# Linux Action News 8

URL: /show/linux-action-news/8/
> SUSE hits the Windows Store, System76 announces Pop!_OS, Mir is back with a plan, and Debian warns of Hyper-Threading issues.

- Show: [Linux Action News](/show/linux-action-news/)
- Episode: 8
- Date: 2017-07-02
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:25:01
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/dec90738-e640-45e5-b375-4573052f4bf4/290b0b51-ccf2-465a-93b4-d1bbdda7bd28.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74DT77He0zk





### Episode Links

  * [OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise hit the Windows Store](https://liliputing.com/2017/06/opensuse-suse-linux-enterprise-hit-windows-store.html "OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise hit the Windows Store") — Now OpenSUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and OpenSUSE Leap 42 are available for installation from the Windows Store.
  * [System76 Announce Their Own Linux Distribution called Pop!_OS](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/system76-announce-linux-distribution-called-pop_os "System76 Announce Their Own Linux Distribution called Pop!_OS") — System76 say their ‘operating system’ — they don’t call it a distribution — will be built and tailored to meet the needs to “professionals and makers that use their computers to create.”
  * [Canonical Promises Smooth and Easy Unity 7 to GNOME Shell Migration for Users](http://news.softpedia.com/news/canonical-promises-smooth-and-easy-unity-7-to-gnome-shell-migration-for-users-516758.shtml "Canonical Promises Smooth and Easy Unity 7 to GNOME Shell Migration for Users") — Probably the most important thing that the Ubuntu developers have worked on lately is a smooth and easy migration process from Unity 7 to GNOME Shell
  * [Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-1.0-Wayland-Plans "Mir 1.0 Now Aiming To Support Wayland Clients Directly") — Mir 0.27 also will feature a new set of APIs to develop a "Mir platform" outside of Mir itself, which can be used for developing Mir-Wayland platform support without having to fork Mir itself. 
  * [MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MATE-Mir-Possibilities "MATE Developers Are Considering Mir-Over-Wayland") — MATE developer Martin Wimpress has shared that they are talking to Mir developers about how Mir could be used as a Wayland compositor. 
  * [Debian Warns Of Hyper Threading Issue With Intel Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-HT-Bug-KBL095 "Debian Warns Of Hyper Threading Issue With Intel Sky/Kaby Lake CPUs") — Intel Skylake and Kabylake (6th and 7th gen CPUs) could "dangerously misbehave" when Hyper Threading is enabled.