video: https://youtu.be/Anw68ThdGcs Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. First, we're gonna be talking about building Linux from Scratch. I mean, not walking through that or anything. It's the project called that. Also, the Xen project has a new version of their hypervisor out, and Mozilla is back in the news this week with the latest release of Firefox with 136. Plus, Linux Mint is talking about redesigning their Cinnamon...
Mar 08, 2025•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/9-KlMwQA2v4 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we are celebrating the 300th episode of the show, and we're going to do a giveaway! Also this week we're going to go fishing well not exactly we will talk about the Fish Shell's latest release then we'll also take a look at the new drivers from NVIDIA and are they being good to Linux now we'll see mozilla is also in the news this week with uh well they've made a new terms of use ...
Mar 02, 2025•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/7MiImqaw6k8 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a jam packed episode. We have the new version of the Mesa graphics drivers. There's some changes happening with Serpent OS project. There's a new release of the Rust programming language and that perfectly flows into some updates we have for Rust for Linux. All of this and more on this week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in t...
Feb 22, 2025•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/EkFtY_K3sxA Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton of stuff to talk about. There's so much I couldn't fit at all on the show. And even one of the things I wanted to fit in the show, it's by itself too big to be in the show. So I'm going to split that off into a separate video. And there's also a new release of KDE Plasma 6.3. There's a new website for the GNOME project. GIMP 3.0 has another release candidate with RC...
Feb 16, 2025•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/v7ZLEAxoW14 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about with the Linux kernel getting, or maybe not getting, Rusty. There's a little bit of drama there. Also, the Void Linux project has a new release of their distribution. EA has provided an update regarding Apex Legends and Linux. It's not great news, but we're gonna talk about it. There's also a tiny Linux kernel tweak that could save 30% on power use for...
Feb 08, 2025•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/_sW55AvLlkA Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, there's a new AI chatbot called DeepSeek making waves and terrifying tech investors. Google has open sourced PebbleOS, the operating system for the old Pebble Watches. The Thunderbird email team announced a new version and a new release strategy. Then we'll take a look at a brand new desktop environment for Linux users. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news ...
Feb 01, 2025•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/LQTqcC0TI-o Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux was kind of insane . . . in a good way because the Wine Project hit the big 1-0 with Wine 10. AMD announced something called the AMDGPU Composition Stack and it has a ton of potential for positively impacting the Linux desktop. Intel announced a modular PC idea they are trying to push that could positively impact everyone even including the environment. Then we got the latest rele...
Jan 26, 2025•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/qAHxogc8QTc Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a brand new version of the Linux kernel to talk about. Well, maybe. Technically, the 6.13 release is not until this Sunday, and I'm recording this before Sunday, so we're just going to roll the dice, and hopefully it doesn't get delayed. Also, we have some distro news this week to talk about with a new release from Linux Mint, MX Linux, and OpenSUSE. We also have some sec...
Jan 19, 2025•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/xtHmj__P-rY Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We're gonna talk about some alphas and some betas and also some big news from Valve. So we have KDE Plasma 6.3 beta that is coming out with System76 releasing the Alpha 5 of the COSMIC Desktop Environment and Valve announced that SteamOS is going to expand beyond the Steam Deck. All of this and so much more on this week in Linux, the weekly news show ...
Jan 11, 2025•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/ZM_CqPmI7cQ Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We have a new terminal emulator that's getting a lot of attention lately with Ghostty. And also we have two distros to talk about with their latest releases, one being CachyOS and the other one, Nobara Linux. And we're also gonna be talking about the latest release candidate for GIMP with GIMP 3.0 RC2. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the w...
Jan 06, 2025•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/jqzkplxlr9Q Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This year in Linux was a huge year. So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. So many things. So we're going to be covering everything in the super detail that we normally would on this week in Linux because there's just so many things to talk about. If you would like to learn more about each individual thing, you can ...
