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	Podcast:		All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows
	Episode:		Linux Action News 179
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2021-03-07 16:16:00
	Description:		Canonical reveals long-term Ubuntu plans that you might have missed, and the "double ungood" warning from Linus this week. Sponsored By: Linode: Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. Ting: Save $25 off your first device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Support Linux Action News Links: Canonical: Flutter Is The Default Choice For Future Ubuntu Apps — Along with the new installer, Ken Vandine, Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Desktop, Canonical revealed that the out-of-the-box experience for devices preloaded with Ubuntu will also be powered by Flutter. Ubuntu on Twitter — Flutter is the default choice for future Ubuntu apps. @kenvandine, Engineering Manager, is here to tell you about some of Canonical’s contributions to Flutter at #FlutterEngage. Getting started with Flutter on Ubuntu Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps The Linode network model — As we worked on expanding our global network, three things were non-negotiable: maintaining vendor diversity, balancing flexibility and control, and incorporating Linux starting at the network level as much as possible. Chrome (Chromium) release cycle shortened to 4 weeks, Chrome(ium) gets “Extended Stable” release every 8 weeks — We are excited to announce that Chrome is planning to move to releasing a new milestone every 4 weeks, starting with Chrome 94 in Q3 of 2021. Chrome Moving To A 4-Week Release Cycle (2019) Mozilla Shifting Firefox To A Four-Week Release Cycle Linux Mint may start pushing high-priority patches to users — Besides looking for available updates, the Manager will also track cases where updates are overlooked. This will include metrics on when updates were last applied; when were packages last upgraded; and how many days have passed since a particular update was made available. Linux Mint Finds Many Of Its Users Are Running Behind On Security Updates Linux Mint emits fix for memory-gobbling Cinnamon Update your computer! – The Linux Mint Blog A warning about 5.12-rc1 — This merge window, we had a very innocuous code cleanup and simplification that raised no red flags at all, but had a subtle and very nasty bug in it: swap files stopped working right. And they stopped working in a particularly bad way: the offset of the start of the swap file was lost. Swapping still happened, but it happened to the wrong part of the filesystem, with the obvious catastrophic end results. That Linux 5.12 Severe Data Corruption Bug Hits Intel CI Systems - Issue Caused By Swap File Watch Out For Possible Data Loss On Early Linux 5.12 Kernels Save the Date! \| Container Plumbing Days — The Container Plumbing Days will be a 2-day event to investigate, discuss, hack, learn, and celebrate the “lower-level” open source container technologies, everything from the container runtime on down to the Linux kernel.
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