New firmware superpowers are coming to a future Linux kernel, why Google is working on encrypted hibernation support, and a sneak peek at SteamOS 3. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Google Working On Linux Encrypted Hibernation Support — Google engineers are working on "enabling hibernation in some ...
May 06, 2022•16 min
Pop_OS! 22.04 has a surprise you might not have noticed, we get the details on Ubuntu’s new Real-Time kernel, and the clever idea from the Framework laptop team. 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: Pop!_OS 22.04 by System76 — Pop!_OS is designed for fast navigation, easy workspace organization, and flu...
Apr 28, 2022•20 min
Our take on why Fedora's Legacy BIOS plans have stirred up such a strong debate, how NVIDIA's Linux strategy seems to be changing, and a surprising kernel patch from Sony. 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: NVIDIA Posts Open-Source DRM Kernel Driver For NVDLA — NVIDIA has posted 13k lines of new Direc...
Apr 21, 2022•18 min
SUSE has a skunkworks distro in development, the transition Debian is struggling with, and some long-awaited improvements to Raspberry Pi OS. 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: openSUSE Developing “Adaptable Linux Platform” For Next-Gen SUSE Linux Enterprise — Another important point is that we intend...
Apr 14, 2022•21 min
Docker surprises everyone, new Fedora tools in the works, and an old debate with a fresh take. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Docker rebounds with $105m Series C funding and $2.1b value — Troubled container company may escape confines of its doldrums LXD 5.0 LTS has been released — This is our 4th...
Apr 07, 2022•19 min
A new rolling remix of Ubuntu is grabbing attention, AMD has big Linux plans, and why Linux 5.18 looks like another barn burner release. 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: Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix — The new flavor is the brainchild of MrBeeBenson, building on work by Martin Wimpress, wh...
Mar 31, 2022•15 min
A significant follow-up to one of the biggest Linux stories, the Pandora's box the MIT Technology Review claims open-source devs just opened, and Linux on the M1 finally ships. 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: Documentation/process: Add Researcher Guidelines — This document seeks to clarify what the...
Mar 24, 2022•19 min
Steam comes to ChromeOS, our thoughts on Arch turning 20, and our first look at GNOME 42. 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: Arch Linux turned 20 years old Steam for Chrome OS teased at Google for Games Developer Summit — Steam for Chrome OS was announced as being available "right now" at the Google f...
Mar 17, 2022•19 min
Why Dirty Pipe is a dirty dog, the explosive adoption of Linux at AMD, and an important update on elementary OS. 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: Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years — Dirty Pipe has the potential to smudge people using Linux and Linux derivitives. ...
Mar 10, 2022•18 min
Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck. 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: Valve expect to make ‘hundreds of thousands’ of Steam Decks next month — The good news is though, production is quickly ramping up. Yang men...
Mar 03, 2022•23 min
The Linux secret behind the new TrueNAS release, Intel acquires a major Kernel contributor and our thoughts on Podman 4.0. Plus why the Simula One VR Linux computer could be worth a serious look. 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: TrueNAS Scale 22.02 Released and Resetting the NAS Paradigm — First off...
Feb 24, 2022•22 min
Canonical has a big week, why bcachefs looks like it's taking another step forward, and ChromeOS Flex for PCs is released. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Proton 7.0 out with Easy Anti-Cheat improvements — Proton 7.0 pulls in Wine 7.0 which it's based upon along with: upgrades to DXVK 1.9.4 for Dir...
Feb 17, 2022•16 min
A last-minute kernel patch for the Steam Deck, why Intel is supporting RISC-V development, and we go hands-on with Plasma 5.24. 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: $66 billion deal for Nvidia to purchase Arm collapses — SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Mo...
Feb 10, 2022•19 min
System76 reveals a new tool to make Pop's desktop faster than the rest, and we break down that recent Btrfs defrag infinite loop bug. Plus, a batch of essential project updates. 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: system76-scheduler — Auto-configure CFS and process priorities for improved desktop respo...
Feb 03, 2022•22 min
The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm — The deal has faced close scrutiny from regulators around the ...
