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This time, we have the release of Ubuntu 21.04, graphical linux apps on windows, Discord refusing to be bought by Microsoft, and a good looking potential new Linux tablet. Let’s take a look!
00:00 Intro
01:32 Linux News
06:31 Application News
10:23 Hardware News
11:20 Gaming News
12:39 Privacy News
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## Linux
The University of Minnesotta has been banned from contributing to the linux kernel, for sending buggy patches for research purposes.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/university-of-minnesota-response-to-linux-security-patch-requests/
Microsoft showcased Linux apps running on windows through Windows subsystem for Linux, in all their graphical glory. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/run-linux-apps-on-windows-wsl-2
Version 5.12 of the Linux kernel was released, and it’s called a “small release” by Linus Torvalds himself.
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.12
Plasma Mobile has received a big update, to a lot of its defaults apps, and is seeing a bunch of new ones coming in as well, including the first steps for a mobile-enabled email client, which was a big missing part of the experience.
https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/04/27/plasma-mobile-update-march-april/
## Apps
Firefox 88 was released, and it seems to remove as many features as it’s adding.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0/releasenotes/
Discord was talking with Microsoft about a potential buy, but it seems that this won’t happen.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/messaging-platform-discord-reportedly-ends-sale-talks-with-microsoft.html
Geary 40 was released, and this GTK based mail client is getting really good these days.
Kdenlive 21.04 was released, and it packs a lot of new features!
## Hardware
You probably have heard about JingOS, the tablet focused Linux based OS coming from a relatively new chinese company. Well these guys want some nice flagship hardware to accompany that new distro, and they are launching a crowdfunding campaign for the JingPad A1, an ipad pro clone, at least in terms of look and feel, with 128Gb of storage, 6Gb of RAM, and an octo core CPU.
## Gaming
Wine 6.7 was released, with a few new features
https://www.winehq.org/announce/6.7
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VKD3D 2.3 was released. The directX 12 to Vulkan conversion layer gains suport for DirectX Ray Tracing, only with Nvidia drivers for now.
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/releases/tag/v2.3
## Privacy
Wordpress announced that they would like to auto block the new Google designed tracking method called FLOC. It seems like WordPress thinks that this method is a security concern, and is proposing to send, in future version 5.8, a header indicating that they don’t want to support it. WordPress powers, according to them, 41% of the web right now, so if that change is agreed upon, and I have little doubt it will, it means that Google’s new tracking method could lose a LOT in terms of efficiency, that is, if people update their WordPress version, which isn’t the case for a lot of websites. Admins that still want to opt into Floc will be able to revert that change and remove the 4 lines of code. I covered this new tracking method in a dedicated video a few weeks ago, check out the card up top to know more.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-may-automatically-disable-google-floc-on-websites/
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