Late Night Linux (Ogg): Recent Episodes
Late Night Linux (Ogg)
Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software.
We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.
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Seven and a bit years of news
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
Introducing a new version of Steam Play
Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022
Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)
Ubuntu is abandoning Unity
Canonical starts IPO path
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
IBM to Acquire Red Hat
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained
Mozilla acquires Pocket
Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance
Mozilla recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab
Microsoft to buy Github
Announcing WSL 2
GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code
Linux has made it to Mars
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more
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Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.
Discoveries
Signal Processing Course
KDE Connect
Friture
wat
HARview
1Password
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Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.
News
A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project
The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending
Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox
Asking for donations in Plasma
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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.
Voice of the masses
Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how?
1Password
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Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.
News
OggCamp
Linux is 33 years old
Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser
Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131
“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 235
Chrome dropped support for Ubuntu 18.04 but it’ll be back
Patreon warns content makers that Apple wants to be paid
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
Entroware
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The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.
Discoveries
IPv6 for IPv4 admins
bashsimplecurses
Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000
taskfinder
OggCamp
Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK.
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Call for papers
OggCamp on Mastodon
Are FOSS people all old?
The graying open source community needs fresh blood
1Password
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Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.
Open source myths
Open Documentation Academy (GitHub repo)
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Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t talk about Vivaldi even though it’s quite good, why Félim was wrong about right click in PuTTY, and Will doesn’t seem to understand Lemmy.
Discoveries
MQTT decode
Cloudflare DNS was blocking apps.kde.org
Durdraw
Linux Mint 22
Feedback
fedditt.uk
Lemmy
1Password
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NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open source”, Proton jumps the shark, a trio of typical Google stories, and the shortest KDE Korner in history.
News
NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules
The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way
FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans
Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Introducing Proton Wallet – a safer way to hold Bitcoin
Introducing Proton Scribe, a private writing assistant that writes and proofreads emails for you
Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome
Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 just labor exploitation, boffins say
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year
Contribute to KDE with more than just C++
KDE HIG update
Entroware
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Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, and making point and click games. Plus whether we are too negative, or if we are just realistic.
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Discoveries
BlueSpy
reladiff
MQTT Explorer
You can now run VMs on iOS with UTM
kate-org-mode
Bladecoder Adventure Engine
The Witness
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The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special feature” to interact with Google sites, Mozilla shows that it needs advertising, and openSUSE might be getting a new (terrible) name.
News
EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones
Take action to stop chat control now!
Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector
Why Chromium tells Google sites about your CPU, GPU usage
Privacy-Preserving Attribution
Firefox 128 includes new adtech features that are turned on by default
Mozilla desperately needs transparency
Rebranding openSUSE?
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An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to the Linux desktop, writing interactive fiction games, and how we makes notes and manage tasks.
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Discoveries
ImHex
vfs_shadow_copy2
ink
Feedback
vimwiki
nanonote
Marknote
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Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Plus a great network tool, and what keeps us on Linux when most apps are available everywhere else.
Feedback
IMUNES
1Password
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Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups could be significantly smaller, making wiring diagrams using text, silly terminal effects and colours, using a ThinkPad as a WiFi dongle, great lightweight distros for an ancient netbook, better Google searches, and more.
Discoveries
nvidia-patch
Hacking the Spotify Car Thing
borg compact
Terminal Text Effects
lolcat
WireViz
BunsenLabs
Batocera
Unsong
udm=14
Gruble
Automox
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New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anniversaries make us feel old, some quick KDE updates, and more.
News
World’s first RISC-V Laptop gets a massive upgrade and equips with Ubuntu
Canonical Announce First RISC-V Laptop Running Ubuntu
Video of a Banana Pi with the same SoC
Significantly slower than a Pi 4
TUXEDO on ARM is coming
The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support
Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 20 Years
Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
25 Years of Krita!
What should KDE focus on for the next 2 years? You can propose a goal!
KDE e.V. is looking for a contractor to coordinate the KDE Goals process
KDE Apps initiative
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Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things we have to ask ourselves: at what cost?
Voice of the masses
What’s the best open source app or utility that no one else has heard of?
Kolide
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A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processing data and CSV files on the command line, controlling cycling workout gear and graphing your progress, and a top tip for following Mastodon accounts in a normal RSS feed reader.
News
Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox
Plasma 6.1 Beta out: Triple buffering, Wayland explicit sync & RDP access
Discoveries
yt-dlp
miller
csvlens
GoldenCheetah
Flux
Kolide
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We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these years.
Entroware
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The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at the Pi 5 after 6 months, our positive thoughts about Mozilla’s new Executive Director, Félim’s doubts about OSI’s attempt to define open source AI, a very quick bit of KDE news, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi Connect
M.2 HAT+ on sale now at $12
Raspberry Pi 5 Network OS Installer
Growing Our Movement — and Growing Mozilla — to Shape the AI Era
Mozilla Foundation Welcomes Nabiha Syed as Executive Director
Why I’m Joining Mozilla as Executive Director
The Open Source AI Definition gets closer to reality with a global workshop series
The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.8
‘Openwashing’
HDR & Gamescope
Kolide
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In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? What about the future of the web? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
We can have a different web
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Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.
News
Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade
Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat
Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it
Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers
RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback
US government reportedly ponders crimping China’s use of RISC-V
Amarok 3.0 “Castaway” released!
