Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features

Linux & Open Source News

Jul 29, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 30

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00:00 Intro

01:12 Google wants to add DRM to the web

https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why

https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/

07:20 GNOME has a new way of managing windows

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/

14:33 GNOME weekly news

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/07/twig-105/

17:23 Plasma 6 removes a few features

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6

23:17 Fedora improves firmware handling on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Server-Alert-FW-Updates

https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-DNF5-Fedora-39

26:59 Zorin OS 16.3 is out

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/07/27/zorin-os-16.3-is-released/

30:49 Canonical drops LXD maintainers

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-Maintainership-Canonical

32:56 FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Merge-Request-Mesa

35:20 Linux drivers speed boost & battery life improvements

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPU-Perf-Boost

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-anv-mod-boost

36:58 Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update

https://linuxgameconsortium.com/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/heroic-games-launcher-29-out-now-with-amazon-games-support/

40:04 Outro

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