom kernels no longer useful

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Dec 28, 202419 min

S2 Ep 50Lenovo will use SteamOS, EU investigates TikTok, Mozilla focuses on Ads and AI

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Dec 21, 202428 min

S2 Ep 49Flathub separates from GNOME, Arch gets 500K€, Firefox drops Do Not track

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Dec 14, 202428 min

S2 Ep 48KDE gets big donations, Discord supports Wayland, SteamOS devices coming

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Dec 7, 202427 min

S2 Ep 47Steam Controller 2 design leak, bcacheFS ban, Wayland in Wine

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Nov 30, 202430 min

S2 Ep 46Google breakup, bcacheFS acts like ReiserFS, Steam Controller 2

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Nov 23, 202430 min

S2 Ep 45Nvidia roadmap for Linux, Tuxedo Driver issue, Ubuntu 25.04

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Nov 16, 202433 min

S2 Ep 44KDE and GNOME OS, Manjaro telemetry & Mozilla layoffs

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Nov 9, 202432 min

S2 Ep 43AI isn't Open Source, Fedora 41, Apex blocks Linux

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Nov 2, 202429 min

S2 Ep 42Linux drops Russian maintainers, CoreBoot nonsense & Snap drivers

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Oct 26, 202429 min

S2 Ep 41Adblockers are dead, Valve talks Steam Deck 2, Nvidia wants better drivers

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Oct 19, 202430 min

S2 Ep 40GNOME has money issues, Linux malware & Nvidia driver progress

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Oct 12, 202425 min

S2 Ep 39Valve & Arch partnership, Nintendo kills Switch emulator, Thunderbird for Android is here

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Oct 5, 202436 min

S2 Ep 389.9 out of 10 severity flaw on Linux, ARM64 & Android support in proton, Valve devs want faster Wayland progress

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Sep 28, 202437 min

S2 Ep 37Torvalds dismisses Rust haters, Mozilla kills their Mastodon instance, GNOME 47 is out

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Sep 21, 202442 min

S2 Ep 36KDE's 3 main goals, Plasma 6.2 beta, Square Enix invests in a Linux OS

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Sep 14, 202437 min

S2 Ep 35Linux grows again, KDE overspends (but it's fine), Ubuntu has upgrade problems

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Sep 7, 202437 min

S2 Ep 34New Linux Console, Rust and BcacheFS drama, KDE donations

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Aug 31, 202438 min

S2 Ep 33Microsoft broke Linux dual boots, Google coerces reviewers, GNOME 47 beta

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Aug 24, 202442 min

S2 Ep 32Could the US break up Google? Deepin 23, SteamOS for other devices

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Aug 17, 202439 min

S2 Ep 31Cosmic Alpha is out, elementary OS 8 in September, Nvidia scraped videos for its AI

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Aug 10, 202444 min

S2 Ep 30A few nice Cosmic reveals, Linux market share gains, macOS more vulnerable than Windows

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Aug 3, 202440 min

S2 Ep 29Firefox's Opt-out ad setting, AI tool pirated movies, SecureBoot broken

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Jul 27, 202441 min

S2 Ep 283rd party Bug killed Windows PCs across the world, openSUSE needs to change its name

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Jul 20, 202438 min

S2 Ep 27Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great

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Jul 13, 202442 min

S2 Ep 26Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?

👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:36 Fedora 42 might have opt-in telemetry https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-User-Metrics-Opt-In 04:28 Deepin 23 adds local AI assistants https://www.deepin.org/en/uos-ai-gets-a-major-upgrade/?ref=news.itsfoss.com 09:39 ChromeOS Flex might be abandoned https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-might-abandon-chromeos-flex-next-heres-why/ 14:51 New serious OpenSSH flaw https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/thousands-of-servers-could-be-at-risk-due-to-major-openssh-security-flaw 16:06 Linux gets a black screen of death https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Black-BSoD https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Panic-Monochrome-Logo 18:31 OpenSUSE unveils their new installer https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-unveils-agama-9-installer-with-enhanced-ui/ 21:12 Mint 22 beta is out https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4725 24:55 Meta gives 5% perf boost to the Linux kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BOLT-5p-Performance 16:41 Proton launches Proton Docs https://proton.me/blog/docs-proton-drive https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24190732/proton-docs-document-editor-privacy-google 29:43 Microsoft says all content is freeware for AI https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-ai-ceo-says-content-published-online-is-freeware-to-help-train-ai 31:51 CloudFlare uses AI to block AI bots https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/03/cloudflare-rolls-feature-blocking-ai-companies-web-scrapers/ 34:11 Gaming: ARM emulation, market share, Wine https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-June-2024-Survey https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2407 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/wine-9-12-brings-a-rewrite-of-cmdexe-engine-mono-updates/ 41:15 Outro 💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com

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