Akademy 2024, Würzburg and Online from Saturday 7th September to Thursday 12th September, Registration Open!
Kolide
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What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
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Voice of the masses
What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro?
Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity
Discoveries
mapscii
Descent 3
Sizewell B
EndeavourOS
StezStix Fix?
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More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
Announcing the Open Home Foundation
tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again
A thread about people who need to run Windows
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon
NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it
NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed
Entroware
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How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your Linux systems secure?
News
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
Discoveries
rembg
Photopea
nvtop
Giada
OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound
Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)
Kolide
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There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.
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News
Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family!
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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack
XZ threat actor Jia Tan’s change to libarchive which introduced an exploitable situation made it into Windows
New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)
Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224
I am not a supplier
OggCamp is happening later this year!
Gary gives us the details.
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The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
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Voice of the masses
What’s the main reason you use open source software?
Discoveries
PiKVM
Kitty
Pro-54 (live link here
cmajor
The Arch wiki knows all
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Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
News
Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap!
Stop the line?
Manual review of all new snap name registrations
KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms – Krebs on Security
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
Introducing Didthis: A New App For Hobbyists
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Redis tightens its license terms, pleasing basically no one
Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis
Apache Kvrocks
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Threads has entered the fediverse
Fedi.Tips urges admins to defederate Threads
Switch emulator Suyu hit by GitLab DMCA, project lives on through self-hosting
World Server Throwing Championship (WSTC) 2024
Tailscale
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Kolide
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Entroware
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What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more.
Voice of the masses
What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back?
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Discoveries
Telstar
ps_mem
cookiecutter
GPlates
Mirroring Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu
Home assistant remote control from your Garmin watch
Tiny Core Linux is still a thing
screenshot-to-code
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Kolide
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KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more.
News
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
Megarelease Teething Problems
This week in KDE: a smooth release
Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register
Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0
Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is All But Done. Price: $2.4m. Cost to Emulation: TBD
Here’s how the makers of the “Suyu” Switch emulator plan to avoid getting sued
MDN Curriculum
Hosting your podcast using Spotify is a bad idea
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Kolide
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In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like interface to sites like Hacker News, yet another Spotify replacement, Damn Small Linux returns, and more.
Voice of the masses
How do you keep your kids safe online?
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Discoveries
Quansheng UVK5
AITrack
Neon Modem Overdrive
Open source lighting rig control with QLC+
envio
InnerTune
Damn Small Linux 2024
nRF Sniffer
Tailscale
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Automox
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The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of Plasma 6 we let Félim do a short KDE Korner.
News
Stepping back into the refreshingly free world of Linux – The Irish Times
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Mercedes-Benz AG – FOSS Manifesto
It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Anthony: “Not commenting the Mozilla lay…” – Indieweb.Social
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
New krita.org website launched
Kubuntu Graphic Design Contest
Wayland fake session restore and 805/500 supporters
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Automox
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An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why we are pretty down on macOS, and more.
Discoveries
spotube
AudioTube
Nuclear Reactor Simulator
trippy
Faircamp
Joe’s music
hello world
osci-render
Tailscale
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Entroware
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Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts, the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more.
News
Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is here
The Usage Of Embedded Linux In Spacecraft
“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement
Introducing Sudo for Windows!
Ubuntu Core Desktop Debut No Longer Planned for April
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites [it’s white labelled like the VPN thing]
A New Chapter for Mozilla: Focused Execution and an Expanded Role in Charting the Internet’s Future
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility
KDE 6 misses boat to make it into Kubuntu 24.04
Frameworks 5.115.0
KDE 6 is so close!
15 min bug update
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Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why the Raspberry Pi bubble has burst, and the present and future of RISC-V.
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Apple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet more users, the mystery of the new Firefox package, and more.
News
RAWRLAB Games – Announcement of free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more
It turns out NASA’s Mars helicopter was much more revolutionary than we knew
Ubuntu Pro Packages in ‘Software Updater’ Garner Criticism
Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
4 reasons to try Mozilla’s new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for an Independent Browser Like Firefox – Open Policy & Advocacy
Apple, the DMA, and malicious compliance
Understanding Apple’s Response to the DMA
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A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and more.
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Update your Pi-hole lists
Amazon Fire TV block list
pioneer
pikchr
OpenWRT-based GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (travel wifi router)
pipeinstall
Gifsicle
Scraping gmail messages
1D Pacman
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KonstKang
PH stats
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Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here.
News
Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3
What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks
Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions
The World Of Web Browsers Is In A Bad Way
What’s next for Mozilla?
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
How Microsoft found a potential new battery material using AI – The Verge
Plasma 6 RC1
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The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising security and admin concepts in a fun game, giving in and using an Amazon stick to watch TV, getting the most out of Bash, and how we host the show’s website and MP3s.
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Nabu Casa
llamafile
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Hugo
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024.
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What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.
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It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla.
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2023 News
Good news
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
Maverick Mars chopper has survived way past its warranty – now it’s time for a sequel
Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Gaming
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Graham talked about his Steam Deck OLED on LNL258
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November
Enshittification
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD
LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees
Incus 0.1 has been released
LXD now re-licensed and under a CLA
Incorrect license information for the LXD snap
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was)
Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
What Reddit Got Wrong
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
Fediverse
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration
Mozilla
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
A quarter century of Mozilla
Firefox’s protection against fingerprinting
Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android
Introducing Solo, an AI website builder for solopreneurs
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Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more.
