Android tracking more invasive than previously known, Ubuntu wants your ideas for Mir, and Linus gets heated about Kernel security while we focus on the technical issue at the heart of the matter. Plus a new magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, several vulnerabilities in Intel's Management Engine, and more! Support Linux Action News Links: Google collected location data from Android users who didn't know — In a nutshell, the whereabouts of every active Android phone and tablet in the world...
Nov 26, 2017•24 min
Fedora goes modular, Firefox makes a quantum leap, and a Linux classic makes a come back. Plus a big moment for the Kernel, Red Hat goes ARM, and OpenPlus has a backdoor with a twist. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Fedora 27 released — The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the over...
Nov 19, 2017•27 min
New details show Linux on Galaxy phones further along than expected, Bitcoin's bad week explained, and CrossOver enables Windows apps, on ChromeOS. Plus Canonical puts out a call for help, Munich votes to return to Windows, and Steam on Linux turns 5. Support Linux Action News Links: SegWit2x Bitcoin fork called off — "Although we strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we believe is even more important: keeping the community together," Belshe said. "Unfortunately...
Nov 11, 2017•30 min
It's a week of red flags and success. The Plasma Mobile project sets humble goals, Firefox learns new tricks, a TOR flaw for Linux users, and Canonical joins the Gnome Advisory Board. Plus a new report claims every Bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as your house in a week, and two legal matters that may have long-term impacts on the Linux community. Support Linux Action News Links: Plasma Mobile Roadmap — Our development strategy is to build a basic system and platform around our core valu...
Nov 05, 2017•24 min
Big changes coming to Linux Mint, hope for ZFS upstream in Linux, and Mozilla helps out TOR. Plus how Russia may help legitimize cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, and Solus makes a call for help. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Mint to add Flatpak support — The project says the upcoming release of Linux Mint 18.3 will come with “full support” for Flatpak out of the box. This will include integration wit...
Oct 28, 2017•26 min
The Linux desktop on Samsung phones, Intel ME disabled on Purism laptops, big Kernel news, and Ubuntu 17.10 is out. Plus our brief thoughts on the new Ubuntu release, its various flavors, an important milestone, and the larger Open Source story. Support Linux Action News Links: Samsung enable Linux on their phones — Linux desktops will become available if users plug their phones into the DeX Station, the device that lets a Galaxy 8 run a Samsung-created desktop-like environment when connected to...
Oct 22, 2017•34 min
Fixing Steam on Linux for good, new toys for Fedora and Plasma users, OnePlus gets busted & the Librem 5 gets funded. Plus some key project updates & more! Support Linux Action News Links: Solus pushing forward Steam with Snaps — That snap, as some people have already guessed as much, will be the linux-steam-integration project, using a strict-mode LSI intercept module. We can also make various tweaks on top of that runtime to enforce ABI compatibility where it might be missing. AAC will...
Oct 14, 2017•25 min
Google's new hardware fails to impress, Sailfish X becomes a reality, and the most disappointing thing about Munich's slide back to proprietary software. Plus why Bitcoin Gold is the people's coin, Oracle advises the White House against FOSS, and ChromeOS gets a grownup Linux feature. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Google Announce new Hardware — Google announced the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL; an in...
Oct 07, 2017•33 min
Atari has a Linux powered console, some brief Ubuntu updates, and the biggest Kernel news in years. Then we consider the recent smattering of opinion pieces on Microsoft's commitment to Open Source. Support Linux Action News Links: New Atari console runs Linux — The Ataribox is powered by a ‘customised’ AMD processor and uses Radeon graphics. On the software side the machine runs a ‘customised’ version of Linux that has an “easy-to-use user interface”. Ubuntu 17.10 final beta — Artful Final Beta...
Oct 01, 2017•25 min
GNOME endorses the Librem 5, Replicant and UBports support more devices, Pipewire is major news for video on Linux, EFF walks away from W3C over DRM, Facebook reacts to community pressure, and Red Hat expands their Patent promise. Special Guest: Wes Payne. Support Linux Action News Links: GNOME officially on board for the Librem 5 — The GNOME Foundation is committed to partnering with Purism to create hackfests, tools, emulators, and build awareness that surround moving GNOME/GTK onto the Librem...
Sep 24, 2017•25 min
Gnome users have something to celebrate, Purism and KDE are working together, and Manjaro has some hardware. Plus why we're not too worried about BlueBourne, the fight for public money to fund public code, and a new power tool for Firefox users. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: GNOME 3.26 — The GNOME Project is excited to announce the release of version 3.26, the latest version of GNOME 3. The new ver...
