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Late Night Linux — News
Late Night Linux

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. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.

Latest Episodes:

Late Night Linux – Episode 308 Nov 19, 2024
Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.

News

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds

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Late Night Linux – Episode 307 Nov 11, 2024
Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.

Discoveries

firebuilder

GNOME

m.uber.com

codon

Ubuntu Summit

Feedback

Zen Browser

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Porkbun

For devs, designers, and anyone in tech. Get .app, .dev, or .foo domains for only $5 for the first year at Porkbun.com/LateNightLinux24

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Late Night Linux – Episode 306 Nov 05, 2024
Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.

News

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

We’re forking Flutter. This is why.

The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight

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Late Night Linux – Episode 305 Oct 28, 2024
Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.

Discoveries

Taskfinder

Thingino

YouTube video on how to install it

follow up videoon Neos

Framework 13 DIY edition

Linux After Dark 80

HAL Project

How GFX Cards Work

GridFinity

Videos about a modular shed

WikiHouse

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Late Night Linux – Episode 304 Oct 22, 2024
The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.

News

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Open Source Pledge

Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway

RIP: Ward Christensen, co-developer of the CBSS

Plasma 6.2

AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

20 years of Ubuntu

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Late Night Linux – Episode 303 Oct 14, 2024
Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop to the stack.

Discoveries

fastboot.js

android-webinstall

dolphie

audapolis

toolong

Topics in computer graphics

OpenZFS

sanoid

Feedback

linux-surface

Tailscale

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Late Night Linux – Episode 302 Oct 08, 2024
How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

Know Before You Go – OggCamp 24

Announcing the OggCamp Swap Shop

Get Involved at OggCamp 2024: bring a talk or demo

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

David Culley’s post about K9

Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

We have discussed the need for a signing enclave and proper build service for *years*. They are supporting our priorities

The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence

KDE e.V. and Kdenlive team are looking for contractors

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Late Night Linux – Episode 301 Sep 30, 2024
Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.

Discoveries

GitHub CLI

dug

asid-vice

Feedback

Archiveteam

Jason Evangelho

Jason’s Mastodon

Jason’s articles on Forbes

Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 300 Sep 23, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 299 Sep 16, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 298 Sep 09, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 297 Sep 02, 2024
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?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 296 Aug 27, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 295 Aug 19, 2024
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.

Get tickets here, and volunteer to be part of the crew here.

Call for papers

OggCamp on Mastodon

Are FOSS people all old?

The graying open source community needs fresh blood

1Password

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Late Night Linux – Episode 294 Aug 12, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 293 Aug 05, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 292 Jul 30, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 291 Jul 22, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 290 Jul 16, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 289 Jul 08, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 288 Jul 02, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 287 Jun 24, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 286 Jun 18, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 285 Jun 10, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 284 Jun 03, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 283 May 27, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 282 May 21, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 281 May 13, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 280 May 07, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 279 Apr 29, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 278 Apr 22, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 277 Apr 15, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 276 Apr 07, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 275 Apr 01, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 274 Mar 26, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 273 Mar 18, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 272 Mar 12, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 271 Mar 04, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 270 Feb 27, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 269 Feb 19, 2024
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 268 Feb 13, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 267 Feb 05, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 266 Jan 30, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 266 Jan 30, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 265 Jan 22, 2024
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.

Discoveries

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

Feedback

KonstKang

PH stats

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Late Night Linux – Episode 264 Jan 15, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 263 Jan 08, 2024
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.

Discoveries

Nabu Casa

llamafile

OverTheWire Wargames

Fire TV Stick 4K Max with VLC and Jellyfin

SmartTube

oh-my-bash

Feedback

WordPress

Libsyn

PowerPress

Hugo

castanet

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Late Night Linux – Episode 262 Jan 01, 2024
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 261 Dec 25, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 260 Dec 19, 2023
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.

Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time!

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Will’s post that made it to Hacker News etc

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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Late Night Linux – Episode 259 Dec 11, 2023
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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Discoveries

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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Late Night Linux – Episode 258 Dec 05, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 257 Nov 27, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 256 Nov 21, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 255 Nov 13, 2023
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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Discoveries

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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Late Night Linux – Episode 254 Nov 07, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 253 Oct 30, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 252 Oct 24, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 251 Oct 16, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 250 Oct 10, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 249 Oct 02, 2023
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.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

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Discoveries

BOOLR

HUNSN

Beelink

Snapcraft Metrics

popey’s Snapcraft Metrics blog post

evtest

evtest-qt

USBGuard

bintracker

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Late Night Linux – Episode 248 Sep 26, 2023
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.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

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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Late Night Linux – Episode 247 Sep 18, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 246 Sep 12, 2023
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.

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News

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers

Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

Plasma 6 coming in February 2024

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Late Night Linux – Episode 245 Sep 04, 2023
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

Nextcloud News

NewsFlash

Feedly

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Late Night Linux – Episode 244 Aug 29, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 243 Aug 21, 2023
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

Kyber

The End of Computer Magazines in America

Feedback

linkding

gum

35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes

exercism.org

Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion

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Late Night Linux – Episode 242 Aug 15, 2023
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 is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

Neal Gompa says KDE will be the flagship version

Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality

Incus – Introduction

Incus: A new fork of Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’

Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future

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Late Night Linux – Episode 241 Aug 07, 2023
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

Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

Discoveries

tio

HP-45 calculator emulator

Linux Air Combat

Passim

goread

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Late Night Linux – Episode 240 Aug 01, 2023
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.

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News

Slackware turns 30

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Web-Environment-Integrity

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

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Late Night Linux – Episode 239 Jul 24, 2023
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

Ebou GitHub

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Late Night Linux – Episode 238 Jul 18, 2023
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

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Time to move on

Christian Brauner on Mastodon

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry

Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro… again

The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright 2022 KDE e.V. Report & Akademy is on right now! Raw videos are available

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Late Night Linux – Episode 237 Jul 10, 2023
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

Blender 3.6 LTS

Accurate dinosaurs edited with blender

Qodem

Telnet BBS Guide

Zimodem

2.5M Steam users on Linux?

ESP Home iBoost

linuxwave

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Late Night Linux – Episode 236 Jul 04, 2023
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 Open Source Open

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

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Late Night Linux – Episode 235 Jun 26, 2023
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

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Late Night Linux – Episode 234 Jun 20, 2023
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 / K-9 Mail: May 2023 Progress Report

What Reddit Got Wrong

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit CEO felt ‘reaffirmed’ by Musk’s handling of Twitter

Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the axe in favor of “focus”

Kdenlive news and fundraising report

This week in KDE: major plumbing work in Plasma 6

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Late Night Linux – Episode 233 Jun 12, 2023
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 headset via Wi-Fi

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Late Night Linux – Episode 232 Jun 06, 2023
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 Snap

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Ubuntu Core as an immutable Linux Desktop base

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Carl George’s take

The distribution model is changing

Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Push – a standalone expressive instrument

Willow could be the $50 hardware piece of the DIY voice assistant puzzle

Mozilla apologizes for intrusive Firefox VPN ad popup

Pocket’s new features make it even easier to discover and organize content

Linux On Desktop In 2023

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Late Night Linux – Episode 231 May 29, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 230 May 22, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 229 May 16, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 228 May 08, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 227 May 01, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 226 Apr 25, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 225 Apr 17, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 224 Apr 11, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 223 Apr 03, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 222 Mar 28, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 221 Mar 20, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 220 Mar 13, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 219 Mar 06, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 218 Feb 28, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 217 Feb 20, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 216 Feb 14, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 215 Feb 06, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 214 Jan 31, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 213 Jan 23, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 212 Jan 17, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 211 Jan 09, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 210 Jan 03, 2023
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 209 Dec 26, 2022
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 208 Dec 20, 2022
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 207 Dec 12, 2022
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 206 Dec 06, 2022
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 206 Dec 06, 2022
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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Late Night Linux – Episode 205 Nov 28, 2022
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 a Samsung Galaxy S III

Mailing lists are on the wane

The GNOME Project is closing all its mailing lists

KDE Korner

Jonathan Esk-Riddell’s report from Prague and Scarlett’s too

Push notifications for KDE

NeoChat E2EE progressing Nate’s Update: Welcome in Plasma

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Late Night Linux – Episode 204 Nov 22, 2022
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

LibreOffice and blockchain: What cool things are possible?