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tail -F
QEMU advent Calendar
CS80 interactive diagram
Most followed Mastodon accounts
News
Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google’s war on ad blockers
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates
privacy not included | Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter
Open extensions on Firefox for Android debut December 14 (but you can get a sneak peek today
Feedback
syncthing
Syncopoli
Backing up my Android photos with rsync
Immich
FolderSync
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Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner.
News
Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family
Vulns expose ownCloud admin passwords, sensitive data
ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation
Where Is OpenCV 5?
Steam Deck OLED
Graham answers our questions about his new Steam Deck OLED
Raspberry Pi 5
Joe answers our questions about his new Raspberry Pi 5
Mini KDE Korner
Could have been Graham
Freezing in Style
DigiKam Windows revival and 8.2.0 release
KItinaryAnd two weeks of KDE6 features and fixes
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An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
Discoveries
nala
btsnoop logs in Android
zigbee2mqtt
ladder
pake
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A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Valve says it has sold ‘multiple millions’ of Steam Decks
Amazon has begun replacing Android with its own software on some products
GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure
Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
Mini KDE Korner
HDR Support merged in kwin, Breeze overhaul and Presentation mode & LOTS of bugfixes & updates
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Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more.
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Control your Thinkpad light
Octopus Energy Home Assistant addon
ruff now has a formatter
ZSH profiling
pyTelegramBotAPI
ntfy.sh
Beyond Doubt
recent macOS bugs
Feedback
Christian’s ThinkPad collection
Fairphone
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We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.
Jim’s post about the empty WSL talk at the Ubuntu Summit.
News
The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?
Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What’s to Come
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube’s ad blocking detection scripts under EU law
KDE 6 Funding Drive
KDE 6 Alpha approaches
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Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
archivebox.io
ia command for the Internet Archive
I, Voyager
Multi-column view in Mastodon
curl supports MQTT
wyrd (amoliths password thing)
WiFi QRCode Format
Cardinal
pdfarranger
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A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.
News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved
Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible
Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers
Unity Announces Leadership Transition
How to download and install Linux
Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time
Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!
GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director
Holly the shaman artist
Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet
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Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.
With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
Discoveries
LibreSpeed
Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified
elementary OS 7.1
Studio One DAW now available for Linux
bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs
Ardour 8.0 — What’s new
ISS Mimic
ThinkPad X270
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Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more.
With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.
News
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5
Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support
Incus 0.1 has been released
Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world
The Pixel 8’s best new feature is guaranteed updates
Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet
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Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware.
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BOOLR
HUNSN
Beelink
Snapcraft Metrics
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USBGuard
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The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.
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News
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support
Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
A new maintainer will take over
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding
Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding
Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
KDE Sponsored Work
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Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
isort
Firefox search hints
HeadSetControl
Asahi Fedora
Abort Retry Fail
Another Abort Retry Fail
Webhook.site
Regolith 3.0
Feedback
Salix
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The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Steam... Read More
Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more. Discoveries UVMOD Antennapod qutebrowser 3.0 acpi Rewriting wipEout Bash scripting cheatsheet Feedback FreshRSS... Read More
We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.
News
5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming
Roblox is back on Linux
Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers
Firefox to drop support for old macOS and Windows versions
The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com
Merkuro Explainer & comparison to Kontact : also “Qt 6.6, to be released end of September, Qt apps will survive a restart of the Wayland compositor”
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Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more. Discoveries Echo Root... Read More
Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. News 2.5 Admins... Read More
Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal. News riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture... Read More
We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client. Discoveries SQLite Browser WeeChat 4 David Beazley’s Python Courses Dive Into Systems Mission Center SatDump Decoding BW-3 Scott Tilley on Twitter Ebou... Read More
Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma. News Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn... Read More
Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more. Discoveries Python tools hidden in the Std Lib... Read More
There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they will restrict source code releases to paying customers only. Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes Keeping... Read More
The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more. Discoveries Scrcpy lobste.rs Watchy Turris Omnia Footage chatGPT-shell-cli ... Read More
A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more. News Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him Thunderbird for Android... Read More
A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more. Discoveries Zeal Clonezilla Wallabag ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your... Read More
The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more. News Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon. Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to... Read More
What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.
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Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
gping
Chiaki
image stabilised Apollo 15
Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam
The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Nosey Parker
Joe’s Mastodon thread
Obtainium
GCompris
Feedback
Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically
Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI
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Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.
News
Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Fedora Program Manager layed off
(what that role was)
Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation
A new onboarding experience on Mastodon
Goodbye to Roblox on Linux with their new anti-cheat and Wine blocking
Asus ROG Ally review: it’s time to stop pretending Windows is the answer
Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools
Plasma 6: “Better defaults”
Plasma 6 Sprint 2023
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We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more.
Discoveries
CEMU
TrueNAS from iXsystems
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How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more.
Discussion
The Free Software Foundation is dying
Discoveries
ruff by Astral
LNL Telegram Bot
IEM Plugin Suite
Graham’s audio demo
Upscayl
Félim’s Irish landcape photo
Félim’s Irish landcape photo upscaled
Feedback
shotwell-site-generator
shotwell-site-generator screenshots
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Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.
