This Year in Linux, the Top Linux News of 2024

This year in Linux was a huge year. So many things happened. So many updates, releases, changes, improvements. Linux Marketshare, in fact, got much better too. So many things. So we’re going to be covering everything in the super detail that we normally would on this week in Linux because there’s just so many things to talk about. If you would like to learn more about each individual thing, you can check out the episode show notes. There will be links to every single time every single episode in the show notes so go check those out.

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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
00:40 CVEs & CNAs for Linux Kernel
01:31 Rust added to the Linux Kernel in Linux 6.8
01:42 Linux 6.12 Merging Extensible Scheduler “sched_ext”
02:46 4.55% Marketshare for Linux on StatCounter!
03:57 Security Topics
04:18 Locally Exploitable glibc Vulnerability
05:44 Needrestart Security Vulnerabilities Found
06:29 RegreSSHion: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability In OpenSSH Server
07:44 XZ backdoor found in widespread Linux utility
10:34 CrowdStrike causes Global Outage for Microsoft Windows
13:23 Desktop Environments
15:26 Distro Releases
18:08 Red Hat Summit 2024
18:32 Destination Linux 400
18:53 Destination Linux Interviews
20:23 Explicit Sync Will Finally Solve the NVIDIA/Wayland Issues
21:34 Hardware News
21:52 Gaming News: Anti Cheat Woes
23:34 Gaming News: Valve does good for Linux
25:26 umu launcher
25:49 Application News
27:55 Support the show

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