This Week in Linux

This Week in Linux


Latest Episodes

259: Ubuntu 24.04 Beta, Gentoo becomes SPI-ware, Solution to NVidia & Wayland & more Linux news
April 14, 2024

This weeks 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 infe

258: XZ Backdoor Attack, Linux Mint 22, Fedora Switch to KDE?, Flathub Unverified & more Linux news
April 07, 2024

This weeks 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 infe

257: GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, KDE Security Warning, Fedora 40 Beta & more Linux news
March 30, 2024

On this episode of TWIL, weve 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 f

256: Linux Desktop Growth, Fedora Dropping Xorg, Nintendo vs Yuzu lawsuit & more Linux news
March 09, 2024

Weve got a lot of big news for Linux users this week! Weve got everything from marketshare growth to the latest updates for your favorite distros. Desktop Linux hits 4% market share! Thats the high

255: KDE Plasma 6 MegaRelease, cover your Tails, CIQ’s Rocky credibility & more Linux news
March 02, 2024

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. Thats right, KDE Plasma 6 is here! We also got some new dist

254: Linux Laptops, Fedora, DreamWorks Open Source, LXQt Desktop & more Linux news
February 25, 2024

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

253: Fedora goes Atomic, COSMIC is Coming, Linux Kernel Security, Mozilla Refocusing & more Linux news
February 18, 2024

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

252: Kubuntu LTS Says No to Plasma 6, a new Damn Small distro, FCC vs AI calls & more Linux news
February 10, 2024

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 p

251: Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Flathub, openSUSE, Purism & more Linux news
February 04, 2024

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 ma

250: Gentoo Linux, Firefox 122, Parrot OS, Valve Proton & more Linux news
January 27, 2024

On this episode of TWIL (250), Gentoo Linux has some made some major changes to their distro. Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox including DEB packages for those non-snap users out there. E