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Episodes

130: Linux 5.10, GTK 4.0, CentOS Update, OBS 26.1, Ubuntu Touch

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of big updates like the latest release of Linux kernel with version 5.10. A major version update for the GTK toolkit has been released with GTK 4. We've got a follow up to the Cen-toss topic from last week. OBS Studio released version 26.1.00 that has a lot of cool Linux related features and I am so excited to try this latest version! We've also got distro news from Linux Mint, Debian, openSUSE and some mobile Linux news from UBports. All th...

Dec 20, 202036 min

Episode 129: CentOS Stream, Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux, Qt 6.0, Flatpak App Store

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some interesting and somewhat Rocky news for CentOS to talk about. There's a new Flatpak App Store released this week called Souk. Linux Gaming news with Cyberpunk 2077 running on Linux thanks to Proton. We've also got many new releases this week from PAPPL 1.0, OpenRGB, Qt 6.0 toolkit, CRUX Linux, and QEMU. Then we'll round out the show with some great deals from Humble Bundle. All that and much more coming up right now on Your Weekly Source for ...

Dec 14, 202043 min

128: SUSE / Rancher Labs, System76 AMD Laptop, Linux on Apple M1 Mac Project

On this episode of This Week in Linux, SUSE's acquisition of Rancher Labs is now complete and I'll tell you why this matters. System76 announced their first entry into the world of AMD powered Linux Laptops with the new Pangolin laptop. A developer seems to want to prove me wrong about Linux Support for Apple's M1 Mac so we'll talk about that. Pine64 announced that the KDE PinePhone is available for pre-order. Plus we've got a lot of desktop environment news this week with new releases of both L...

Dec 08, 202033 min

125: New KDE Plasma Theme In 5.21, GNOME Extensions Rebooted, GIMP 2.99.2

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a bunch of new releases from a variety of projects. We're also going to be looking into the future with my magic crystal ball to discuss what is coming in the next versions of GIMP, GNOME and KDE Plasma . . . and by Crystal Ball I mean the projects issued roadmaps on their blogs. We've got a couple distro releases to discuss with Feren OS, Clonezilla, and a new offering from the Proxmox team. Then we'll discuss a Call For Help issued by the FSF to...

Nov 15, 202045 min

124: Raspberry Pi 400, LXQt, Youtube-dl Update, Dell Privacy Drivers, HBO Max | This Week in Linux 124

On this episode of This Week in Linux, Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a really cool new product called the Raspberry Pi 400 which is a PC inside of a keyboard! Dell announced some really cool news about hardware privacy controls. We've also got a lot of new releases this week with a new version of the desktop environment LXQt, plus a new release of youtube-dl, Pitivi video editor, and the distro OpenIndiana. We've got a couple of follow ups this week from Linux Mint and also HBO Max. All that...

Nov 09, 202044 min

Episode 123: Fedora 33, DMCA Takedown on youtube-dl, Pro1 X, X Server Being Abandoned? | This Week in Linux 123

This week has been packed with news, including some personal news of my own. If you are watching the video version you may notice that I am in a different room. Well I moved but more on that later. This week's episode is so jam packed! Fedora announced the latest release of Fedora 33. There was a DMCA Takedown on youtube-dl by RIAA and we have updates on this. A new Linux powered smartphone has been announced called the Pro1 X and it's said to come with your choice of LineageOS & Ubuntu Touch. A...

Nov 01, 20201 hr 5 min

Ubuntu 20.10, System76's Thelio Mega, CUPS Forked from Apple | This Week in Linux 122

We've got a stacked episode this week, so coming up on This Week in Linux, we're going to start things off with the latest release of Ubuntu 20.10 and the Ubuntu 20.10 Flavour releases. Then we're going to jump into the ridiculous realm with a new product from System76 called the Thelio Mega. There's been some big news in the Printing world of Linux related to CUPS. NVIDIA has announced that support for Linux 5.9 is not ready yet so we'll talk about what that means and whether or not it will aff...

Oct 25, 202046 min

TWinL 121

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a monster of a show with so many great topics and even some potentially controversial stuff to talk about. We're going to start off this episode with the namesake of the show, the Linux Kernel with version 5.9 being released. KDE announced the latest version of Plasma with version 5.20 and Pine64 made some really cool announcements of their own that I am so excited to share with you. LibreOffice published an Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice about ...

Oct 18, 202039 min

This Week in Linux 120: Oracle vs Google, Nextcloud 20, Python 3.9, Better Snaps Theme Support

On this episode of This Week in Linux, well this week is so packed its just nuts. We've got new app releases with Nextcloud 20 & GIMP 2.10.22. We've also got some app building news with Python 3.9 released and a welcomed update related to Theme support in Snaps. The news that AMD is reportedly in talks to acquire the company Xilinx, we'll talk about what this could mean. We've also got some Legal News to discuss with the lawsuit between Google vs Oracle reaching the Supreme Court. Then we're goi...