Running your own Mastodon instance

Popey tells us about running ubuntu.social

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Late Night Linux – Episode 203 Nov 14, 2022
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

Ken VanDine

Graham sits down with the Ken the Ubuntu desktop engineering manager at the Ubuntu Summit to talk about Snaps, desktop, WSL, Steam, and more.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 202 Nov 08, 2022
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 Open Source and Human Progress

Signal thinks it’s Snapchat

What happened to signal-desktop? – snap – snapcraft.io

snap automatic updates can now be ‘held’ indefinitely (currently beta/edge)

Mozilla Ventures: Investing in Responsible Tech

SourceHut terms of service updates, cryptocurrency-related projects to be removed

KDE Korner

A New ‘KDE Control Centre’ Widget Inspired by iOS

KDE For Creators

Tiling Work

Kate Treats, Outlines & smarter Krunner

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Late Night Linux – Episode 201 Oct 31, 2022
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

KDE Korner

On hiring, and fundraising to make it more biggerer

KDE neon Rebased on Jammy

UserBase Rebooted

This Week in KDE: QA pays off & UI Improvements

digiKam Recipes

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Late Night Linux – Episode 200 Oct 25, 2022
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 199 Oct 17, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 198 Oct 11, 2022
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 Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines

Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops

First RISC-V laptop available

The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)

What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!)

Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware

KDE Korner

Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal)

Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase

KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap

Overhall of Kontact Encryption

MiTubo Adds Feeds

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Late Night Linux – Episode 197 Oct 03, 2022
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 Instruments Clouds

httm

Ventoy

The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store

Feedback

Mimic 3

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Late Night Linux – Episode 196 Sep 27, 2022
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 browsers

KDE Korner

Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron

Kdenlive Fundraiser

This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks

This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability

Plasma Bigscreen

KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other

Official ppa

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Late Night Linux – Episode 195 Sep 19, 2022
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 whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts

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Late Night Linux – Episode 194 Sep 13, 2022
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

Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release

github-cli Debian package GPG key expires

LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge

NFT shit-list

Feedback

UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

KDE Korner

Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default

KDE Promo Sprint

Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM

These Weeks in KDE

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Late Night Linux – Episode 193 Sep 05, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 192 Aug 30, 2022
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

GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments

Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer

VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked

Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

KDE Korner

Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4

Kate macro recording

Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08

KDE Snap Packages

Neon 22.04 Docker Images

Akademy Talk Schedule Live

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Late Night Linux – Episode 191 Aug 22, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 190 Aug 15, 2022
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 189 Aug 08, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 188 Aug 02, 2022
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 on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0

Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs

Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks

MicrocodeDecryptor

Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping

Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published

Minecraft and NFTs

Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game

KDE Korner

Latte Dock | Farewell…

The Eco Sprint

Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update

Bit of love for Discover

Multihead will be no more

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Late Night Linux – Episode 187 Jul 25, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 186 Jul 18, 2022
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 ecosystem

Lennart leaves Red Hat and Goes to Microsoft

Microsoft is a Linux and open source company

Firefox snap performance Part 3: significant startup improvements

Reddit and Nothing NFTs

KDE Korner

KDE eV Report 2021

Last and This week in KDE

Should Fedora sponsor KDE officially?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 185 Jul 11, 2022
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 Microsoft Account requirement

Raspberry Pi Restores Guitar Amp, Complete With Effects

Feedback

Improvements in git 2.37 when resolving conflicts with vimdiff

liquidsoap

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Late Night Linux – Episode 184 Jul 05, 2022
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 Twitter

Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!

Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer

Firefox kills another tracking cookie workaround

Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication

Thunderbird is getting a visual revamp

Lawmakers seek to accelerate asteroid finder and want more Mars helicopters

KDE Korner

KDE Apps mid-year update

Digitally signing PDFs with a hardware token

DigiKam 7.7.0

KDE PIM May & June update

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Late Night Linux – Episode 183 Jun 27, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 182 Jun 21, 2022
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

How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows

Microsoft Store: no astronomical pricing and paid open source or free copycat applications anymore

Microsoft Gives $10k to GNOME

clap

Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are!

Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient

Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview

What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.25 along with Frameworks 5.95

Goal: Apps & the call for new Goals is open

Platform Calendar Access followup

Qt Patch Level 5.15.5

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Late Night Linux – Episode 181 Jun 13, 2022
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 here)

warpd

archinstall

Dwitter

DALL·E mini

Feedback

Monit

Jason’s command: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1

Joe’s: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 150 lowpass -1 150 gain +10

Noice

Linux After Dark 18

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Late Night Linux – Episode 180 Jun 07, 2022
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 watch the meetup page!

Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations

NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain

Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old

Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot

DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers

DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract

Brave marketing gaffe

Brave’s use of Direct Mailers

Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion

VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition

Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers

Drew’s Tweet

Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features

Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18

Intel Upgrade Service

KDE Korner

KDE a Google SoC participent

SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE

KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella

KItinerary April/May Update

KDE Goals: Wayland

Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores

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Late Night Linux – Episode 179 May 30, 2022
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

owncast

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Late Night Linux – Episode 178 May 24, 2022
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 Alex’s outdoor meetup in August

Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers

Hector Martin’s Twitter thread about it

Google backtracks on legacy GSuite account shutdown, won’t take user emails

Chromebooks are the perfect place to teach yourself about Linux

When will we learn?

KDE Korner

Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt

Leaving The Qt Company

Almost time to pick new goals and end of KDE Goals: “Consistency”

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Late Night Linux – Episode 177 May 16, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 176 May 10, 2022
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 from Perseverance landing

Ingenuity might not last much longer

Oatmeal comic

LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available

More about Lineage on Linux After Dark this Friday

Apple clarifies its controversial app removal emails with policy statement

UK finance minister blames legacy IT for benefits delay

Bad things are going to happen to the Internet in the UK

Discoveries

pz

dashy

Charge your laptop off a big external battery over USB-C

KDE Korner

KItinery out of Play

New Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 with new site

New gestures support in Plasma 5.25

Poppler’s new embedded font support

LinuxAppSummit & video of Q&A with Neil McGovern and Aleix Pol

New LabPlot & Kdenlive

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Late Night Linux – Episode 175 May 02, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 174 Apr 26, 2022
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 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40

The Steam Deck is not a flop

De-AMP: Cutting Out Google and Enhancing Privacy

Discoveries

LNL Matrix

Element

New official Mastodon apps for Android and iOS

Create Twitter RSS Feeds

KDE Korner

KDE Gear 22.04.0 is out

Nice theming improvements

iOS KDEConnect getting better Alerts

Simple Tasks App

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Late Night Linux – Episode 173 Apr 18, 2022
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

Qutebrowser

Nyxt Browser

Interview with Gavin Freeborn about Nyxt

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Late Night Linux – Episode 172 Apr 12, 2022
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 W ill writing Go

Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support

Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers

An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

elementary update

Ubuntu gets a new rolling-release remix

GPD are getting quite desperate against the Steam Deck

Her Majesty’s Treasury is working on a new kind of mint: NFTs

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KDE Korner

KDE Itinerary has barcodes for the gate/seating and now a barcode reader

This week and the previous update-a-geddon

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Late Night Linux – Episode 171 Apr 04, 2022
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 save a Mac but there is a FOSS alternative

Feedback

Vagrant

wallabag

Shaarli

Archiving and Digital Preservation

Bookmarks and Link Sharing

Read-it-later Lists

get-iplayer

bashpodder

PICO-8

TIC-80

Scratch

Appel

Kolide

Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk

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Late Night Linux – Episode 170 Mar 29, 2022
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 Episode about Asahi

This was the first step in the interview process at Canonical – I withdrew my application

My Interview Process Experience With Canonical

Ask Shuttleworth a question!

Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own

KDE Korner

Okular – First Eco Certified

QT6 work progresses with Frameworks+Plasma and now Kate/Kwrite

Some KDE items of interest from Wikidata Data Reuse Days

Nate’s usual weekly updates

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Late Night Linux – Episode 169 Mar 21, 2022
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, but less exciting now

114 billion transistors, one big meh

Unity Store

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Late Night Linux – Episode 168 Mar 15, 2022
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 with elementary

GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft

Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vulnerability in years

Click here to see why the BBC HATES RSS

Admin

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KDE Korner

Wikidata reuse days… non now…

Steamdeck runs KDE

PIM Update & KDE Gear updates

New Firmware Security tab coming in Plasma 5.25

Translation help

Signature support is now Okular in on Android

Eco Software

Multi-cursors in Kate

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Late Night Linux – Episode 167 Mar 07, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 166 Mar 01, 2022
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 not ready

Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad

Qualcomm’s new PC chips are good, but they still can’t match Apple’s M1

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KDE Korner

Fix all the things

Kate Improvements coming soon

SoK Flathubbing

It’s Normal and it Works

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Late Night Linux – Episode 165 Feb 21, 2022
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 JSON viewer

jo

Unofficial LNL Matrix room

Samson mic

Podcastage

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Late Night Linux – Episode 164 Feb 15, 2022
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 accounts

Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted, but it might show up in your Peloton

Inside Google’s Plan to Salvage Its Stadia Gaming Service

Early Steam Deck previews are out – and battery life is causing concern

Steam Deck CAD files now available

Twitter thread about the Deck’s size

Epic won’t update Fortnite to run on the Steam Deck

Admin

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KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 (Nico has a video) & Bug fixes coming with some improvements too

Kalendar 1.0 is out

Plasma Mobile Gear 22.01 is out

5.25 starts: Discover redesign begins & Navigate panels with the keyboard

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Late Night Linux – Episode 163 Feb 07, 2022
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 162 Feb 01, 2022
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 Google Apps for Domains

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

Discoveries

Jq

Vital synth

Admin

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KDE Korner

Falkon 3.2.0

15 Minute bug initiative and progress (plus some upcoming features)

Runner help

Linux App Summit

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Late Night Linux – Episode 161 Jan 24, 2022
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 in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition

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Late Night Linux – Episode 160 Jan 18, 2022
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

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up

New year, new Signal CEO

Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations

Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web

Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity

Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 Beta out

KVer Graphics & Dev Videos

Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager

KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out

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Late Night Linux – Episode 159 Jan 10, 2022
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 which apps will work with de-Googled Android

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Late Night Linux – Episode 158 Jan 04, 2022
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 Mozilla VPN?!

Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down

Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager

In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers

Discoveries

ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp

The Rockstar Language Specification

KDE Korner

Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022

Krita 5.0 released!

A new browser from kMobile

KDE Art Stream

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Late Night Linux – Episode 157 Dec 27, 2021
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 156 Dec 21, 2021
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 Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr]

“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul]

Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]

Gaming

Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb]

Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov]

Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec]

Steam Link now available on Linux [mar]

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun]

Steam Deck [jul]

EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep]

Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]

Drama

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies [mar]

FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec]

Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar]

Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may]

Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun]

Audacity privacy notice [jul]

Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul]

Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may]

Welcome to Libera Chat [may]

GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work [jun]

Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon [sep]

Arm

Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 [jan]

Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon [jan]

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 [nov]

Pinephone Pro [oct]

How We Ported Linux to the M1 [jan]

M1 Macs booting from NVMe [jan]

GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 [aug]

The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple’s M1 SoC [dec]

Asahi Linux looks forward to exciting 2022 on Apple silicon [dec]

NFTs

Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT [jun]

Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it [oct]

Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT [dec]

Stan Lee’s memory defiled [dec]

Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs [dec]

Existential dread

Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years [aug]

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What’s Up With KDE, And How Was It Implemented!

Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

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Late Night Linux – Episode 155 Dec 13, 2021
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 running proper Linux on his phone with AnLinux. He mentioned Termux.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 154 Dec 07, 2021
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 those zero-dot users

“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)

Listing rumours for Raspberry Pi? No ‘urgency’ says Upton

Flatpak Is Not the Future

On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication

Admin

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KDE Korner

Icons… everywhere

Quick update for KItinerary

Digital Signatures in Okular – Thanks to NLNet

Usual features & fixes

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Late Night Linux – Episode 153 Nov 29, 2021
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 152 Nov 23, 2021
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 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Google-translated interview

Apple announces Self Service Repair

The future of documentation at Canonical

Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap

Admin

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KDE Korner

How to create KDE Applets

KDE now also LTT proof

Evolving 3D effects in Plasma

Be flexible to win big

PinePhone Cross Compilation

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Late Night Linux – Episode 151 Nov 15, 2021
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 150 Nov 09, 2021
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 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi

Ubuntu Server support

Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS

Nat Friedman leaves GitHub

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze

Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements

Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Admin

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KDE Korner

November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0

Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders

Nice look through PolKit

Updates in KDE PIM

Giant Swarm Site Reliability job

Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles)

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Late Night Linux – Episode 149 Nov 01, 2021
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, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”

Feedback

We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 148 Oct 26, 2021
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 and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)

Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained

Copyleft Compliance Projects

Introducing the PinePhone Pro

Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision

Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?

Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry

Admin

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KDE Korner

Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too

KDEnlive used for Italian TV

23 ways to help KDE

KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt

Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming

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Late Night Linux – Episode 147 Oct 18, 2021
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 environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.

Feedback

We mentioned Photopea.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 146 Oct 12, 2021
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 on Mobile

Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

Admin

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KDE Korner

KDE has a FOSS role going

KDE’s 25th birthday

How Gwenview got its name

Kalendar devblog 17 & 18

Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores

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Late Night Linux – Episode 145 Oct 04, 2021
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 Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.

Graham and the Pinephone

Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 144 Sep 28, 2021
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 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

Steam Deck FAQ

Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck

GOL

BattlEye to support the Steam Deck

GNOME 41 released

Building an Alternative Ecosystem

Admin

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KDE Korner

KDE Window Rules

Get Drawing With Krita with this Book

Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October

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Late Night Linux – Episode 143 Sep 20, 2021
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 Linux desktop

What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 142 Sep 14, 2021
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 protections in Windows

Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?

Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy

Open source is selfish

Ubuntu Podcast is ending

Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency

Admin

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KDE Korner

Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there

NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott

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Late Night Linux – Episode 141 Sep 06, 2021
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 140 Aug 31, 2021
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 in 30 years

LINUX is obsolete

Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras

State of Magisk: 2021

GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1

Resigning from the AMP advisory committee

Admin

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KDE Korner

PineBook / PinePhone Review by Nico

KDE PIM Update especially Kalendar (New ToDo app) and a video of it on a PinePhone

Early days but Tokodon is a KDE mastodon client

WARNING: scam mails about krita and youtube coming from krita.io

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Late Night Linux – Episode 139 Aug 23, 2021
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 138 Aug 17, 2021
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

Admin

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KDE Korner

KDE Apps 21.08

Along with KDEnlive 21.08

Ads for Elisa, Dolphin and Konsole

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Late Night Linux – Episode 137 Aug 09, 2021
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 136 Aug 03, 2021
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 Smartphones and the Mobile Internet

Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32

WEB@30 Exhibition – 26th July to 3rd September 2021

Admin

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KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile 21.07

KDE Connect is Now Available to Windows 10 Users & work has started on rewrite of Mac version

Covid Certs in KItinerary

KDE e.V. Looking for a PM

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Late Night Linux – Episode 135 Jul 26, 2021
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 to be so susceptible to being taken advantage of?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 134 Jul 20, 2021
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 survey

Why Windows 11 Could Be Good News for Ubuntu

KDE Korner

Lots of new improvements to Tok

New Kalender app coming along nicely

Digikam 7.3.0

This week in KDE: KDE-powered Steam Deck revealed!

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Late Night Linux – Episode 133 Jul 12, 2021
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 by Daniel Foré to discuss software subscriptions and monetising FOSS. We mentioned elementary Developer Weekend.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 132 Jul 06, 2021
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

IBM Leadership Changes

When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos’s £136m contract with NHS England

Admin

Check out Late Night Linux Extra 25.

KDE Korner

KDE Search Tips

KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff!

FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon

21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support

aKademy video playlist

MyGNUHealth 1.0 is out

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Late Night Linux – Episode 131 Jun 28, 2021
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 that’s based on Debian.

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+

Firefox: Hide Native Tabs and Titlebar

Josh’s CSS for Tree Style Tabs

FOSS Talk Live leftovers

More questions that we didn’t get round to answering at FOSS Talk Live.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 130 Jun 22, 2021
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

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Dev Null and the Kernel Panics

FOSS Talk Live leftovers

The spinning wheel of meh at FOSS Talk Live ended up with loads of leftover questions so we answered a few of them.

Chrome OS at 10

10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.22 Video from the promo team

Bug Triaging Needed – Nate

Akademy is on with day 2 and day 3 reports up and BOFs ongoing this week (Channel)

/u/wael_ch/ made some cool shortcuts for Dolphin, Plasma and Krunner check out /r/kde

Dart/Flutter support for Kate

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Late Night Linux – Episode 129 Jun 14, 2021
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 America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction”.

Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Bodhi Linux

Fedora Silverblue

AI Noise Analyzer

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Late Night Linux – Episode 128 Jun 08, 2021
The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.

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FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.

News

A fresh new Firefox is here

The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement

Glimpse fails

The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters

Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia

Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old

Admin

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KDE Korner

PinePhone KDE Patron

KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git

Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully

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Late Night Linux – Episode 127 May 31, 2021
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

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Feedback

Things we mentioned:

Sweep

ocenaudio

mhwaveedit

Audio Recorder

Gnome Wave Cleaner

Kwave

Ventoy

Pinephone

Graham finally has his hands on a Pinephone and so we asked him all about it.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 126 May 25, 2021
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 open, starting at $999

Hands-On with Framework’s Fully Modular Laptop!

Improving Firefox stability on Linux

Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own

Google Play Store will be able to send you compromised Android apps from August

Magisk developer leaves Apple to join Google on the Android security team

How the UK’s Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix

Online abuse: Why management liability isn’t the answer

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KDE Korner

Moving on

KCommandBar

LAS Tooling Update

Telegram KDE Client Slim Mode

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Late Night Linux – Episode 125 May 17, 2021
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

FreeTube

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Late Night Linux – Episode 124 May 11, 2021
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 tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin

Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable

Admin

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Where we get our news

RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.

KDE Korner

Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released

KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover

Kdenlive 21.04 – Subtitle STT

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Late Night Linux – Episode 123 May 03, 2021
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 will be Endless OS.

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Feedback

The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE.

Things we mentioned:

HIP and ROCm

FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs

Restored Genesis video

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Late Night Linux – Episode 122 Apr 27, 2021
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 here

Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new?

Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New

The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment

Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits

An open letter to the Linux community

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KDE Korner

Krita Arrives in the Epic Store

KDE in Kerala

Peruse Komics

Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel

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Late Night Linux – Episode 121 Apr 16, 2021
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.

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Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 120 Apr 13, 2021
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 updates public server code after months of silence

US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales

Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war

LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices

Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology

Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program

Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment

Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether

popey to leave Canonical

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Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.

KDE Korner

Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection

SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs

KHamburgerMenu

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Late Night Linux – Episode 119 Apr 05, 2021
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 4 widevine

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Check out Joe’s albums

Feedback

Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs.

Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 118 Mar 30, 2021
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 to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions

An open letter in support of RMS

PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name

Audacity 3.0.0 Released

The End of AMP

Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support

Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release

Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week

elementary Developer Weekend

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KDE Korner

KDE Dev Tries Gnome 40

Kall kFor PapersK : Akademy

QT6 is gettin’ going

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Late Night Linux – Episode 117 Mar 22, 2021
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

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A year on from The Event

Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.

Feedback
Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, and more.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 116 Mar 16, 2021
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

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NFTs

Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare?

NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions

Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry

The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world

Jack’s first tweet is for sale

The climate controversy swirling around NFTs

KDE Korner

Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence

Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series

Frameworks 5.80 is out

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Late Night Linux – Episode 115 Mar 08, 2021
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

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Feedback

Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 114 Mar 02, 2021
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 and Total Cookie Protection

Introducing the Framework Laptop

Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations

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Xfce Xorner

Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update

And Now For Something Completely Different

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile

Documentation

Offline Updates

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Late Night Linux – Episode 113 Feb 22, 2021
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 on Chrome OS devices

We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 112 Feb 16, 2021
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 Code comes to Raspberry Pi

Patch in this commit

Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep

Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical

LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released

Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police

NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone!

K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app

Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google

Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years

Admin

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KDE Korner

Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog)

Plasma 5.21 approaches

Kate colour picker & project tools

Checksums are important

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Late Night Linux – Episode 111 Feb 09, 2021
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 Store. Full instructions here.

Félim’s 800×480 screen

News/discussion

Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward

bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply

Must ‘completely free’ mean ‘hard to install’? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community

Admin

FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person

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Feedback

Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps.

We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 110 Feb 02, 2021
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 Raspberry Pi Silicon

How We Ported Linux to the M1

M1 Macs booting from NVMe

Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved

Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family

Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies

Firefox stops working on progressive web app support

Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project

Admin

Popey on LNLE 14 about Snaps

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KDE Korner

JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build

Kate HUD

Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge

Consistency Nitpicks

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Late Night Linux – Episode 109 Jan 25, 2021
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

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Feedback

Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without.

Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi

Steve’s series of posts

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Late Night Linux – Episode 108 Jan 19, 2021
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 of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?

Doubling down on open, Part II

Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones

Right to Repair Europe

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Feedback

We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.

KDE Korner

Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only

Fedora Kenoite

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Late Night Linux – Episode 107 Jan 11, 2021
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

Félim’s links:

Graphite

Grafana

KDE Korner

KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat

KDE Apps in the Windows store

Highlights from 2020

Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths

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Late Night Linux – Episode 106 Jan 05, 2021
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 105 Dec 22, 2020
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 Shipping

PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open

Second PinePhone Community edition

postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets

AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2

marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs

Mozilla

Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue

Readying for the Future at Mozilla

Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit

Changing World, Changing Mozilla

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended

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CentOS

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

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Late Night Linux – Episode 104 Dec 08, 2020
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 Night Linux Extra

Feedback

Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.

