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193 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsLinux and open source headlines every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday, in under 3 minutes.
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2020-01-31
January 31, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBIBM shakes up its leadership, the Hyperledger Project releases version 2 of Fabric, OpenAI endorses PyTorch, and FOSDEM kicks off in Brussels.
2020-01-30
January 30, 2020 21:00 - 3 minutes - 2.06 MBA popular data analysis library for Python has reached a significant milestone, Google doubles down on FIDO authentication, RStudio restructures to better serve the public, and a new XMPP client is shaking things up.
2020-01-29
January 29, 2020 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBLibreOffice focuses on performance, a new FreeNAS release is out, Thunderbird gets a new home, and more.
2020-01-28
January 28, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.76 MBA partnership to keep open-source secure, Flathub gets social, Kali Linux has a new release and Ubuntu's first in a series of switch guides.
2020-01-27
January 27, 2020 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.87 MBLinux 5.5 arrives with support for the Raspberry Pi 4 among many other improvements, Solus and SQLite both see minor version bumps that pack a punch, and The Qt Company has a major update that is not sitting well with its community.
2020-01-24
January 24, 2020 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBPermissive licenses are on the rise, Open GApps comes to Android 10, Intel unexpectedly joins the CHIPS Alliance, and KDE receives another large donation.
2020-01-23
January 23, 2020 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBMicrosoft has big plans for a dual-screen future, Apple devices get a Vulkan update, and a popular game is losing Linux support.
2020-01-22
January 22, 2020 20:15 - 2 minutes - 2 MBMajor improvements come to Wine, Debian makes a significant change post systemd debate, and the world's most popular open source API gateway gets an update.
2020-01-21
January 21, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBCanonical announces a cloud delivery suite for Android apps, EarlyOOM is on hold for the next Fedora, and ProtonMail open sources its VPN clients.
2020-01-20
January 20, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.92 MBNextcloud follows up with good news for mobile users, breaking a Kubernetes install on purpose, and the amicable resolution for recent concerns in the Rust community.
2020-01-17
January 17, 2020 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBNextcloud announces exciting changes to the platform, Puppet is now releasing both faster and slower, DigitalOcean's restructuring is resulting in layoffs, and Fedora CoreOS reaches production-ready status.
2020-01-16
January 16, 2020 20:45 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBMozilla faces difficult choices after a major layoff, a new release of PyTorch adds long-awaited Java support, GNU Guile sees a significant speedup, and the LLVM community debates the future of decision making for the project.
2020-01-15
January 15, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MBWe say goodbye to a community member, the latest Vulkan update is looking great, while GitHub, IBM, and CentOS all have announcements.
2020-01-14
January 14, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBMariaDB has a new cloud-native database, PC sales were up for the first time in 8 years, Google's Hash Code opens its registration, and GitLab achieved a bug bounty milestone.
2020-01-13
January 13, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 2.01 MBGRUB gets an important patch, a great twitter client for desktop Linux, another Linux distro reaches out to Windows 7 refugees, and the ever-deepening relationship between Microsoft and Samsung.
2020-01-10
January 10, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBA developer is seeking feedback for a proposed Rust Foundation, Amazon relaunches a machine learning tool, and Linus Torvalds issues a warning against using ZFS.
2020-01-09
January 09, 2020 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBAn important security fix for Firefox, handy upgrades for a Tor tool, and a new security-optimized laptop from Nitrokey.
2020-01-08
January 08, 2020 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.83 MBTails has a new trick to keep you secure, Google's Project Zero is making a change, and OpenMandriva ups its package game. Plus the KDE Community's well-timed new campaign.
2020-01-07
January 07, 2020 20:00 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBThe darktable project releases a major new version, Firefox extends picture-in-picture mode to Linux and macOS, and Arduino announces a new modular hardware system for IoT.
2020-01-06
January 06, 2020 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.82 MBWhy a free software pioneer has walked away from the Open Source Initiative, Telegram's cryptocurrency surprise, and China's new CentOS competitor.
2019-12-20
December 20, 2019 20:00 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBCERN eyes Kopano to replace its Exchange infrastructure, Apple open-sources its HomeKit Accessory Development kit with some caveats, and the GNU project releases a testing version of its GNUnet framework.
2019-12-19
December 19, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MBCanonical's Multipass virtual machine manager reaches its 1.0 milestone, the Django project releases a major security update out-of-band, Kdenlive receives major improvements, and Mozilla is replacing IRC for its community communications.
2019-12-18
December 18, 2019 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBApple, Amazon, and Google are teaming up with the Zigbee Alliance to create a new standard for smart homes, Krita gets $25k, and a new version of Mint ships.
2019-12-17
December 17, 2019 21:00 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBFirefox gains a new DNS-over-HTTPS provider, NVIDIA releases a Python framework for video processing, A Cloud Guru acquires Linux Academy, and an update on the beleaguered Atari VCS console.
2019-12-16
December 16, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MB30 million Raspberry Pis sold, GNOME Shell gets classic, and some strange Google bugs.
