256: Linux Desktop Growth, Fedora Dropping Xorg, Nintendo vs Yuzu lawsuit & more Linux news

We have some very interesting news this week, we’ve got a brand new major release of the LXQt desktop environment, there’s a strange but potentially good twist in the ongoing saga of Nvidia and open source drivers, Red Hat drops the hardware ball and AlmaLinux catches it. Plus there’s a new Linux Tablet trying to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On this episode of TWIL (253), Fedora has announced a new branch of their distro for immutable operating systems, called Fedora Atomic Desktops. System76 says we are getting close to an Alpha version of the COSMIC desktop. Then we’re going to talk about Linux kernel security. Mozilla is refocusing on the Firefox browser while also […]

On this episode of TWIL (252), we have a new version of the core graphics stack project Mesa. A very small yet phoenix-like distro is rising from the ashes of deprecation. Kubuntu has released their plans for Kubuntu 24.04 and the roadmap for implementing KDE Plasma 6. elementary has released a preview of the next […]

On this episode of TWIL, the Buddies of Budgie have released a new version of the Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu has announced some ambitious goals for the next release of the distro. The Flathub has hit a major milestone. openSUSE is getting geared up for the openSUSE Conference. Plus Purism is making some waves with the […]