KDE Korner

Plasma Big Screen Beta 2

Alternate Character Input

Digikam on Big Sur progresses

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Late Night Linux – Episode 103 Nov 24, 2020
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

Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.

Feedback: Trust

We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation.

Your computer isn’t yours

Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process

NSA Spying

KDE Korner

Linux App Summit

All Talks Playlist

GCompris is 20

KDE Pinephone: The Point

Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.

Datadog

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 102 Nov 10, 2020
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 its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store

How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet

Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store

KDE Korner

New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback

Kontact better & better

KDE Android News

Kate is 20 years old!

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Lernard

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Late Night Linux – Episode 101 Oct 27, 2020
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

youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice

Antennapod 2.0 released

Ubuntu 20.10 Released

20.10 on the Pi 4 video

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25

New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released

Krita 4.4.0 released

Plasma browser integration on Edge

Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning

Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 100 Oct 13, 2020
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 ESR put out there a few weeks ago.

Will’s adventures in DNS

Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard.

KDE Korner

My KDE

Plasma Mobile update: September 2020

Plasma 5.20 is nigh

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 99 Sep 29, 2020
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 400%

Killed by Mozilla

Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal

WireGuard

Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.

KDE Korner

Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan

KDE websites update

Datadog

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Entroware

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Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 98 Sep 15, 2020
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 community drama

Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

Admin

Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces

Check out Jono Bacon’s book club

Fixing the Internet

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity

EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation

Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet

KDE Korner

KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle

Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland

Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap

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Lernard

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Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 97 Aug 31, 2020
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

If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended

You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade

Last October we talked about FlightGear being used in the AlphaDogfight Trials, well now we’re all doomed as the AI wins 5-0

Admin

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AMA

We were asked whether Canonical is standing on the shoulders of giants, or building castles on the sand.

KDE Korner

KDE neon Rebased on 20.04 (plus all the 20.08 app updates)

Kdenlive 20.08 is out

Plasma Mobile Update

Linux Spotlight EP56 – Nate Graham of KDE Plasma

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 96 Aug 17, 2020
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 didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Late Night Linux Extra so make sure you are subscribed to the RSS feed to hear his thoughts on Joe’s beloved Xubuntu.

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about corporations having public political views, and NixOS and Guix.

Félim’s RSI issues

Félim tells us about the new vertical mouse he bought to tackle his shoulder and neck pain. He should have probably bought this cheaper version. Graham mentioned his trackball mouse.

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Late Night Linux – Episode 95 Aug 04, 2020
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

FOSS trends 2020

We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.

KDE Korner

New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too

KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes

DigiKam becomes sentient

Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 94 Jul 21, 2020
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

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Pine update

postmarketOS PinePhone update

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions

Official u-turn

Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

What Does the Future Hold for Edge Computing?

KDE Korner

HiDPI Fixes Coming

KDE PIM Updates

More Apps & More Stores

Konsole in 2020

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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Late Night Linux – Episode 93 Jul 07, 2020
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 aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up

Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support

KDE Korner

KDE has completed the move to GitLab

Modern process management on KDE

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 92 Jun 22, 2020
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

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Linux hardware – old and new

Joe talks about his new Pinebook Pro, and after Will read an article about netbooks, we have a nostalgic look back to those good old days.

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.19: A more Polished Plasma which wasn’t (Updated Wallet… broke it… then later that day fixed it) so they polished it again

KDE Plasma is Switching to a Windows-style Icon-only Task Bar

Krita 4.3 with good features video & overall KDE apps in the Windows store (no Krita numbers)

Digital Ocean

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Lernard

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Late Night Linux – Episode 91 Jun 09, 2020
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 on snaps

AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Admin

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Joe on Linux Spotlight

Joe on Ubuntu Podcast

Ask us anything sensible

We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop

Nvidia Wayland & KDE

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 90 May 26, 2020
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

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Microsoft Linux

Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”.

Nice article by original bug author

They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 90 May 26, 2020
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

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Microsoft Linux

Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”.

Nice article by original bug author

They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 89 May 12, 2020
Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more.

Plugs

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News

/e/ Partners With Fairphone

postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets

SaltStack authorization bypass

Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses

RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support

Keybase joins Zoom

Admin

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Feedback

Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.

KDE Korner

Akademy: Call for Proposals

Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress

Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet

Digital Ocean

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ScholarPack

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Late Night Linux – Episode 88 Apr 28, 2020
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 weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.

Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives

What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New

Admin

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News

ProtonMail Bridge is now open source

All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list!

Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results

GitHub is now free for teams

KDE Korner

KWinFT & Reaction

Qt 6 this year

Browser plugin update & Brave support coming

New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it

20.04 Apps, KDEnlive

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 87 Apr 14, 2020
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.

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News

PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open

PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News

Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever

Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75

Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge

Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO

Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM

Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android

Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer

Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE

KDE Korner

KDE on Instagram

February/March in KDE Itinerary

Maui Project

Qt offering changes 2020

#1: Qt, Open Source and corona

#2: Qt, Open Source and corona

Qt and Open Source

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 86 Mar 31, 2020
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

Plasma Bigscreen (homepage)

Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner

Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview

Linux vs the cloud

Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Late Night Linux – Episode 85 Mar 17, 2020
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 March, with no Linux support, despite being developed by Valve using Vulkan.

Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE

KDE Korner

Plasma Mobile

Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally

Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.

Ask Linux

We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 84 Mar 03, 2020
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 gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35

Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube

Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.

Open source apps vs desktops

Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.

KDE Korner

Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming

kTop Seekrit

kItinerary all the things

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 83 Feb 18, 2020
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 10

Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge

KDE Korner

Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can)

Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that

KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!

Admin

Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra

FOSS Talk Live 2020

PinePhone

Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 82 Feb 04, 2020
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 here.

News

PinePhone Freedom

HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up

Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March

Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop

Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella

WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source

Linux on Will’s Mac

Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.

KDE Korner

Qt News & Reactions 1 2 3

KDE gets a handshake

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Late Night Linux – Episode 81 Jan 21, 2020
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 KItinerary

KDE Korner

KUserFeedback with a bit more detail

Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta

Admin

Joe’s Brunch With Brent

Graham talking about synths on Jupiter Extras

Linux as a replacement for Windows 7

Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, should we be advising people to change to Linux? Are we actually doing that?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 80 Jan 07, 2020
It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 79 Dec 24, 2019
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

March

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

LVFS joins Linux Foundation

April

UBports Foundation finally created

Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features

May

Announcing WSL 2

Introducing Windows Terminal

June

Raspberry Pi 4 released

July

Fuchsia gets a website

August

Xfce 4.14 released

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!

September

Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF

Richard Stallman resigns from MIT

Stallman intends to keep leading GNU

October

Ubuntu 19.10 released

Will has left Canonical

November

Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support

Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch

December

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux

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Late Night Linux – Episode 78 Dec 10, 2019
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 is Finally Here!

Zorin OS Responds to Privacy Concerns

Firefox 71

Kali Linux 2019.4 released with Xfce by default

KDE Korner

Kontributing to KDE is even easier than you kThink

Chrome OS

Joe has been playing with a “new” Chromebook. We discuss how this hugely popular Linux-based desktop OS compares to proper distros.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 77 Nov 26, 2019
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 – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters

KDE Korner

KDE Neon snapcraft extension

KDE looking to hire an experienced project manager (PDF)

Admin

Joe on Linux Lads

Two weeks with macOS

Will’s new job means that he’s now using a Mac every day. How does macOS compare to Linux?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 76 Nov 12, 2019
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 gear

Linux Foundation introduces telemetry policy

Microsoft to offer Defender for Linux next year

Microsoft confirms new browser is coming to Linux

Ubuntu 19.10 on the Pi 4

Joe and Graham have been playing with Ubuntu on the Pi 4

Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

KDE Korner

Indian Newspaper Switches 100% FOSS

KItinary into the browser a la Google Now

And finally… Getting stuff fixed

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Late Night Linux – Episode 75 Oct 29, 2019
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

Akademy vids are out, Plasma Mobile catchups, KItinerary extractors again & The cashew is no more

Will leaves Canonical

Will tells us why he has left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop and where he’s going next.

