On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have a lot of Distro News from Mageia, antiX, Calculate Linux, and NixOS. Zabbix monitoring tool issued a new Long Term Support release. We’ll talk about the upcoming release of KDE Plasma 5.14 and the preview release for Krita 4.2. We’ll check out a cool application… Read more
Oct 09, 2018•28 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we take a look at some distro news the betas for the various flavours of Ubuntu 18.10, KDE Neon’s 18.04 Upgrade and MakuluLinux. We’re going to have a follow up for the Code of Conduct controversy such as the news around the potential “kill switch”. Then we’ll… Read more
Oct 01, 2018•38 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we discuss the new Code of Conduct in the Linux kernel. Purism announces a new product offering with the Librem Key. We’ll also check out some distro releases from Solus, Quirky, and Escuelas Linux. Then we’ll cover some of the latest beta releases from elementary OS and… Read more
Sep 24, 2018•36 min
We talk about so pretty big news regardiong Linus’ Temporary Leave from Maintainership of the Linux Kernel. Then we’ll take a look at the new releases for Nextcloud, WINE, Git, Timeshift, Parrot Linux and Elive Linux. Intel has announced some new Open Source Firmware, KDE relased some info for the next version of the Plasma… Read more
Sep 17, 2018•51 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, GNOME 3.30 & Firefox 62 were released. Tracktion 7, the digital audio workstation software is not available for free as in gratis. KDE has released videos from Akademy 2018. We got some new distro releases from Tails, SystemRescueCD, KaOS & Nitrux. There is some hardware news this… Read more
Sep 10, 2018•29 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, the show is back after a brief hiatus and this episode is jam packed with awesome gnews. Valve announced a game changer with the new Steam Play with Proton. UBports has released a big update for Ubuntu Touch. Flatpak has reached version 1.0 with lots of cool… Read more
Sep 03, 2018•40 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux: Linus Torvalds gave his opinion on Wireguard, Lubuntu Takes a New Direction, LineageOS launches their annual Summer Survey, and Hiri’s Experience with Selling on Linux. Then we’ll check out some distro news from Slackware, OpenWRT, Ubuntu LTS, and RebeccaBlackOS. Later in the show, we’ll look at the… Read more
Aug 06, 2018•42 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Slackware, Humble Bundle is running a “Linux Geek Bundle”, Microsoft makes PowerShell Available as a Snap, and we get a sneak peak at System76 Manufacturing Facility. We got a lot of App News this week with a new release of Latte… Read more
Jul 23, 2018•35 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we celebrate an awesome milestone for both Red Hat and the WINE Project, both reaching their 25th Anniversary. Ubuntu shares a some news about a new Minimal ISO for Containers and the Cloud. We take a look at some cool developments from the Nouveau project and Firefox.… Read more
Jul 16, 2018•30 min
Linux Mint 19 “Tara” was Released. Elementary releases a Developer Preview for their new version called “Juno”. Kdenlive issues a request to the community for beta testing of the next generation of Kdenlive. We do a follow up on the EU’s Copyright Reform Directive, this time it’s good news, at least for now. We discuss… Read more
Jul 09, 2018•34 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we take a look at some Distro News with Peppermint 9, Devuan 2.0, GeckoLinux which is based on openSUSE Leap 15 and then we take a closer look at Linux Mint 19 which should release soon. New version of KDE Plasma with 5.13 and PulseAudio 12.0 have… Read more
Jun 25, 2018•1 hr
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we got some big distro releases from openSUSE, Linux Lite, CRUX and Knoppix as well as some beta releases for Linux Mint and Bodhi Linux. The new Atari VCS is now available for Pre-Order on Indiegogo. LXQt released the 0.13.0 version the desktop environment. The EU’s General… Read more
Jun 05, 2018•48 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, check out some big distro release news from Fedora, CentOS, CoreOS, KaOS and more. There’s new versions of Firefox, Kdenlive, GNOME and Cinnamon available. Lubuntu announces their switch to LXQt by default. If you’re interested in learning Python, Humble Bundle has a great Python Development bundle available.… Read more
May 14, 2018•46 min
On this jam packed episode of This Week in Linux, we’ll check out the BIG 18.04 releases from Ubuntu and the Ubuntu Flavors like Kubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, and more. Then we’ll take a look at some application news for GIMP, FFmpeg, MenuLibre, neofetch and more. Later in the show, we got some more distro news… Read more
Apr 30, 2018•38 min
Facebook is still under fire for privacy violations but Mozilla is trying to help users mitigate these issues with their new Facebook Container Extension for Firefox. There was some very exciting news from the GIMP team regarding the long awaited next release of the software. We got some updates for a couple photo related applications… Read more