Jan 27, 2022•16 min
We explain SUSE Liberty Linux and contemplate why the community seems to be selecting distributions with newer kernels. 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: LVFS Activity Going Wild Ahead Of New Security Disclosure Requiring Firmware Update — Last summer LVFS shot up with activity and when that huge upt...
Jan 20, 2022•24 min
Fedora and Red Hat users are getting a web-based installer, and a new legal situation for Bitcoin smells like retro SCO FUD. 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 / Fedora Anaconda Installer Shifting To A Web Based UI — Anaconda has long been GTK-based but as part of modernizing it they are now l...
Jan 13, 2022•21 min
GnuPG has some great news, Libadwaita 1.0 has arrived and we share our thoughts, plus a big batch of updates from the Matrix project. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Koch: A New Future for GnuPG — Longtime GnuPG maintainer Werner Koch has posted an update on the project, mostly focused on the new a...
Jan 06, 2022•18 min
We kick off our annual predictions episode with what we got right and wrong this year and then attempt to predict what will happen in 2022. 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: Previous Predictions: Linux Action News 169 Year in Review: How we’re curating the web with you and our top Pocket features Moz...
Dec 27, 2021•34 min
The nasty Log4Shell vulnerability isn't solved yet, this week saw a new round of attacks and patches. Plus how the work to port Linux to the Apple M1 resulted in fixing a bug that impacted all Linux distros. Sponsored By: Jupiter Network Membership : Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. Promo Code: thesignal Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting : Save $25 of...
Dec 20, 2021•20 min
The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works. Plus, some good news for the Desktop and systemd-homed gets one step closer. 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. Jupiter Network Membership : Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on ...
Dec 13, 2021•17 min
Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize. Special Guest: Carl George. 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: Blender 3.0 Released — Blender Foundation announces the release of Blender 3.0, to mark the beginning of a new era f...
Dec 06, 2021•22 min
Fedora's massive endorsement this week that went unnoticed, why RISC-V mobile devices might be getting near, and the significant change coming to a critical open-source tool. 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: The world’s first RISC-V phone might be just around the corner — The Sipeed Maix Amigo kit f...
Nov 29, 2021•19 min
Just how severe is this DNS cache poisoning attack revealed this week? We'll break it down and explain why Linux is affected. Plus, the feature now removed from APT, more performance patches in the Kernel, and a big batch of project updates. 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: Linux has a serious secur...
Nov 22, 2021•17 min
A desktop from Linux past has a surprising update this week, AlmaLinux pulls ahead of the pack, and Canonical ships software for the Apple M1. Plus, the new tech in SteamOS 3 that might make it a great desktop OS. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Raspberry Pi OS hits the bullseye — Raspberry Pi anno...
Nov 15, 2021•23 min
Significant changes at GitHub, Ubuntu starts work on a new desktop tool, why WirePlumber is a big deal, and we bust some Red Hat FUD. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Nat Friedman quits as CEO of GitHub — GitHub CEO Nat Friedman announced today he's leaving the organization on November 15 and will b...
Nov 08, 2021•17 min
New Raspberry Pi hardware has a few surprises, the most impressive things in Linux 5.15, and our reaction to classic functionality under consideration for removal from Fedora. 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: New product: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 — Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses the same...
Nov 01, 2021•24 min
Major performance milestones are being hit with new code inbound for Linux, Plasma and GNOME desktops are set to run Wayland on NVIDIA's binary driver, and why the SFC's new GPL fight could have implications for 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. Support Linux Action News Links: Newest Linux Optimizations Can Achieve 10M IOPS Pe...
Oct 27, 2021•14 min
We cover what's special about Plasma's 25th-anniversary edition, chat with CloudLinux's CEO, and detail why Apple supporting Blender is good for all of us. Plus, why we're worried Ubuntu is losing its charm for developers. 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: Plasma - 25th Anniversary Edition — Plasma -...
Oct 18, 2021•19 min
Apple M1 Linux development reaches a key milestone and boots a usable desktop; Ubuntu reveals a new product, and the secret SUSE project that leaked this week. Plus, the essential RISC-V code landing in the Linux kernel. 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: Asahi Linux On The Apple M1: “Usable As A Basi...
Oct 11, 2021•21 min
