# Linux Action News 15

URL: /show/linux-action-news/15/
> A big batch of Debian updates, Gnome turns 20, Joe's report from OggCamp, the Solus trifecta, encrypted ZFS comes to Linux finally, and Bitcoin is forking, again.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 15
- Date: 2017-08-19
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:24:16
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/0888e982-d9ce-4b05-a6ab-25a6c596c60f.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6SprnXLX_c





### Episode Links

  * [GNOME turns 20](https://www.gnome.org/news/2017/08/twenty-years-strong/ "GNOME turns 20") — There have been 33 stable releases since the initial release of GNOME 1.0 in 1999. 
  * [Debian turns 24](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Debian-Day-24 "Debian turns 24")
  * [Raspbian Stretch has arrived for Raspberry Pi](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/ "Raspbian Stretch has arrived for Raspberry Pi") — PulseAudio is therefore no longer installed by default, and the volume plugin on the taskbar will no longer start and stop PulseAudio. 
  * [Work on Debian for mobile devices continues](https://bits.debian.org/2017/08/debian-mobile-continues.html "Work on Debian for mobile devices continues") — Work on Debian for mobile devices, i.e. telephones, tablets, and handheld computers, continues. During the recent DebConf17 in Montréal, Canada, more than 50 people had a meeting to reconsider opportunities and challenges for Debian on mobile devices.
  * [Lineage summer survey ](https://www.lineageos.org/Summer-Survey/ "Lineage summer survey ") — The survey is really simple and we won’t collect any sensitive information.
  * [Solus 3 Released](https://solus-project.com/2017/08/15/solus-3-released/ "Solus 3 Released") — On behalf of the Solus team and community, we’re extremely proud to announce the immediate availability of Solus 3. This is the third iteration of Solus since our move to become a rolling release operating system. 
  * [ZFS On Linux Adds Encryption Support](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ZFS-Linux-Encryption "ZFS On Linux Adds Encryption Support") — This support allows creating and managing natively-encrypted datasets. There have been ZOL patches going back months for encryption
  * [Bitcoin Is Forking. Again.](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjjmy8/bitcoin-is-forking-again "Bitcoin Is Forking. Again.") — Three months from now, there will likely be three different versions of bitcoin all attempting to prepare the currency for more traffic in different ways. 
  * [Henry Brade Call for a Fight Against SegWit2x on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Technom4ge/status/899185712083460096 "Henry Brade Call for a Fight Against SegWit2x on Twitter") — The SegWit2X hard fork scheduled for Nov is an attempted hostile corporate takeover of the #Bitcoin protocol.