This Week in Linux

This Week in Linux

This Week in Linux (TWIL) is the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. “Your Source for Linux GNews”

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February 8, 2026 25 mins

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00:00 Intro
00:37 Ubuntu 26.04 & 24.04.4 Updates
05:10 LibreOffice 26.2 Released
07:06 Debian AI Bot & LLM Scraping Issues
09:40 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security
11:07 NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Nativ...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    00:48 Michael on Linux Unplugged
    01:35 What Happens If Linus Torvalds Leaves Linux? Kernel Continuity Document
    03:31 Open Gaming Collective for Linux gaming developers
    06:28 Xfce is making a new Wa...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    00:54 Wine Patches Brings Adobe Photoshop to Linux
    05:21 MX Linux 25.1 Released
    07:31 CachyOS Jan 2026 Release
    09:41 Sandfly Security, agentless LInux security
    11:13 PikaOS 2026-01-24 Released
    12:45 Zorin OS 18 ...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    00:38 Linux Mint 22.3 Released
    02:53 Wine 11 Released
    05:56 EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo
    08:01 Sandfly Security
    09:26 Budgie Desktop 10.10 Released
    12:07 Hytale Released with Day 1 Linux Support
    14:28 Middle Cli...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    00:39 Manjaro 26 Released
    03:16 EasySpeak Voice Control for Your Linux Desktop
    05:33 Nitrux 5.1 Released
    08:24 Sandfly Security
    09:59 NVIDIA GeForce Now App for Linux
    11:32 IceWM 4.0 Released
    12:55 Revised S...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    00:55 Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New Release
    02:59 Universal Blue Year in Review
    03:39 Bazzite End of Year Update
    04:49 Aurora Year in Review
    05:46 Project Bluefin Year in Review
    07:57 elementary OS 8.1 Rele...

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    This week in Linux, I'm Back! and this time, I mean I'm back and TWIL is back. This episode is going to have some stuff that happened between now and the last episode from a month ago but starting next week, the show is back on a weekly basis. On this week's show, we've got a new release of the Linux kernel with 6.18. We've also got some new distro releases to look a...

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    Chapters:

    00:00 Intro
    01:42 Linux 6.17 Released
    04:28 The End of Windows 10 Has Arrived
    09:23 KDE Plasma 6.5 Released
    11:39 GNOME 49 Released
    15:30 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security
    17:40 Fedora Linux 43 Released
    20:21 U...

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    This week in Linux, we've got some new distro releases from Linux Mint with Linux Mint 22.2, AerynOS, and the Linux from Scratch project. Also, I am going to introduce you to a brand new tool called WinBoat, their goal is to make it easy to run Windows apps on Linux. Then we got an update related Mozilla's deal with Google for the default search engine...

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    This week in Linux, we've got new releases from some under the hood projects like FFmpeg and QEMU. There's a new software store for Linux that is exclusively focused on Flatpaks. CachyOS is back on the show again with a brand new release and we've also got a bit of drama to cover this week. There's some drama going on with the SuperTuxKart proj...

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    This week in Linux, we've got a bunch of new releases from the super popular open source office suite LibreOffice to a couple releases from Mozilla and one of the best open source video editors has a new release with Kdenlive. We're also going to take a look back at seven years of Proton as we celebrate the current state of Linux gaming. Plus, CachyOS ...

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    This week in Linux, we have a lot of news to cover. We have some good news and some bad news. Well, people like to start with bad news first, I guess. So there is a fiasco happening with Secure Boot and how it may be affecting Linux users. Also, the EU is proposing a law that is pretty close to being passed that is very scary and a step towards mass surveillan...

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    This week in Linux, there's some big distro news because we got a brand new version of Debian, probably, and openSUSE Leap 16 just hit release candidate status. We've also got some cool news from Nvidia including their stance against adding backdoors to their hardware. Plus, we've got new app releases from the Mastodon client Tuba and the awesome s...

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    This week in Linux, we have a jam packed show for you with a brand new version of the Linux kernel with Linux 6.16. Then we have some new distros to talk about with KDE Linux and Helium OS. Plus feren OS is back on the show this week to celebrate a big milestone of their 10 year anniversary. Then we'll talk about some bummer news, with a new UK law that is...

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    This week in Linux, we've got a bit of bad news from Intel as they abruptly ended Clear Linux out of no where and Arch Linux warned users that malware was found in the AUR. It's not all bad this week though because Wayback is back on the show with the first preview release for keeping X11 desktops alive in our future Wayland powered world. Plus accordi...

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    This week in Linux, we have some interesting distro news from CachyOS & Chrome OS. We've also got new releases from the open source 3d rendering powerhouse Blender & the popular dynamic tiling wayland compositor Hyprland. Then, Plasma Bigscreen is back on the air from KDE. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps ...

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    This week in Linux, we have another jam packed episode of TWIL. Red Hat announced No-Cost RHEL for business developers, MIPS has been acquired, the Bazzite team have a brand new app store, and we have new releases from Thunderbird, OBS Studio, Bash and more! All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s ...

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    This week in Linux, we have a huge milestone to celebrate with Linux hitting the coveted 5% market share for desktops in the US market. Then we got a few gaming topics to cover including one about game preservation and anti-cheats. Then we are going to take a look at a project to keep X11 window managers around for good. Later in the show we'll check out s...

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    This week in Linux is packed! It's an extra long episode. So if you were wanting more and more TWIL, then you're going to get it this week because Steam Summer Sale is here and it is torching bank accounts. Fedora developers are talking about getting rid of 32-bit support and there's a little bit of controversy around that. We're going to break...

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    This week in Linux, we have a jam packed episode for you. The KDE team have released a brand new version of the Plasma desktop. We're also going to talk about some big changes coming to Arch Linux and the pentesting distro, Kali Linux. Plus we got a trifecta of great news from Valve this week related to Steam & Proton that is bound to be exciting for L...

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