# Linux Action News 71

URL: /show/linux-action-news/71/
> Fedora want help testing their innovations, Mozilla continue to focus on mobile, Chrome OS gets a major new feature, and Microsoft almost stepped in it bigtime.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 71
- Date: 2018-09-16
- Guests: wes
- Duration: 00:20:41
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/d4d7c798-b1c0-4649-8d2d-e0de2138d452.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRicAWfcKQ





### Episode Links

  * [Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive](https://fedoramagazine.org/give-fedora-silverblue-a-test-drive/ "Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive") — Fedora Silverblue is a new variant of Fedora Workstation with rpm-ostree at its core to provide fully atomic upgrades. Furthermore, Fedora Silverblue is immutable and upgrades as a whole, providing easy rollbacks from updates if something goes wrong. Fedora Silverblue is great for developers using Fedora with good support for container-focused workflows.
  * [nano 3.0 released](https://nano-editor.org/news.php?30 "nano 3.0 released") — GNU nano 3.0 "Water Flowing Underground" speeds up the reading of a file by seventy percent, roughly doubles the speed of handling ASCII text, changes the way words at line boundaries are deleted, makes  wipe the next word and  the preceding word...
  * [Nextcloud 14 released](https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-14-the-most-accessible-nextcloud-ever/ "Nextcloud 14 released") — The upcoming Nextcloud 14 introduces a series of improvements to make Nextcloud even easier to use and also more accessible to people with visual disabilities.
  * [Firefox Focus to switch to Gecko](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/focus-with-geckoview/ "Firefox Focus to switch to Gecko") — In the next weeks, we’ll release a new version of Focus for Android, and for the first time, Focus will come bundled with Gecko, the browser engine that powers Firefox Quantum.
  * [Chrome OS 70 brings native network file share support](https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-70-brings-native-network-file-share-support/ "Chrome OS 70 brings native network file share support") — Chrome OS will have its NativeSmb flag to set to enabled by default
  * [Microsoft planned to try and stop users installing alternative browsers in Win10 but then backtracked](https://www.zdnet.com/article/in-latest-windows-test-builds-microsoft-discourages-alternate-browsers/ "Microsoft planned to try and stop users installing alternative browsers in Win10 but then backtracked")
  * [Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy](https://linuxacademy.com/blog/linuxacademy-com/jupiter-broadcasting-joins-linux-academy/ "Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy") — As part of Linux Academy, we’re going to do more than create better content. We’re going to contribute back.
  * [User Error is back!](https://error.show/48 "User Error is back!") — User Error is back with a new set of hosts! We answer some #AskError questions and talk about whether the Linux desktop will ever make money. Plus we wonder if dockless bike sharing is a good idea and whether travel really is as great as everyone seems to think.