New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support

Linux & Open Source News

Aug 12, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 32

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00:00 Intro

00:52 Security flaws in CPUs mean less performance

https://www.techradar.com/pro/all-amd-zen-cpus-hit-by-a-major-security-flaw-heres-what-we-know

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/downfall-inception-amd-intel-security/

05:22 SUSE & Oracle create a foundation to provide RHEL compatible code

https://openela.org/news/hello_world/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-suse-and-ciq-go-after-red-hat-with-the-open-enterprise-linux-association/

https://linuxiac.com/rocky-oracle-and-suse-join-forces-against-red-hat-in-openela/

10:51 Red Hat hires to work on bootloaders

https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/100038/principal-software-engineer/job

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Hiring-Bootloader

13:40 Wayland on Plasma 6 looks pretty great

https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html

18:27 GNOME 45 might add native screencasting support

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-45-native-screencast-support/

21:32 Application updates for the week

https://www.omglinux.com/xournal-plus-plus-handwritten-notes-update/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/firefox-117-private-translation

25:47 NVK improves and AMD performance increase

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Preferred-Core-Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-NVK-Linux-6.6-DRM-Next

29:27 Rhino Linux is a rolling release Ubuntu with some nice tools

https://rhinolinux.org/news-6.html

32:50 The LXD project gets forked after Canonical shenanigans

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Containers-LXD-Incus

36:47 Gaming News: Refurbished Steam Decks, Overwatch 2 on Steam

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/now-official-you-can-buy-a-refurbished-steam-deck-from-valve/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-Hogwarts-Legacy

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/overwatch-2-out-on-steam-works-fine-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/

41:13 Outro

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