Oct 12, 202037 min

This Week in Linux 119: Fedora 33 Beta, OBS Studio 26, Purism's AweSIM Cellular Service

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of exciting news and even some "is this really happening?" news. First of all, the Beta for Fedora 33 with Btrfs is out now for testing. OBS Studio has released version 26.0 and there is so much awesome stuff in this release . . . I just love this application! We've also got a couple updates for some topics from previous episodes, KWinFT Project has hit Beta and Thunderbird has a new release that allows for direct upgrades. Unity Technologie...

Oct 04, 202048 min

This Week in Linux 118: Lenovo's New Ubuntu Laptops, GNOME 40, Puppy Linux 9.5, Firefox 81, UBports

On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a great show for you even though I'm sick. As they say in show business, the show must go on or something like that. Lenovo Adds Ubuntu Laptops & PCs to their lineup. UBports released their latest update with 16.04 OTA-13. Puppy Linux has a brand new version out with Puppy Linux 9.5. Microsoft announce that after a long wait everyone can rejoice that they are finally bringing Microsoft Edge to Linux! Mozilla also announced a new version of Firefox...

Sep 28, 202047 min

Episode 117: This Week in Linux 117: GNOME 3.38, Xfce 4.16, NVIDIA Buys ARM, Firefox Send Shutdown, PinePhone

Get Some This Week in Linux Merch at the DLN Store - https://dlnstore.com On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of news week . . . a crazy amount of news that I had to limit it for time. We've got some desktop environment news from GNOME with GNOME 3.38 released and Xfce's updates on New Features & Release Date for Xfce 4.16. PinePhone announced there's now a Multi-Distro Image in fact 13 distros in 1 and we'll check out an affordable Linux laptop in the Slimbook Essential. Mozi...

Sep 21, 202043 min

This Week in Linux 116: Blender 2.90, Fedora ThinkPad Laptop, Nvidia RTX 3000, PinePhone & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news with new releases from Blender with version 2.90. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbons with Fedora Linux are now available to order. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3000 Series have been launched. Manjaro Edition of the PinePhone from Pine64 has been announced. We'll also take a look at a fantastic article that is on FrontPageLinux.com right now ...

Sep 14, 202035 min

115: This Week in Linux 115: Linux Birthday, Fedora 33 BTRFS, Firefox 80, openSUSE Jump & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we'll celebrate the first of 3 birthdays for the Linux kernel. Mozilla announced a new release of Firefox with Firefox 80. Fedora 33 is switching to BTRFS and they are having a Testing Week for those wanting to help. openSUSE is also having some testing for their new Jump branch. Later in the show we will check out the new AMD Laptop from Tuxedo Computers...

Aug 31, 202038 min

114: This Week in Linux 114: WordPress 5.5, System76, Kali Linux, Parrot OS, Kdenlive 20.08 & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of cool news to talk about. We've got App News for Kdenlive video editor, WordPress website platform, Nextcloud's Desktop client now has End-to-End Encryption and later we'll cover a terminal based File Manager called "nnn". We've also got some really fun Distro News with 2 Hacking aka Penetration Testing distros in Kali Linux and Parrot O...

Aug 25, 202039 min

Episode 113: This Week in Linux 113: Red Hat + Flatpak, KDE Neon, Darktable, RetroArch, HBO Max Drops Linux

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news and also a few unfortunate things to talk about. Red Hat announces their Flatpak Runtime for Desktop Containers. Darktable announced the 3.2 release of their Open Source RAW photo editor. LibRetro announced the release of RetroArch 1.9.0 and we also got some unfortunate news from the LibRetro related to some of their servers ...

Aug 18, 202043 min

Episode 112: This Week in Linux 112: LibreOffice 7.0, Ubuntu 20.04.1, elementary OS 6, Kdenlive, Mageia 8 & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big news from LibreOffice with the release of LibreOffice 7.0! Ubuntu has announced the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I'm going to show you a cool app that lets you view and interact with your Android device from your Linux desktop. We've got some news about some upcoming releases for Mageia 8, KDE's video editor Kdenlive, and el...

Aug 09, 202044 min

Episode 111: This Week in Linux 111: Linux 5.8, BootHole & GRUB2 Flaws, Firefox 79, JellyFin, Nitrux, & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a jam packed episode, in fact, so much I might even need break out one of the topics into a separate video so it can be more thoroughly covered, we'll see though. We're going to be covering new releases including the Linux kernel itself with version 5.8. In App News we got releases from Firefox, Jellyfin and Nano. In Distro News we got new relea...

Aug 05, 202045 min

Episode 110: This Week in Linux 110: AMD Ryzen Linux Laptops, Thunderbird 78, Cooler Master Raspberry Pi Case

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some really cool hardware news, we've finally got some Linux laptops equipped with an AMD Ryzen 4000H series processor. These laptops are thanks to Tuxedo Computers and KDE Slimbook. Cooler Master has launched a kickstarter campaign to make a pretty slick Case for the Raspberry Pi 4. We've also got a LOT of App News this week with the latest rel...

