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Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E30 - Mozilla has a new CEO
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:05 Mozilla has a new CEOhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-New-CEO-2024https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-laura-chambers-expanded-role/- 04:02 Apple doubles down on malicious compliancehttps://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/- 06:55 Blender and ClamAV got solid updateshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Faster-CPU-Linuxhttps://linuxiac.com/clamav-1-3-0-antivirus...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E29 - Snaps everywhere
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:06 Ubuntu moves Thunderbird to a snaphttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/thunderbird-snap-in-ubuntu-24-04- 02:24 Ubuntu Core Desktop looks interestinghttps://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps- 06:06 Severe flaw in the Linux kernel & firmwarehttps://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/critical-vulnerability-affecting-most-linux-distros-allows-for-bootkits/Have a great day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E28 - elementary OS 8 Early Access
Hey everyone,In today's episode, we have:- 00:06 Meta tags AI content, but trains on user postshttps://www.techradar.com/computing/software/facebook-and-instagram-will-label-fake-ai-images-to-stop-misinfo-from-spreadinghttps://www.techradar.com/computing/oh-great-now-facebook-wants-your-private-data-to-train-its-latest-ai-pipe-dream- 02:29 Mozilla tries to generate more revenuehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Monitor-Plus- 04:20 elementa...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E27 - Kubuntu won't use Plasma 6 for now
Hey everyone!For today, we have:- 00:06 VS Code will support Ubuntu 18.04 againhttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-recovery-update-for-ubuntu-18-04- 03:32 Kubuntu 24.04 won't use Plasma 6https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/kubuntu-24-04-wont-use-kde-plasma-6- 05:22 Mastodon has a critical security flawhttps://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mastodon-had-to-act-fast-to-patch-a-critical-security-flaw-that-could-have-let-hackers-hijack-use...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E26 - Linux gaming on Android, but it's closed source
Hey everyone!It's me again, and this time, we have:- 00:10 Wine + DXVK on Android, but it's closed sourcehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Cassia-Windows-Games-Android- 02:49 Microsoft tries out "sudo"' for Windowshttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-bringing-the-linux-sudo-command-to-windows-server/- 04:07 Manjaro unveiled a gaming handheldhttps://linuxiac.com/orange-pi-neo-manjaro-handheld-gaming-consoles...
Patroncast - S04E06 - Sponsors & laws, & finishing a 20 year long book series
Hey everyone!I hope you had a great week! Here is the latest episode of the Patroncast!In this one, I talk about:- 00:41 My current and returning sponsors, better compliance with French law on sponsored segments, and selling a bunch of computers that I still owned- 09:11 Finishing a book series that has been with me for most of my adult life, the Horus heresy. The last chapter dropped last week, I finished it in a day and a half, and I wanted to ...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E25 - VSCode abandons 18.04 without warning
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:06 Fedora 40 KDE might reconsider dropping X11https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Approved-January-F40- 04:10 VSCode drops Ubuntu 18.04 without noticehttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed- 06:55 Linux gaming marketshare stagnateshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-January-2024Have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E24 - Mesa 24 & Mint 22
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:06 Details about Mint 22https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4639- 02:12 Mesa Drivers 24 are herehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Released- 04:58 Libreoffice 24.2 brings a ton of featureshttps://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2- 07:17 Plasma 6 RC2 is outhttps://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/rc2/Have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E23 - Edge spies on your Chrome history
Hey everyone!In this episode, we have:-00:08 Wayland gets a new protocolhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-xdg-toplevel-drag-01:51 Wine on Wayland has a roadmaphttps://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead.html-04:11 Edge grabs Chrome's browsing data without consenthttps://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature-07:02 The UK might strike a big...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E22 - Exchange in Thunderbird!
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:08 Thunderbird revamping the app, and adding Exchange supporthttps://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2024/- 02:54 Purism wants to go public for 75 million dollarshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Purism-75M- 06:03 HoloISO goes immutablehttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-original-steamos-like-linux-distro-holoiso-now-dead-replaced-with-immutable-version/- 08:51 R...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E21 - Wayland on Wine
Hey everyone again!For today's news, we have:- 00:23 Ubuntu plans to tweak their kernelshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Low-Lat-Generic-Kernel- 02:50 Wayland support for Wine gets betterhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Display-Emulation- 05:18 GNOME VRR & NVK updateshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-Setting-Battery-Conhttps://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Vulkan-1.3-Mesa-24.1- 07:22 Flathub reaches 1M usershttps://docs.flathu...
Patroncast - S04E05 - iPhone & Linux: functional, but not ethical?
Hey everyone!I hope you had a good weekend, here is your weekly episode of the Patroncast to start the week with more questions and ranting!In this one, I talk about:- 01:07 Using an iPhone as a Linux user, and how it's perfectly functional, but makes me feel like a hypocrite, and how the Fairphone 5 might be the device I was waiting for- 15:17 My first real problem with Nvidia drivers, and how I now understand the complaints about theseI hop...
Vote on February's topics
Hey everyone!Here is what I'll be working on in February, and what you can vote on!So, we'll have:- Linux News: every Saturday, as always, so there will be 4 in February- Plasma 6 review: the next version of KDE will be published at the end of the month, so obviously you can expect a big video covering everything!- Tiling managers: are they worth the effort? I'll finally give my opinion on tiling window managers, since a lot of people...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E20 - Apple opens up iOS
Hey everyone!In today's episode, we have:- 00:09 Apple opens up iOS a LOT morehttps://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/apple-finally-letting-people-run-third-party-browsers-unfettered-but-only-in-the-eu-and-not-because-it-wants-tohttps://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050200/apple-third-party-app-stores-allowed-iphone-ios-europe-digital-markets-act- 07:36 Ayaneo drops HoloISO as the default OShttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lit...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E19 - Apple sabotages sideloading?
