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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 59

24 June 2018

Projects once thought dead are now full of life, with new major releases and we kick the tires.

Linux Action News 58

17 June 2018

Plasma Desktop has a new release so we cover the new features and bugs, Mycroft has an "opportunity" for you, and trouble at CopperheadOS.

Linux Action News 57

10 June 2018

Free and open source developers are still freaking out about Microsoft buying GitHub, ReactOS reaches a major milestone, TrueOS appears to be forking, and changes are coming to the core of Plasma desktop team.

Linux Action News 56

3 June 2018

Ubuntu-based Atari VCS crowd-funding is going very well, Endless employees are hit with layoffs, and why GNOME might be too fat for Pi.

Linux Action News 55

27 May 2018

OpenSUSE Leap 15 is released, along a new LXQt, the Essential Phone getting canceled, and why older Chrombooks might be receiving the big Linux apps update.

Linux Action News 54

20 May 2018

Asteroid OS reaches 1.0, and Joe gives it a go. GNOME developers consider removing the ability to launch binaries, but punt for now. And the lessons learned from malware in the Snap Store.

Linux Action News 53

13 May 2018

It's confirmed Linux apps are coming to Chrome OS. Google is finally putting pressure on OEMs to ship security patches, and we try Android of Things.

Linux Action News 52

6 May 2018

Fedora fights for the user, Ubuntu Flavours draw the line, and why we're worried small distributions are starting to collapse.

Linux Action News 51

29 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 is out and we round up the new features, the flavors, and our first takes.

Linux Action News 50

22 April 2018

Trisquel has a new release, and Chris tries out the new ReactOS. Plus our thoughts on Microsoft announcing their own Linux, the German government switching to NextCloud, and the fix is in for Gnome Shell's infamous "Memory leak".

Linux Action News 49

15 April 2018

ZFS' first data loss bug comers to Linux, GameMode could have some serious potential, and Mozilla thinks the Internet is in bad shape.

Linux Action News 48

8 April 2018

The Linux kernel gets a spring cleaning, things are going well for RISC-V, and Linux-Libre is clearly prioritizing freedom over security with their recent update.