Old school Ubuntu has a new cool, Google calls out Google, and some IoT news you can use. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. 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: New versions of Ubuntu Touch, Mir, and Unity arrive — Various parts of Ubuntu's canceled desktop/fondleslab convergence project ar...
Dec 01, 2022•17 min
The contested subsystem coming soon, a sobering assessment of wireless support in Linux, and a triumph for free software. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. 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: New subsystem for compute accelerator devices — This is the fourth (and hopefully last) version of...
Nov 24, 2022•16 min
We tried Fedora 37 on the Pi 4, the Google surprise this week, and our thoughts on the WSL 1.0 release. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Announcing Fedora Linux 37 — Fedora Editions are flagship offerings targeted at a particular “market”. With Fedora L...
Nov 17, 2022•16 min
Microsoft's new goodies for Linux users, the Ubuntu Summit wraps up, and our takeaways from the recent fireside chat with Linus Torvalds. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: The Ubuntu Summit Just Wrapped Up — Vulture Towers Central Europe are in Prague – ...
Nov 10, 2022•19 min
What you need to know about that new OpenSSL vulnerability, the big bcachefs update we've been waiting for, and why the community is creating a Gitea fork. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: OpenSSL 3.0.7 Released Fixing Critical Flaw — Today we published...
Nov 03, 2022•17 min
The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea's surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop another architecture. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. 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: Ubuntu 22.10 Released — Codenamed “Kinetic Kudu”, this interim release improves the experience of ent...
Oct 27, 2022•12 min
What makes Google's new OS so secure, a critical WiFi vulnerability in the Kernel, and why Linus is tapping the hype breaks for Linux 6.1. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Announcing KataOS and Sparrow — Our team in Google Research has set out to solve ...
Oct 20, 2022•17 min
Plasma 5.26's standout features, Canonical flips the script on Red Hat, and why Android is leaking traffic outside VPNs. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Plasma 5.26 Released — Plasma 5.26 comes with new and tweaked widgets, improves the desktop experie...
Oct 13, 2022•21 min
Our thoughts on IBM slicing up more of Red Hat, what stands out in Nextcloud Hub 3, and a few essential fixes finally 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. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: IBM Takes Over Red Hat Storage to IBM Offerings — IBM announced today it ...
Oct 06, 2022•19 min
The controversial change for the GNU Toolchain, critical vulnerabilities in popular Matrix clients, and the significant milestone for the Ingenuity LinuxCopter this week. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Announcing the GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Proje...
Sep 29, 2022•21 min
GNOME 43 highlights, Canonical's new hardware partner, and why we're disappointed in the Framework Chromebook. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: GNOME 43 Release Notes — After 6 months of hard work, the GNOME project is proud to present version 43. This ...
Sep 22, 2022•21 min
The Linux Foundation takes a victory lap, Google kills another community-loved project, and key moments from the Linux Plumbers Conference. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Shikitega - AT&T Alien Labs — New stealthy malware targeting Linux LINUX Unp...
Sep 15, 2022•24 min
Linux goes underwater, Microsoft kills the Teams' Linux app, and the nasty GRUB bug some of us could not avoid. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. 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: Mircosoft Teams desktop client on Linux is being retired — We are updating this message to indicate we will ...
Sep 08, 2022•20 min
Debian’s firmware future is up for debate, Pine64 teases a RISC-V SBC, and some of your favorite tools just got new tricks. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: New fwupd 1.8.4 starts work on BIOS control — fwupd now reads your system BIOS settings, and has...
Sep 01, 2022•17 min
Details on two new efforts in the Linux kernel, the Pi-like RISC-V board that just hit its funding goal, and a significant milestone for Asahi GPU driver development. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Experimental Kernel Patches — Patches sent out today ...
Aug 25, 2022•20 min
A Linux jailbreak that's a win for Right to Repair, our favorite things in Android 13, and the major features that just missed the Linux 6.0 window. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Android 13 is in AOSP — Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to th...
