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Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes. The show every week we hope you’ll go to when you want to hear an informed discussion about what’s happening.

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Linux Action News 165

29 November 2020

What caused the recent major AWS outage, the breaking changes that just arrived upstream, and a new mail client for Linux.

Linux Action News 164

22 November 2020

The details behind youtube-dl's return to GitHub, our thoughts on the rumored SUSE IPO, and our concerns with Servo's new home.

Linux Action News 163

15 November 2020

The Ubuntu bug you need to patch, PayPal's Bitcoin support goes live, and a breaking change inbound to systemd.

Linux Action News 162

8 November 2020

We review the Raspberry Pi 400. Then discover new features coming to Linux powered Dells.

Linux Action News 161

1 November 2020

A RISC-V development PC is in the works, we have the details and try to set expectations.

Linux Action News 160

25 October 2020

Ubuntu 20.10 is out, with official Raspberry Pi 4 desktop support. We try it out and report back. And our thoughts on the youtube-dl takedown.

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18 October 2020

The new Plasma release makes a compelling argument for the workstation, why LibreOffice and OpenOffice can't seem to get along and a recently found bug in Linux that goes back to Kernel 2.6.

Linux Action News 158

11 October 2020

NextCloud makes some significant changes, and we share our reaction; IBM is planning to split into two, but we have some questions, and Firefox may soon display sponsored "top sites."

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4 October 2020

Quite a bit from Google this week, with new products and notable changes coming for developers and users.

Linux Action News 156

27 September 2020

Lenovo expands its Linux lineup in a big way, with 30 Ubuntu systems. And why Microsoft Edge on Linux might be more significant than you think.

Linux Action News 155

20 September 2020

We try out the new GNOME "Orbis" release and chat about Microsoft's new Linux kernel patches that make it clear Windows 10 is on the path to a hybrid Windows/Linux system.

Linux Action News 154

13 September 2020

Our hands-on review of Android 11, and our thoughts on the possible consequences of Nvidia buying Arm Holdings for $40bn.