Podcast hiatus.

The RISC-V desktop comes into view, while Mozilla can't catch a break. An unofficial build of Android 11 for the Pi 4, free training from the OpenSSF, TimescaleDB 2 is nearly here, the FSF wants to hear from you, and much more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • The Heart of RISC-V Development is Unmatched • M…

A new QWERTY-slider mobile lands, with LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch as first-class citizens. The Linux Foundation continues its land-grab, releases for Fedora and fwupd, plus an open Facebook groups and events alternative, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Fedora 33 is officially here! • Release Notes…

New interim releases for Ubuntu and Node.js, and a practical Linux shell for iOS. A stealth WordPress plugin update and a takedown notice for youtube-dl raise eyebrows, 1Password lands on Linux, Debian boosts PeerTube's finances, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) releas…

A new Pi Compute Module lands, and ODROID unveils a toaster-style NAS. Updates for Trisquel and Firefox, and a new storage and compute platform from iXsystems. IBM racks up another weak quarter, a surprise or two from Microsoft, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale…

The spat between LibreOffice and OpenOffice rumbles on. Canonical brings high-availability to MicroK8s, new versions of Snap! and VisiData land, and a Bluetooth vulnerability triggers the community. Plus new mobile hardware coming soon, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • LibreOffice rains on OpenOffi…

KDE Plasma and Krita land new releases, and an updated BBC micro:bit is coming soon. Pine touts a new device, Plausible looks to protect itself with a license change, LibreOffice pleads with OpenOffice to fall on its sword, and much more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice • Pl…

Politics, privacy, and corporate maneuvering. Even in the tech world, you can tell November is just around the corner. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Pushing the boundaries of performance and security to unleash the power of 64-bit computing • [Old] Android Developers Blog: Get your apps ready for the 64-b…

Hardware from NVIDIA and Turing Pi, and new releases for Python, Nextcloud and Magisk. Plus Bruce Perens drafts his Post-Open License, Fedora looks to go mobile, the FSF celebrates another anniversary, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Nvidia Presents the DPU, a New Type of Data Center Processor • N…

The LibreOffice project faces a split, and Hacktoberfest stirs deep emotions. Conservancy is gunning for IoT infringers, while Richard Fontana thinks it's time to revisit the Open Source Definition. Plus a new Ubuntu beta, Gitter is sold, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Conservancy Announces New S…

New dev laptops from Dell and Lenovo, and a milestone for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. Intel aims to unify accelerated computing development, and VMware snaps up Salt. Plus Cloudflare boosts its serverless offering, a new Fedora beta, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Tiger Lake is coming in D…

AMD and Arm unveil new CPU options, and Lenovo broadens its Ubuntu consumer range. PostgreSQL and calibre land new updates, while Fedora plans to harden a future release. Plus more on GNOME's usability testing, and a snazzy new enclosure for the Pi. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Lenovo Launches Linux-Read…

Firefox 81 lands as Mozilla spins out its WebThings IoT project, Linux Journal is back, Andrew "bunnie" Huang unveils a new mobile open source hardware platform, Microsoft is previewing Edge on Linux next month, plus so much more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • ArcMenu Development is Stopping!!! to be cont…

While IBM was birthing MQ for the Raspberry Pi, Firefox Send met its end. Plus a new GNOME release, more Linux laptop options, systemd is back in the headlines, GitHub mainstreams its CLI client, Tor triumphs with its latest fundraiser, and more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Introducing GNOME 3.38: “Orbi…

Change is coming to the Arm and RISC-V ecosystems, Microsoft bids for a full-stack Linux experience on Hyper-V, the Ubuntu Community Council is returning, some cautionary ecommerce news, and Emacs Prelude hits its 1.0 release after nine years. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Bi…

Better Linux disk integration for WSL 2 users, OpenWrt finds a new home, the boss chips in on Ubuntu community representation, more OS options appear for PineTab owners, Mozilla looks to its extension devs for extra funding, plus a whole lot more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • The Mozilla Manifesto Addend…

Mozilla's CEO lobbies Europe for a less open web. Inkscape and digiKam drop new releases, while Ubuntu and Thunderbird plan upcoming changes. Plus Chef gets taken off the menu, and the FSFE opens its coffers to deserving causes. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commi…

Has the growth in open source development peaked? A group of academics thinks so. Plus the GNOME patent troll settlement finally sees the light of day, an upcoming ultra-mobile PC for engineering staff, and a whole lot more on today's show. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Quo Vadis, Open Source? The Limits …

Genius marketing, or a one-way ticket to Clown World? The community finally wakes up to Fedora's big change. Plus Amazon's Bottlerocket Linux goes GA, a new funding initiative for Tor, the Linux Foundation looks to go green to make green, and much more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Btrfs Coming to Fedora…

Bruce Perens unveils a plan to get FOSS developers paid, Mozilla continues to disappoint, Blender and Redis Labs are in the money, containers are back in the headlines, new tooling could see desktop Android explode, and so, so much more. For ways to contact or support the show, visit our website. Story links • Bruce Perens: What Comes After Open So…