# Linux Action News 243 URL: /show/linux-action-news/243/ > Our thoughts on NixOS' new GUI installer, winning hearts and minds one firmware update at a time, the performance bug that hit Linux 5.18, and preparation begins for the open-source NVIDIA driver. - Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/) - Episode: 243 - Date: 2022-06-02 - Hosts: chris, wes - Duration: 00:17:24 - Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/615f0973-a6f5-4715-9caf-68d4c1ddb3a6.mp3 - YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZtMH8FGJkdc Sponsors: - [Jupiter Network Membership](/sponsors/jupiter.party-lan/index.md): Support the entire network, and get access to every member's special feed for every show on the network. - [Linode](/sponsors/linode.com-lan/index.md): Sign up using the link on this page and receive a $100 60-day credit towards your new account. ### Episode Links * [LVFS Has Served More Than 52 Million Firmware Files To Linux Users](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LVFS-Fwupd-52-Million "LVFS Has Served More Than 52 Million Firmware Files To Linux Users") — LVFS has served up 52.1 million firmware files to end-users over its lifetime. There has also been over a 99% success rate on the firmware being deployed correctly to users. * [Fwupd 1.8.1 Released With Firmware Updating For More HP, Corsair, PixArt, Lenovo Devices](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fwupd-1.8.1-Released "Fwupd 1.8.1 Released With Firmware Updating For More HP, Corsair, PixArt, Lenovo Devices") * [A Fix Is On The Way For A Previously-Reported Linux 5.18 Performance Regression](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.18-NUMA-Regression-Fix "A Fix Is On The Way For A Previously-Reported Linux 5.18 Performance Regression") — Back during the Linux 5.18 merge window in March I wrote about a big NUMA benchmark performance regression I noticed and bisected. * [Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-Comp-Restructuring "Nouveau Begins Shifting Around Code For Use By New Driver") — "This just moves the codegen build into a separate library, this is just prep work for a future where another drivers wants to reuse this code. this isn't perfect for plugging into a vulkan driver, but doing that requires more in depth surgery." * [NVIDIA 515.48.07 Linux Driver Released As Stable With Open Kernel Driver Option](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-515.48.07 "NVIDIA 515.48.07 Linux Driver Released As Stable With Open Kernel Driver Option") * [Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix!](https://matrix.org/blog/2022/05/30/welcoming-rocket-chat-to-matrix "Welcoming Rocket.Chat to Matrix!") — We just wanted to take a moment to welcome Rocket.Chat to Matrix, given the recent announcement that they are switching to using Matrix for standards-based interoperable federation! * [Rocket.Chat Leverages The Matrix Protocol for Decentralized and Interoperable Communications](https://rocket.chat/press-releases/rocket-chat-leverages-matrix-protocol-for-decentralized-and-interoperable-communications "Rocket.Chat Leverages The Matrix Protocol for Decentralized and Interoperable Communications") * [AlmaLinux 9.0 Released](https://lwn.net/Articles/896438/ "AlmaLinux 9.0 Released") — AlmaLinux OS 9.0 is based on upstream kernel version 5.14 and contains enhancements around cloud and container development and improvements to the web console. * [AlmaLinux 9 Now Available! - AlmaLinux OS Blog](https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-9-now-available/ "AlmaLinux 9 Now Available! - AlmaLinux OS Blog") * [GPU Price-Performance Benchmarking Report](https://www.linode.com/content/gpu-price-performance-benchmarking/ "GPU Price-Performance Benchmarking Report") * [NixOS 22.05 Released With New Graphical Installer](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NixOS-22.05-Released "NixOS 22.05 Released With New Graphical Installer") — NixOS 22.05 builds atop the Nix 2.8 package manager, which brings better performance, general improvements, the experimental nix fmt command that applies a formatter defined by the flake output to the Nix expressions in a flake, and other additions. * [NixOS GUI Configuration Editor](https://github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor "NixOS GUI Configuration Editor") — A simple NixOS configuration editor application built with libadwaita, GTK4, and Relm4. The goal of this project is to provide a simple graphical tool for modifying and managing desktop NixOS configurations. * [NixOS - Blog → Announcements](https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nixos-22.05 "NixOS - Blog → Announcements") * [Calamares Installer](https://calamares.io/ "Calamares Installer") — Calamares aims to be easy, usable, beautiful, pragmatic, inclusive and distribution-agnostic * [NixOS Calamares PR: fix calamares modules, add nixos modules, and add new iso by vlinkz](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/161788/files "NixOS Calamares PR: fix calamares modules, add nixos modules, and add new iso by vlinkz") * [NixOS/calamares-nixos-extensions: NixOS Calamares Extensions](https://github.com/NixOS/calamares-nixos-extensions "NixOS/calamares-nixos-extensions: NixOS Calamares Extensions")