Apr 01, 2018•34 min
Krita 4.0 was released bringing a lot of great performance improvements and features. LG open sourced the Linux-based webOS. We’ll talk about a new Wayland compositor, called Wayfire and BitKey, a cool crypto-currency distro based on Debian. In App News, we saw some new releases from Darktable and Inkscape. Then we’ll check out some distro… Read more
Mar 26, 2018•35 min
We’ll check out the release notes for GNOME 3.28, Firefox 59, HexChat, MX Linux, Netrunner, LibreELEC, Sparky Linux and more. There’s a new Raspberry Pi that was released this week and we’ll dive into that. Private Internet Access made a major announcement about going Open Source. All that and much more! Segment Index 00:44 =… Read more
Mar 18, 2018•35 min
We’ve got some new releases from Bleachbit, KDE Falkon, Albert (the keyboard launcher), Caprine (desktop app for Facebook messenger), and more. We’ll follow up with projects we’ve covered in previous episodes like Museeks, Tizonia, WINE, and the Librem 5. Then we check out the future roadmaps of some projects like KDE Plasma 5.13, Ubuntu 18.04,… Read more
Mar 11, 2018•31 min
Signal got a massive donation from the Co-Founder of WhatsApp, Flameshot: a new screenshot tool is pretty slick. We take a look at an Open Source and Self-Hosted CRM solution for those interested in using Linux in their business. Updates for Unity 8 and the Sway Fundraiser. Psion Gemini: a cool modern PDA device started… Read more
Feb 27, 2018•41 min
We’ve got a lot of distro news from Ubuntu, Solus, Fedora, Linux Lite and more. We’ll take a look at some updates for Linux 4.16 development and have you ever wanted to use Linux as your bootloader, well that might be possible in the future. For a nice change of pace from Oracle, we got… Read more
Feb 18, 2018•42 min
We got a new Linux kernel, new updates from LibreOffice, Nextcloud, VLC and more. We also saw some hardware announcements from the KDE and Mycroft teams. Huge desktop environment releases from MATE and KDE Plasma. All that and much more! Segment Index 00:38 = Linux Kernel 4.15 Released · [link] 02:36 = John Perry Barlow… Read more
Feb 12, 2018•49 min
Ubuntu disabled downloads for the 17.10 ISO. We’ll talk about why and what is being done to solve it. We’ll check out some Good News from Thunderbird, UBPorts, Solus, Amazon, and more. Then we’ll take a look at some interesting command-line tools that had updates this week. Steam’s Winter Sale is currently live for those… Read more
Jan 31, 2018•35 min
On this episode of This Week in Linux, we talk about the recent FCC decision to rollback Net Neutrality Rules. We check out some application news for GIMP, Firejail, mutt email client and more. Distro news from MX Linux, Kubuntu and Q4OS. Then we check out some Linux Gaming news including some Rocket League bugs.… Read more
Dec 17, 2017•35 min
TeamViewer 13 was announced and they’re bringing Native Linux support to their remote desktop software. We saw many Distro releases this week and in fact, we’ll be taking a look at 6 of them. We talk about how to get Microsoft Office 2016 on Linux. Then we’ll jump into some Linux Gaming, including one game… Read more
Dec 10, 2017•30 min
We say goodbye to Linux Journal. We’ll revisit the idea of using search engines on the command line. For Desktop Environments, Unity received a long awaited maintenance update and KDE issued their future goals for the project. In Linux Gaming, news for a PSP Emulator, the Ataribox and a Linux powered GameBoy-like portable handheld console.… Read more
Dec 03, 2017•39 min
We check out a few useful command-line tools and productivity apps. We discuss Canonical’s recent outreach to the greater community with the future of Mir and the potential of Ubuntu Unity for 18.04. The City of Munich is back on the docket this week, hopefully for the last time and we’ll also check out some… Read more
Nov 26, 2017•36 min
The first 6 Year LTS Linux Kernel was released this week. Huge Update from Mozilla with Firefox Quantum. New distro releases from Fedora and Slax. Linux now dominates the Supercomputer Market, well even more than it already did. This week I made a new way to easily find out what Linux games are on sale… Read more
Nov 19, 2017•45 min
We take a look at a cool auto-upgrade tool. I never thought I’s see this happen but Intel and AMD announced a new joint processor. New competition in the Password Manager space on Linux. Canonical asks for community participation in the new Ubuntu 18.04 design. A LOT of games are on sale this week. We’ll… Read more
Nov 12, 2017•31 min
Audacity Released a Big Update, We also got some updates for a couple of eBook Readers. In Distro News we talk about a couple distros we’ve never featured before. This Week’s Hardware News features a couple of cool devices. Plasma Mobile released a Roadmap. Then we will check out some Linux Gaming and Security News.… Read more
Nov 05, 2017•31 min
Canonical announced the codename for Ubuntu 18.04, Kodi Entertainment Center saw a new release, and we’ll check out some cool command line based applications. We got some cool distro releases this week and some news from Linux Mint’s future. Later on in the show we’ll save some money in Linux Gaming with the Steam Halloween… Read more
Oct 29, 2017•30 min