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On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of news week . . . a crazy amount of news that I had to limit it for time. We've got some desktop environment news from GNOME with GNOME 3.38 released and Xfce's updates on New Features & Release Date for Xfce 4.16. PinePhone announced there's now a Multi-Distro Image in fact 13 distros in 1 and we'll check out an affordable Linux laptop in the Slimbook Essential. Mozilla announced the shutting down of Firefox Send & Firefox Notes while NVIDIA is poised to Acquire ARM for $40 Billion! LBRY Announces a new YouTube alternative platform called Odysee and Deepin Linux announced the release of Deepin 20. Finally we'll round out this monster episode with some comments made by Mark Shuttleworth on the future of Ubuntu's Community Council. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

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00:00 = Coming up on TWinL 117

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On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news with new releases from Blender with version 2.90. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbons with Fedora Linux are now available to order. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3000 Series have been launched. Manjaro Edition of the PinePhone from Pine64 has been announced. We'll also take a look at a fantastic article that is on FrontPageLinux.com right now about the History of Unix & Linux. Later in the show, we'll check out a new release from the team at Linux From Scratch and a new Container based distro from Amazon called Bottlerocket. Linux Mint releases their cool Warpinator tool as a Flatpak and Nitrux announced a pretty big change in their distro structure that will be interesting to see the community reaction for. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

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On this episode of This Week in Linux, we'll celebrate the first of 3 birthdays for the Linux kernel. Mozilla announced a new release of Firefox with Firefox 80. Fedora 33 is switching to BTRFS and they are having a Testing Week for those wanting to help. openSUSE is also having some testing for their new Jump branch. Later in the show we will check out the new AMD Laptop from Tuxedo Computers, the Pulse 14. Then we will talk about the FUD surrounding Linux Security as well as what FUD means. We'll round out the show with some gaming news related to SuperTuxKart and some awesome deals at the Humble Store and some Humble Bundles. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

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00:00 = Coming up on TWinL 115

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On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a ton of cool news to talk about. We've got App News for Kdenlive video editor, WordPress website platform, Nextcloud's Desktop client now has End-to-End Encryption and later we'll cover a terminal based File Manager called "nnn". We've also got some really fun Distro News with 2 Hacking aka Penetration Testing distros in Kali Linux and Parrot OS. We're also going to follow up on the KDE Edition of MX Linux because the stable release is out. Later in the show we're going to discuss Valve's Proton because it's been 2 Years since the release of the project and just so much has happened thanks to this project. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

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00:00 Intro to TWinL 114

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On this episode of This Week in Linux, we've got a lot of great news and also a few unfortunate things to talk about. Red Hat announces their Flatpak Runtime for Desktop Containers. Darktable announced the 3.2 release of their Open Source RAW photo editor. LibRetro announced the release of RetroArch 1.9.0 and we also got some unfortunate news from the LibRetro related to some of their servers being hacked. KDE ships the 20.08 updates for their Application Suite and KDE Neon has been rebased on Ubuntu 20.04. An Open Source Earthquake Early-Warning Project has been announced, plus we got the news that the FSF has elected a new President of the foundation. We've also got some unfortunate news with HBO Max reportedly dropping Linux Support and the NSA discloses discovery of malware which is targeting Linux systems. All that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

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