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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/