Great new releases for GNOME and Tor, delays for the Librem 5, and Linus proves to be extremely important.

Plus some innovative tech gets an open source implementation, and NSA encryption removed from the kernel within weeks of inclusion.

This week saw a huge release for UBports, proof that LMDE is still alive, and Mozilla earning a lot of respect.

Plus mixed news for Google, and a surprising blockchain fact.

Some massive free software milestones this week, Intel's Microcode benchmark snafu, and Windows games for Steam on Linux confirmed, so we give it a test.

Plus Venezuela ties its currency to a cryptocoin, and our reaction to Windows 95 getting stuffed inside an Electron app.

It seems Valve is working to make Windows games work on Linux, and LVFS turns its focus to NVMe drives.

Plus KDE 3 lives on, Endless ships on Asus, and major distros patch against Foreshadow.

We cover the noteworthy features of Android Pie, Lenovo joins The Linux Vendor Firmware Service, and Dropbox is ending support for non-Ext4 filesystems.

Plus big news for Flatpaks, the blockchain goes to work, and Open Source goes all Hollywood.

GNOME and elementary OS receive a large somewhat mysterious donation. Wireguard is coming to a Kernel near you, and Mozilla wants to talk about the Dweb.

Plus OpenWrt is alive and well, and Samsung has a new trick.

Slackware's founder runs into challenges, YouTube makes changes that slow down Firefox, while Firefox is cutting back on some features, and another German region dumps FOSS.

Plus some hard data on why it's time to drop 32-bit Linux, and Lubuntu's got a new direction.

Linux gains a world class media editor, Atari is making Chris nervous, and the Librem 5 hits some rocky waters.

Plus the EU fines Google over how they leverage Android, some follow up, and more.

Arch finds itself in the barrel, Ubuntu goes on a diet, and Python's leader for life has had enough, and steps down.

Plus Debian joins KDE's council of wizards.

SUSE is acquired and GNOME is hiring, and it might just be the summer of forks.

Plus how about a new package manager for your distro?