Sep 16, 2017•27 min
Why AsteroidOS on your wrist is worth watching, what Project Treble means for future custom ROMs, Debian's Docker dominance, and why China might shut down Bitcoin exchanges. Plus how NGINX plans to make big money, Mozilla wants to reinvent online comments, and more. Support Linux Action News Links: Connnect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign begins — First unveiled in late August, the team behind the Connect Watch have launched a campaign on European crowdfunding site Ulule i...
Sep 10, 2017•26 min
An Ubuntu developer event is happening soon, 17.10 Beta 1 has dropped for most of the flavours, Reddit closes its source while Phoenix OS opens theirs, Google getting serious about kernel updates in Android, Essential need to up their game, Blockchain is serious business and Linux desktop marketshare hits a new high. Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu Rally in NYC — The Ubuntu Rally, taking place in New York City September 25th-29th, is a forward-thinking five day software hackathon attende...
Sep 03, 2017•26 min
New Linux hardware, Purism's Librem 5, and Jolla's €50 Sailfish ROM. Plus Chris' quick take on Android Oreo, Google goes for Microsoft's heart, while Microsoft gets cozier with Red Hat and SUSE pretends not to be upset about it. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu Budgie machines — UK-based computer outfit Nimbusoft is gearing up to sell two laptops and an all-in-one desktop PC pre-loaded with the...
Aug 27, 2017•27 min
A big batch of Debian updates, Gnome turns 20, Joe's report from OggCamp, the Solus trifecta, encrypted ZFS comes to Linux finally, and Bitcoin is forking, again. Plus some thoughts on tiny Linux computers, the Linage survey and more. Support Linux Action News Links: GNOME turns 20 — There have been 33 stable releases since the initial release of GNOME 1.0 in 1999. Debian turns 24 Raspbian Stretch has arrived for Raspberry Pi — PulseAudio is therefore no longer installed by default, and the volu...
Aug 20, 2017•24 min
Flatpak and snap get the Solus boost, Ubuntu's community is getting a remake, and development on Ubuntu 17.10 has taken an interesting turn. Plus more good news for Firefox users, and why Google's "streaming OS updates" could be great for the Android ROM community. Support Linux Action News Links: Snaps in Solus — Occurs to me that I likely have to make some kind of statement or whathaveyou about the whole "Solus adopting snaps" thing. Ubuntu Community Hub Proposal — I propose we replace the Com...
Aug 12, 2017•32 min
Surprising details in how Ubuntu's Gnome desktop is getting implemented, Krita hits some troubles but the community comes to the rescue, Bitcoin splits, Firefox sends, and Red Hat gives up on Btrfs. Plus Amazon accuses BLU of spying on Android users, and more! Support Linux Action News Links: Krita Foundation in Trouble — This means that the tax authorities see the Foundation is as partly a company, partly as not a company. The Krita community came to the rescue — We didn’t expect the incredible...
Aug 06, 2017•29 min
A good week for desktop Linux with news from Ubuntu, Fedora & openSUSE. Plus our take on the pending death of Flash, some great work by the Debian project & Mozilla updates us on Project Common Voice. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Alpha 2 — We’re not happy, proud, pleased or ambivalent to announce this alpha. No, not us. The is our most “Super” alpha ever and we’re ecstati...
Jul 29, 2017•32 min
Android for the desktop might be dead, Google Glass is back, the latest Firefox usage data is devastating & the next Ubuntu is ready for a shakedown. Plus a quick look at Phoenix OS & the Ubuntu 18.04 survey! Support Linux Action News Links: Android-Based Remix OS To Be Discontinued — Remix OS, the Android-x86 derived operating system for x86/ARM to run Android applications on PCs, is now being discontinued in its current form. Phoenix OS Lives on — Phoenix OS 2.1 includes a number of bu...
Jul 22, 2017•30 min
With Chris away, Ryan joins Joe. A new release for Fedora, Yunit is now available for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu is now an app in the Windows Store, Ryan gives us more details about System76's new OS, Ikey starts his new job at Solus and Beaker is a new browser that promises a truly decentralized web. Special Guest: Ryan Sipes. Support Linux Action News Links: Fedora 26 is here! - Fedora Magazine — What’s new in Fedora 26? First, of course, we have thousands of improvements from the various upstream s...
