Nouveau maintainer resigns, Fedora might drop X11 entirely, LTS now 2 years only

Linux & Open Source News

Sep 24, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 38

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00:00 Intro

00:53 Nouveau maintainer resigns

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Patches-Run-On-GSP-Blob

05:31 LTS kernels will be supported for 2 years instead of 6

https://linuxiac.com/linux-lts-kernels-moves-to-two-year-support-period/

09:51 Sponsor: Thunderbird

https://mzla.link/tb-flatpak

11:24 GNOME 45 was released & GNOME updates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQSA0nZaF6M

https://blogs.gnome.org/jangernert/2023/09/22/newsflash-3-0/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-114/

20:20 Ubuntu 23.10 beta

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/09/ubuntu-23-10-beta

24:09 Fedora 40 might drop X11 for GNOME as well

https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-39-beta-released-with-gnome-45-linux-kernel-6-5

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Eyes-No-X11-Session

28:20 Why we need Wayland, and where it is now

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/17/so-lets-talk-about-this-wayland-thing/

34:30 WSL got a big update

https://www.phoronix.com/news/WSL-Big-September-Update

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/

36:52 New hard to detect Linux backdoor

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/never-before-seen-linux-backdoor-is-a-windows-malware-knockoff/

38:27 Gaming News: Wine on Wayland, Valve contributes a lot

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-deck-and-steamos-are-great-for-linux-as-a-whole/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-WM

41:39 Outro

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