2019-12-13
December 13, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 2.05 MBZulip version 2.1 is out, LibreOffice has a new manual, the Linux Foundation announces yet another initiative, and individual talks from the Linux App Summit have hit the web.
2019-12-12
December 12, 2019 21:00 - 2 minutes - 1.62 MBKDE's release service has a fresh batch of updates, Electron joins the OpenJS Foundation, VirtualBox 6.1 brings nested virtualization to Intel CPUs, and Vim levels up with a fun game to showcase the release of version 8.2.
2019-12-11
December 11, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBCodeWeavers brings new tricks to Wine, Google pushes Flutter for the desktop, and the Linux Foundation brings attention to a new tool.
2019-12-10
December 10, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.59 MBMicrosoft releases Teams for Linux, SiFive enters the education market, the Eclipse Foundation champions open source on edge computing, and xs:code wants to help improve open source funding models.
2019-12-09
December 09, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.76 MBThe Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu bugs get sorted out, and Canonical reaffirms its commitment to the platform and all future devices. Plus an approachable way to give back to KDE, and more.
2019-12-06
December 06, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.6 MBThe W3C puts forward WebAssembly as an official standard, Azure Sphere gains support for Ubuntu developers, CodeWeek reports back in with this year's results, and Manjaro has some exciting news for PinePhone backers.
2019-12-05
December 05, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.88 MBMozilla speeds up its open source speech-to-text engine, Disney+ is now available on Linux, and Amazon has a new AI-powered service for automated code review.
2019-12-04
December 04, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.66 MBCanonical announces Ubuntu Pro, Netflix open sources Metaflow, and Plex has a new streaming service.
2019-12-03
December 03, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBMozilla launches Firefox 71, the privacy-focused distribution Tails is looking to the future, and elementary OS 5.1 is out.
2019-12-02
December 02, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.49 MBLutris gets a shot of cash from Epic Games, Django unchains version 3, and the Qt folks have a new marketplace.
2019-11-27
November 27, 2019 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.75 MBZorin OS responds to community concerns about data collection, Microsoft's terminal gets a lot more competitive, Kali Linux's clever new feature, and some good news for Mac Users.
2019-11-26
November 26, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.67 MBThe RISC-V Foundation is relocating, Mozilla publishes its annual report from last year with some disappointing results, UBports has a plan to attract more developers, and Splunk urges self-hosters to patch a timestamp issue.
2019-11-25
November 25, 2019 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MBThe latest Linux kernel has some significant improvements, Kaspersky finds three dozen VNC flaws, Mozilla's naughty list, and Sourcetrail goes open source.
2019-11-22
November 22, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBKodi seeks help for an unexpected part of its project, Google axes yet another service, The Linux Foundation offers a new training course, and Data Viper uncovers a massive data dump.
2019-11-21
November 21, 2019 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.97 MBGoogle joins the bare-metal cloud club, Jetpack gets an important security patch, Fedora election voting begins, and Codefresh has some clarifications about its new open source fund.
2019-11-20
November 20, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 2.01 MBSlack releases an open source mesh network, Private Internet Access is being bought, an update on the world's top supercomputers, another init system debate option for Debian to consider, and NVIDIA's new accelerated computing platform.
2019-11-19
November 19, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 2.02 MBThe Open Invention Network is taking on patent trolls, Nextcloud releases a statement concerning NextCry, Mozilla and GitLab are expanding their bug bounty programs, and the EFF helps form the Coalition Against Stalkerware.
2019-11-18
November 18, 2019 20:15 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBThe Oracle vs. Google copyright case goes to the Supreme Court, NextCry attacks Nextcloud servers, Chromebooks prepare to use LVFS, and Debian takes the systemd debate to the next level.
2019-11-15
November 15, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBGitHub launches a new virtual security lab, Debian Buster will soon be the default Linux environment on Chromebooks, and PinePhone pre-orders start today.
2019-11-14
November 14, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBMirantis acquires Docker, WordPress brings a big new feature to Jetpack, GitHub has a plan for archiving the world's open source code, and a new developer hub is available for Go.
2019-11-13
November 13, 2019 19:45 - 2 minutes - 1.8 MBIt’s time to update your kernel again as yet more Intel security issues come to light, good news for container management and self-hosted collaboration, and Brave is finally ready for production.
2019-11-12
November 12, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBPython's package manager looks forward to some much-needed love, PeerTube and Termshark both have major releases, and Mozilla joins forces to push WebAssembly outside the browser.
2019-11-11
November 11, 2019 20:45 - 2 minutes - 1.98 MBSteam gets support for Linux namespaces, some distributions are struggling with the shift from Python 2, Arch Linux supports reproducible builds, and GNOME has a new app in beta.
2019-11-08
November 08, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.99 MBopenSUSE releases the results of the poll for its new name, the FSF awards its "Respects Your Freedom" certificate to two new mainboards, Amazon announces savings plans, Swift gets a new open-source project, and Golang turns 10.
2019-11-07
November 07, 2019 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.93 MBGoogle joins forces to better protect Android from malware, Yubico announces its first security key with a fingerprint reader, Microsoft starts shipping HoloLens 2, and Google takes Cardboard VR open source.