Admin

OggCamp panel recording

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Late Night Linux – Episode 74 Oct 15, 2019
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 snap

ARM reacts to RISC-V

What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

KDE Korner

HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps, Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6

Admin

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OggCamp panel questions

Campbell Barton from Blender

Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 73 Oct 01, 2019
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 / 5.18 two weeks away, Kate’s External Tools Plugin, Akademy and adopted GitLab, KItinerary Extractor

Pulse Dolby Support

Reinventing Home Dirs

Admin

OggCamp panel questions

Home Networks

Félim recently had to redo his home network so we talk about our various setups.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 72 Sep 15, 2019
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 5 Shipping Announcement

Fairphone 3 gets perfect score from iFixit

Mumble 1.3 Released

Firefox 69 released and looks good

Test Pilot Is Back

Sunsetting Python 2

Manjaro is taking the next step

Brexit bastards want our data

Windows gains major desktop Linux feature

Admin

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Late Night Linux – Episode 71 Sep 03, 2019
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 Protection BS? – EFF Chime in

Fairphone3

MS Graciously Allows Us To Use Its Obvious & Non-Novel Patent For exFAT

Glimpse of a GIMP

Chris Beard to step down as Mozilla CEO

Software Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry

Admin

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Late Night Linux – Episode 70 Aug 20, 2019
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 sprint…but not really

Xfce 4.14 released

ZFS on / coming to Ubuntu desktop

Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman

Graham’s 3D printer

Graham recently bought a 3D printer and tells us all about it.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 69 Aug 06, 2019
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 is somewhat fed up with security researchers

Xfce 4.14 Inches Closer to Release

Firefox Reality, browser designed for viewing the web in virtual reality

Valve and Colabora backed Xrdesktop Brings Linux Desktop Environments Into VR

Cloudflare terminating Service for 8Chan

8chan’s hardware provider discontinues service

A reimagined foundation for Linux

What would a foundation for Linux look like if we were to start one today?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 68 Jul 23, 2019
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 time

Like Linux? Then don’t buy Dell’s new XPS 13

F-Droid Reproducible

New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files

Maintainer for gpodder.net needed

Admin

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Free Software and free speech

With Gab recently switching to a Mastodon base, an old debate has emerged. The Mastodon project has taken steps to isolate Gab and F-droid has taken a similar position.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 67 Jul 09, 2019
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 Internet Villian Of The Year

Pinebook Pro coming soon

Debian 10 Buster released

Raspberry Pi 4

Graham and Joe have been playing with their new toys

Admin

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Late Night Linux – Episode 66 Jun 25, 2019
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 & 5.16.1, KDE Goals, Updates to KDE.org

Firefox Premium?

Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V

PinePhone looking good

Facebook to launch cryptocurrency

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Late Night Linux – Episode 65 Jun 11, 2019
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 by default for G Suite users

Stadia details announced

FOSSortunities

We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has cornered that market now. We keep missing opportunities like Vista and Windows 8. How do we prepare for the next opportunity, spot it early, and strike at the right time?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 64 May 27, 2019
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 license

Huawei responds

90 day reprieve

Now even Arm cutting them off

Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU

Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo)

Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown

Github Sponsors

HN discussion

Time to ditch 32-bit x86 Linux for good?

Joe was recently given an old Atom netbook that is 32-bit only. What can you actually do with a machine of that age and low specs? Is it time to move on from this legacy architecture?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 63 May 14, 2019
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 Summit

Windows Shipping Linux

Apache SF joins Github

RHEL 8 Out Now

RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog

Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom

Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File sharing became self aware on this day

Mozilla certificate fun (Disable Studies again…) update & more updates

Debian Buster will be Wayland

Google creates ‘dedicated placement’ in search results for AMP Stories, starting with travel category

The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes

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Late Night Linux – Episode 62 Apr 29, 2019
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 61 Apr 16, 2019
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 problem)

Stack Overflow Developer Survey

UBports Foundation finally created

Admin

FOSS Talk Live

With Age Comes Wisdom?

If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a good chance that you’ve compiled your own kernel, written modelines, and literally got the T Shirt (not that it fits any more). Do you have the time and energy to care about such things any more?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 60 Apr 02, 2019
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 picking up the pace as well

Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released

KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play

RISC-V fifty dollar dev board

Ubuntu Studio back from the dead

Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark

Admin

UK Open Source Awards 2019

LTS to LTS

Will breaks down exactly what happens in the two years between Ubuntu LTS releases.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 59 Mar 19, 2019
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 Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence

Maru OS

We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that allows you to run a full Debian desktop with Xfce in a container.

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 58 Mar 05, 2019
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 to AWS & Oracle

Lineage 16.0

EU Radio Equipment Directive

Admin

Ubuntu Podcast get together

FOSS Complexity

The only real ways to make money from FOSS are support, services and training. So why would anyone make FOSS that’s simple to install, use and maintain, and works perfectly out of the box? Is this why everything is so over-complicated?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 57 Feb 19, 2019
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 Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM

Todd Weaver from Purism

A year on from his last appearance on the show, Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5, and how things are going for Purism in general.

Digital Ocean

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Techmeme Ride Home

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Late Night Linux – Episode 56 Feb 05, 2019
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 Systems hires a QA manager

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Late Night Linux – Episode 55 Jan 22, 2019
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

Purism announces PureOS Store

Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed

postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5

Phoenix joins LVFS

KDE Frameworks Android Integration

ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround

Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB

MongoDB removed from major distros

Cloud vs on prem

Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 54 Jan 08, 2019
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 that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS)

Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users

Predictions

We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 53 Dec 24, 2018
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

Ubuntu 18.04 released

18.04 flavours also released

Clear focus on cloud and containers

Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch

May

Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images

The other flavours could follow suit

Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed

Huawei locks down its bootloaders

June

Microsoft to buy Github

July

SUSE acquired

August

Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux

September

Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus

Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs

October

Linus back in charge of the kernel

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

November

Librem 5 slips again

December

Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping

Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base

MIPS to be open sourced

Admin

FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June

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Late Night Linux – Episode 52 Dec 11, 2018
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 Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed

AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you!

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Admin

FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June

Reminder that G+ is dead

Entroware

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Sailfish OS 3

Graham was recently sent a Jolla phone by listener Matt, and Joe has been checking out an unofficial Sailfish ROM on the Oneplus One.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 51 Nov 27, 2018
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 support

RHEL 8 beta released

iwd: Simplifying WiFi

New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched

Raspbian updated

New kernels revert Spectre mitigation

Tomorrow’s world special

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What’s the FOSS community really like?

Is the FOSS community really that toxic or is it full of idealists who wear rose-tinted glasses?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 50 Nov 13, 2018
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 announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu

Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy

ReactOS 0.4.10 released

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Pinebook

Joe recently bought an 11” Pinebook and delivers his verdict on it.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 49 Oct 30, 2018
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 released

elementary OS 5.0 Juno released

Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

Digital Ocean

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Is FOSS finally growing up?

With everyone from GNU to Samba getting their HR houses in order, and behemoths like Microsoft fully embracing open source, is FOSS finally coming of age? Or is the community destined to always drag itself down with infighting and childish behaviour?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 48 Oct 16, 2018
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 released

Exciting Xfce news

GNOME dumps yet another feature

Redis components forked

Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it

ChromeOS tablet launched

Digital Ocean

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Admin

We are now on Spotify.

