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.
OpenSUSE is going immutable, Snap creates problems, Fuchsia won't be Google's future
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00:00 Intro
01:26 OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be immutable
https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-leap-15-6-to-be-the-last-in-its-current-form/
05:24 Google pretty much gives up on Fuchsia
https://9to5google.com/2024/01/15/google-is-no-longer-bringing-the-full-chrome-browser-to-fuchsia/
07:45 Steam Snap creates problems for Valve
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/valve-dont-recommend-ubuntu-steam-snap
11:01 Sponsor: Thunderbird
12:30 Flathub wants better quality apps
https://linuxiac.com/flathub-strategic-shift-to-highlight-high-quality-apps/
15:52 Ubuntu adds patches to improve GNOME’s performance
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-More-GNOME-Perf
18:10 Plasma 6 will get better fractional scaling
https://blog.broulik.de/2024/01/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-vol-5/
21:02 A proposal to make Ai content more identifiable
https://mindmatters.ai/2024/01/framework-for-ai-legislation/
24:28 Online search is getting worse
https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research
28:27 Google will let the EU unlink data from their services
30:34 Gstreamer gets 200K€ funding
https://linuxiac.com/stf-funds-gstreamer-with-203k/
32:20 A new flaw in many AMD, Apple and Qualcomm GPUs
https://www.wired.com/story/leftoverlocals-gpu-vulnerability-generative-ai/
34:26 Gaming: Wine 9.0, the Hangover project
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-9.0
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-9.0-Released
38:03 Outro
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