This Week in Linux

This Week in Linux

Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews from the TuxDigital Network (https://tuxdigital.com/)!

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August 9, 2025 • 23 mins
video: https://youtu.be/xbAxLonf9iQ Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 ...
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video: https://youtu.be/H_fo3yHANII Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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...
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video: https://youtu.be/ucGrNLdsql0 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 wo...
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video: https://youtu.be/yGQ_w0LL4Xs Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 sho...
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video: https://youtu.be/aig4jdVoL6o Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 yo...
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video: https://youtu.be/h-qXWfz_yew Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 s...
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video: https://youtu.be/GH18mp-2d90 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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...
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video: https://youtu.be/XZXpfvmlo9g Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) 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 ...
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video: https://youtu.be/c-PWqlJCB9M This week in Linux, there's a lot of news to talk about from new desktop updates to new apps and even a bit of drama. We'll start things off this week with the news that Ubuntu 25.10 is dropping X11 on GNOME sessions. There's a lot of chatter around this one and even some yelling about it... we're going to go over what's really happening, why it matters, who's really behind it, touch on a new for...
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video: https://youtu.be/-BWzypViJVQ Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool things to talk about. Murena has announced the latest release of the /e/OS mobile operating system for smartphones with each /e/OS 3.0. We also have Alpine Linux releasing a new version of their distro. And we're going to go to the Canonical Corner to talk about a bunch of stuff that is happeni...
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video: https://youtu.be/N47e3wcQYJ4 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a brand new release of the Linux kernel itself. We have some new distro releases from AlmaLinux, NixOS, and more. Plus there's some interesting news from Ubuntu that has people asking whether or not Ubuntu is switching to a rolling release model. We'll answer that question here on this episode of TWIL and we...
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video: https://youtu.be/F_imR-7E9ps Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, was just crazy... I just got back from the Red Hat Summit last night, now I'm making a jam packed episode of TWIL with stuff from the Red Hat Summit like them announcing RHEL 10. While I was out of time, we entered into the Twilight Zone because Microsoft apparently open sourced WSL, kind of. Mozilla announced they ...
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video: https://youtu.be/BPO50JSnLCU Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton of news. In fact, sometimes I have to push stuff off a week, but we're going to do something a little different. We're going to do a bunch of extra topics. We're going to start off with Nobara 42 release. We also have a beta release of KDE Plasma's next version with Plasma 6.4. Then we have some stuff ...
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video: https://youtu.be/cKIYIkUEBm4 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a ton to talk about. Linux Mint is modernizing their default theme. Then we have a new release of Hyperland, the tiling window manager. We've also got three new distros to talk about. And there's a new release from the Home Assistant project, as well as the Mesa drivers. And GNOME announced their new Executi...
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video: https://youtu.be/PtP_jOlAIHE Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot of cool stuff to talk about. First, we're going to talk about the future of KDE Plasma. Then we're going to go into the future of OpenSUSE because Leap 16 beta has been released and the final version will be coming out this year. Then we'll also have a new version of Mozilla Firefox. And also we have s...
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video: https://youtu.be/vRZkuFBhaAg Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, COSMIC Alpha 7 has been released. We also have some new releases for some distributions. We have Open Mandriva, also Crux, and even something for the retro computer enthusiasts out there. Humble Bundle has a lot of DOOM games available in the id & Friends bundle. All of this and so much more on This Week in Linux, t...
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video: https://youtu.be/Uxo3F2eVjBs Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux is one of the most packed episodes we've had all year. It's kind of ridiculous even. We have huge distro releases from Ubuntu with Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and Manjaro 25. If that wasn't enough for a stacked episode, LXQt desktop has released version 2.2 and the KDE team have released new versions of all their apps i...
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video: https://youtu.be/ua-RPOtdcF8 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, App 3.0 drops, bringing big changes under the hood. Amiga OS, yes, that Amiga OS, is still alive and getting updates, apparently. Open SSL 3.5 and Open SSH 10.0 both rolled out new features this week with also some future-proofing involved. And Sony, yes, that Sony, has released The Last of Us Part II on PC and it's...
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video: https://youtu.be/MGKUyzSei_4 Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news to talk about. First, Thunderbird is launching their own email service. KDE is working on making their own Plasma Login Manager. CachyOS has a new release out. We also have another release out for the Mozilla Firefox browser, which has a lot of cool stuff in there I can't wait to tell you...
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video: https://youtu.be/LvEB5lGUqaw Comment on the TWIL Forum (https://thisweekinlinux.com/forum) This week in Linux, we have a brand new version of the Linux kernel, including a boost for gaming performance and GPU workload protection in the Linux 6.14 release. There are some new distro releases to talk about with Zorin OS and EndeavourOS, as well as some beta releases from Fedora and Ubuntu. Plus, openSUSE is adding a long-reques...
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