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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.

    I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!
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  • GNOME's 5 year plan, Windows Recall is a nightmare, Qualcomm beats Apple?

    GNOME's 5 year plan, Windows Recall is a nightmare, Qualcomm beats Apple?
    May 25 2024
    👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:23 GNOME’s 5 year plan https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/ 07:08 Qualcomm’s ARM CPUs beat Apple’s M3 https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/snapdragon-x-elite-cpu-has-been-put-through-its-paces-early-and-appears-to-be-every-bit-as-strong-as-qualcomm-claims 10:12 Windows Recall looks like an absolute nightmare https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried 15:00 EU passes AI legislation https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-countries-back-landmark-artificial-intelligence-rules-2024-05-21/ 17:28 Ubuntu 24.10 will focus on polish https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-desktop-s-24-10-dev-cycle-the-roadmap/45120 19:55 Ubuntu doesn’t like GNOME’s point releases https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-MRE-Over-Mutter-Shell 24:32 Plasma makes big progress https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/17/this-week-in-kde-all-about-those-apps/ https://notmart.org/blog/2024/05/new-plasma-edit-mode-in-6-1/ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.05.0/ 30:56 Is the “frozen kernel” model broken? https://ciq.com/whitepaper/vendor-kernels-bugs-stability/ 35:12 Firefox has a roadmap https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694 39:19 Gaming: Open source, self-hostable Stadia, Nvidia driver update https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/ 43:11 Outro Transcript Note: this is auto-generated by Davinci Resolve, it might have errors, badly worded things, I’m not responsible if anything is not representative of what I actually said :D Hey everyone and welcome back to this edition of the Linux and open source news podcast. I’m your host Nick and this is the show where we discuss everything related to Linux, open source, the open web, privacy and everything around those spaces. So in today’s episode we have GNOME or at least the GNOME Foundation announcing a five year plan to get more funding, to get more people on board, to get more users for GNOME. We have Windows and Microsoft announcing a new feature called Recall which looks like a privacy and security nightmare. We have Qualcomm potentially beating Apple’s latest chip in their own ARM CPUs which have full mainstream Linux support or at least they are working on that full mainstream support. We have the first inklings of AI legislation passed in the EU. We have some news about Ubuntu and some problems they might start having with GNOME. We have some big progress on Plasma and a bunch of other things. So as always if you want to learn more about any of these topics all the links that I used are in the show notes and if you don’t really like waiting for the end of the week to get these news well you can also get them in daily format from Monday to Friday if you become a Patreon member the link is in the description of the show as well. So now let’s get started. So GNOME has published a first draft of their five year plan or at least the GNOME Foundation did that. They published it to get a bit of feedback from the community, from developers, from users and other interested parties who might ship or might want to ship GNOME or to even just fund the foundation. So they divided this plan into three big goals each having three separate objectives. So the first big goal is to have explosive growth of the community of what they call creators and users. I guess creators mean developers here, developers for GNOME but also for GNOME applications, maybe extensions and everything around GNOME. The three sub-objectives are first to unify the community around the shared vision. I think that’s something GNOME has kind of already did. They do have their own vision of what a desktop environment is. They have been pushing hard for this and yes some people did not like this vision but at least the community around GNOME right now is focused on the same goals and it seems to be working for app developers at least because they have the biggest and best ecosystem for third-party apps on any other desktop environment. The second sub-goal is to make GNOME relevant and attractive to more diverse people and probably this means accessibility, making GNOME something that everyone can use no matter if they are fully able, if they have disabilities, no matter what everyone should be able to use GNOME and they are already working on that with their new accessibility framework. And finally they also want to increase the commercial and economic ...
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  • Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary

    Firefox data collection, France bans TikTok (sort of), Google AI is scary
    May 18 2024
    👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:23 Firefox adds data collection https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/ 05:07 France bans TikTok to quell protests https://www.techradar.com/vpn/french-tiktok-ban-makes-vpn-usage-soar-in-new-caledonia 08:57 Debian maintainer restricts KeePass XC features https://linuxiac.com/debian-keepassxc-sparked-debate/ 12:29 More KDE work on HDR https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2024/05/11/more-hdr-and-color.html 15:08 Linux kernel 6.9 is out https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Released https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-69-features 17:41 Linux kernel Libre 6.9 is out https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-9-kernel-released-for-software-freedom-lovers 19:30 Qualcomm’s new ARM SoCs support Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Elite 22:16 Intel’s latest feature causes problems for Fedora https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Fedora-OSS-Concerns 26:50 EU might bring antitrust charges against MS Teams https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-teams-is-facing-more-antitrust-lawsuits-in-europe 30:28 Google pushes AI everywhere https://www.engadget.com/google-search-will-now-show-ai-generated-answers-to-millions-by-default-174512845.html https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/google-io-showcases-new-ask-photos-tool-powered-by-ai-but-it-honestly-scares-me-a-little https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/ 35:04 NetBSD bans AI generated code https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html 37:35 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, Steam Deck plugins https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/nonsteamlaunchers-steam-deck-plugin-in-testing-plus-a-way-to-remote-play-together-anything/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-NTSYNC-Broken 41:05 Outro 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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    42 mins
  • Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?

    Cosmic update, new attack bypasses VPNs, ClearLinux beats everything else?
    May 11 2024
    👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 00:00 Intro 01:22 New Cosmic DE update https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix 05:28 GNOME funding seems fine https://foundation.gnome.org/reports/ 08:23 New attack bypasses VPNS https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/ 12:00 Pokemon Go players are adding fake data to OSM https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/pokemon-go-players-are-altering-public-map-data-to-catch-rare-pokemon/ https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/beware-of-fake-beaches-pokemon-go/112413/43?ref=404media.co 16:06 GNOME updates https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-146/ 19:10 elementary OS 8 should be close https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-may-2024/ 22:09 Fedora Asahi 40 is out https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-asahi-remix-40-is-now-available/ 24:13 ClearLinux still out performs Ubuntu and Fedora https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-ubuntu2404-fedora40/6 28:08 AMD opens up more documentation https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Firmware-Docs 30:40 Valve contributes to NVK https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Explicit-Sync-Valve 33:40 Google’s Flutter layoffs are worrying for Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/googles-flutter-team-layoffs-leave-ubuntu-devs-in-a-flap 37:06 Gaming: SteamOS, SteamVR, Playtron OS https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/playtron-give-a-bit-more-detail-on-the-linux-based-playtronos-and-their-plans/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steamvr-25-released-with-multiple-linux-fixes/ https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/4213757668851885208 43:37 Outro 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com
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