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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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9 May 2021

We start you off with the headlines that matter this week, then share our thoughts on Audacity's new owners proposing user tracking.

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2 May 2021

A spicy mix of distro news, including Rocky Linux's first milestone release, and our follow-up on the University of Minnesota’s kernel ban.

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25 April 2021

The University of Minnesota has been banned from the Linux kernel. We'll share the history, the context, and where things stand now around the controversial research that led to the ban.

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18 April 2021

The major shift in the Linux landscape this week that was hardly noticed, and our thoughts on COSMIC from System76.

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11 April 2021

Don't buy that M1-powered Apple machine just yet, solving Wayland-driven fragmentation, and why Firefox is about to get an upgrade on Linux.

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4 April 2021

The first CentOS clone is out, but it's the second part of their announcement that might be the most important. Plus our reaction to SCO reigniting their decades-long fight with IBM and Red Hat, and the big news in GTK-land you might have missed.

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28 March 2021

GNOME 40 is out and we chat with the project’s Executive Director about the technical and visual improvements in the new release.

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21 March 2021

Mobile Linux OSes are looking better than ever this week, a new effort to keep legacy applications running on Linux, and the signals indicating a Fuchsia release is nigh.

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13 March 2021

The A-Team assembled to make open source more trustworthy, why we might be about to find out how much SUSE is worth, and some essential project updates.

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7 March 2021

Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week.

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28 February 2021

Red Hat is still in damage control mode, a new hacker laptop called Framework makes bold promises, and what Google is spending money on in the Linux kernel.

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21 February 2021

We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible.