Developing New Rust-based NVIDIA Driver & EA Anti-Cheat Impact on Linux Gaming

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00:00 Intro

01:33 Redis is forked after licence change

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community

https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html

07:25 Fedora 40 Beta is out

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released

09:49 The future of the Linux desktop is looking good

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/

14:05 Ubuntu LTS can get up to 12 years of support

https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-long-term-support-to-12-years-starting-with-ubuntu-14-04-lts

16:10 Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/ubuntu-24-04-makes-a-small-tweak-that-dramatically-improves-gaming

18:50 Canonical addresses the scam snap problem

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440

21:54 Flathub improvements and adoption

https://mastodon.social/@flathub@floss.social

https://kodi.tv/article/ubuntu-team-kodi-ppa-officially-retired/

28:29 Mozilla Monitor Plus is gone for now

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mozilla-ditches-privacy-partner-over-conflict-of-interest

30:35 More EU investigations on Apple, Google and Meta

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/alphabet-apple-and-meta-are-under-investigation-in-europe-for-non-compliance-with-the-digital-markets-act

33:12 Gaming: Wayland fixes, new Nvidia driver, anticheat

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Default-For-Now

https://9to5linux.com/red-hat-announces-nova-a-rust-based-gsp-only-driver-for-nvidia-gpus

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ea-anticheat-arrives-for-battlefield-v-in-april-will-break-it-on-linux-steam-deck/

39:48 Outro