News
Linux Matters has launched
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Resist Fingerprinting
PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function
Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30
More layoffs at Red Hat
Fedora 38 released
Ubuntu 23.04 released
Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04
KDE Korner
KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is released
The road to KDE Connect 2.0
40 Snaps & a HowTo
Plasma Products / Not a DE
What’s new in Fedora Kinoite 38
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A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.
Discoveries
Logitech Media Server (LMS)
First Universal Blue image
Mission – Universal Blue
Scope – Universal Blue
CLARK
sniffnet
Yubikey Manager
Feedback
ngrep
rsyncy
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile catchup
ktechlab
isoimagewriter
a pile of snaps
Krita Yearly report
Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates
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25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem.
News
A quarter century of Mozilla
Making the impossible possible — again
A new era of transparency for Twitter
Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why
Twitter’s Open Source Algorithm Is a Red Herring
Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug
The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023 – Original Prusa 3D Printers
A reply to Josef Průša – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers
Help us fund equipment – Armbian
Bloomberg Launches FOSS Fund to Support Free and Open Source Projects
thanks.dev
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Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.
Discoveries
chob
Chirp plant alarm
Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner
ntopng
DoomLinux
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Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.
News
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died
Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know
We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.
We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan
The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
The Fight Continues
We updated our RSA SSH host key
We need better support for SSH host certificates
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, dbt and BigQuery
Microsoft is building a cryptocurrency wallet into its Edge browser
Mozilla Launches Responsible AI Challenge
Introducing Mozilla.ai: Investing in trustworthy AI
KDE Korner
Testing QT6 Begins
Xwayland Screen Casting
GCompris overview 180+ activities
Labplot 2.10
This week in KDE: “More Wayland fixes”
This week in KDE: Distro upgrades for Fedora KDE in Discover
My experience taking part in Season of KDE
Adapting Standard Usage Scenario Scripts For KDE Applications: My Journey As A Season Of KDE Mentee – KDE Eco
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Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.
Discoveries
qalculate
NiceGUI
Entropy Piano Tuner
Autodarts (video of it in action)
Feedback
Quinny
DustBuilder
Valetudo
Material for MkDocs
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Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Flathub in 2023
The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later
NewF-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
KDE Korner
Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming
Apps in MS Store Tutorial
Plasma codemap
Kubuntu Manual
KDE for Scientists
PIM Update
Krita Tutorial Video
Akademy Talks Reminder!
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Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.
Discoveries
mqttshark
device IDs to get steering wheel
nim
Turrican II AGA
Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux
Feedback
Timeshift
Kopia
Grsync
Cronopete
UrBackup
Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II
Nextcloud localization
Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface
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Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner.
News
Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults
NASA and open-source software
10 years ago Steam released for Linux
M$ Edge inserts ads on Chrome download page
My daughter’s school took over my personal Microsoft account
KDE Korner
KDE Switches to QT6
Nicco looks at theme & shows 6 “hidden” features of Plasma
Plasma Mobile 5.27 + PlaMo Gear 23.01.0
Stop shouting
How to add flatpaks on Kubuntu/Neon
Nate’s regular updates
Two very last minute tools in Neon & two apps in unstable
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More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps and config files in a “box”, more on aviation tracking, GUI vs CLI backups on Linux, and loads more.
Discoveries
reveng
lurk
GoalKicker.com books
Late Night Linux – Discoveries
Convert Case
carbonyl
Github Sponsors stops taking Paypal
boxxy
TheAirTraffic (ADS-B Exchange replacement)
Félim’s list of ADS-B Exchange alternatives
Feedback
BorgBackup
Sanoid and Syncoid
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Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry row, the company behind Mycroft is struggling, KDE Korner, and more.
News
We now have a Discord server (as well as the Telegram group, Matrix room, and IRC channel). Links to everything on our community page
What are ESM Apps, and how do they relate to Ubuntu Pro?
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage
Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article
Google’s Go may add telemetry that’s on by default
telemetry in the Go toolchain
It’s not looking good for Mycroft AI
The End of the Campaign
Mycroft patent troll case
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.27-eve (Frameworks 5.103.0 is just out) Nate has a writeup and help report multi-monitor bugs effectively
Kate’s git features
A couple of FOSDEM Reports (or ALL the talks!)
KDE packaging recommendations
Akademy call for proposals is open
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Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic shaping and QoS, and more.
Discoveries
MuseScore 4
Node Red Home Assistant Contrib
No Homo Graphs
Phish-protect
Awesome-privacy
blendOS
helloSystem
elementary OS 7
Feedback
Buster
SQM (Smart Queue Management)
Getting SQM Running Right
SQM scripts traffic shaper
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The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t for everyone, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 40th Red Planet flight
JETNET Acquires ADS-B Exchange
Feeding to adsb.fi
Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs
What is Google doing with its open source teams?
We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
KDE Korner
Example of KDEnlive & Glaxinate
Plasma 5.27 Beta is here & KFrameworks Branched
New Skrooge site & XRechnungViewer (not related to each other)
Best Plasma 5 and Major bugfixes
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Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing with 3D models of ancient museum pieces, and more.
