New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta

Linux & Open Source News

Aug 20, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 33

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00:00 Intro

00:49 StarLabs launches their Microsoft Surface equivalent

https://linuxiac.com/starlite-5-linux-tablet/

07:09 SUSE is going private

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/suse_delisting/

12:28 GNOME 45 is getting a cool feature, plus the beta is out

https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-adds-keyboard-backlight-control/

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/gnome_45_beta/

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-beta-released-heres-whats-new

17:38 The KDE team fixes how they handle icon themes

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/

21:26 Plasma 6 wallpaper competition

https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-wallpaper-competition/

https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773

23:58 Does Linux have a Firefox problem?

https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/

30:55 Application updates: WPS and Firefox

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/wps-office-for-linux-updated-2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/mozilla-firefox-for-android-to-support-extensions

34:39 Discord.io suffers a big data breach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discordio-confirms-breach-after-hacker-steals-data-of-760k-users/

37:27 Gaming News: Nvidia problems, ray tracing and mitigations

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/

https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.14

https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-kernel-gets-an-amd-zenbleed-fix-for-the-steam-deck-apu/

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks

43:53 Outro

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