Fedora 41 drops X11, Copilot lawsuit dismissed, GNOME 47 looks great

Linux & Open Source News

Jul 13, 2024•42 min•Season 2Ep. 27

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00:00 Intro

01:27 Fedora 41 install will be Wayland only

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-WS-Wayland-Only-ISOs

04:16 GNOME 47 might replace their font with Inter

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-may-switch-to-inter-font/

06:59 GNOME 47 will have some HDR support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Color-State-Transform

09:01 Arch Linux running on Google Drive

https://www.techspot.com/news/103652-developer-somehow-got-entire-os-running-google-drive.html

10:44 Mint 22 Beta has some issues

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4728

13:27 Ubuntu App Center gains local deb support

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/app-center-update-adds-deb-install-support

16:10 NVK might run on other kernel and kernel drivers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Platform-Abstraction

18:50 GNOME Extensions website is getting a redesign

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/07/gnome-extensions-website-redesign-2024

21:15 Firefox is getting some cool new features

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-129-enters-beta-testing-with-improved-reader-view-other-changes

23:58 New code editor for Linux: Zed

https://zed.dev/blog/zed-on-linux

26:15 Judge dismisses half of a lawsuit against Github Copilot

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/10/0319259/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2515112/judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-github-copilot-ai-coding-assistant.html

29:45 Apple drags their feet on 3rd party stores

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/report-apple-approves-epic-games-store-on-ios-in-europe/?comments=1&comments-page=1

33:14 Youtube pushes harder against ads

https://www.techradar.com/pro/youtubes-server-side-ad-insertion-complicates-ad-blocking-efforts

37:12 Gaming: Steam recording, Bottles and DXVK

https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-12-enhances-linux-gaming-with-d3d8-support/

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.4

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/steam-beta-adds-many-more-game-recording-improvements/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/

41:42 Outro

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