541: Out with a Bang

The stories that kept us talking all year, and are only getting hotter!

Plus the big flops we're still sore about.

Special Guest: Kenji Berthold.

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• HDR Beginning To Work For Linux Gaming
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• End of the 4.9 Kernel Series
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• FOSDEM 2023: Fedora Asahi
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• Plasma 5.27
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• GNOME 44 Released
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• GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI
• Ubuntu Cinnamon Flavor Status Announcement
• Plasma 6 Early Builds
• Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions
• Btrfs Improvments in 6.4
• Announcing Fedora Linux 38
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 38
• Red Hat Cutting “Hundreds Of Jobs”
• Message to Red Hat associates today
• Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released
• The new Flathub Website
• Flathub Website Gets a Brand New Look
• Ubuntu 23.04 Released
• Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
• Ubuntu 23.04 with GNOME 44 and a stable Steam Snap
• HDR hackfest wrap-up
• CVE-2023-28410: i915 graphics driver improperly restricts operations within the bounds of a memory buffer
• New NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges
• bcachefs out for review
• Fedora Program Manager Laid Off
• Fedora Program Manager Laid Off As Part Of Red Hat Cuts
• Podman Desktop 1.0 Annouced
• Introducing Azure Linux
• CodeWeavers An Employee Ownership Trust
• CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust
• XFS Metadata Corruption On Linux 6.3 Tracked Down To One Missing One-Line Patch
• Linux 6.3.5 Released With XFS Metadata Corruption Fix
• Plasma 6 is Wayland only - No X11 for Plasma 6
• Xorg server is deprecated since RHEL 9.0
• Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base
• Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement
• LibreOffice to be cut out of RHEL installs
• Debian 12 “bookworm” released
• Linux 6.4 Released
• Linux 6.4 Released, focus on 6.5
• Btrfs In Linux 6.5 May Bring A Cumulative Performance Improvement
• Linux Kernel 6.4 Released with Interesting Mix of Changes
• Bcachefs File-System Pull Request Submitted For Linux 6.5
• Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes
• Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
• A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
• Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code
• The future of AlmaLinux | Hacker News
• Rocky Linux: Keeping Open Source Open
• LXD Moves to Canonical
• LXD has been re-licensed and is now under a CLA
• Fedora Asahi Remix
• Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware
• Fedora Asahi Remix: bringing Fedora to Apple Silicon Macs (Flock To Fedora 2023)
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• The first conformant M1 GPU driver
• Asahi Linux’s Apple M1/M2 Gallium3D Driver Now OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformant
• Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver
• Ubuntu Desktop: Charting a course for the future
• Ubuntu Desktop “Charting A Course For The Future” With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year
• Leap Replacement Discussion
• Linux’s Marketshare on Steam Still Higher Than Apple macOS
• Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant [YouTube]
• “Nextcloud Hub 6” launched🚀
• Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5!
• Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks
• Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4
• Raspberry Pi 5 Review: A New Standard for Makers
• Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller – Raspberry Pi
• CPU decoding acording to Eben Upton in an interview
• Intel is killing off its NUC mini PCs
• Ubuntu 23.10 Released
• Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations
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• Linux 6.6 Features Include The EEVDF Scheduler, Shadow Stack, Intel IVSC, AMD DBC & More
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• XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down
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• Element Going AGPL
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• Fedora Change: Retire Modularity
• Fedora Web Installer Delayed
• What’s new in Fedora Workstation 39
• GNOME 45 Release Notes
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