Massive funding for Linux projects, Nintendo nukes emulation, Graphene Comes to more phones
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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Sponsor: TuxCare

01:45 Flatpak gets half a million in funding

03:57 Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

06:05 Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

08:16 GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

09:34 Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

11:10 BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

13:09 Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

14:35 Multikernel project has its first version

16:39 Asahi project now supports M3 macs

18:30 LibreOffice gets big improvements

20:42 Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

23:26 Wine and Proton update

24:57 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links:

Flatpak gets half a million in funding

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/

Omarchy gets 8 million dollars

https://linuxiac.com/arch-based-omarchy-linux-distro-lands-a-massive-8m-boost/

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Nintendo nukes 400 repos linked to emulation

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/nintendo-takes-down-over-400-github-repositories-for-switch-emulators-in-one-go-relentless-dmca-strikes-tied-to-piracy-concerns-over-illegal-cryptographic-keys

GrapheneOS will come to Motorola flagships

https://linuxiac.com/grapheneos-support-is-coming-to-motorola-flagships-in-2027/

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730

Kernel 7.3 brings a lot of performance improvements

https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-7-3-preview/

BTRFS improves, ext4 and XFS still much faster

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems/4

Chromium working on adding proper Flatpak support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

Multikernel project has its first version

https://linuxiac.com/multikernel-linux-releases-first-public-kernel-tree-based-on-linux-7-0/

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdomain/

Asahi project now supports M3 macs https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/

LibreOffice gets big improvements

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

Apple starts putting ads in their Maps app

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/ill-just-use-google-maps-apple-maps-users-rebel-against-new-ads-that-you-cant-turn-off-even-with-an-icloud-subscription

Wine and Proton update

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.16

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/proton-11-0-2-is-out-with-lots-of-gaming-fixes-for-linux-steamos-steam-deck-steam-machine/

  • distal@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    It’s a vanity project. You know how Notch bought a Bugatti, this is the software equivalent.

    • libewa@feddit.org
      9·
      21 hours ago

      Notch’s Bugatti is far less likely to spontaneously combust (because it was made by professionals, not AI), and if it did, it wouldn’t affect as many people. Omarchy claims to be an easy version of Arch, when in reality, it’s just doing what every beginner would be doing, including all of the accidental security holes, and then adds some more weakpoints through the unchecked shell scripts.