Jul 15, 2017•31 min
New data gives us insight into recent bold moves by Linux hardware vendors Tuxedo and System76, Endless OS takes big steps to get closer to upstream, Mycroft's first major public appearances goes hilariously bad, and Mozilla's plans to tame IoT. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 — On the UI side, there are big updates to its desktop with the...
Jul 09, 2017•29 min
SUSE hits the Windows Store and we finally get some important classifications, System76 announces Pop!_OS and we do a deep analysis, and why Mir is back with a plan to support Wayland. Plus Debian warns of Hyper Threading issues; and of course a bit more. Support Linux Action News Links: OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise hit the Windows Store — Now OpenSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and OpenSUSE Leap 42 are available for installation from the Windows Store. System76 Announce Their Own Linux Di...
Jul 02, 2017•25 min
More hardware acceleration comes to desktop Linux, Mozilla launches ambitious new projects, Unity 7 fans can rejoice & Jolla has an important update. Plus we discuss the 2017 Linux Laptop Survey, the really fancy new trick Opus has pulled off in the latest release & more! Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu Desktop Weekly Update: June 23, 2017 — We’ve got hardware accelerated video decodin...
Jun 25, 2017•25 min
More competition in desktop Linux, Debian 9, Tails 3, Firefox 54, FreeNAS 11 & OpenMediaVault 3 all get released. We discuss the important bits of it all, follow up on questions last week & take an open source unicorn for a spin. Support Linux Action News Links: Ikey going full time with Solus — In 4 weeks from today I will be moving to Solus as a full time developer. Debian 9 Stretch Released — After 26 months of development the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version ...
Jun 18, 2017•31 min
A look at the future of the Ubuntu desktop and one of its flavors, plus Docker aims to improve Linux security upstream with LinuxKit. And an LXQt confession. Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu 17.10 Begins Transition To GNOME Shell Desktop By Default — Those downloading the very latest Ubuntu desktop ISO of 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" for testing will find that it now boots to the GNOME Shell desktop and also provides an option for running GNOME on Wayland. Ubuntu Switching to GDM — We’ve made ...
Jun 11, 2017•27 min
Two Linux desktop classics make big strides, Coreboot joins the Conservancy, and Toyota cars will soon run Linux. Plus newly announced Ambient OS will be open source, just like Android, and its creator Andy Rubin says they plan to take on the Amazon Echo and Google Pixel. This is is an episode about playing to your strengths, and taking over markets. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Plasma 5.10 Releas...
Jun 04, 2017•35 min
NextCloud goes global, Devuan hits one, Solus keeps expanding, Firefox is trying, but Chrome has won. And more progress on Coreboot. Support Linux Action News Links: Nextcloud announces Global Scale architecture as part of Nextcloud 12 — Achieve several orders of magnitude greater scaling. It is hard to scale the standard architecture to instances over hundred thousand users. Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0 — There have been no significant bug reports since Devuan Jessie RC2 was announced only thre...
May 28, 2017•42 min
Ubuntu's Gnome plans start to form, and they want your input. The Linux subsystem is coming to Windows Server, and Mycroft is finally ready to ship. Plus the Tizen surprise, elementary OS' pay-what-you-want AppCenter, and what's new Android O. Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu Desktop Team Discuss Their Plans for GNOME in Ubuntu 17.10 — “may consider a few tweaks here and there to ease our users into the new experience The Ubuntu Desktop Team Wants YOUR Feedback — The results of this surve...
May 21, 2017•37 min
Canonical IPO is a go, Microsoft brings more Linux to Windows, OpenWRT, LEDE agree on Linux-for-routers peace plan & Google launches project Treble. Welcome to Linux Action News's debut episode. It’s our goal to build the show you go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening. We kick things off with a busy news week. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Canonical starts IP...
May 14, 2017•33 min
It's not even the first proper episode but Chris and Joe talk about kernel security, UEFI Secure Boot, the latest Raspberry Pi news, Nexus devices being abandoned and MP3 becoming (sort of) free. GrSecurity Kernel Patches Will No Longer Be Free To The Public - Phoronix Secure Boot booted from Debian 9 'Stretch' Devuan GNU/Linux 1.0 "Jessie" to Support Raspberry Pi 3, Acer Chromebook Devices Get a free AIY Projects Voice Kit with The MagPi 57! - The MagPi MagazineThe MagPi Magazine What is this b...
May 05, 2017•30 min