Discoveries
testdisk
Félim’s new keyboard
g810-led
Pixel 7
Public AdGuard DNS server
Nefertiti statue 3D model
Feedback
Lotus 1-2-3 for Linux
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The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old skool mucky jpeg and ruins KDE Korner, and more.
News
Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support
Google wants RISC-V to be a “tier-1” Android architecture
RISC-V Summit Keynote: The Android Open Source Project and RISC-V
ESP32-C6 WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 module and development board launched!
The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good
ZFSBootMenu
Admin
Follow Joe on Mastodon
Discoveries
KZones
Archimedes Live
KDE and Xfce Kornerx
New image for existing flavor: Xubuntu Minimal
KDE PIM Nov/Dec
Big UI Improvements and Fixes
Plasma on the VisionFive2
Akademy 2023 in Greece
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The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro releases, avoiding CAPTCHAs, and more.
Discoveries
ESPhome
Homer/Sipcapture
solaar
logitech G PRO
BGFX
The Great Crypto Scam
Vanilla OS
EndeavourOS Cassini
Mozilla changes Firefox’s user agent because of Internet Explorer 11
useragents.me
Feedback
Snikket
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Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is about to catch up to the Mastodon trend, there definitely won’t be a Raspberry Pi 5 this year (honest), and KDE Korner.
News
With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative
LineageOS 20 released
The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton
[Feb 2019 – Upton: “I don’t have a route to do something this year”]
[Jun 2019 – Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35]
2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
KDE Korner
Gear 22.12 (Gwenview has a new docs page), KDEnlive 22.1, Tokodon 23.01
Rewritten Spectacle in 23.04 & Fractional wayland + multiscreen fixes
& some holiday updates & end of year goodies and finally a 2022 overview
Kraft v1.0 & it can be run on WSL
KDE Fundraiser & KDEnlive Funraisers successes!
Linux App Summit Brno April 21-23 2023
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.
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It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and Microsoft, the rise of Mastodon, and more.
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Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing downloaded Twitter data. Plus your feedback about Red Hat and IBM, containers and firewalls, Signal alternatives, and more.
Discoveries
dnsdiag
ZiModem
KnobKraft
twitter-archive-parser
silverbullet
One Thing Well
Feedback
ksuperkey
Firewalld and Podman – Protecting Your DB
docker will happily bypass your firewall
Session
Signal issue
Prosody IM
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Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an excuse to laugh at Musk, KDE Korner, and more.
News
Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence
FORM (symbolic manipulation system) – Wikipedia
GPT-3 Business Email Generator by Danny Richman
AI writes Terraform
Company ‘Hijacks’ Blender’s CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User
Twitter turns its back on open-source development
KDE and Xfce Kornerx
Xubuntu Development Update December 2022
Xfce 4.18 Looks Exciting
Finalizing rpm-ostree support in Discover
Introducing KIO AFC
Plasma Mobile Gear 22.11 is Out
This week in KDE: Humongous UI improvements
This week in KDE: custom tiling
Help KDE hire more people!
Status of the 15-Minute Bug Initiative
October/November in KDE Itinerary
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An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the latest kernel on a ten year old phone, moving away from mailing lists, KDE Korner, and the best distro of 2022(?) Discoveries Portmaster tshark Will’s reverse engineering efforts cameractrls PostmarketOS on... Read More
Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instance, remastering Ubuntu ISOs, and more. With guest host Alan Pope (popey). News Arduino Announces Official MicroPython Support Announcing Fedora Linux 37 OpenPrinting keeps old printers working, even on Windows... Read More
Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the engineering manager for Ubuntu Desktop. Discoveries Sad Servers Really Awful OSS Incidents AI to BS USB/IP protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation USB/IP Project Wondershaper Nerd Dictation nerd-dictation on GitHub... Read More
Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korner, and more. News Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them Twitodon Pick an Instance Helper GitHub Copilot litigation The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens... Read More
Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more. Discoveries rtl_433 Ardour 7 Palette.fm Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source Santa Circles Feedback Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository ... Read More
It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more. Linode Simplify... Read More
Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more. Discoveries ADS-B Exchange Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier tuning-workbench-synth tune CLI HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table ... Read More
Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more. News A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy New games were still being added last month Canonical launches free personal... Read More
Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more. Discoveries The CIA has a podcast CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum The Fuck OPNsense samplebrain Mutable... Read More
systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more. News Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3 Systemd support is now available in WSL Systemd support lands in WSL Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over... Read More
Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more. Discoveries Navidrome ImHex Moonlight UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro AI “art” Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition Professional AI... Read More
Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner. News NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions... Read More
A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more. Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security... Read More
We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner. News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users... Read More
Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more. Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy.... Read More
It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster... Read More
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more. Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter ... Read More
Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi... Read More
Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more. Discoveries Firefox xdg-ninja Steam Deck inxi coconutBattery Feedback lnl-discoveries LanguageTool Linux Downtime 51 Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee... Read More
Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot... Read More
A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more. Discoveries viddy Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite Vita3K Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2... Read More
The community gets angry about GitHub Copilot, Félim gets angry about email, Firefox continues to improve, drawers fill up with more Raspberry Pis, KDE shines as ever, and more. News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Raspberry Pi Pico W: your $6 IoT platform GitHub Copilot and open source laundering Chris Green on... Read More
Will buys a cheap mouse, Félim thinks he’s a meteorologist, Graham hacks his TV, and Joe complains about YouTube. Discoveries libratbag & piper WeeWX Device/DevMode Manager for webOS TV LMN 3: An Open-Source DAW-in-a-Box Doom on coreboot and on a Bluetooth dongle OBS Feedback Deskreen Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure... Read More
Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more. News Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox... Read More
Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep. Discoveries Wazuh cheat Sigrok (better write up... Read More
The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”. News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and... Read More
FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation. Discoveries RustDesk Virtual Smart Home Jellyfin Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader Feedback Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices barrier... Read More
We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate. News No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s... Read More
Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware. Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise Feedback Cloudfree.shop... Read More
The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more. News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage... Read More
Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more. Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI ... Read More
A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more. News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s... Read More
Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more. Discoveries Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema Feedback... Read More
Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more. News Work with Will writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers... Read More
A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more. Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to... Read More
The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more. News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More
We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim. Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope (video) Borderlands synth Computers are really fast,... Read More
Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy. News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up... Read More
