This Week in Linux

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we follow up on the Kernel Performance issues we discussed last week. There may be a new contender in the Mobile market using Plasma Mobile. We’ll also check out some distro news from Fedora, BlackArch and Intel’s Clear Linux. A lot of exciting App News was released… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux. We take a look at the latest Raspberry Pi, Linus has some comments on some performance issues with recent Spectre mitigations, Canonical announced 10 Years Support for Ubuntu 18.04. We’ll also be checking out a bunch of distro releases from Void Linux, Slax, Deeping, Whonix and even… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux we cover a big batch of releases from distros, apps, hardware and more. System76 launches the option to order their new Open Source Certified Desktop, Thelio. We got a big update from the Solus team about the future of the project. openSUSE announces the launch of their… Read more

In this special episode of This Week in Linux, we’re creating the ultimate episode for the ultimate Linux GNews podcast . . . this is episode 42 of This Week in Linux! On this episode we cover the release of Linux 4.19, the Return of Linus Torvalds to the Linux kernel, the BIG news of… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux. There were a ton of new releases this week! Ubuntu and all of the Ubuntu Flavours released 18.10 this week. New versions of elementary OS and Pop!_OS also released this week. We also so new releases from Ubuntu Touch, Lightworks, Turtl, PeerTube and more. Later in the… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have a lot of Distro News from Mageia, antiX, Calculate Linux, and NixOS. Zabbix monitoring tool issued a new Long Term Support release. We’ll talk about the upcoming release of KDE Plasma 5.14 and the preview release for Krita 4.2. We’ll check out a cool application… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we take a look at some distro news the betas for the various flavours of Ubuntu 18.10, KDE Neon’s 18.04 Upgrade and MakuluLinux. We’re going to have a follow up for the Code of Conduct controversy such as the news around the potential “kill switch”. Then we’ll… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we discuss the new Code of Conduct in the Linux kernel. Purism announces a new product offering with the Librem Key. We’ll also check out some distro releases from Solus, Quirky, and Escuelas Linux. Then we’ll cover some of the latest beta releases from elementary OS and… Read more

We talk about so pretty big news regardiong Linus’ Temporary Leave from Maintainership of the Linux Kernel. Then we’ll take a look at the new releases for Nextcloud, WINE, Git, Timeshift, Parrot Linux and Elive Linux. Intel has announced some new Open Source Firmware, KDE relased some info for the next version of the Plasma… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, GNOME 3.30 & Firefox 62 were released. Tracktion 7, the digital audio workstation software is not available for free as in gratis. KDE has released videos from Akademy 2018. We got some new distro releases from Tails, SystemRescueCD, KaOS & Nitrux. There is some hardware news this… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, the show is back after a brief hiatus and this episode is jam packed with awesome gnews. Valve announced a game changer with the new Steam Play with Proton. UBports has released a big update for Ubuntu Touch. Flatpak has reached version 1.0 with lots of cool… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux: Linus Torvalds gave his opinion on Wireguard, Lubuntu Takes a New Direction, LineageOS launches their annual Summer Survey, and Hiri’s Experience with Selling on Linux. Then we’ll check out some distro news from Slackware, OpenWRT, Ubuntu LTS, and RebeccaBlackOS. Later in the show, we’ll look at the… Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’ve got some new releases from Bleachbit, KDE Falkon, Albert (the keyboard launcher), Caprine (desktop app for Facebook messenger), and more. We’ll follow up with projects we’ve covered in previous episodes like Museeks, Tizonia, WINE, and the Librem 5. Then we check out the future roadmaps of some projects like KDE Plasma 5.13, Ubuntu 18.04,… Read more

Signal got a massive donation from the Co-Founder of WhatsApp, Flameshot: a new screenshot tool is pretty slick. We take a look at an Open Source and Self-Hosted CRM solution for those interested in using Linux in their business. Updates for Unity 8 and the Sway Fundraiser. Psion Gemini: a cool modern PDA device started… Read more

We’ve got a lot of distro news from Ubuntu, Solus, Fedora, Linux Lite and more. We’ll take a look at some updates for Linux 4.16 development and have you ever wanted to use Linux as your bootloader, well that might be possible in the future. For a nice change of pace from Oracle, we got… Read more

We got a new Linux kernel, new updates from LibreOffice, Nextcloud, VLC and more. We also saw some hardware announcements from the KDE and Mycroft teams. Huge desktop environment releases from MATE and KDE Plasma. All that and much more! Segment Index 00:38 = Linux Kernel 4.15 Released · [link] 02:36 = John Perry Barlow… Read more

Ubuntu disabled downloads for the 17.10 ISO. We’ll talk about why and what is being done to solve it. We’ll check out some Good News from Thunderbird, UBPorts, Solus, Amazon, and more. Then we’ll take a look at some interesting command-line tools that had updates this week. Steam’s Winter Sale is currently live for those… Read more

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we talk about the recent FCC decision to rollback Net Neutrality Rules. We check out some application news for GIMP, Firejail, mutt email client and more. Distro news from MX Linux, Kubuntu and Q4OS. Then we check out some Linux Gaming news including some Rocket League bugs.… Read more

