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Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics.
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
Iβm Nick, Iβve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. Iβve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and thatβs the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
Iβm Nick, Iβve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. Iβve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and thatβs the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
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Sep 2, 2023 β’ 41min
Accent colors standard & kernel performance boosts
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00:00 Intro
00:53 Accent colors are added to the XDG desktop portal
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDG-Desktop-Portal-1.17.1
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/815
06:23 Linux Kernel 6.5 was released
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-kernel-6-5-features
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux65-ryzen-7950x
10:41 Kernel 6.6 will have big performance boosts
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Sysctl-Cleaning
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-IOmap-Improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-EEVDF-Merged
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-Early-Features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-OverDrive-Linux
16:22 Sponsor: Thunderbird
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17:52 GNOME will get more UI updates
https://www.omglinux.com/nautilus-split-pane-gnome-45/
https://feborg.es/gnome-settings-update-2023-2/
22:11 France pushes another censorship law
https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/france-plans-to-boost-internet-censorship-to-combat-online-fraud
https://foundation.mozilla.org/fr/campaigns/sign-our-petition-to-stop-france-from-forcing-browsers-like-mozillas-firefox-to-censor-websites-en/
26:53 Intel announces chips with 240% better efficiency
https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-says-new-sierra-forest-chip-more-than-double-power-efficiency-2023-08-28/
30:37 Flatpak implements Wayland security features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-Wayland-Security-Ctx
32:02 Alma Linux adds 2 new repos
https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-goes-its-way-adds-two-new-repositories/
36:22 Gaming News: Starfield on Steam Deck, Wine + Wayland
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-returns-to-linux-with-wine/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/steam-deck-os-349-released-with-gpu-fix-for-starfield/
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Part-6
40:59 Outro
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Aug 27, 2023 β’ 41min
Ubuntu desktop plans, NVIDIA BIOS lock broken, Budgie gets updates
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00:00 Intro
00:59 Ubuntu shared their plans for the desktop
https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-desktop-charting-a-course-for-the-future
07:31 Budgie received a big update
https://buddiesofbudgie.org/blog/budgie-10.8-released
https://linuxiac.com/budgie-desktop-10-8-released/
12:51 KDE & GNOME updates
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.0/
https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/25/this-week-in-kde-tap-to-click-by-default/
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-110/
19:25 NVIDIA Bios lock has been broken
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Lock-Broken
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/nvidia-posts-nvapi-core-software-development-kit-on-github/
22:49 Asahi Linux has an OpenGL conformant driver
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-GLES-3.1-AGX-M1-M2
25:15 Firefox lets you import extensions from Chrome
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/firefox-users-may-import-chrome-extensions-now/
27:35 Ubuntu Deepin 23.04 is finally out
https://linuxiac.com/ubuntudde-remix-23-04-released/
https://ubuntudde.com/blog/ubuntudde-remix-23-04-lunar-release-note/
30:02 Alma Linux is doing better than ever
https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/18/almalinux-leader-says-red-hat-code-crackdown-isnt-threat/
32:59 LibreOffice 7.6 is a big update
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-7.6
36:20 Gaming News: Apex bans players, Roblox Linux supportβ¦
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-players-getting-banned-on-apex-legends-again/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/steamos-35-for-steam-deck-gets-a-screen-colour-temperature-setting/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/ge-proton-8-13-and-8-12-released-fsr-no-longer-default-and-many-game-fixes/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/roblox-support-is-coming-back-to-wine-on-linux/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/over-11000-games-now-rated-steam-deck-playable/
41:05 Outro
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Aug 20, 2023 β’ 44min
New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta
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00:00 Intro
00:49 StarLabs launches their Microsoft Surface equivalent
https://linuxiac.com/starlite-5-linux-tablet/
07:09 SUSE is going private
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/suse_delisting/
12:28 GNOME 45 is getting a cool feature, plus the beta is out
https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-adds-keyboard-backlight-control/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/gnome_45_beta/
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-beta-released-heres-whats-new
17:38 The KDE team fixes how they handle icon themes
https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/
21:26 Plasma 6 wallpaper competition
https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-wallpaper-competition/
https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773
23:58 Does Linux have a Firefox problem?
https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/
30:55 Application updates: WPS and Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/wps-office-for-linux-updated-2023
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/mozilla-firefox-for-android-to-support-extensions
34:39 Discord.io suffers a big data breach
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discordio-confirms-breach-after-hacker-steals-data-of-760k-users/
37:27 Gaming News: Nvidia problems, ray tracing and mitigations
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/
https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.14
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-kernel-gets-an-amd-zenbleed-fix-for-the-steam-deck-apu/
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks
43:53 Outro
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Aug 12, 2023 β’ 42min
New CPU flaws will lower performance, Linux enterprise shakeup, KDE Wayland support
CPU flaws affecting AMD and Intel processors will lead to decreased performance. SUSE and Oracle form a foundation to provide RHEL compatible code. Red Hat hires engineers to work on bootloaders. Wayland support on Plasma 6 looks promising. GNOME 45 may include native screencasting support.

