February seems to be a really big month for desktop environment news because KDE Plasma is almost upon us with the release next week. GNOME has announced the beta release of GNOME 46. LXQt has dropped some big news that LXQt 2.0 is on its way. and there may be another distro already interested in System76’s COSMIC desktop. We’re also going to take a look at a few laptops coming on the marketing in a new Linux Hardware News segment. Valve is releasing more of their software as Open Source proving once again Valve is a great member of the community. Plus we got some news from the movie animation studio DreamWorks and what they are doing with Open Source. All of this and more on this episode of This Week in Linux, Your Source for Linux GNews! Download as MP3 Sponsored by: Kolide – thisweekinlinux.com/kolide Want to Support the Show? Become a Patron = https://tuxdigital.com/membershipStore = https://tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro01:08 CrossOver 24 Released – [link]03:05 DreamWorks OpenMoonRay 1.5 Released – [link]06:30 Linux Hardware News Roundup – [KDE Slimbook, System76, Juno Saturn, Manjaro Slimbook]12:05 Sponsored by Kolide – [link]13:27 Valve Releases Steam Audio as Open Source – [link]14:31 GNOME 46 Beta Released – [link]16:13 Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Being Considered – [link]18:42 Miracle-WM: Tiling WM for Wayland Compositor – [link]23:25 Last Development Release before GIMP 3.0 – [link]29:05 LXQt 2.0 Desktop Coming in April – [link]32:30 Outro