This Week in Linux

321: Intel nixes Clear Linux, 6% Market Share, Arch Malware, EU FOSS Funding & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/ucGrNLdsql0 Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we've got a bit of bad news from Intel as they abruptly ended Clear Linux out of no where and Arch Linux warned users that malware was found in the AUR. It's not all bad this week though because Wayback is back on the show with the first preview release for keeping X11 desktops alive in our future Wayland powered world. Plus according to one source, Linux usage is even higher than we already thought it was. A couple of episodes ago I reported that we broke the 5% threshold on the US desktop market based on StatCounter data but according to one source it's already climbed passed 6%. What source you ask? The analytics of U.S. federal government websites. Speaking of governments, GitHub is trying to get EU lawmakers to scale Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund into a EU wide program to fund critical open‑source projects. Also for some more good news, we're so close to hitting 100,000 subscribers on the channel, if you want to help please consider subscribing. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:56 Intel is Shutting Down Clear Linux 05:44 Linux hits 6% U.S. Government Website Analytics 08:29 GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source 13:56 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] 16:02 Arch Linux finds Malware in the AUR 18:34 Wayback 0.1 Released 21:10 NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V 22:06 Unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux 23:08 Outro Links: Intel is Shutting Down Clear Linux https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716 https://www.omglinux.com/intel-clear-linux-os-discontinued-2025/ Linux hits 6% U.S. Government Website Analytics https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/according-to-one-source-linux-hits-over-6-desktop-user-share/ https://analytics.usa.gov/ GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/we-need-a-european-sovereign-tech-fund/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/github-eu-open-source-funding https://www.sovereign.tech/news/celebrating-two-years-of-empowering-public-digital-infrastructure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Tech_Agency https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects/tree/main/Initiatives/Identifying-Critical-Projects/Version-1.1 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly Arch Linux finds Malware in the AUR https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/ Wayback 0.1 Released https://wayback.freedesktop.org/news/2025/07/23/wayback-0.1-released/ https://wayback.freedesktop.org/ NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V https://riscv.org/ecosystem-news/2025/07/nvidia-to-bring-cuda-platform-support-to-the-risc-v/ https://dataconomy.com/2025/07/21/nvidias-cuda-platform-now-officially-supports-risc-v-cpus/ Unofficial GUI for Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation on Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/theres-now-an-unofficial-gui-for-lossless-scalings-frame-generation-on-linux/ https://github.com/Caliel666/lsfg-vk-ui Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

320: CachyOS, Hyprland, Chrome OS & Android Merging?, Lossless Scaling for Linux & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/yGQ_w0LL4Xs Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have some interesting distro news from CachyOS & Chrome OS. We've also got new releases from the open source 3d rendering powerhouse Blender & the popular dynamic tiling wayland compositor Hyprland. Then, Plasma Bigscreen is back on the air from KDE. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:43 CachyOS July 2025 Release 03:41 Hyprland 0.50 Released 05:50 Blender 4.5 LTS Released 08:31 Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux 10:42 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] 12:42 OCCT for Linux 13:38 Chrome OS is Apparently Merging with Android 15:11 Plasma Bigscreen is Back on Air 17:08 Outro Links: CachyOS July 2025 Release https://cachyos.org/blog/2507-july-release/ Hyprland 0.50 Released https://hypr.land/news/update50/ Blender 4.5 LTS Released https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-5/ https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.5/eevee/#vulkan https://www.blender.org/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/blender-4-5-lts-vulkan-support Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lsfg-vk-aims-to-bring-lossless-scalings-frame-generation-to-linux/ https://www.pcguide.com/news/lossless-scaling-frame-gen-on-linux-gets-some-help-from-the-original-dev-next-3-steps-outlined-by-creator/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lossless-scalings-frame-generation-for-linux-gets-upgraded-to-the-latest-v3-1/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lossless-scaling-frame-gen-gets-a-decky-loader-steam-deck-plugin-but-theres-drama/ Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly OCCT for Linux https://www.ocbase.com/ https://www.ocbase.com/news/occt-available-on-steam https://www.ocbase.com/news/occt-v14-vulkan https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stress-testing-toolkit-occt-arrives-on-steam-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stress-testing-app-occt-switches-to-vulkan-by-default-dropping-directx/ Chrome OS is Apparently Merging with Android https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i-think-you-see-the-future-first-on-android-googles-android-leader-sameer-samat https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/is-chrome-os-merging-with-android https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/googles-android-head-confirms-chrome-os-and-android-are-merging/ Plasma Bigscreen is Back on Air https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen-revival-kde-tv Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

