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Visit http://linode.com/linuxexperiment for a 20$ credit on your new Linode account ! Here are some Linux, privacy, and open source news for the first half of march 2020, and we have some interesting stuff, including the release of GNOME 3.36, an interesting game benchmarking tool, and a surge in open source vulnerabilities. Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Follow me on Twitter : http://twitter.com/thelinuxEXP What I use to make my videos: Microphone: https://amzn.to/2PsNWXl GPU: https://amzn.to/2LHZ5o5 Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2KZt63t CPU: https://amzn.to/2IFjKrw Unity8, the continuation of the Ubuntu Unity project, will get a name change: the desktop will now be called Lomiri. https://itsfoss.com/unity8-lomiri/ Ubuntu will ship the GNOME Software store as a snap, starting from 20.04 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/02/ubuntu-snap-store-transition DXVK 1.5.5 was released, improving directX9 support for older intel hardware, and correcting bugs for a huge number of games, including Skyrim, Elite Dangerous, Just Cause, Saint’s Row III and IV, Rocket League, and Vampire the Masquerade. https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5.5 The freedesktop.org gitlab is in danger of losing its continuous integration servers. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Cloud-CI-Cost-Sponsors A little study ranked various web browsers in terms of what telemetry data they send to their home companies. Brave, ranks first, and Edge and the Yandex browser rank last. https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-browser-in-terms-of-phoning-home/ Zorin OS 15.2 was released. Although it doesn’t bring any specific new features to Zorin OS, it now benefits from newer software versions, and from the latest hardware enablement stack from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/03/zorin-os-15-2-release Duck Duck Go announced Tracker Radar, a publicly available data set about trackers on the web. it’s open source, and can be used to create block lists to stay free of tracking when you’re browsing. https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-tracker-radar/ The website Its FOSS published an interesting interview of Gael Duval, the founder of the ./e/ project. For those who haven’t heard of it, it aims to provide an Android distribution completely de-googled. https://itsfoss.com/gael-duval-interview/ Firefox 74 was released, with DNS over HTTPS enabled by default for american users. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ Proton 5.0-4 was released, and it fixes quite a lot of bugs. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Changelog GNOME 3.36 was released, with performance improvements, and a lot of attention focused on the shell itself. https://help.gnom ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqKL761hvM0