Dec 30, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/Za_MPfQ9Zdo Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. So much happened. I took last week off because of the holidays, and there's just a lot happened in that period of time. So let's talk about it. First, we have Xfce because Xfce 4.20 has been released. openSUSE has announced a new package management tool. There is now an alpha release for the Serpent OS distribution. There's also a Steam Winter Sale th...
Dec 28, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/HWf-0_Khx6o Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/290-rhel-10-beta-raspberry-pi-500-20-years-of-thunderbird-more-linux-news/6525) This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We have Betas to talk about. We have new hardware to talk about and so much more. So we got Linux Mint 22.1 Beta that's been released. There's also a Beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as AlmaLinux. We also have new hardware from the Raspberry Pi Foundation and we're gonn...
Dec 15, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/rT1HH6BfBPQ Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/289-cinnamon-desktop-cosmic-alpha-4-nixos-flathub-llc-more-linux-news/6518) This week in Linux, we have so many cool things to talk about. It's kind of absurd. In fact, it's so much, I had to skip a few things. I have enough for two episodes this week, and more, actually, there's a little more than that. So it was kind of hard to pick what to cover. Maybe I'll make some follow-up content this coming week ...
Dec 09, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/lrU-ZPoiuTI Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/288-elementary-os-8-released-freecad-hits-major-milestone-kernel-drama-revisited-more-linux-news/6514) This week in Linux, we have a lot of new releases to talk about. First, we have elementary OS 8.4. Then we're also having a huge milestone to talk about with the FreeCAD project because FreeCAD 1.0 has been released. Also, FLTK, the toolkit that I thought didn't exist anymore, has a new release with FLTK...
Dec 02, 2024•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/7UWLmx7vpKQ Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/287-linux-6-12-arch-linux-blender-4-3-security-flaw-found-more-linux-news/6504) This week in Linux, we saw the release of the latest version of the Linux Kernel with Linux 6.12. Plus Qualys announced that they found some security vulnerabilities in the needrestart package used by Ubuntu. I'll break it down for you and let you know whether you should panic or not. Then we've got a bunch of releases to talk...
Nov 23, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/ffIUXuC4qiM This week in Linux, we've got a response from Valve on the recent Anti Cheat issues. Red Hat has announced the release of RHEL 9.5 & and the beta release of RHEL 10. We've also got some exciting news from Fedora as they will be promoting the KDE Spin to a full Edition with Fedora 42. Then we'll talk aboue Mozilla and how they are continuing the drop the ball. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s...
Nov 16, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/k1abyzx5QkE This week in Linux, we've got a lot of good news with a new release of the LXQt desktop environment, a new accessory from Raspberry Pi. Valve has announced the official launch for the Steam game recording feature and GIMP 3.0 is finally at a point where we can just might have it at some point soon. We also have a bit of controversial news with Manjaro announcing a new data collection plan. We're gonna talk about all this and so much more on this week in Linux,...
Nov 11, 2024•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/GjvxiT7W0uM Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/284-fedora-41-released-tuxedo-os-4-thunderbird-for-android-more-linux-news/6477) This week in Linux, we have new distro releases from Fedora Linux, TUXEDO Computers, and the Raspberry Pi crew. Then we're going to take a look at the latest Alpha for the COSMIC Desktop and there's an exciting interview coming up on my podcast Destination Linux with one of the founders of Zorin OS. All of this and more on Th...
Nov 03, 2024•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/XcfttIaxPKQ This week in Linux, the Linux kernel has some more drama to talk about this time related to International Sanctions of all things. We've also got some new hardware announcements from System76 and Raspberry Pi. Plus we've got a new Libre Software fund that was launched to help financially assist some open source projects. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source ...
Oct 26, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/RbRO0083v0Q Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/282-ubuntu-flavours-android-running-linux-apps-inkscape-rocky-linux-from-ciq-more-linux-news/6468) This week in Linux, we're going to talk about the 24.10 release of all of the Ubuntu Flavours. Google seems to be doing some work to get Linux apps to work on Android devices. Asahi Linux is doing some great work with getting Linux support on Apple Silicon even Gaming on Linux on Macs. We also have a brand n...
