This Week in Linux

315: Ubuntu / GNOME drop X11, macOS Linux Containers, Fingerprints in Linux Mint & more Linux news

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This week in Linux, there's a lot of news to talk about from new desktop updates to new apps and even a bit of drama. We'll start things off this week with the news that Ubuntu 25.10 is dropping X11 on GNOME sessions. There's a lot of chatter around this one and even some yelling about it... we're going to go over what's really happening, why it matters, who's really behind it, touch on a new fork of X11 and more. That's just the first topic... we also got some crazy news from Apple about running Linux Containers on Macs. Then we'll take a look at a new release of the Sway tiling window manager and then we have news from Linux Mint about their next release and some infrastructure changes happening at GNOME. All of this and more on This Week in Linux, the weekly news show that keeps you up to date with what’s going on in the Linux and Open Source world. Now let's jump right into Your Source for Linux GNews!

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro

01:02 Ubuntu 25.10 drops X11 on GNOME
08:50 Apple Release New Tools for Running Linux Containers on Mac
13:42 Sway 1.11 Tiling Wayland Compositor
16:21 Sandfly Security, agentless Linux security [ad]
18:26 Linux Mint 22.2 Adds Native Fingerprint Login Support
23:07 2025 AlmaLinux Community Survey
26:25 GNOME Has a New Infrastructure Partner: Welcome AWS!
30:27 Kapitano is a New GTK ClamAV Frontend
33:55 ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Announced
38:00 Outro

Links:
  • Community Feedback
    • https://destinationlinux.net/comments
    • https://destinationlinux.net/forum
    • Ubuntu 25.10 drops Gnome on X11
      • https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-25-10-drops-support-for-gnome-on-xorg/62538
      • Murena announces /e/OS 3.0 for Smartphones
        • https://murena.com/introducing-e-os-3-0/
        • https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases/-/releases
        • Apple Release New Tools for Running Linux Containers on Mac
          • https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/
          • https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/apple-linux-container-tool-mac-developers
          • Software Spotlight: Bouncer
            • https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.justinrdonnelly.bouncer
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