{"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":192,"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":"2026-09-26T18:18:19.967094+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837"},"episode":{"title":"Google is closing down Android more and more, and launching a new Linux-based OS","slug":"google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os","published_at":"2026-09-26T09:36:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837","url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e,pg=e407bff5-dc32-54c1-b1a7-8edd8a885d8f/podcast.thelinuxexp.com/audio/@tlenewspodcast/google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os.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 Links: 01:45 Android is less and less open source https://itsfoss.com/news/grapheneos-android-17-qpr1-fiasco/ 04:16 GoogleBook OS introduced as a Linux based system https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/rethinking-the-laptop-is-a-big-undertaking-why-googlebooks-are-so-much-more-than-overpriced-chromebooks-and-apple-should-be-worried 07:04 KDE’s proposed AI policy leads to massive backlash https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/kde-developers-attempts-at-creating-llm-guidelines-are-not-going-well/ https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/ 10:04 GNOME dev offers a “no AI at all” policy https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/23/the-gnome-llm-policy-that-i-want/ 12:15 KDE announces their 3 mains goals for 2027 https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-To-2028 14:11 SteamOS update brings many performance improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/steamos-3-8-28-stable-released-with-big-improvements-for-steam-deck-steam-machine-and-more-hardware-support/ 15:58 Linux kernel 7.4 should open files 39% faster https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-Do-Open 17:01 Ubuntu improves how the system behaves when out of memory https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-ubuntu-desktop-stability-under-…","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":1553,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os/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/google-is-closing-down-android-more-and-more-and-launching-a-new-linux-based-os.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}