Oct 19, 2024•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/onTWvyFkHzY Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/281-ubuntu-24-10-released-kde-plasma-6-2-linux-drama-more-linux-news/6458) This week in Linux, we saw a lot of good news this week because we have the latest release of Ubuntu 24.10. We also have a new release of KDE Plasma with 6.2. And there's also some news with KDE Neon as well as Kubuntu. And we even have some drama news with the Linux kernel. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly ne...
Oct 12, 2024•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/hgSiToyxHHw Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/280-xfces-next-release-umu-for-proton-e-ink-tablet-mozilla-drama-more-linux-news/6447) This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool news to talk about. We have stuff that's upcoming, we have stuff that was released this week, and so much. So I am super excited about one thing. It's not coming out till December, but I just had to tell you about it, and that is the next release of the XFCE desktop with XFCE 4....
Oct 05, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/Oh9D8KVjMcA This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news and a little bit of some unfortunate news regarding a vulnerability with the CUPS printing system. Now, it's not as bad as people are claiming, but we'll get to that in a bit. We also have the merger of the Tor project and the Tails OS project, which is really cool, and Ubuntu 24.10 beta is now available, as well as the Cosmic Desktop has reached an alpha 2 that is now available for download and testing. All of t...
Sep 28, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/CNETMkgDNUs Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/278-linux-6-11-gnome-47-microsoft-kernel-mode-changes-zorin-os-more-linux-news/6405) This week in Linux, we have a lot of news, just a crazy amount and some big stuff like the Linux kernel 6.11 is out. GNOME 47 has been released. Microsoft is making kernel mode changes and we're gonna talk about what that means for Linux and Linux gaming. Zorin OS 17.2 is out. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, t...
Sep 21, 2024•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/_ZlIPhB-Fws Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/277-gnome-looks-for-leader-ubuntu-adds-snap-permissions-kali-linux-new-release-more-linux-news/6398) This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool news from the Ubuntu team announcing that they're going to have new Snap Permissions for users in 24.10. Also, the GNOME Foundation is doing a open search for their new Executive Director. And we have a lot of new releases, as well as some Linux gaming news with th...
Sep 14, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/KxFzi84B8dw Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/276-ubuntu-making-big-changes-kde-needs-donations-linux-continues-to-grow-more-linux-news/6390) This week in Linux, Canonical announced a new major kernel change that is coming for Ubuntu. KDE is now asking for donations in the next version of KDE Plasma desktop. Linux continues to grow on the desktop with the market share and Linux From Scratch has a new release. If you're not familiar with that, well, i...
Sep 07, 2024•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/R4xG6z-jDtI Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/275-cosmic-alpha-launched-manjaro-going-immutable-gnome-tray-icons-more-linux-news/6365) This week in Linux, the much anticipated COSMIC desktop is HERE! well, kind of. GNOME have finally added back a feature that people have been asking about for years or did they? Manjaro is working on an immutable version of their distro. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you u...
Aug 11, 2024•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/Ay6uAbUYgjI Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/274-new-cosmic-details-leaked-vanilla-os-2-0-serpent-os-more-linux-news/6355) This week in Linux, we've got a lot of GNews. Vanilla OS 2.0 has finally shipped after more than a year of development and it's got my attention. Serpent OS have also released a PreAlpha release of this new independent distro from the creator of Solus. Then we've got some more updates about the COSMIC desktop since it's less tha...
Aug 04, 2024•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast video: https://youtu.be/AASVfVeQR-A Forum Discussion Thread (https://forum.tuxdigital.com/t/273-linux-mint-22-cosmic-desktop-on-pop-os-gaming-distros-more-linux-news/6351) This week in Linux we got a ton of distro releases to talk about. Linux Mint 22 is now available as well as a new release from OpenMandriva, ChimeraOS, and Bazzite. Plus we got some exciting news for the release date of the COSMIC desktop. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to da...
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