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.
Flatpak vulnerability, Gentoo refuses AI, Cosmic will theme apps
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00:00 Intro
01:17 Flatpak has a sandbox escape flaw
https://linuxiac.com/flatpak-patch-addresses-major-sandbox-escape-flaw/
05:08 Cosmic will be able to theme all GTK apps
https://blog.system76.com/post/hammering-out-cosmic-features
11:50 Gentoo doesn’t want AI assisted contributions
https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/
15:48 Framework is struggling on software
19:51 Nouveau maintainer works for Nvidia, submits more code
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ben-Skeggs-Joins-NVIDIA
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-NVIDIA-Copy-Acceleration
23:36 Ubuntu 24.04 beats Windows 11 by 20%
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-16-windows-linux
25:46 Terraform vs OpenTofu license battle
https://thenewstack.io/opentofu-project-denies-hashicorps-allegations-of-code-theft/
28:37 Fedora & OpenSUSE wants reproducible packages
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible-RPM
https://news.opensuse.org/2024/04/18/factory-bit-reproducible-builds/ https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/buy-in/
32:10 Solid improvements coming to Plasma 6.1
https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/
32:52 Gaming: NTSYNC driver, x86 on ARM emulation
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-Merging-NTSYNC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-Emulator-2404
41:13 Outro
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