Linux + Open Source News, by TLE

A peek at Cosmic DE's design, Mint + Wayland, elementary OS 7 released

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:01:10 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:03 System 76 shares some designs for their Cosmic DE

https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023

07:09 Linux Mint teases Wayland support for Mint 21.2

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4470

https://9to5linux.com/xfce-4-20-desktop-environment-will-finally-bring-wayland-support

11:21 elementary OS 7 HORUS is out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxtGVoYEws

16:42 Budgie 10.7 brings a lot of cool updates

https://blog.buddiesofbudgie.org/budgie-10-7-released/

21:42 KDE Plasma Mobile apps are moving fast

https://plasma-mobile.org/2023/01/30/january-blog-post/

26:25 Google expands their open source bug bounty program

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-expands-open-source-bounties-will-soon-support-javascript-fuzzing-too/

29:48 Microsoft and Github Copilot get a second lawsuit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/28/23575919/microsoft-openai-github-dismiss-copilot-ai-copyright-lawsuit

33:18 The US and the EU agree on building joint AI models

https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/us-and-eu-to-launch-first-of-its-kind-artificial-intelligence-agreement/97394092?redirect=1

35:13 Gaming news: less stutters and New Big Picture for everyone

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-fix-dead-space-steam-deck/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ge-proton-7-48-out-now-with-updates-to-dxvk-vkd3d-proton/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-gpu-driver-linux-steam-deck-big-improvement-stuttering-problems/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/heroic-games-launcher-260-out-now-adding-auto-updates-new-theme/

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/3682291055854286778

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/ubisoft-broke-their-games-on-linux-desktop-and-steam-deck/

New EU law hurts FOSS, GNOME 44 alpha, Chrome beats Firefox

Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:43:38 +0000

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00:00 Intro

01:42 New EU laws might make using FOSS really difficult

https://devclass.com/2023/01/24/eus-proposed-ce-mark-for-software-could-have-dire-impact-on-open-source/

07:59 GNOME 44 alpha is out for testing

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-44-alpha-released-with-new-stream-deck-app-file-chooser-grid-view

13:01 Firefox loses to Chrome badly in benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

15:42 Google’s Fuchsia OS might be in trouble

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/big-layoffs-at-googles-fuchsia-os-call-the-projects-future-into-question/

18:09 Ubuntu Pro is now available for free for up to 5 PCs

https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-pro-subscription-what-it-means-for-users/

20:15 BlendOS looks like a very interesting distro

https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-blendos-a-blend-of-arch-linux-fedora-linux-and-ubuntu

22:51 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-79/

25:39 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/20/this-week-in-kde-the-best-plasma-5-version-ever/

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2023/01/21/kf6-branched.html

28:35 Google presents big updates to their Flutter toolkit

https://9to5google.com/2023/01/25/flutter-forward-teaser/

31:48 The US might deal a big blow to user generated content

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/20/tech/meta-microsoft-google-supreme-court-tech-algorithms/

37:31 Gaming news: performance improvements, Wine 8, and EA games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ea-games-playable-on-steam-deck-sims-4-jedi-fallen-order/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/more-ea-games-steam-deck-playable/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/forspoken-desktop-linux-spoof-steam-deck/

https://www.winehq.org/announce/8.0

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/direct3d-to-vulkan-translation-layer-dxvk-21-adds-hdr-support-improves-shader-stutter/

45:54 Outro

Linux Foundation's metaverse, Stable Diffusion sued, KDE 5.27 Beta

Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:14:53 +0000

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Timecodes and links:

00:00 Intro

01:43 Linux Foundation is trying to build an open metaverse

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/open-metaverse-foundation

https://www.openmv.org/on-the-path-to-an-open-metaverse/

07:09 Getty Images sues Stable Diffusion

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit

12:50 Adobe clarifies their use of user data regarding AI

https://petapixel.com/2023/01/18/adobe-says-it-isnt-using-your-photos-to-train-ai-image-generators/

15:53 KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is now out for testing

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.90/

21:27 GNOME telemetry data shows it needs a notification tray

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2023/01/18/gnome-info-collect-what-we-learned/