Google+ is dead.

Entroware

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Jason Evangelho

Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 47 Oct 02, 2018
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

Web 5.0?

Fedora 29 beta released

Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released

Mir reaches 1.0.0

Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier

At least half of Azure is running Linux

Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0

Sailfish OS not dead yet

Mintcast needs new hosts

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Late Night Linux – Episode 46 Sep 18, 2018
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

Check out User Error

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Entroware

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Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it?

After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 45 Sep 04, 2018
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 Touch OTA 4 Released

Digital Ocean

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Admin

OggCamp live show

Bug Report

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VM Brasseur

VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 44 Aug 21, 2018
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 Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate

Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released

Open Source goes all Hollywood

Help LVFS gather NVMe data

Send me yer invites!

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OggCamp 2018 report

Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.

Jesse’s adventures in dadland

Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 43 Aug 07, 2018
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 get rid of themes

What’s next, extensions?

Android 9 to be called Pie

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Wes mason

Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 42 Jul 24, 2018
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 to Contain Malware

Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed)

Arm talks down RISC-V

But then backtracks

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Android Antitrust

The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 41 Jul 09, 2018
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

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20 years of Open Source

With the 20 year anniversaries of Open Source and the Apache licence, we discuss the differences between Free Software and Open Source.

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Small community events

After FOSS Talk Live, Stuart Langridge wrote a blog post about smaller FOSS events and how there should be more of them. We discuss whether he’s right and if so, how we can make them happen.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 40 Jun 26, 2018
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

Entroware

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Admin

Most of the recordings from FOSS Talk Live are now available, as well as some videos.

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Newer News

Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released

UBports concerned about Article 13

A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics

Atari’s Ubuntu powered console

Atari’s PR train goes off the rails

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Late Night Linux – Episode 39 Jun 11, 2018
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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 38 May 28, 2018
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 ready

LXQt 0.13 released

Portable Services arrives in systemd

Asteroid OS reaches 1.0

Huawei locks down its bootloaders

Steam link on android

Admin

An advert-free version of the show is now available for Patreon supporters.

FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come!

Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.

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Ubuntu Touch

We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 37 May 15, 2018
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 and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit

The other flavours could follow suit

Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store

EFAIL

Admin

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Can there ever be another big distro?

With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 36 May 01, 2018
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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 35 Apr 17, 2018
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.

News

Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok?

System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board

WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online?

Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet

Entroware

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AMP

Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 34 Apr 03, 2018
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 Firefox OS coffin

Cloudflare launches DNS service

Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security

Good night, sweet princes

Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their lives which mean they are leaving the show; Jesse for a while, Ikey forever. But fear not! We have some stellar new team members ready to take their place.

Entroware

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Decentralised social networks

In the wake of the Facebook scandal, we discuss some decentralised alternatives including Diaspora and some blockchain-based projects.

If you are planning to delete your Facebook account, why not trash all your data first?

If you are planning to keep using Facebook, using the new Firefox Facebook Container Extension would probably be wise.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 33 Mar 19, 2018
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 in Windows 10

Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps

Entroware

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GNU/Linux?

After Joe’s ill-fated attempt to have a reasonable discussion with Richard Stallman, we discuss the difference between the kernel and the operating system.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 32 Mar 06, 2018
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 GNOME applications on the Librem 5

Admin

FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!

Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference

Entroware

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Freedom vs Pragmatism

Trying out the latest development release of Trisquel prompts the question of how much freedom we actually need on the Linux desktop.

Jesse also mentioned an Arch-based alternative to Trisquel called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

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Late Night Linux – Episode 31 Feb 20, 2018
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 collect user metrics

elementary OS AppCenter changes

Admin

FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!

Entroware

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Purism

We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.

Digital Ocean

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Late Night Linux – Episode 30 Feb 06, 2018
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 hostile forks

LinuxBoot

Mycroft Mark II

Admin

Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live!

Entroware

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Communitising the community

We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 29 Jan 23, 2018
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

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Jonathan Nadeau

Ikey and Joe spoke to Jonathan Nadeau about the current state of accessibility in Linux and FOSS. He mentioned Sonar GNU/Linux and his podcast network. And KDE does indeed care about accessibility.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 28 Jan 09, 2018
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

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Predictions

We look back at the predictions that we all made at the start of 2017 and make some more about what will happen in 2018.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 27 Dec 25, 2017
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 were dropping 32-bit

Mozilla shutting down the group behind Firefox OS

March

Mozilla acquired Pocket

Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date?

April

Ubuntu abandoned Unity and Ubuntu Phone

May

SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10

Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android

June

Ikey quit his day job and to develop Solus full time

July

Project Common Voice

Entroware

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September

Sailfish for the Xperia X

October

Librem 5 funded

Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement

November

Conservancy and SFLC fall out

Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle

Munich voted to return to Windows

December

Mozilla faced blowback after slipping Mr Robot plugin into Firefox

Bitcoin surged past $10k

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Late Night Linux – Episode 26 Dec 12, 2017
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 and its goal of Privacy

TeamViewer loves the Qt

Intel’s cunning plan to get everyone to upgrade their processors and AMD might be capitalising?

66% of page loads are https up from 46% in January this year

Big companies join the compliance-first approach to GPLv2

Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath

Entroware

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Funding FOSS

Patreon have recently made some changes which directly affect this show and Ikey’s distro. We discussed the implications and alternatives, and asked for your opinion.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 25 Nov 28, 2017
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 bit rosier

Linus gets heated about kernel security, then calmly explains his position, Others act like children

Gifts positive in the freedom dimension

New magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – Hackspace

Entroware

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Copyleft vs permissive licences

Listener Jeffrey Bouter asked about where we stand on FOSS licensing.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 24 Nov 14, 2017
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 hardware)

Entroware

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Admin

Joe wants to know if his Nexus 9 is slower than other ones

elementary OS

Daniel Foré of elementary OS joins Joe and Ikey.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 23 Oct 31, 2017
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 suspicions that he’s aiming for a Canonical IPO

Solus looking for help with aesthetics for Solus 4

Entroware

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Jim Salter

Ikey and Joe are joined by Jim Salter to talk about ZFS and BTRFS. We mentioned an old article he wrote for arstechnica. He plugged his project Sanoid.

Jesse mentioned this post on the hidden cost of using ZFS for home NAS.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 22 Oct 17, 2017
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 Linux

WPA2 attacked by nonces

Entroware

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Ubuntu 17.10

It’s the first Ubuntu release since Shuttleworth dropped the bombshell about the death of Unity and Convergence. The final release was a few days away when we recorded this so there might be a few slight changes and bug fixes.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 21 Oct 03, 2017
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 MIT (and WordPress threatening to move away from FB license)

Entroware

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Ikey’s trip to New York

Ikey has just come back from the Ubuntu Summit in New York. He tells us all about it.

Replicant
Jesse and Félim have been trying out the totally FOSS version of Android called Replicant.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 20 Sep 19, 2017
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

Public money, public code!

Solus growing pains

Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them.

Entroware

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All software has bugs. But should it?

Joe attempts to argue that properly written software should be bug-free and should only require maintenance for compatibility and new features.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 19 Sep 05, 2017
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 Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences.

News

Sailfish for the Xperia X

Librem 5 – Matrix blog post

Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Playing with old rubbish

Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish tip. It turns out that getting Linux to run on it is more difficult than you might think.

Entroware

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Admin

Ikey has been on Destination Linux again

New funding models

With the recent news that Disney is pulling (at least some of) its content from Netflix to start its own streaming service, we discuss how far a person’s budget can stretch. In a world where every company has a subscription service and every creator has a Patreon, can FOSS projects expect anything more than some beer money?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 18 Aug 19, 2017
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

GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24

Q&A

We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd.