Jul 28, 202045 min

Episode 109: This Week in Linux 109: Flutter Apps to Linux, 3GB RAM PinePhone, Mobian, Stop Using BountySource!

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Distro News from Linux Mint, openSUSE and there may be a way to have a Rolling Release of Ubuntu now. We've also got some Linux Mobile news thats to the team at XDA Developers making it possible to put Ubuntu Touch from UBports on a lot of Android based devices. We're going to talk about a new Kickstarter that is going on right now to d...

Jul 21, 202055 min

Episode 108: This Week in Linux 108: Linux Mint 20, openSUSE 15.2, CutiePi Raspberry Pi Tablet, and more!

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some big Distro News from Linux Mint, openSUSE and there may be a way to have a Rolling Release of Ubuntu now. We've also got some Linux Mobile news thats to the team at XDA Developers making it possible to put Ubuntu Touch from UBports on a lot of Android based devices. We're going to talk about a new Kickstarter that is going on right now to d...

Jul 05, 202055 min

Episode 107: This Week in Linux 107: Krita 4.3, FFmpeg 4.3, FreeNAS on Linux, postmarketOS PinePhone

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news with a bunch of App releases. We've got new releases from Krita, FFMpeg, Strawberry music layer, nativefier which is a really cool desktop app creator for webapps, and more. We've also got some news from Pine64 about a new community edition of the PinePhone for the postmarketOS project. Later in the show, we'll check out some...

Jun 23, 202047 min

Episode 106: This Week in Linux 106: Linux 5.7, SpaceX, Plasma 5.19, Mint vs Snaps, PineTab, Lenovo, System76

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got so much news it's kind of ridiculous! We've got a new kernel release with Linux 5.7. SpaceX Used Linux to send NASA Astronauts into Orbit. KDE released the latest version of their Plasma desktop environment with Plasma 5.19. We've got a lot of hardware news this week because Pine64 announced that the PineTab is now available for PreOrder. Lenovo...

Jun 16, 202055 min

Episode 105: This Week in Linux 105: 8GB RAM Raspberry Pi, Ardour 6.0, Audacity, Kali Linux, DirectX on Linux?

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new 8GB RAM version of the Raspberry Pi and there's a new release of Kali Linux. We've also got some big updates for two audio editors in Ardour 6.0 and Audacity 2.4.1. We've got a new version of the Enlightenment window manager with 0.24 and a new tool for making Bootable USBs called Ventoy. We've got an update on ...

Jun 02, 20201 hr 7 min

Episode 104: This Week in Linux 104: UBports Ubuntu Touch, Pine64, PineTab, KDE Plasma 5.19, Pi-hole 5.0, Zabbix

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network On this episode of This Week in Linux, We've got a lot of news related to Linux Mobile like UBPorts' Ubuntu Touch OTA-12, a plethora of Pine64 news, and MauiKit 1.1.0 was released. We'll also talk about the current Beta release of KDE's Plasma 5.19. We've got many more project releases like Pi-hole 5.0, Ubuntu Unity Remix 20.04, Zabbix 5.0 LTS, Coreboot 4.12 We're also going to talk about an i...

May 19, 202059 min

Episode 103: This Week in Linux 103: XRdesktop, 700% Increase to Linux Marketshare, Firefox, MNT Reform

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got some new releases from Firefox, xrdesktop, herbstluft window manager, and more. We'll also check out 2 hardware announcements this week, one from Manjaro & Star Labs and a DIY Open Source laptop from MNT. Later in the show we'll check out a new ncurses ToDo Manager app called NOAFtodo. There were re...

May 12, 202059 min

Episode 102: This Week in Linux 102: Inkscape 1.0, Fedora 32, Ubuntu Flavours, Pop!_OS, Red Hat, openSUSE & More

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, we have SO MUCH DISTRO NEWS! In fact, we've got news from Fedora, PopOS, Red Hat, openSUSE, and a follow up for the Ubuntu 20.04 release. Last week, I said we're going to give the official Ubuntu Flavours an extra week to discuss their 20.04 releases since there are so many to discuss and that time has come. ...

May 05, 20201 hr 11 min

Episode 101: This Week in Linux 101: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Manjaro 20, LXQt, Lenovo / Fedora ThinkPads, Void Linux

This Week in Linux is a Proud Member of the Destination Linux Network! https://destinationlinux.network Sponsored by Digital Ocean - https://do.co/dln On this episode of This Week in Linux, the amount of news we have to cover is just crazy! We've got multiple big stories in Distro News with Ubuntu 20.04 releasing, Manjaro 20 releasing, Fedora announcing that Fedora is coming to Lenovo's ThinkPads, and even more from Void Linux and Intel's Clear Linux. In the housekeeping section were going to be...

Apr 28, 20201 hr 1 min
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