Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Canonical: Flutter Is The Default Choice For Future Ubuntu Apps — Along with the new installer, Ken Vandine, Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop...
Mar 08, 2021•30 min
Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel. Plus why we've recently switched back to Firefox, and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Red Hat Announces Free “RHEL For Open-Source Infra...
Feb 28, 2021•26 min
We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible. Plus a major new feature coming to a Linux distro near you. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. The Coder : Look and feel comfortable, while kicking ass. Life is better in a robe. Support Linux A...
Feb 21, 2021•20 min
Microsoft and Ubuntu's relationship is under a new spotlight this week. Plus our rundown of the feature-packed 5.11 release, a Fuchsia surprise, exciting hardware news, and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Cano...
Feb 15, 2021•27 min
The story behind a Microsoft repo shipping in Raspberry Pi OS, Canonical updates a special version of Ubuntu, and a couple of milestones the Linux world hit this week. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Raspberry Pi Users Mortified As Microsoft Repository That Phones Home Is Added To Pi OS — The lates...
Feb 07, 2021•23 min
Google removes Matrix chat-client Element from the Play store, sudo has a major flaw with a long-tail, and Rocky Linux gets a boost. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links: Element suspended on Google Play Store — At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notification Element sees fivefold increase in signups after Whatsapp privacy debacl...
Jan 31, 2021•21 min
Why we don't think Red Hat's expanded developer program is enough, our reaction to Ubuntu sticking with an older Gnome release, and a tiny delightful surprise. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Support Linux Action News Links: New Year, new Red Hat Enterprise Linux progr...
Jan 24, 2021•34 min
Impressive updates for some beloved open source projects, and AlmaLinux—a leading CentOS alternative—is born. Plus Google's surprise for Chromium users, and we go hands-on with Podman's docker-compose support. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Support Linux Action News L...
Jan 17, 2021•31 min
We explain the recent Qt upset, and then go hands-on with the new PeerTube release. Plus Wendell from Level1Techs joins us to discuss his thoughts on porting Linux to the Apple M1. Special Guest: Wendell Wilson. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Support Linux Action News...
Jan 11, 2021•27 min
A lot of open source development was packed into 2020, we recap some of the standout moments you should know about. Sponsored By: Datadog : Datadog - the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links: Linux Action News 166 The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% Of The Linux...
Jan 04, 2021•23 min
Our annual predictions episode kicks off with a review of what we got right and wrong for 2020, and then we speculate wildly about what could happen in 2021. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: 2018 Review / 2019 Predictions: Linux Action News 86 2019 Review / 2020 Predictions: Linux Action News 139...
Dec 27, 2020•27 min
Another Google project meets an untimely demise, but we find the silver lining. Plus new Matrix goodies, why AWS is investing in Blender, and more. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Google kills Android Things, its IoT OS, in January — Google announced it had basically given up on the project as a ge...
Dec 21, 2020•31 min
We explain the major changes to CentOS this week and break down the top four criticisms. Plus Google makes their Fuchsia intentions a bit more clear, and why Linux 5.10 is a BIG deal. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Before You Get Mad About The CentOS Stream Change, Think About… — But, before you g...
Dec 14, 2020•31 min
Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy. Plus Michael Larabel from Phoronix joins us to discuss the state of Linux hardware support in 2020. Special Guest: Michael Larabel. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Budgie 10.5.2 Desk...
Dec 06, 2020•30 min
What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux. Plus our reaction to Microsoft's Android subsystem that's in the works. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet — Amazon not...
Nov 29, 2020•30 min
The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home. Support Linux Action News Links: Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown. Remove cipher algorithm and mentions of copyrighted material GitHub reinstates youtube-dl l...
Nov 22, 2020•30 min
The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd. Plus the Linux tech Greg KH is most excited about, and more. Support Linux Action News Links: Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root — A handful of commands was all it took for untrusted users to become all-powerful. Now-patched Ubuntu desktop vulnerability allows privilege escalation How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home Meet Proxmox Back...
Nov 15, 2020•27 min
We review the Raspberry Pi 400. Then discover new features coming to Linux powered Dells. Plus an important Let's Encrypt update, and the next billion-dollar tech coming to Linux. Support Linux Action News Links: Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC — The Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit is the “Christmas morning” product, with the best possible out-of-box experience: a complete PC which plugs into your TV or monitor. Raspberry Pi 400 - First Impressions Raspberry Pi 400 review—the under-$...
