Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics. This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel.
New Linux tablet, SUSE goes private, GNOME 45 beta
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00:00 Intro
00:49 StarLabs launches their Microsoft Surface equivalent
https://linuxiac.com/starlite-5-linux-tablet/
07:09 SUSE is going private
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/suse_delisting/
12:28 GNOME 45 is getting a cool feature, plus the beta is out
https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-adds-keyboard-backlight-control/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/10/gnome_45_beta/
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-45-beta-released-heres-whats-new
17:38 The KDE team fixes how they handle icon themes
https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/12/how-all-this-icon-stuff-is-going-to-work-in-plasma-6/
21:26 Plasma 6 wallpaper competition
https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-wallpaper-competition/
https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773
23:58 Does Linux have a Firefox problem?
https://www.osnews.com/story/136653/desktop-linux-has-a-firefox-problem/
30:55 Application updates: WPS and Firefox
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/08/wps-office-for-linux-updated-2023
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Fractional-Scale-v1
https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/mozilla-firefox-for-android-to-support-extensions
34:39 Discord.io suffers a big data breach
37:27 Gaming News: Nvidia problems, ray tracing and mitigations
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/recent-nvidia-drivers-are-causing-issues-for-proton/
https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.14
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Batch-Accel-RT
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/08/linux-kernel-gets-an-amd-zenbleed-fix-for-the-steam-deck-apu/
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-inception-benchmarks
43:53 Outro
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