Episode 260
LXQt Desktop, Nouveau Lead Joins NVIDIA, AlmaLinux making waves, New Linux Tablet & more Linux news
April 20th, 2024
16 mins 39 secs
About this Episode
We have some very interesting news this week, we've got a brand new major release of the LXQt desktop environment, there's a strange but potentially good twist in the ongoing saga of Nvidia and open source drivers, Red Hat drops the hardware ball and AlmaLinux catches it. Plus there's a new Linux Tablet trying to get kickstarted. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 LXQt 2.0 Released
02:52 Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA
05:51 AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Released
09:04 Sponsored by Kolide
10:26 Mozilla Firefox 125 Released
11:59 Volla Tablet on Kickstarter supports Ubuntu Touch
13:39 Bazzite 2.5.0 Released
15:16 XZ Backdoor Gets the All-Clear
15:44 Outro
Links:
- LXQt 2.0 Released
- Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA
- AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Released
- https://almalinux.org/blog/2024-04-15-announcing-94-beta/
- https://almalinux.discourse.group/t/re-adding-support-for-older-hardware/3851
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1086
- https://jonathanspw.com/posts/2024-03-31-dealing-with-cve-2024-1086/
- https://lwn.net/Articles/968299/
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Beta
- Mozilla Firefox 125 Released
- Volla Tablet on Kickstarter supports Ubuntu Touch
- Bazzite 2.5.0 Released
- https://bazzite.gg/
- https://universal-blue.org/
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/bazzite-v25-has-fixes-for-lenovo-legion-go-and-asus-rog-ally-plus-smoother-installs/
- https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-2-5-0-update-released/1108
- https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/releases/tag/v2.5.0
- XZ Backdoor Gets the All-Clear