319: Red Hat's No-Cost RHEL, Bazzite gets Bazaar, Thunderbird 140, OBS Studio & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/aig4jdVoL6o Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have another jam packed episode of TWIL. Red Hat announced No-Cost RHEL for business developers, MIPS has been acquired, the Bazzite team have a brand new app store, and we have new releases from Thunderbird, OBS Studio, Bash and more! All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers 03:42 GlobalFoundries acquires MIPS 05:33 Bazzite gets new app-store & devices 09:34 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 11:38 OBS Studio 31.1 Released 14:30 Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub 18:04 Thunderbird 140 Released 21:06 Bash 5.3 Released 22:03 Outro Links: Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-red-hat-enterprise-linux-business-developers-aligning-application-development-production-consistency GlobalFoundries acquires MIPS https://mips.com/blog/mips-and-globalfoundries-powering-the-next-wave-of-physical-ai/ https://gf.com/gf-press-release/globalfoundries-to-acquire-mips-to-accelerate-ai-and-compute-capabilities/ Bazzite gets new app-store & devices https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-july-2025-update-bazaar-z13-kernel-6-15-steam-hardware-survey/9501 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly OBS Studio 31.1 Released https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/31.1.0 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/obs-studio-31-1-whats-new Mozilla VPN Linux App is Now Available on Flathub https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.vpn https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/mozilla-vpn-linux-app-available-flathub Thunderbird 140 Released https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-140-eclipse/ https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/140.0esr/releasenotes/ Bash 5.3 Released https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/bash-5-3-new-features https://lwn.net/Articles/1029079/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Bash-5.3 Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

318: Linux desktop hits 5%, Wayback: X11 Desktops on Wayland, & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/h-qXWfz_yew Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux, we have a huge milestone to celebrate with Linux hitting the coveted 5% market share for desktops in the US market. Then we got a few gaming topics to cover including one about game preservation and anti-cheats. Then we are going to take a look at a project to keep X11 window managers around for good. Later in the show we'll check out some new releases including a lightweight window manager called IceWM. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:48 Linux Hits 5% US Desktop Market Share 04:14 Stop Killing Games Initiative 11:11 Wayback: Experimental Layer for X11 Desktops on Wayland 15:39 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security 17:34 IceWM 3.8 Window Manager Released 19:05 Anti-Cheat on Linux: THE FINALS & Broken Arrow 22:26 digiKam 8.7 Released 24:05 ProtonPlus to manage Proton layers for Gaming 25:53 Outro Links: Linux Hits 5% US Desktop Market Share https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/ Stop Killing Games Initiative https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stop-killing-games-consumer-movement-hits-some-major-milestones/ Wayback: Experimental Layer for X11 Desktops on Wayland https://github.com/kaniini/wayback https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-2026-Plans https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/wayback_wayland_display_server/ Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly IceWM 3.8 Window Manager Released https://ice-wm.org/ https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-3.8-Released Anti-Cheat on Linux: THE FINALS & Broken Arrow https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-finals-is-getting-new-kernel-based-anti-cheat-likely-to-break-it-on-linux-steamos-steam-deck/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/broken-arrow-devs-confirm-their-anti-cheat-will-not-block-linux-steamos/ digiKam 8.7 Released https://www.digikam.org/ https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/ ProtonPlus to manage Proton layers for Gaming https://github.com/Vysp3r/ProtonPlus https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/protonplus-makes-managing-proton-versions-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck-simple/ Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

