This Week in Linux

339: Motorola + GrapheneOS, Bazzite, Bunsenlabs, Age Verify is getting WORSE & more Linux news

March 7, 2026·30 min
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video: https://youtu.be/MQuXK2JavzY This week in Linux, Motorola announced something really cool, they are partnering with the Android fork GrapheneOS. Bazzite is in the news this week with an update. We also saw new releases from Linux From Scratch, Bunsenlabs and more. Then we are going to cover a topic that is on the minds of practically everyone right now ... those annoying age verifications laws popping up all of the sudden. Download as MP3 Support the Show Become a Patron = tuxdigital.com/membership tuxdigital.com/store Chapters: 00:00 Intro Links: Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ https://itsfoss.com/news/motorola-grapheneos-team-up/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/motorola-to-preinstall-grapheneos-on-2027-phones-mwc-2026/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/motorola_grapheneos/ https://9to5google.com/2026/03/01/motorola-confirms-grapheneos-partnership-for-a-future-smartphone-porting-features/ Age Verification is getting out of hand https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/many-more-us-states-are-planning-or-already-have-operating-system-age-verification-laws/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/california-law-to-require-operating-systems-to-check-your-age/ https://itsfoss.com/news/our-take-on-age-verification/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Digital-Age-Assurance https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ubuntu-and-fedora-devs-comment-on-californias-new-digital-age-assurance-act/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Age-Verification-Laws https://itsfoss.com/news/age-verification-pandemic/ Bazzite Updates https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-march-2nd-2026-update/11773 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/bazzite-gets-a-big-update-with-kde-plasma-6-6-mesa-26-0-1-and-more/ Sandfly Security https://thisweekinlinux.com/sandfly Linux From Scratch 13.0 Released https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12750 https://linuxiac.com/linux-from-scratch-13-0-released-as-first-systemd-only-version/ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-From-Scratch-13-0-now-out-with-the-6-18-10-kernel.1244146.0.html Hyprland 0.54 Released https://hypr.land/news/update54/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.54-Released https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-0-54-brings-per-workspace-layouts/ Bunsenlabs Linux Carbon https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9711 https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=9675 https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/bunsenlabs_carbon/ https://9to5linux.com/bunsenlabs-carbon-is-here-with-support-for-wayland-sessions-based-on-debian-13 Clonezilla 3.3.1 Released https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2026/02/stable-clonezilla-live-331-35-released/ https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-3-1-released-with-linux-6-18-lts-improved-bitlocker-support https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12739 Support the show https://tuxdigital.com/membership https://store.tuxdigital.com/

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