Aug 19, 2022•20 min
GitHub steps in it this week, Microsoft's Linux distribution now runs on bare metal, FFmpeg gets IPFS support, and the odd thing going on with the kernel. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Microsoft Continues Improving Its Internal Linux Distro With Anot...
Aug 11, 2022•22 min
The real story behind the "Massive GitHub Malware attack," significant updates for the Steam Deck, and the inside scoop on Lenovo's big Linux ambitions. Sponsored By: Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. 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: Massive GitHub Malware Attack? — It was revealed by Stephen Lacy in...
Aug 04, 2022•20 min
Red Hat hints at its future direction, why realtime might finally come to Linux after all these years, and our reaction to Google's ambitious new programing language. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Red Hat’s next steps, according to its new CEO — "We ...
Jul 29, 2022•19 min
Microsoft makes a hard about-face, a significant fix for Ubuntu 22.04 is in the works, and the recent breakthrough by the Asahi Linux project. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Microsoft changes its mind about open source monetization — Microsoft was try...
Jul 21, 2022•15 min
Why Google says we should all go rolling, Red Hat's got a new boss, Microsoft gets called out, and why it might be the year of Linux hardware. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops — Today, the life of a ...
Jul 14, 2022•22 min
The new movement to leave GitHub, an Ubuntu bug biting 22.04 users, the hardware platform Fedora might start taking seriously, and a major desktop dev departs Red Hat. Sponsored By: Linode : Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Kolide : Kolide can help you nail third-party audits and internal compliance goals with endpoint security for your entire fleet. Support Linux Action News Links: Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! — Today, we take ...
Jul 07, 2022•21 min
Fedora gets serious about its server editions, our thoughts on Valve's increased Steam Deck production, and the surprising results of booting Linux on the Apple M2 SoC. 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 37 Gets A Batch Of New Features Approved — Fedora 37 is working its way toward release before the end of October. The Performance Cost To A Proposed Fedora 37 CFLAGS/CXXFLAG...
Jun 30, 2022•15 min
Some highlights from Linus' recent fireside chat, Qt gets a new leader and a Linux botnet we should probably take seriously. 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: Akamai Warns Of “Panchan” Linux Botnet — The botnet introduces a unique (and possibly novel) approach to lateral movement by harvesting of SSH keys. Instead of just using brute force or dictionary attacks on randomized IP ad...
Jun 23, 2022•19 min
We get the details behind Thunderbird acquiring K-9 Mail, share the best new features of Plasma 5.25, check-in on Ubuntu's RISC-V development status, and discuss Photoshop coming to Linux via the web. 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. Support Linux Action News...
Jun 16, 2022•17 min
SUSE Enterprise is already switching to the new NVIDIA open kernel driver, a Matrix-powered Walkie-Talkie, and the details on Apple's Rosetta for Linux. 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. Support Linux Action News Links: SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 Released - ...
Jun 09, 2022•15 min
Our thoughts on NixOS' new GUI installer, winning hearts and minds one firmware update at a time, the performance bug that hit Linux 5.18, and preparation begins for the open-source NVIDIA driver. 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. Support Linux Action News Lin...
Jun 02, 2022•17 min
The controversial Intel code now shipping in Linux, why F-Droid is getting more attractive for developers, and the rumor that could change the industry. 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 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features — Linux 5.18 brings the controversial Intel Softwa...
May 26, 2022•16 min
Why Google's new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem. 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 from Google Cloud: Assured Open Source Software service — Assured OSS enables enter...
May 19, 2022•21 min
NVIDIA has announced its plans for an open-source GPU driver. Christian Schaller, the Director for Desktop, Graphics, Infotainment and more at Red Hat, gives us the inside scoop on this historic announcement. Special Guest: Christian F.K. Schaller. 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: Why is the open so...
May 11, 2022•21 min