A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more. Discoveries Pandas (10mins to pandas) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom protondb... Read More
The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever. News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s... Read More
Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac. Discoveries Python Rich Sweethome 3D react-wordle wordle in under 50 lines of bash Bismuth Kröhnkite KWin-Tiling Mandelbulber2 Feedback fx: Command-line tool and terminal... Read More
Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more. News Slackware 15 released Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review Network install beta test Update on Firefox Reality Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising Pocket migration to Firefox... Read More
Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more. Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store Termux and Android 10 AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison ... Read More
The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner. News Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th Farewell, G-Suite Legacy The Pains Involved In Moving on from... Read More
Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos. Discoveries HiFi Berry OS Ceefax lives! NimBLE ESP32 iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux Why use Mint over Ubuntu? Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released! New Features... Read More
A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more. News JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort... Read More
A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire. Discoveries Barrier rdfind A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer Feedback CalyxOS and a site to check... Read More
Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more. News/discussion Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About... Read More
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit. CBT... Read More
We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs. 2021 Linux year in review Mars Linux has made it to Mars [feb] NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr] NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr] Ingenuity Mars... Read More
Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS. First Impressions We had a look at Garuda Linux, a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux. Convergence Graham tells us about... Read More
Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more. News EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint Who is the target user? More about... Read More
A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections. First Impressions We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro. Feedback Zim – a desktop wiki This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community ... Read More
Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner. News Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck German state planning to switch... Read More
How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins. Félim mentioned Camara Education. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s... Read More
A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins. News Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 The Pi Zero... Read More
We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more. First Impressions We had a look at Haiku, an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast,... Read More
Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more. News Apple joins Blender Development Fund L0phtCrack is now open source Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it Trump’s Social Media Platform... Read More
The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix. First Impressions We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop... Read More
Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner. News Fairphone 4 review 10 Year Smartphone Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them News from Firefox Focus and Firefox... Read More
Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often. First Impressions We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that... Read More
Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family. News Linux After Dark has launched! Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default Ubuntu 14.04... Read More
What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux. First Impressions We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. If we were in charge of the... Read More
Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more. News Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser... Read More
Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more. First Impressions We had a look at elementary OS, the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”. Benefits of the cloud Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up. Crowdsec CrowdSec... Read More
The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more. News DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices... Read More
What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music. First Impressions We had a look at Fostodon, a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance. Feedback We mentioned Going Linux. CBT Nuggets This... Read More
New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness. News Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life Child Safety One Bad Apple elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now Debian 11 “bullseye” released... Read More
Our first impressions of a relatively unusual distro. Plus your feedback about Syncthing, GitHub Copilot, and advice for a new Linux user. First Impressions We had a look at Bodhi Linux, a lightweight distribution featuring the Moksha Desktop. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy,... Read More
Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows versions on dirt cheap modern hardware, KDE Korner, and more. News “Every Preference Has a Cost” My proposal for scaling open source: don’t Cracking Open the Android/iOS Grip on... Read More
Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community might be susceptible to being exploited. First Impressions We had a look at Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization program. An inherent vulnerability in the FOSS community Is the FOSS community seems... Read More
The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportunity for FOSS, KDE Korner, and more. News Steam Deck “Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our... Read More
A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré. First Impressions We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation. Feedback VueScan Scanner Software Swisscows Software subscriptions and FOSS We are joined... Read More
GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more. News GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work Audacity privacy notice Clarification of Privacy Policy... Read More
Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years. First Impressions We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer... Read More
Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more. Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show. News Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT Admin Check... Read More
A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more. Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show. First Impressions We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with... Read More
The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more. Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama. FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube. News A... Read More
A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone. First Impressions We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management. Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together will be on Friday... Read More
Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner. News Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management Welcome to Libera Chat Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now... Read More
The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more. First Impressions We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”. Feedback Things we mentioned: Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager grml-rescueboot... Read More
Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news. News Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity elementary OS 6 Beta Available KDE Developer... Read More
Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE. First Impressions Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro... Read More
Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more. News NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight Ubuntu 21.04 is... Read More
We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. We mentioned Launcher Manager. Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at... Read More
Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more. News Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Signal finally... Read More
The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux. Home media setups MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi... Read More
Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more. News Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies Announcement video An open letter... Read More
What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts. A new hope for search? Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version Admin The next mumble... Read More
Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more. News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged Admin... Read More
Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more. RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS. Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update Admin Join the... Read More
Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner. News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture... Read More
Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks. Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses. Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox. Linux... Read More
Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner. News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio... Read More
Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback. Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play... Read More
Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more. News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on... Read More
Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more. Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the... Read More
Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more. News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp... Read More
Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more. Home monitoring and automation Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack ... Read More
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit. Datadog... Read More
We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event. Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones... Read More
Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more. News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late... Read More
What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine). News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo Admin... Read More
Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner. News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out... Read More
Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness. News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die... Read More
Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner. Linux-based Windows We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that... Read More
Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more. News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up... Read More
How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more. News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu... Read More
Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner. News Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again Changing World, Changing Mozilla Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal... Read More
How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem. Kyle the Windows user We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but... Read More
A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner. Lineage Love-in OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1 Lineage 17.1 on the Pi Admin Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed... Read More
It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner. News COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects... Read More
Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions. News UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats... Read More
Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner. News Facebook did a bad thing to do a good thing Bountysource was going to change its terms so it could keep unclaimed bounties but then backtracked Xfce considers leaving Admin If you... Read More
Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever. News 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi Mint not keen... Read More
The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux. News LiMux is back Patent case against GNOME resolved Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact Admin If... Read More
Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more. Plugs Check out Joe’s other podcasts The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude. News /e/ Partners With Fairphone postmarketOS... Read More
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news. Two new podcasts Joe has been busy over the last couple of... Read More
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more. Keep an eye on the All Episodes Feed for upcoming episodes of Late Night Linux Extra News PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open PINEPHONE... Read More
The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world. Linux and the virus We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events. KDE Korner... Read More
We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more. News Microsoft’s GitHub buys npm When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests Half Life Alyx is released 23rd... Read More
Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner. FOSS Talk Live 2020 Tickets and info here News GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT Pi4 Gets Server Ready A birthday... Read More
Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner. News AppCenter for Everyone South Korea switching to Linux? Windows 7 users moving to Windows... Read More
Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner. FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details... Read More
The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes back, bad news for Mozilla, a great new Nexcloud release, and more in the news. News Y2020 Mozilla Lays off 70 people PinePhones Shipping Nextcloud Hub now with... Read More
It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020. Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with... Read More
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB MongoDB removed from major distros February Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again ... Read More
Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more in the news. News Ubuntu Pro 64-bit Ubuntu now works on Pi 4 The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey First Ever Release of Ubuntu Cinnamon Distribution... Read More
What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news. News Google Kills Cloud Print Google plans to offer bank accounts next year Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support PINEPHONE –... Read More
We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE. News LinuxApp Summit Kicks Off Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites Google open source VR SDK The downside of Ubiquiti network... Read More
Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news. News The BBC has joined the dark web Startpage bought by an Ad Company Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds GNOME fights patent troll Firefox 70 released KDE Korner... Read More
Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more. News Software as a Service Dangers Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week Chromium will be a... Read More
Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directories as a file, KDE Korner, and more. News rms has left the building FSF Award Nominations [Guess who’s now eligible to be nominated] New webpage for Plasma Desktop, Plasma 5.17beta /... Read More
It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us. News GNOME 3.34 Released Kirogi.org, Kate planning & Kate in the Windows Store, POC KDE PIM Online Accounts with some PIM News and KDE Goals PinePhone Developer PreOrders Librem... Read More
We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more. News KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept. GUADEC videos GNOME Firmware Updater Google’s Tracking... Read More
Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news. News Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P... Read More
We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms. News KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update… More good news for Blender from Ubisoft VLC... Read More
When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more. News KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same... Read More
Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro. News Test Plasma Easily, KDE PIM Update, U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as... Read More
It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”. News Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack Raspberry Pi4! Plasma 5.16... Read More
It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one. News KDE Apps Website Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers GMail Confidential Mode to be on... Read More
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead. News Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released Xfce 4.14pre1 released! Google pulls Huawei’s Android... Read More
It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more. News KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App... Read More
It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target. Distro round table Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu Admin FOSS Talk Live Digital Ocean This... Read More
Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it. News Chef ditches Open Core Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a... Read More
What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in. News Google launches game streaming service called Stadia New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive... Read More
A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news. News First Plasma Mobile Sprint Krita: The only graphics app with HDR GNOME 3.32 released Debian Package Maintainer... Read More
Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again. News KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset MariaDB bossman lays in... Read More
Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment. News KDE Plasma 5.15 & Snaps Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo Wine... Read More
Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more. News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop Pine64 forum announcement We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019 Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores HP joins LVFS Blue... Read More
Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more. News New FOSS Forge Librem 5 Update... Read More
A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news. News Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel Kernel reaches 5.0 FreeBSD admits... Read More
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Meltdown and Spectre February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin April... Read More
Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF. News KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!? kde-Itinary Update Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs RISC-V & LF Joint Venture FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars Fedora 31 Will... Read More
Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more. News NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email) Accessibility starting off again in KDE Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of... Read More
Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in. News Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here Purism dev boards when? Lineage OS changing update frequency Samsung... Read More
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age. News Pine64 working on a KDE phone Ubuntu 18.10... Read More
It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world. News Plasma 5.14... Read More
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more. News KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 Google loosens grasp on AMP... Read More
Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more. News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5.14 Beta Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive Linux User and Developer magazine to close Has Linus finally had enough? Maybe this is what did it The Post-meritocracy Manifesto... Read More
Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. News KDE Pinebook release KItinary call for data Start wine-ing about Steam Commons Clause Desktop icons on GNOME Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma? Ubuntu... Read More
Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment. News Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained... Read More
With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods. News Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Slackware dev has financial problems elementary OS receives large donation Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects GNOME might... Read More
Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V. News KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader NPM fail…again Arch Linux AUR Repository Found... Read More
Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more. News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s GitHub compromised Minimal Ubuntu released Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook FOSS synth for iPad Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers... Read More
It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently. News Catchup Microsoft to buy Github Endless lays off several of its employees An opportunity to invest in Mycroft Dockerhub malware... Read More
It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018! FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen. Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They... Read More
We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS. News KDE 5.13 almost... Read More
A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big? News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE... Read More
Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04. News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud Admin OggCamp Call for papers... Read More
With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines. New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.... Read More
It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media. News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the... Read More
A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show. News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video) Debian and Kali Linux now available... Read More
It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism. News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable... Read More
We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases. News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to... Read More
It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?” News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear... Read More
KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux. News KWin/X11 is feature frozen Exciting GNOME news Purism keep up their excellent PR Nextcloud Talk Major vulnerability hoax site Entroware This episode... Read More
A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. News KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June Speech recognition on Linux? Meltdown and Spectre Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux... Read More
It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. January No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS February Arch and Tails announced that they... Read More
Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate. News KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years... Read More
With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more. News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a... Read More
FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS. News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version (Related... Read More
The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter. News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms... Read More
Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years. News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on... Read More
Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant. News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to... Read More
All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more. News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign... Read More
We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation. OggCamp Recap Joe and... Read More
It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks. News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists... Read More
This isn’t a proper episode. It’s just Joe giving a very quick update on the OggCamp live show. It will be a joint effort with the Ubuntu Podcast and one of the sections will involve us answering your questions. There are various ways you can ask a question. You can use the Google Form... Read More
Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us. Sorry to System76 On... Read More
Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more. Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS News Akademy running 22nd – 27th July a nice overview of what... Read More
Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15. News Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added... Read More
Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live. News Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is... Read More
A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13. News KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10 The death of the x86 Windows PC? GPG fundraiser Canonical... Read More
Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12. News Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control)... Read More
Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and proper convergence in action with Maru OS on LNL 11. News Canonical starts IPO path; very interesting related article SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10 Raspberry Pi Foundation encourages kids to make... Read More
Yet more Ubuntu fallout including forks of their dead desktop and mobile platform, Libreboot wants to rejoin GNU, mobile Linux coming together, IoT standardisation and how to spread the word about FOSS on LNL 10. News Wayland and GNOME to be default in Ubuntu 17.10 Yunit tries to avoid a mutiny as UBports looks... Read More
Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and more on LNL 09. News Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written Drupal needs a decent HR department Mastodon is the latest social media fad, despite having... Read More
In this special episode, Joe, Ikey and Jesse discuss the bombshell that Ubuntu is abandoning Unity in favour of GNOME for its next LTS and has officially given up on dreams of mobile convergence. We’ll back to our usual schedule with episode 9 on 18th April. See our contact page for ways to... Read More
Netflix on Linux, phishing with https, licensing, password managers, Android convergence, the inside story of Nextcloud scanning and more on LNL 07. News Netflix now works in Firefox on Linux 14,766 Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites Inside OpenSSL’s battle to change its license Password managers Jesse tells us why... Read More
Jesse is back but this time Félim is in his sick bed so it’s a 3 man show yet again. Some heated debates about Nextcloud’s actions, Ubuntu extended support and PowerPC distros, followed by a deep dive into the world of HiDPI 4k support in Linux. News Nextcloud going too far to ensure that... Read More
Ikey is back but with Jesse on holiday, it’s a three man show again. VR gaming on Linux, a new Raspberry Pi, Mozilla buying Pocket, Web DRM, Kodi piracy and loads more on LNL 05. News SteamVR Is Coming to Linux and SteamOS Raspberry Pi Zero W RetroPie needs legal help; Terminix face a... Read More
With Ikey languishing in his sick bed, the rest of the team discussed even more Linux hardware, Munich probably switching back to Windows, Elementary’s potentially ill-fated crowdfunded app store, Félim’s new phone and loads more. Plus we learn more about OpenSUSE from its chairman Richard Brown on LNL 04. News 7 inch Ubuntu Laptop... Read More
A packed show this time. More Linux hardware, 32 vs 64-bit, Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Budgie, yet more Solus news and loads more on LNL 03. News KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans Arch and Tails are dropping 32-bit but 32-bit CentOS is still available Black market Blackphones get... Read More
New Linux hardware, a profane rant about the FSF, the Chrome OS desktop Linux question, exciting Solus news and loads more on LNL 02. News Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu; Other Dell Ubuntu Machines Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image A pipe dream or an excellent idea?... Read More
In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod becoming Lineage OS and loads more. News 3% market share on the desktop? Goodbye to GNU Libreboot KDE Announces SystemdGenie, a Graphical Tool for Managing Systemd and User... Read More
In Episode 0 of Late Night Linux, Joe explains why we needed to have an Episode 0 and when the first proper episode will be released. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.