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Late Night Linux – Call for OggCamp questions Aug 13, 2017
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 or you can use any of the methods from our contact page. It would be helpful if you used the hashtag #askogg

Your question doesn’t have to be about Linux or FOSS so you can ask us anything you like. We won’t have time to answer every question.

Hopefully see you there!

Late Night Linux – Episode 17 Aug 07, 2017
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 the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS. It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault.

News

Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions

Krita had some tax troubles but the community came to the rescue with Mega-Props to Private Internet Access

Flash is moribund

Debian reproducible builds

Mycroft Plasmoid Version 2.0

Entroware

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Linux as a Windows/Mac replacement

If someone is interested in switching to Linux, what distro or desktop would be the most suitable drop-in replacement? Perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it and we should show them a world beyond their old experience.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 16 Jul 23, 2017
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 went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse

Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on

Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness

Entroware

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Admin

Destination Linux need a new co-host

Jesse and Joe will be at OggCamp in a few weeks.

Mageia 6

Mageia has a long and colourful history so we thought we’d have a look at the recent release of version 6.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 15 Jul 11, 2017
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 to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10

Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default

O’Reilly exits direct book sales

Project Common Voice

LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018

Entroware

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Admin

Uncut video of us at FOSS Talk Live

Linux hardware sellers’ own distros

With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 14 Jun 26, 2017
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

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FOSS Talk Live

Joe, Jesse and Félim met up at the 2nd annual FOSS Talk Live to record in front of an audience. We each talked about one thing that we like and one thing we dislike about Linux, followed by a discussion about FOSS business models. Ikey couldn’t make it but he was with us in spirit.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 13 Jun 13, 2017
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 are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London

Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time

Entroware

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Admin

FOSS Talk Live

Mashup show questions

OggCamp

We are now on Youtube

openSuse

Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 12 May 30, 2017
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) It’s designed for people with quadriplegia in reality but the video here has a nice demo

Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0 just weeks before a new major Debian release

Entroware

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The realities of enterprise computing

Joe recently attended a Linux meetup in London and learned the harsh reality is that although Linux is the standard on servers, almost no one uses it on the desktop, despite how terrible Windows 10 is.

Admin

Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc.

We spoke about FOSS Talk Live and specifically the drunken mashup show which will feature Joe, Stuart Langridge, Dave Megaslippers and Marius Quabeck answering your questions!

Fedora

We don’t seem to talk about Fedora very often so we invited Matthew Miller onto the show to tell us about it.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 11 May 16, 2017
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 their own Google Assistant in a box

Google’s copyleft-free mobile OS Fuchsia starts to come together

Entroware

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Admin

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Linux Action News has launched

Maru OS

We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about his project Maru OS which combines an Android Open Source base with a containerised Debian desktop to create a truly useful convergent device.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 10 May 02, 2017
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 to have avoided theirs

Libreboot applies to rejoin GNU

Halium aims to standardise mobile Linux development

The open interop platform for the IoT edge; Cloudflare has their own IoT security solution

Entroware

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How to talk to normals about FOSS

What’s the best way to introduce people to the idea of FOSS? Explain the practical benefits, go full on rms, or something in between?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 09 Apr 18, 2017
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 been around for several years under different names. It might not last

Substantial update to Windows Subsystem for Linux

Solus adds a GNOME edition

Entroware

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Jesse’s black box

Jesse tells us about the Raspberry Pi that he doesn’t connect to a network and asks whether it’s OK to avoid updates.

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Updates on the Ubuntu announcement

Ubuntu GNOME to merge with the main edition

Phones and tablet will only receive security patches until June 2017 (2 more months)

UBports to carry on with Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8; will integrate Anbox

Separate Unity 8 fork

Staff layoffs and CEO to leave

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM seems to only be aimed at servers

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Late Night Linux – Episode 08 Apr 05, 2017
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.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 07 Apr 04, 2017
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 he’s still using LastPass and asks what the rest of us use.

Entroware

This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

Android convergence

With Android now more popular than Windows, how are the various efforts at desktop convergence coming along?

Maru now available for the Nexus 7

Phoenix OS 2.0 alpha based on Android 7.1

Samsung has a go at convergence

VMware and Citrix too

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Following in Ikey’s illustrious footsteps, Joe was recently a guest on Destination Linux.

Nextcloud Interview

After some of us slagged off Nexcloud on the last episode, Jos asked if he could come on the show and explain what really happened. Ikey and Joe were unconvinced to say the least.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 06 Mar 21, 2017
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 people stay up to date?

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

With the death of Ubuntu MATE for PowerPC, a fork appears

Admin

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We also spoke about a couple of upcoming events:

FOSS Talk Live 2017

OggCamp 2017

HiDPI

Ikey has been trying out some of the big desktop environments on his new 4k monitor.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 05 Mar 07, 2017
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 similar situation

Shutting down Manjaro-Arm

Mozilla acquires Pocket

FSF unimpressed with Encrypted Media Extensions

Admin

FOSS Talk Live 2017. 24th June at the Harrison in London.

OggCamp 2017. 19th and 20th of August 2017 at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, Kent, UK.

Kodi

What should Kodi do about its PR problem?

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Late Night Linux – Episode 04 Feb 21, 2017
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 Indiegogo

Munich takes decisive step towards returning to Windows

Elementary OS are crowdfunding a pay what you want app store; They are writing it in Vala

Gaming on Ubuntu 16.10 vs Windows 10

Félim’s new Oneplus 3T

Admin

Shout out to Tuxedo Computers, a German Linux hardware company.

Jesse tried to list the video editors we had recommended to us.

FOSS Talk Live 2017 will happen on 24th June at the Harrison in Kings Cross, London. It will be a free evening of live Linux podcasts. We will hopefully have more details about it next time. For now, save the date.

Jam

Jesse checked out a FOSS Command line Google Play Music client called Jam

OpenSUSE

The OpenSUSE chairman Richard Brown tells us about some of the great features of the distro. He mentioned a couple of FOSDEM talks.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 03 Feb 07, 2017
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 sent a kill message that bricks them

Steam’s Linux Marketshare For January Was 0.8%

Mozilla is shutting down the group behind Firefox OS

Chromium

Ikey tells us why Chromium isn’t as Free as some people might think

Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi

Joe spoke to Martin Wimpress about the upcoming release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 for the Raspberry Pi.

Ubuntu Budgie

Jesse has abandoned KaOS in favour of Ubuntu Budgie on his laptop

(Yet more) Solus news

Budgie turns its back on GTK, goes Qt and Wayland; is inevitably forked

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Late Night Linux – Episode 02 Jan 24, 2017
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?

Integrate your Android device with Ubuntu using KDE Connect Indicator fork

Lineage OS update; Some images available

FSF announces a major overhaul of free software High Priority Projects List

Chrome OS

With proper windowed Android apps, is Chrome OS going to finally bring about the year of Linux on the desktop? Does Chrome OS even count as Linux on the desktop?

All new Chromebooks will support Android apps

Solus news

Solus adopts Flatpak for 3rd party applications
The Solus view of flatpak in June 2016
Solus Linux Working On A Flatpak-Based, Optimized Steam Runtime

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Late Night Linux – Episode 01 Jan 10, 2017
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 Units

KDE Neon gets an LTS user edition, a Docker image and a Wayland ISO

No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either

Predictions

All four of us give a couple of predictions each for 2017.

Lineage OS

New official site

Pretty good write up of the end of CyanogenMod and the start of Lineage

List of unofficial builds

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latenightlinux — Late Night Linux – Episode 00 Dec 23, 2016
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.

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