December 06, 2020

Linux Action News 166

29 minutes

Desktop Linux users saw a lot of new features land this week, and SUSE might just have a new cloud-winning strategy.

Plus Michael Larabel from Phoronix joins us to discuss the state of Linux hardware support in 2020.

Special Guest: Michael Larabel.

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Budgie 10.5.2 Desktop Environment Released with Support for the GNOME 3.38 Stack
Budgie 10.5.2 Released
KDE Plasma 5.20.4 Is Out with More Than 40 Bug Fixes and Improvements
Plasma 5.20.4 complete changelog
GNOME 3.38.2 Desktop Environment Is Out with Even More Improvements and Bug Fixes
3.38.2/NEWS
Cinnamon 4.8 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
New Raspberry Pi OS release — The traditional end-of-year new release of Raspberry Pi OS, which we launch today.

Raspberry Pi’s V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Wayland — Raspberry Pi fans were celebrating that the V3DV driver is now officially Vulkan 1.0 conformant for supporting this modern high-performance graphics/compute API atop the Raspberry Pi 4 and newer.

Should Red Hat be afraid of SUSE’s Rancher acquisition? — SUSE, a major Linux and cloud company, finalized its acquisition of Rancher Labs earlier this year.. Rancher, formerly a privately held open-source company, had over 37,000 active users and 100-million downloads of its flagship Kubernetes management program, Rancher.

Rancher Labs - Wikipedia

Network World

SUSE to Acquire Rancher Labs - YouTube

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