Nov 08, 2020•26 min
A RISC-V development PC is in the works, we have the details and try to set expectations. Plus what's new in Fedora 33, and an important youtube-dl update. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Support Linux Action News Links: Fedora 33 is officially here! - Fedora Magazine — Fedora Workstation now uses BTRFS as the default filesystem. Fedora 33 Review: What’s New and How to Upgrade | FOSS Linux AWS Marketplace: Fedo...
Nov 02, 2020•25 min
Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown. Plus Edge is out for Linux, and PayPal gets bitcoin fever. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! System76 : System76 is better than ever, check out all the great stuff they're doing today and tell them Linux Action News sent you. Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-da...
Oct 26, 2020•38 min
The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6. Plus, our thoughts on Apple's seeming abandoning of CUPS, the latest and greatest open source podcast player, and an important show update. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! System76 : System76 is better than ever, check out all the great stuff th...
Oct 19, 2020•39 min
NextCloud makes some significant changes, and we share our reaction; IBM is planning to split into two, but we have some questions, and Firefox may soon display sponsored "top sites." Plus Nvidia's Jetson Nano release and the freaky future of low-level AI, and our thoughts on Coinbase's recent news. Sponsored By: System76 : System76 is better than ever, check out all the great stuff they're doing today and tell them Linux Action News sent you. Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and rec...
Oct 12, 2020•32 min
Quite a bit from Google this week, with new products and notable changes coming for developers and users. Plus our take on DuckDuckGo's new fight. Support Linux Action News Links: Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest — Rewarding pointless patches with free swag leads to 'DDoS' against projects One solution — @derekapp will close them for you automatically and mark them as invalid. Require PRs be in a repo with hacktoberfest topic and ...
Oct 05, 2020•28 min
Lenovo expands its Linux lineup in a big way, with 30 Ubuntu systems. And why Microsoft Edge on Linux might be more significant than you think. Plus, the latest Mozilla project being spun-out, and how Timescale might have a solution for a self-sustaining open-source business in the cloud era. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Lenovo expand enterprise desktop range preinstalled with Ubuntu — Ubuntu 20.0...
Sep 28, 2020•31 min
We try out the new GNOME "Orbis" release and chat about Microsoft's new Linux kernel patches that make it clear Windows 10 is on the path to a hybrid Windows/Linux system. Plus, the major re-architecture work underway for Chrome OS with significant ramifications for Desktop Linux. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Introducing GNOME 3.38: “Orbis” — GNOME 3.38 is the latest version of GNOME 3, and is the...
Sep 21, 2020•34 min
Our hands-on review of Android 11, and our thoughts on the possible consequences of Nvidia buying Arm Holdings for $40bn. Plus why our long-term view for Mozilla took a turn for the worse this week, and two recent enterprise wins for Desktop Linux. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Google starts uploading the Android 11 source code to AOSP — Google has officially released the stable version of Android ...
Sep 14, 2020•28 min
The first Thinkpads loaded with Fedora go live, but there is a lot more to the story. Plus, the new PinePhone options coming soon, our thoughts on recent Mozilla news, lessons from the GNOME Patent Troll, and AWS Bottlerocket. Sponsored By: Ting : Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Lenovo begins rollout of Fedora Linux on their laptops, Ubuntu systems due soon — The first model appearing with Fedora as an option is the Thin...
Sep 07, 2020•28 min
WireGuard officially lands in Linux. We cover a bunch of new features in Linux 5.6 and discuss the recent challenges facing LineageOS. Plus the PinePhone UBports edition goes up for pre-order, and our reaction to Huawei joining the Open Invention Network. Support Linux Action News Links: Linux kernel 5.6 release announcement — This has a bit more changes than I'd like, but they are mostly from davem's networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with them. And I looked over the diff, and none o...
Apr 06, 2020•27 min
Mozilla puts your money where your mouse is and partners with Scroll to launch Firefox for a Better Web. We'll explain the details, and why it might just have a shot. Plus we try out Plasma Bigscreen, cover Telegram's really bad news, and much more. Support Linux Action News Links: Try our latest Test Pilot, Firefox for a Better Web, offering privacy and faster access to great content — Today we are launching a new Test Pilot initiative called Firefox Better Web with Scroll. Scroll partners with...
Mar 30, 2020•29 min
Why Debian is facing one of its most critical moments yet, Microsoft and GitHub buy npm, and our thoughts on Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 "Debbie." Plus, why "Works with Chromebook" might be great for Linux, and using your GPU to fight the Coronavirus. Support Linux Action News Links: npm is joining GitHub — I’m excited to announce that GitHub has signed an agreement to acquire npm. The npm Blog — Next Phase Montage Microsoft's GitHub absorbs NPM into its code-hosting empire GitHub for mobile is ...
Mar 22, 2020•31 min
