Torvalds on Linux's future, Linux gaming beats windows, Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

Linux & Open Source News

Dec 16, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 50

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00:00 Intro

00:59 Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-state-of-linux-today-and-how-ai-figures-in-its-future/

06:07 AMD fixes power efficiency on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-PM-Regulatory-Bugs

08:46 Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

https://ubuntu.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd64-architecture

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-x86-64-v3-Experiment

12:52 X.org and Xwayland have 15 year old bugs again

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XOrg-Security-Two-CVEs-End-2023

15:25 RHEL clarifies what they’ll remove when leaving X.org behind

https://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/12/xorg-being-removed-what-does-this-mean.html

17:41 LXQt working on Wayland as well

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lubuntu-24.04-LTS-Plans

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

20:42 Cosmic gets more improvements

https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december-updates

23:40 Nextcloud Hub 7 is a huge update

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub-7-advanced-search-and-global-out-of-office-features/

29:04 OpenSUSE has their new logos

https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-New-Logo

https://en.opensuse.org/Logocontest#Results

31:21 Smart TVs are spyware

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching

34:13 Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/valve-upgrades-the-steam-workshop-plus-various-steam-deck-improvements-in-new-beta/

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html

41:05 Outro

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