Hey everyone,Today, we have:- 00:08 Philips uses Linux to cram ads on their TVshttps://www.whathifi.com/news/philips-is-ditching-goolge-tv-but-not-on-its-oleds- 01:46 Nvidia beta drivers bring cool fixeshttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/nvidia-550-40-07-beta-driver-released-with-fixes-for-vrr-and-wayland/- 04:30 Apple reportedly will sabotage sideloading on iOShttps://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/24/sideloading-in-europe-app-review-and-fees/Have...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E18 - Huge Linux gaming performance boost
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:15 Kernel patches give enormous gaming boosthttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Windows-NT-Sync-RFC-Linux- 03:47 Bazzite 2.2 is now outhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/steamos-alternative-bazzite-v22-out-now-with-lots-of-enhancements/Have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E17 - Unified Linux Gaming Framework
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:08 Mint's Edge ISO is now availablehttps://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4635- 01:18 A unified way of playing Windows games on Linuxhttps://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unified-linux-wine-game-launcher-aims-to-improve-windows-games-on-linux-steam-deck/- 03:51 Proton got an updatehttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Proton-8.0-5- 04:47 Meta now lets EU citizens unlink their accountshttps://www.neowin.net/news/met...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E16 - More Wayland protocols
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:08 Plasma 6 gains more features as the release nears- 03:30 Wayland protocols gain better remote desktop support- 05:36 Huawei won't support Android apps at all anymore
Patroncast S04E04 - Are immutable distros inevitable?
Hey everyone!I hope you had a great week-end! Personally, I hosted all 4 of my girlfriend's nieces and nephews on Saturday and Sunday, aged 7 to 12, and while it was really fun, it was also exhausting :DSo, in this new episode of the patroncast, we'll talk about:- 00:34 The channel, how it's doing, potential new sponsors, and trying to let things go to focus on more user funding for the channel- 12:05 Immutable distros, and whether th...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E15 - The Hangover project
Hey everyone,In today's episode, we have:- 00:09 Bing Chat isn't the success Microsoft wanted it to behttps://www.seroundtable.com/bing-market-share-chatgpt-36751.html- 02:08 The Hangover Project brings Wine to ARM deviceshttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released- 04:02 Gstreamer gets 200K € fundinghttps://linuxiac.com/stf-funds-gstreamer-with-203k/- 05:39 Nasty GPU flaw lets attackers steal datahttps://www.wired.com/story/lef...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E14 - Steam Snap angers Valve
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:08 The Snap package for Steam generates tons of bug reports for Valve, and they don't want to deal with thathttps://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap- 02:20 Flathub wants higher quality app listingshttps://linuxiac.com/flathub-strategic-shift-to-highlight-high-quality-apps/- 05:31 Google will let EU citizens unlink various serviceshttps://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-secur...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E13 - Wine 9/0 stable is here
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:08 Chrome making it clear Incognito mode doesn't really help privacy- 01:55 Wine 9.0 being released, a stable version with Wayland support and 32 bit on 64 bit improvements- 03:57 More improvements coming to Plasma 6, notably for fractional scalingHave a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E12 - OpenSUSE goes image-based?
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:08 Google pretty much giving up on Fuschia as a system for the general public- 02:03 Ubuntu planning to patch some gaps in GNOME shell and Mutter- 04:12 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be an image-based OS, apparently no longer meant for the general desktop userHave a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E11 - Identifying AI generated content
Hey everyone!In this episode, we have:- 00:09 Fedora wants ROCm by default- 02:07 Interesting proposal for AI content identification- 05:53 GNOME 4 Alpha- 08:19 KDE is hiring- 10:00 Ayaneo isn't using the official SteamOSI hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
Patroncast S04E03 - Should Linux constrain app design?
Hey everyone!I hope you're all doing well :)In this episode of the patroncast, I talk about- 00:40 The channel, and wondering how I could bring the longer news podcast to Youtube without it being weird for subscribers (who would get 2 formats of the same content on the same day)- 10:43 Should the Linux desktop platform constrain app design, as in "Wayland can limit how apps work and are designed, should we do that, or let desktops decide?...
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E10 - The Wayland Saga continues
Hey everyone!In this episode, we have:- 00:09 another answer on the long "Wayland breaks everything" saga- 06:36 Mesa 24 bringing a bunch of improvements to our drivers- 08:43 The Cosmic Alpha being on its wayI hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E09 - SteamOS Devices are coming!
Hey everyone!Today, we have:- 00:08 A New Linux malware that installs cryptominers- 02:08 The first Release Candidate for Plasma 6- 03:46 Ayaneo announcing a new handheld running SteamOS- 05:54 Mint 21.3 being released with an experimental Wayland sessionI hope you'll enjoy the episode, and have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E08 - New GNOME Mockups
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:09 Some cool new mockups for GNOME apps- 03:31 Apple's AirDrop being cracked by Chinese authorities- 06:49 Unity laying 1800 people off, and NVK getting a shader cacheI hope you'll enjoy, and have a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E07 - GTK gains a new GPU renderer
Hey everyone!In this one, we have:- 00:09 GTK gaining a new unified GPU rendered- 02:15 Heroic Launcher getting a nice update to make playing games easier- 04:40 Other smaller news, including a new version of Solus, and AMD getting a 10to 18% performance boost for OpenGLHave a nice day!
Daily Linux & Open Source News - S01E06 - Kernel Update
Hey everyone!In this episode, we have:- 00:12 The Linux kernel 6.7 being released- 04:33 Chromium gaining hardware accelerate video decoding on Wayland- 06:44 Some cool stuff coming to GNOME 46 and beyond
