293: COSMIC Alpha 5, KDE Plasma 6.3 beta, SteamOS beyond Steam Deck & more Linux news

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This week in Linux, we have a lot to talk about. We're gonna talk about some alphas and some betas and also some big news from Valve. So we have KDE Plasma 6.3 beta that is coming out with System76 releasing the Alpha 5 of the COSMIC Desktop Environment and Valve announced that SteamOS is going to expand beyond the Steam Deck. All of this and so much 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.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:38 KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta
08:10 Google and The Linux Foundation team up for 'Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers'
13:26 System76 Release COSMIC DE Alpha 5
17:59 Sandfly Security, agentless protection
19:34 GNOME Refine Tool
23:06 Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS
25:51 SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck
29:09 The Mecha Comet
31:23 Support the show

Links:

• KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta
  • https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.90/
  • https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.2.5-6.2.90/
  • https://phabricator.kde.org/T17435
  • http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/adding-home-automation-to-kde/
  • 17 KDE Tips = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPIwFC4qFs
• Google and The Linux Foundation team up for 'Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers'
  • https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-launch-of-supporters-of-chromium-based-browsers
  • https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html
• System76 Release COSMIC DE Alpha 5
  • https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-5-released
• Sandfly Security, agentless protection
  • https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly
• GNOME Refine Tool
  • https://tesk.page/refine/
  • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/refine-advanced-tweak-tool-for-gnome
• Lenovo Legion Go S with SteamOS
  • https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/lenovo-legion-go-s-with-valves-steamos-is-official-expected-to-launch-in-may/
  • https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338028/lenovo-legion-go-s-steam-windows
• SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck
• https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/529834914570306831
• https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valve-confirms-a-public-beta-of-steamos-is-coming-as-steamos-expands-beyond-steam-deck/
• The Mecha Comet
  • https://mecha.so/comet
  • https://destinationlinux.net
• Support the show
  • https://tuxdigital.com/membership
  • https://store.tuxdigital.com/