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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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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.

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5 December 2021

Industry-changing open-source project releases, and why the new CentOS Stream 9 might be more noteworthy than you realize.

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28 November 2021

Fedora's massive endorsement this week that went unnoticed, why RISC-V mobile devices might be getting near, and the significant change coming to a critical open-source tool.

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21 November 2021

Just how severe is this DNS cache poisoning attack revealed this week? We'll break it down and explain why Linux is affected. Plus, the feature now removed from APT, more performance patches in the Kernel, and a big batch of project updates.