259: Ubuntu 24.04 Beta, Gentoo becomes SPI-ware, Solution to NVidia & Wayland & more Linux news

https://youtu.be/w-F1Exi4o0U Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/259-ubuntu-24-04-beta-gentoo-becomes-spi-ware-solution-to-nvidia-amp-wayland-amp-more-linux-news/6208) This week's news is exciting with cool new stuff and pretty bonkers because we narrowly avoided a security nightmare! A backdoor was discovered hidden in a common Linux utility, and it could have infected millions of devices. We'll break down how this almost happened, and what it means for you. Then, we'll switch gears and talk about some exciting upcoming features in Linux Mint 22. Fedora Linux might be getting a whole new look – we'll discuss a proposal to switch the default desktop environment. Flathub is making some changes to make it easier to indentify whether or not a Flatpak is official. Plus there is a new campaign for video game preservation that targets companies effectively breaking their games after an arbitary amount of time. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 (https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/2389be04-5c79-485e-b1ca-3a5b2cebb006/8cf32e35-b4fa-4525-b86f-e53dec277c4d.mp3) Sponsored by: LINBIT - thisweekinlinux.com/linbit (https://thisweekinlinux.com/linbit) Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membership (https://tuxdigital.com/membership) Store = https://tuxdigital.com/store (https://tuxdigital.com/store) Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released 05:40 Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware 09:18 Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues 11:56 Sponsored by LINBIT 13:21 Riot Games and their lame anti-cheat 17:25 Lutris 0.5.17 Released 19:12 Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Released 21:25 FFmpeg 7.0 Released 23:27 Outro Links: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-beta-testing/44040 (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-beta-testing/44040) https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-is-now-available... (https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-is-now-available-for-download-with-gnome-46-linux-6-8) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Test (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Test) Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-... (https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-project.html) https://www.spi-inc.org/ (https://www.spi-inc.org/) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-SPI-Project (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-SPI-Project) https://lwn.net/Articles/969373/ (https://lwn.net/Articles/969373/) Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync... (https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync.html) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/kdes-xaver-hugl-on-why... (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/kdes-xaver-hugl-on-why-wayland-explicit-sync-is-such-a-big-deal/) https://9to5linux.com/developer-explains-why-explicit-sync... (https://9to5linux.com/developer-explains-why-explicit-sync-will-finally-solve-the-nvidia-wayland-issues) https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Lands-Explicit-Sync (https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Lands-Explicit-Sync) https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Release-Plan (https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1-Release-Plan) Riot Games and their lame anti-cheat https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard... (https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-vanguard-x-lol/) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard... (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/riot-games-talk-vanguard-anti-cheat-for-league-of-legends-and-why-its-a-no-for-linux/) https://lutris.net/games/league-of-legends/ (https://lutris.net/games/league-of-legends/) Lutris 0.5.17 Released https://lutris.net/ (https://lutris.net/) https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.17 (https://github.com/lutris/lutris/releases/tag/v0.5.17) https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.17-Released (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.17-Released) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/lutris-v0517-brings-... (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/lutris-v0517-brings-critical-bug-fixes-new-way-to-run-games-with-proton/) Kodi 21.0 "Omega" Released https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-omega-release/ (https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-21-0-omega-release/) https://9to5linux.com/kodi-21-0-omega-open-source-media-center... (https://9to5linux.com/kodi-21-0-omega-open-source-media-center-is-here-with-major-changes) FFmpeg 7.0 Released https://ffmpeg.org/ (https://ffmpeg.org/) https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0 (https://ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr7.0) https://lwn.net/Articles/968565/ (https://lwn.net/Articles/968565/) https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released) https://9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-7-0-dijkstra-released-with-... (https://9to5linux.com/ffmpeg-7-0-dijkstra-released-with-important-aarch64-optimizations-for-hevc)