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This week’s news is exciting with cool new stuff and pretty bonkers because we narrowly avoided a security nightmare! A backdoor was discovered hidden in a common Linux utility, and it could have infected millions of devices. We’ll break down how this almost happened, and what it means for you. Then, we’ll switch gears and talk about some exciting upcoming features in Linux Mint 22. Fedora Linux might be getting a whole new look – we’ll discuss a proposal to switch the default desktop environment. Flathub is making some changes to make it easier to indentify whether or not a Flatpak is official. Plus there is a new campaign for video game preservation that targets companies effectively breaking their games after an arbitary amount of time. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro00:29 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released05:40 Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware09:18 Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues11:56 Sponsored by LINBIT13:21 Riot Games and their lame anti-cheat17:25 Lutris 0.5.17 Released19:12 Kodi 21.0 “Omega” Released21:25 FFmpeg 7.0 Released23:27 Outro







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* Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Beta Released



* https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-beta-testing/44040







* https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-beta-is-now-available…







* https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/ubuntu-24-04-beta-released







* https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-Beta-Test











* Gentoo Linux has become SPI-ware



* https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/04/10/SPI-associated-…







* https://www.spi-inc.org/







* https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Linux-SPI-Project







* https://lwn.net/Articles/969373/











* Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues



* https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/04/05/explicit-sync…







* https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/kdes-xaver-hugl-on-why…







* https://9to5linux.com/developer-explains-why-explicit-sync…







* a href="https://www.phoronix.

This week’s news is exciting with cool new stuff and pretty bonkers because we narrowly avoided a security nightmare! A backdoor was discovered hidden in a common Linux utility, and it could have infected millions of devices. We’ll break down how this almost happened, and what it means for you. Then, we’ll switch gears and talk about some exciting upcoming features in Linux Mint 22. Fedora Linux might be getting a whole new look – we’ll discuss a proposal to switch the default desktop environment. Flathub is making some changes to make it easier to indentify whether or not a Flatpak is official. Plus there is a new campaign for video game preservation that targets companies effectively breaking their games after an arbitary amount of time. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro01:06 XZ backdoor found in widespread Linux utility – [link, link]10:26 Flathub adds Unverified Badge to Flatpaks – [link]14:42 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]16:05 Stop Killing Games.com – [link, video]20:28 Linux Mint 22 Update, Future of Linux Mint – [link]23:23 Fedora Change Proposal for KDE Plasma Default – [link]25:24 Redis Changes Their Licensing Model – [link]28:23 Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs Soon – [link]30:42 Flowblade 2.14 Video Editor Released – [link]32:57 Outro

On this episode of TWIL, we’ve got a brand new kernel to talk about with Linux 6.8. GNOME 46 has been released bringing a ton of desktop related goodies. Fedora and openSUSE have released some betas for us all to try out and test. Red Hat announced a new driver project for NVIDIA support on Linux. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro00:37 Linux 6.8 Released – [link]03:08 GNOME 46 Released – [link]06:49 Fedora 40 Beta Released – [link]10:21 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]11:44 openSUSE Leap Beta & Tumbleweed Updates – [link]13:37 Nova: Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs – [link]15:32 KDE Issues Warning After Theme Wipes User Data – [link]18:45 Inkscape switching to GTK4 – [link]20:37 Canonical Extends Ubuntu LTS Support To 12 Years – [link]22:15 Samba 4.20.0 Released – [link]22:56 Outro

We’ve got a lot of big news for Linux users this week! We’ve got everything from marketshare growth to the latest updates for your favorite distros. Desktop Linux hits 4% market share! That’s the highest ever by the way. Linux From Scratch just released a new version for those of you who dream of building your own OS. Fedora is considering dropping XOrg entirely on Fedora 41 Workstation. Arch Linux users are getting a pretty big update to their package manager, Pacman. Plus we are so close to 30,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel, if you enjoy this show and aren’t subscribe to my channel then I’d appreciate it if you help me reach that milestone. That would be awesome. Now let’s jump into This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro01:08 I’m going to SCALE – [link]03:31 4% Marketshare for Linux on StatCounter! – [link]06:28 Nintendo says Game Over to Yuzu Emulator with $2.4 Million lawsuit – [link]11:40 Open Collective Foundation is shutting down – [OCF, OSC comment]15:04 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]16:26 Fedora Project Considering Dropping XOrg from Workstation – [link]20:56 Flock to Fedora Conference – [link]23:28 HDMI Forum ‘blocks AMD open sourcing its 2.1 drivers’ – [link]24:37 Zorin OS 17.1 Released – [link]26:37 OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released – [link]28:40 Arch Linux’s Pacman 6.1 Released – [link]30:10 Linux From Scratch 12.1 Released – [link]33:34 Outro

KDE has finally blessed us with the latest release of KDE Plasma and this isnt just any release but a massive megarelease as they call it. That’s right, KDE Plasma 6 is here! We also got some new distro releases from the privacy focused distro Tails, Tiny Core Linux and apparently one project is trying to see just how accessible coconuts can be. CIQ is in the news this week by making some controversial moves. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro00:50 KDE Plasma 6 Released – [link]07:03 Tails 6.0 Released – [link]09:14 Will CIQs Paid-Only Programs Hurt Rocky Linux? – [ciq blog, messmer blog, resf.org, resf faq, rockylinux.org]18:57 Sponsored by Kasm – [link]20:25 Tiny Core Linux 15 Released – [link]21:50 Sway 1.9 Released – [link]22:51 Accessible-Coconut 22.04.3 Released – [link]24:42 HexChat 2.16.2 is the Latest & Final Release – [link]26:32 Ardour 8.4 Open-Source DAW Released – [link]28:26 Giada Loop Machine 1.0 Released – [link]29:49 Outro

February seems to be a really big month for desktop environment news because KDE Plasma is almost upon us with the release next week. GNOME has announced the beta release of GNOME 46. LXQt has dropped some big news that LXQt 2.0 is on its way. and there may be another distro already interested in System76’s COSMIC desktop. We’re also going to take a look at a few laptops coming on the marketing in a new Linux Hardware News segment. Valve is releasing more of their software as Open Source proving once again Valve is a great member of the community. Plus we got some news from the movie animation studio DreamWorks and what they are doing with Open Source. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!







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00:00 Intro01:08 CrossOver 24 Released – [link]03:05 DreamWorks OpenMoonRay 1.5 Released – [link]06:30 Linux Hardware News Roundup – [KDE Slimbook, System76, Juno Saturn, Manjaro Slimbook]12:05 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]13:27 Valve Releases Steam Audio as Open Source – [link]14:31 GNOME 46 Beta Released – [link]16:13 Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered – [link]18:42 Miracle-WM: Tiling WM for Wayland Compositor – [link]23:25 Last Development Release before GIMP 3.0 – [link]29:05 LXQt 2.0 Desktop Coming in April – [link]32:30 Outro