Aug 6, 2023 β’ 42min
ChromeOS becomes a Linux distro, GNOME Activities changes, Mint 21.3
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00:00 Intro
01:02 Chrome OS becomes a real Linux distro
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/google-is-finally-separating-chrome-from-chromeos-for-easier-updates/
07:12 GNOME is working on a replacement for the Activities button
https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-test-activities-button-replacement/
11:57 Mint outlines their plans for 21.3 and Debian Edition
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/linux-mint-21-3-plans
16:45 Fedora Asahi Linux brings Fedora to Apple Silicon
https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/
19:39 Plasma 6 progress report
https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/03/august-plasma-6-progress-update/
https://blog.neon.kde.org/2023/08/04/announcing-kde-neon-experimental/
22:23 Red Hat continues their anti community behavior
https://www.zdnet.com/article/almalinux-discovers-working-with-red-hat-isnt-easy/
25:55 Battery life focused driver updates
https://9to5linux.com/mesa-23-2-brings-opengl-3-1-opengl-es-3-0-support-on-asahi-new-radv-features
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-cpupower
28:18 Thunderbird Sync features are delayed
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/an-update-on-thunderbird-sync/
31:31 Meta caves to the EU, Apple locks their APIs down
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/08/01/1452226/meta-to-seek-user-consent-for-targeted-ads-in-the-eu
https://www.techradar.com/pro/apple-is-bringing-in-new-app-store-rules-to-stop-user-fingerprinting
35:43 Gaming News: Linux passes macOS in Steam market share
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Stats-July-2023
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/ubisoft-connect-broke-again-but-valve-fixed-it-in-proton-experimental/
41:11 Outro
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Jul 29, 2023 β’ 40min
Google's new nightmare plan for the web, GNOME's new windowing system, Plasma 6 removes features
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00:00 Intro
01:12 Google wants to add DRM to the web
https://www.techradar.com/pro/googles-new-plan-for-the-future-of-the-web-has-a-lot-of-people-worried-heres-why
https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
07:20 GNOME has a new way of managing windows
https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-window-management/
14:33 GNOME weekly news
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/07/twig-105/
17:23 Plasma 6 removes a few features
https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6
23:17 Fedora improves firmware handling on Linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Server-Alert-FW-Updates
https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-DNF5-Fedora-39
26:59 Zorin OS 16.3 is out
https://blog.zorin.com/2023/07/27/zorin-os-16.3-is-released/
30:49 Canonical drops LXD maintainers
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXD-Maintainership-Canonical
32:56 FOSS Nvidia vulkan drivers land in Mesa
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Merge-Request-Mesa
35:20 Linux drivers speed boost & battery life improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Per-Policy-CPU-Perf-Boost
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-anv-mod-boost
36:58 Gaming news: Blizzard games on Steam & Heroic update
https://linuxgameconsortium.com/blizzard-games-are-coming-to-steam/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/heroic-games-launcher-29-out-now-with-amazon-games-support/
40:04 Outro
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Jul 22, 2023 β’ 45min
EU's new law will hurt FOSS, Intel performance boost, repairable laptops
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00:00 Intro
01:02 The UEβs Cyber Resilience Act is a nightmare for Open Source
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/save-open-source-the-impending-tragedy-of-the-cyber-resilience-act
https://cnll.fr/news/le-cnll-alerte-sur-les-dangers-du-cyber-resilience-act-pour-la-fili%C3%A8re-du-logiciel-libre-en-europe/
10:41 The Framework 16 can be preordered with a removable GPU module
https://frame.work/fr/en/products/laptop16-amd-7040/configuration/edit
15:49 Lenovo also wants a repairable device
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovos-tiers-of-sustainability/#dt-heading-futuristic-design
https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/lenovos-aurora-project-repairable-laptops-could-be-a-major-breakthrough-in-the-war-on-e-waste
19:52 First FOSS Nvidia driver lands in Mesa
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Initial-NVIDIA-RTX-40
24:25 Interesting article about how Wayland is being adopted
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/13/wayland_is_coming/
29:57 The GIMP has finished their porting process to GTK3
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/gimp-dev-release-completes-gtk3-port-adds-headerbar-option
https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/07/09/gimp-2-99-16-released/
32:51 Meta being fined 100 000 euros per day
https://www.engadget.com/meta-facing-a-100000-daily-fine-if-it-doesnt-fix-privacy-issues-in-norway-102557370.html
36:18 Threads is not working out for Meta
https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/threads-week/
40:13 Gaming News: Intel performance boost, Nvidia drivers
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nvidia-driver-535-86-05-out-now-linux/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/valve-adds-ability-to-see-steam-deck-verification-in-desktop-steam/
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-10p-faster
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-More-Gaming-Perf
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Jul 15, 2023 β’ 43min
SUSE takes on Red Hat, Mint 21.2 released & Thunderbird Supernova
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00:00 Intro
01:16 SUSE makes their own 1:1 RHEL compatible distro
https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/
08:10 Linux Mint 21.2 released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xLugqOo1U
11:58 Thunderbird 115 is now live, and itβs awesome