317: Steam Summer Sale, Fedora 32-Bit Controversy, Fairphone 6, KDE Korner, & more Linux news

video: https://youtu.be/GH18mp-2d90 Comment on the TWIL Forum This week in Linux is packed! It's an extra long episode. So if you were wanting more and more TWIL, then you're going to get it this week because Steam Summer Sale is here and it is torching bank accounts. Fedora developers are talking about getting rid of 32-bit support and there's a little bit of controversy around that. We're going to break all of that down. Also, Fairphone 6 has been announced and it comes with kernel patches, an upstream Linux kernel on day one. Firefox 140 has arrived as the new ESR, and there's also some exciting news coming in the next release of Firefox as well. And later in the show, KDE's Wayland wave is continuing to grow to about 70% of users these days. Kubuntu drops X11 by default, and KDE is working on a slick first run wizard. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what's going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership Store = tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:06 Steam Summer Sale 2025, here's some Steam Deck ready bargains 03:12 Fedora’s Controversial 32-Bit Proposal (Could this kill Bazzite?) 09:23 Fairphone 6 Announced: Modular, Repairable, Linux-Ready 14:54 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] 16:40 Firefox 140 ESR lands with Tab Unloading & Vertical Pinned Zone 19:41 KDE Korner: Wayland Surges in Usage, Kubuntu Dropping X11, New Initial Setup Wizard 25:27 Flathub Hits 3 Billion Downloads 27:36 Destination Linux podcast for more great content 28:38 2K Classics Humble Bundle with BioShock & Mafia (90% Discount!) 31:24 ONLYOFFICE 9.0 Released: AI Tools, Visio Viewer & Fresh UI! 34:15 Lyon Goes Open Source (France’s Third-Largest City) 36:31 Outro Links: Steam Summer Sale 2025, here's some Steam Deck ready bargains https://store.steampowered.com/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-summer-sale-2025-is-live-heres-some-top-picks-all-under-20/ Fedora’s Controversial 32-Bit Proposal (Could this kill Bazzite?) https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/bazzite-would-shut-down-if-fedora-goes-ahead-with-removing-32-bit/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lj9e00/fedora_43_change_proposal_drop_i686_support/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1ljo24p/bazzite_founder_might_shutdown_whole_project_if/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lj9oqw/fedora_linux_devs_discuss_dropping_32bit_packages/ Fairphone 6 Announced: Modular, Repairable, Linux-Ready https://www.fairphone.com/ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/06/25/switch-to-the-new-fairphone-gen-6/ https://murena.com/murena-fairphone-gen-6-is-here-the-most-ethical-smartphone-unveiled/ Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad] https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly Firefox 140 ESR lands with Tab Unloading & Vertical Pinned Zone Firefox 140: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/140.0/releasenotes/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/firefox_140_esr/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/firefox-140-new-features-update https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-140 https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new Firefox 141 https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-141-linux-ram Mozilla discontinues DeepSpeech https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/mozilla-deepfake-ai-detector-closing-down https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech KDE Korner: Wayland Surges in Usage, Kubuntu Dropping X11, New Initial Setup Wizard https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-initial-setup-tool-kiss-development-progress https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1lipt42/kde_plasma_will_continue_having_an_x11_session_as/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kde-plasma-will-continue-having-an-x11-session-as-kubuntu-switches-to-wayland-by-default/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kubuntu-25-10-drops-x11-session https://lwn.net/Articles/1026552/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Wayland-Is-The-Future Flathub Hits 3 Billion Downloads https://flathub.org/statistics https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lgaz5z/flathub_has_passed_3_billion_downloads/ Destination Linux podcast for more great content https://destinationlinux.net/ Latest Interviews Carl Richell of System76 = https://destinationlinux.net/416 Craig Rowland of Sandfly Security = https://destinationlinux.net/409 Artyom Zorin of Zorin OS = https://destinationlinux.net/395 2K Classics Humble Bundle with BioShock & Mafia (90% Discount!) https://humblebundleinc.sjv.io/09zAMM ONLYOFFICE 9.0 Released: AI Tools, Visio Viewer & Fresh UI! https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/06/meet-onlyoffice-desktop-editors-v9-0 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/onlyoffice-9-0-desktop-new-features-ai Lyon Goes Open Source (France’s Third-Largest City) https://www.lyon.fr/actualite/action-municipale/la-ville-de-lyon-renforce-sa-souverainete-numerique https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/lyon_leaving_microsoft/ Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/