TeamViewer 13 was announced and they’re bringing Native Linux support to their remote desktop software. We saw many Distro releases this week and in fact, we’ll be taking a look at 6 of them. We talk about how to get Microsoft Office 2016 on Linux. Then we’ll jump into some Linux Gaming, including one game… Read more

We say goodbye to Linux Journal. We’ll revisit the idea of using search engines on the command line. For Desktop Environments, Unity received a long awaited maintenance update and KDE issued their future goals for the project. In Linux Gaming, news for a PSP Emulator, the Ataribox and a Linux powered GameBoy-like portable handheld console.… Read more

We check out a few useful command-line tools and productivity apps. We discuss Canonical’s recent outreach to the greater community with the future of Mir and the potential of Ubuntu Unity for 18.04. The City of Munich is back on the docket this week, hopefully for the last time and we’ll also check out some… Read more

The first 6 Year LTS Linux Kernel was released this week. Huge Update from Mozilla with Firefox Quantum. New distro releases from Fedora and Slax. Linux now dominates the Supercomputer Market, well even more than it already did. This week I made a new way to easily find out what Linux games are on sale… Read more

We take a look at a cool auto-upgrade tool. I never thought I’s see this happen but Intel and AMD announced a new joint processor. New competition in the Password Manager space on Linux. Canonical asks for community participation in the new Ubuntu 18.04 design. A LOT of games are on sale this week. We’ll… Read more

Audacity Released a Big Update, We also got some updates for a couple of eBook Readers. In Distro News we talk about a couple distros we’ve never featured before. This Week’s Hardware News features a couple of cool devices. Plasma Mobile released a Roadmap. Then we will check out some Linux Gaming and Security News.… Read more

Canonical announced the codename for Ubuntu 18.04, Kodi Entertainment Center saw a new release, and we’ll check out some cool command line based applications. We got some cool distro releases this week and some news from Linux Mint’s future. Later on in the show we’ll save some money in Linux Gaming with the Steam Halloween… Read more

Canonical releases Ubuntu 17.10, one of the biggest releases of Ubuntu in years. We’ll take a brief look at it as well as the releases of each official flavor. We’ll also talk about the potential news as to whether or not Canonical is planning to become a public company with an IPO. (spoiler: they are)… Read more

We take a look at some browser releases and a new crowdfunding project for socializing the command line. In Distro News, there were quite a few releases and even some pioneering happening this week. Linux Hardware saw some Good, Bad, and Ugly news. Then we’ll check out what is new in Linux Gaming. All that… Read more

The Long Term Support version of the Linux Kernel is now longer. SUSE announced SUSE Studio Express. We take a look at a preview for Plasma 5.11. We have an exciting Update for the Librem 5 phone. We got some distro updates for Debian, Fedora, Solus, and more. Then we’ll take a look at this… Read more

We saw some new releases from GIMP, Fail2Ban, Audacious, Voyager Linux, and many more. Ubuntu has reached Feature Freeze, we’ll talk about the latest changes before the freeze. QupZilla has chosen the new name of the browser. Updates from System76 on Pop!_OS as well as some news on some Linux Hardware. Then we’ll check out… Read more

Coming up on This Week in Linux, we saw some new releases from Solus, Krita, Ardour, feren OS and many more. Debian and GNOME both celebrated their Birthdays this week. We check out some cool software that lets you do Google Searches from the command-line and we’ll take a look at this week’s gaming news.… Read more

This week we see a lot of application updates including Firefox, Vivaldi, OBS Studio, Latte Dock, and much more. In Distro News, we’ve got a lot of info for the next version of Ubuntu, some interesting news about Solus and releases for some Raspberry Pi related Distros. A prominant Linux gaming company is asking for… Read more

Big Linux Gaming news this week from GOG.com and Valve. In App News, updates from Wireshark and the Tor Browser. GnuPG announced a crowdfunding campaign and KDE Connect has something really cool on the horizon. This week we saw quite a few Distro Releases from Bodhi Linux, KaOS, and ROSA. We got some cool updates… Read more

Big news about AppImages on openSUSE’s OBS, KDE Plasma 5.10 Release and a massive update from UBports regarding their fork of Ubuntu Touch.. Interesting development for the WPS Office story we talked about last week and a lot of application releases from Krita, Scribus, Kodi, and Qt. In addition to a lot of Distro News,… Read more

This week in Linux we saw app releases for Quod Libet, OBS, Ardour & more. There was some distro releases for Peppermint and Devuan. We also talk about some Linux Gaming and Linux Security news. Segment Index: 00:31 = Quod Libet · [link] 01:15 = Ardour · [link] 01:27 = Firefox Photon on Linux ·… Read more

Canonical Switches from Unity to GNOME for Ubuntu 18.04 and more Segment Index: 01:02 = Canonical Switches from Unity to GNOME · [link] 08:51 = GNOME Twitch · [link] 09:30 = Rapid Photo Downloader · [link] 09:52 = National Geographic Wallpaper · [link] 10:10 = Variety Wallpaper Changer · [link] 11:12 = Thunderbird 52 ·… Read more