{"podcast":{"title":"Linux & Open Source News","slug":"linux-open-source-news-5948837","podcast_index_feed_id":5948837,"rss_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast","image_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/media/podcasts/tlenewspodcast/cover_feed.png","author":"Nick","episode_count":175,"summary":"Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics. This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel. I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837"},"episode":{"title":"France moves to open source, modular Linux handheld PC, big Linux gaming progress","slug":"france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress","published_at":"2026-01-31T09:00:51+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837","url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e,pg=e407bff5-dc32-54c1-b1a7-8edd8a885d8f/podcast.thelinuxexp.com/audio/@tlenewspodcast/france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress.mp3","summary":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 02:01 France moves to Open Source https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con 03:58 Modular handheld Linux PC raises €500K https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer/description 06:22 Open Gaming Collective shares resource for Linux gaming https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/ 08:44 Contingency plan for the Linux kernel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Continuity-Doc 10:51 XFCE develops Wayland compositor https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html 12:59 SonicDE wants to keep KDE X11 alive https://www.phoronix.com/news/SonicDE-Improving-KDE-X11-Code 15:34 Cosmic shows their blurred transparent look https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/cosmic-desktop-frosted-glass-effect 17:01 Another Cosmic Update https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-epoch/releases/tag/epoch-1.0.4 18:14 Valve sued in the UK for dominant position https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/uk-lawsuit-against-valve-given-the-go-ahead-steam-owner-facing-up-to-656-million-in-damages/ 20:45 Bottles adds Analysis tool to make EXEs run better https://usebott…","meta_description":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux &am…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1814,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/france-moves-to-open-source-modular-linux-handheld-pc-big-linux-gaming-progress.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}