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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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3 March 2022

Why it might be time to lower your RISC-V expectations, Intel's moves to close up CPU firmware, and a quick state of the Deck.

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24 February 2022

The Linux secret behind the new TrueNAS release, Intel acquires a major Kernel contributor and our thoughts on Podman 4.0.

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17 February 2022

Canonical has a big week, why bcachefs looks like it's taking another step forward, and ChromeOS Flex for PCs is released.

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10 February 2022

A last-minute kernel patch for the Steam Deck, why Intel is supporting RISC-V development, and we go hands-on with Plasma 5.24.

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3 February 2022

System76 reveals a new tool to make Pop's desktop faster than the rest, and we break down that recent Btrfs defrag infinite loop bug.

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27 January 2022

The big disruption that looks like a bust, a security issue you need to pay attention to, and some great news for the Steam Deck.

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20 January 2022

We explain SUSE Liberty Linux and contemplate why the community seems to be selecting distributions with newer kernels.

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13 January 2022

Fedora and Red Hat users are getting a web-based installer, and a new legal situation for Bitcoin smells like retro SCO FUD.

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6 January 2022

GnuPG has some great news, Libadwaita 1.0 has arrived and we share our thoughts, plus a big batch of updates from the Matrix project.

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27 December 2021

We kick off our annual predictions episode with what we got right and wrong this year and then attempt to predict what will happen in 2022.

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19 December 2021

The nasty Log4Shell vulnerability isn't solved yet, this week saw a new round of attacks and patches.

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12 December 2021

The Log4Shell vulnerability is making waves this week; we'll explain why and break down how it works.