27:38 India builds the Ministry of Truth

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/17/india-proposes-social-media-firms-rely-on-fact-checking-by-government-agencies/

https://www.altnews.in/pib-fact-check-blunders-again-incorrectly-declares-up-stf-advisory-on-chinese-apps-as-fake-news/

32:11 The new Ubuntu installer looks identical to the old one

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu-new-flutter-installer-first-look

35:32 Fedora wants your feedback on their new installer

https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-web-ui-storage-feedback-requested/

39:11 Wikipedia gets a new redesign that looks the same

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/wikipedia-redesign-vector-2022-skin.html

43:36 Gaming News: AyaneoOS is coming, and Stadia is now dead

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/ayaneo-confirm-their-linux-based-ayaneo-os-arrives-this-year/

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/01/18/googles-stadia-shuts-down-today/

49:09 Outro

Apple isn't private, Mastodon loses users, Mozilla joins the fediverse

Sat, 14 Jan 2023 17:04:55 +0000

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Timestamps and links:

00:00 Intro

01:39 Apple fined for violating their user’s privacy

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-france-ads-fine-illegal-data-1849950163

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-fined-1-mln-euros-by-paris-commercial-court-over-app-store-practices-2022-12-19/

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

06:42 Google settles yet another privacy violation

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-23-million-dollar-search-privacy-settlement

09:51 Newly arrived Mastodon users aren’t all sticking around

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2023/jan/08/elon-musk-drove-more-than-a-million-people-to-mastodon-but-many-arent-sticking-around

14:57 Mozilla joins the fediverse

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

18:11 New full AMD laptop being announced by System76

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin-teaser

21:40 GNOME lets you test a new UI change with an extension

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/try-gnome-44-focus-indicator-animation

27:01 GNOME weekly updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/01/twig-77/

30:06 UnityX brings customization to Unity DE

https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/

33:59 KDE Weekly updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/01/06/this-week-in-kde-big-ui-improvements/

36:35 PopOS makes performance better for potato computers

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/pop_os_zram-update

39:42 Chromium now scrolls correctly on Linux

https://linuxiac.com/chromium-109-update-brings-faster-scrolling-to-linux-users/

41:08 Gaming News: FOSS Nvidia driver, Dolphin emulator gets better

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/gamecube-and-wii-emulator-dolphin-got-a-big-speed-boost-for-steam-deck/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/the-open-source-nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-begins-to-run-games/

45:40 Outro

Arch isn't N°1, X.org dying, Meta fined €390M: Linux & Open Source News

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 09:15:09 +0000

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🕰️ Timestamps:

00:00 Intro (listen to it, it’s important)

02:00 Is Arch Linux the most popular distribution?

https://linuxiac.com/most-popular-linux-distros-according-to-reddit/

05:18 X.org is dead at that point

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XServer-2022-Development-Pace

08:35 Meta gets huge fines from the EU for breaching GDPR

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/04/facebook-instagram-gdpr-forced-consent-final-decisions/

13:56 Finally a full AMD (including GPUs) Linux computer

https://9to5linux.com/meet-the-slimbook-kymera-ventus-amd-black-limited-edition-linux-pc

https://slimbook.es/en/store/slimbook-kymera/kymera-ventus-amd-6-comprar

17:08 Google is working on a moderation tool for small websites

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/google-develops-free-terrorism-moderation-tool-for-smaller-websites/

21:13 Google is porting Android to RISC V

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/

27:07 System76 shares more details about COSMIC

https://blog.system76.com/post/2022-at-system76-a-year-in-review

29:46 GNOME application updates

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/12/twig-76/

32:30 KDE has quality of life improvements

https://pointieststick.com/2022/12/30/this-week-in-kde-end-of-year-goodies/

35:30 The MAUI project is very much alive

https://mauikit.org/blog/maui-report-20/

37:19 Budgie and Sway get their official Fedora spins

https://9to5linux.com/its-official-fedora-linux-38-will-offer-fedora-budgie-and-sway-spins

39:09 Gaming news: HDR for Linux gaming, and AMD Ray Tracing

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/latest-steam-survey-sees-a-minor-dip-for-linux-steam-deck-still-trending-nicely-overall/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/valve-dev-teases-hdr-support-for-linux-gaming/

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/01/amd-ray-tracing-on-linux-gets-closer-with-mesa-enabling-specific-games/

42:10 Outro