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Tiny Tater Tots - COSMIC is Here, the Rust Experiment is over, & Gnome Says No More AI
Episode 233
This Week is the week for Cosmic! Jeff looks at a tiny NAS and Jonathan chats about the Orange Pi 6 Pro. Gnome says no more AI in extensions, Microsoft brings the Hornet, and you shouldn't be runnin…
Published on 1 day, 2 hours ago
Mobius Strip - LTS Kernel, NPM Trainwreck, & Gaining Steam
Episode 232
Linux 6.18 is officially out, and officially an LTS release, 6.19 has plenty to be excited about, including the color pipeline API. NVIDIA is making progress with Wayland and other regions, Fedora i…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Confused by Vowels - 86ing X11, Submarining Patents, & Losing ChromeOS
Episode 231
We start with Z-wave, look at Open Source NVIDIA, and celebrate Intel hiring Linux engineers. Then Valve is still working on HDR in the kernel, Google is moving to Aluminium, and Patents just got a …
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Bake The Man a Pie - Qualcomm, Zork, & Blender
Episode 230
This week Qualcomm is back, and maybe everything is terrible with Arduino. Valve has been funding more Open Source work, and we're reading those tea leaves. Blender is out, AMD is writing code for t…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Full Steam Ahead - AI In Everything, Broken Rust, & Trending Toward Infinity
Episode 229
Valve is going to attempt the Linux trifecta, Firefox is adding more AI and people aren't happy, and the kernel is refining its own AI guidelines. FFmpeg is tired of AI generated CVEs, no matter how…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Smooth Before, Smooth After - Gnome Drops X11, KDE Sheds Megabytes, & Flatpak Gets Its Groove Back
Episode 228
Flatpak has hit a bump in the road, but Sebastian Wick may have it back on course. KDE is making progress on the upcoming 6.6, and Fedora 43 is out. The Turris Omnia NG is a compelling Linux router,…
Published on 1 month ago
Ancient Stack Tax - FFMPEG's 100K, Cosmic Pop in December, and the Debian Dustup
Episode 227
This week SUSE's SLES and Red Hat's RHEL are embracing AI in the form of MCP and CUDA support. FFMPEG scores a $100k donation, Pop_OS and Cosmic finally have a release data, and Unity is in need of …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Ubuntu Friendly Fire - Xubuntu Hacked, Performance Wins, and Austria's Out!
Episode 226
The Xubuntu torrent was hijacked! There's a performance shootout between Windows and Linux, Austria is going its own way, and Canonical inflicts damage on themselves. Then, Asahi Linux is still roll…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Not A Memory Leak - Librephone, Ubo Pod, & Fastmail's Desktop App
Episode 225
NordVPN Open Sources their Linux client, AMD and Intel are cooperating on what the next iteration of X86_64 will look like, and Fedora 43 is going to be a week late. Blender 5 and PipeWire 1.6 are e…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
No Poetry Was Harmed - Intel's Open Source, Qualcomm's Arduino, & Plasma's Perfect Release
Episode 224
This week Ubuntu has released 25.10, and they broke Flatpak support. Qualcomm has purchased Arduino, and we're not sure that's a good thing. Plasma 6.5 is looking to be a great release, and System76…
Published on 2 months ago