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/whatsnew/
18:22 Linux passes 3% market share on the desktop
https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-3-percent-market-share/
21:54 China has its own from scratch Linux distro
https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-releases-its-first-open-source-computer-operating-system-2023-07-06/
https://news.itsfoss.com/openkylin-linux-os/
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-07-05/OpenKylin-becomes-China-s-1st-open-source-desktop-operating-system-1lcms33vj7G/index.html
26:21 A copy of the Windows task manager for Linux
https://www.omglinux.com/mission-center-system-monitor-linux/
28:13 The US and EU can now share user data freely again
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/big-tech-can-transfer-europeans-data-to-us-in-win-for-facebook-and-google/
31:21 Google sued for scraping user data and violating copyright
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/google-ai-lawsuit/index.html
35:02 Gaming News: FidelityFX, Metaβs graphics library, Yuzu
https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.12
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/amd-opens-up-the-fidelityfx-sdk-and-its-now-on-github/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/meta-announced-igl-a-high-performance-cross-platform-graphics-library/
42:52 Outro
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Jul 8, 2023 β’ 40min
New Ubuntu Store promotes snap only, GNOME 45 alpha and France privacy breaches
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Ubuntuβs new app store favors snaps over debs
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-23-10-new-app-store-deb-support
06:22 GNOME 45 alpha is out
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-alpha-is-now-available-for-public-testing-heres-whats-new
11:00 Canonical takes control of the Linux Container Daemon
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/canonical-takes-full-control-of-lxd
https://linuxiac.com/lxd-containers-project-goes-under-canonical-wing/
14:24 Ubuntu will let you pick the apps you want at install
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-new-unified-install-plans-sound-meh
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/rethinking-ubuntu-desktop-a-more-thoughtful-default-installation/36736
19:24 BlendOS 3 supports all Linux packaging formats
https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-blendos-3-now-officially-available-based-on-arch-linux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOm_zATjgqU
23:21 Alma and Rocky answer to Red Hat
https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/
https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/
27:06 France just voted for surveillance
https://gizmodo.com/france-bill-allows-police-access-phones-camera-gps-1850609772
31:42 Metaβs Threads app is a privacy nightmare
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/threads-passes-2-million-downloads-in-2-hours/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.instagram.barcelona&gl=it
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads
35:45 Gaming News: Steam Deck wins Linux gaming, Steam beta
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/steam-beta-improves-openbox-support-and-fixes-focus-issues-with-amd-intel/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/nearly-40-of-linux-gamers-on-steam-are-on-steam-deck/
https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2023/07/05/endless-oss-privacy-preserving-metrics-system/
39:14 Outro
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Jul 2, 2023 β’ 44min
Kernel 6.4 boosts AMD, FOSS Nvidia Driver, GNOME gaming improvements
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00:00 Intro
00:39 Linux Kernel 6.4 brings big AMD improvements
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Guided-Auto
https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-6-4/
05:08 FOSS NVK driver makes good progress
https://9to5linux.com/open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-now-supports-older-gpus-new-extensions
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-update-enabling-new-extensions-conformance-status-more.html
10:56 GNOME fixes Wayland gaming
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-Wayland-Gaming-No-Blockβ©
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3080
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/06/twig-102/
15:08 KDE weekly updates
https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/30/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-continues/
17:41 New Installer might debut in Fedora 39
https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-39-workstation-to-ship-with-a-more-modern-installer
20:48 ReactOS isnβt dead and is super interesting
https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-102/
23:41 Canonical redesigns the snap store
https://ubuntu.com//blog/snapcraft-io-reloaded-check-out-the-new-look-and-feel
26:46 Zorin OS brings an in place updater tool
https://blog.zorin.com/2023/06/28/the-zorin-os-upgrader-has-arrived/
30:06 System76 releases their Thelio cases as a standalone
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/system76-reveal-the-nebula-a-new-pc-case-for-everyone/
https://system76.com/components
32:57 Irish Data Protection Commission legal shenanigans
https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/data-security/2023/06/26/last-minute-law-change-bid-to-muzzle-critics-of-data-protection-commission-iccl/
36:57 Gaming News: AMD driver improvements, Valve hiring, and more
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/amd-radv-gets-feature-to-help-emulation-and-translation-layers/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/valve-pulls-in-another-graphics-driver-developer-for-linux-gaming/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/steam-deck-hits-over-10000-verified-and-playable-games/
https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.11
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/vkd3d/-/blob/771e442af16228a977eebba82224f06f6d0202fe/ANNOUNCE
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/part-4-of-the-wine-work-for-wayland-is-now-merged/
43:30 Outro
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