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Late Night Linux – Episode 410
3 november 2026 · 26 min
Lots of security news including PHP, comically weak SSL cert keys, and accidental Linux kernel CVE disclosure. Plus Canonical is ramping up development of its immutable version of the Ubuntu desktop, and it (hopefully) won’t just be GNOME. Lees meer
News
Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
A kernel bug for last weekend while we are at it
Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
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Late Night Linux – Episode 409
26 oktober 2026 · 27 min
Mozilla has a new revenue stream that might actually work, GNOME OS gets closer to a stable release, Raspberry Pi OS for x86 machines returns, and Amazon has expensive new Android tablets that have the Play Store. Plus hacking old Echo Dots to work with Home Assistant, building ad blocking lists, and unbricking an M1 Mac with Linux in discoveries. Lees meer
News
Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise
Introducing GNOME OS Preview
Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Discoveries
Echo Dot Hacks
PiHole Blocking Tool
idevicerestore
Tailscale
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Late Night Linux – Episode 408
20 oktober 2026 · 26 min
A true legend of computer science leaves us, Fortnite is coming to Linux, Steam is finally moving away from 32-bit, Microsoft Defender comes to the Linux Desktop, Adobe’s flagship apps are cloned by AI as open source, and a quick KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
The new Epic Games Launcher is finally here in Preview (Fortnite is coming to Linux)
Steam preemptively killed the only advantage Epic Games’ vibe-coded store would have had
Today’s Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Secure Linux desktops with Microsoft Defender
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
KDE Korner
KDE: The Documentary
Plasma 6.8
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Late Night Linux – Episode 407
12 oktober 2026 · 30 min
New Snapdragon SoCs will officially support Linux, Firefox’s redesign confuses us, the Dutch government is embracing NixOS, F-Droid has a new modern look, and Ubuntu starts shipping new kernels more regularly. Plus with the iPhone Duo about to come out, Graham is still enjoying his Pixel 9 Pro Fold but Joe’s 10 Pro Fold is in a drawer. Lees meer
News
Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux
The new Firefox design: More modern, more flexible, still Firefox
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
Google’s assault on F-Droid has begun
Ryanair Boarding Pass Liberation
Getting Ryanair tickets
Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy
Kernel Recipes 2026
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Late Night Linux – Episode 406
6 oktober 2026 · 28 min
Joe gives his first impressions of the Steam Frame – a Linux PC that you wear on your face. It’s great for VR games, but it also has a KDE desktop. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 405
28 september 2026 · 27 min
What Linux and open source will look like in 10 years, the aspects of Linux that got us hooked all those years ago, our happiest and most miserable experiences of converting people, and how we teach kids about privacy and security. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 404
22 september 2026 · 27 min
The Steam Frame is finally here and it’s not quite as expensive as we feared. Graham was selected in the lottery but will he actually buy one? We finally talk about Omarchy, its huge fundraising effort, and why we are disappointed in companies who are contributing. Plus LibreOffice’s enviable download numbers. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
News
Steam Frame
Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve’s new SteamOS compatibility layers
Power grab
DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats!
Yes, no AI is now a feature
Development/AI policy – The Document Foundation Wiki
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Late Night Linux – Episode 403
14 september 2026 · 29 min
We answer your questions including the last new distro we tried, what distro we’d switch to if ours went away, whether we should limit our computer use, our vision for the Linux desktop, and our unpopular Linux opinions. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 402
8 september 2026 · 26 min
Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
News
Audacity 4
Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI”
Results for LLM usage in Debian
Retiring from the Project (vv221)
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)
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Late Night Linux – Episode 401
31 augustus 2026 · 26 min
KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous. Lees meer
News/discussion
What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the ‘bullet-proof’ KDE Software Initiative
New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets
Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon”
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!
The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead
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Late Night Linux – Episode 400
25 augustus 2026 · 28 min
To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news. Lees meer
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9.5 years of good news
Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023)
Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024)
I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024)
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025)
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025)
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025)
KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025)
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018)
KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025)
Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018)
Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025)
Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026)
Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019)
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024)
Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021)
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)
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Late Night Linux – Episode 399
17 augustus 2026 · 26 min
Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop. Lees meer
Bootc desktops
bootc
Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts
ubuntu-summit-26-demo
ubuntu-bootc
Mono repository for all bootcrew images
How Steam Play/Proton makes Gaming on Linux Awesome
Discoveries
HWall
ProtonPlus
KDE Plasma desktop
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Late Night Linux – Episode 398
11 augustus 2026 · 27 min
Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show. Lees meer
News
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam
Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses
Proxmox Virtual Environment launches official Arm64 Support
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
Getting Started With Libvirt and Saltstack
Felipe Borges: The Future of GNOME Boxes
KDE Korner
This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
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Late Night Linux – Episode 397
3 augustus 2026 · 26 min
Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more. Lees meer
News
Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts
Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes
Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Discoveries
AMD BC250 Documentation
Cholo
kew
Screenshot of kew in action
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Late Night Linux – Episode 396
28 juli 2026 · 28 min
With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing. Lees meer
News/discussion
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late
“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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Late Night Linux – Episode 395
20 juli 2026 · 26 min
Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount. Lees meer
Discoveries
Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)
open-apollo
Ovine
EndeavourOS
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Late Night Linux – Episode 394
14 juli 2026 · 24 min
Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update. Lees meer
News
Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date
OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
KDE at 30
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Late Night Linux – Episode 393
6 juli 2026 · 27 min
A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions. Lees meer
Discoveries
quick drag
Nethack 5
check your bufferbloat
opnsense help
Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
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Late Night Linux – Episode 392
30 juni 2026 · 28 min
We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet
Gamers Nexus long review
Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]
$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
KDE Korner
KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT
Plasma 6.7
Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ
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Late Night Linux – Episode 391
22 juni 2026 · 7 min
Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 390
16 juni 2026 · 33 min
The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing. Lees meer
Plugs
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Graham’s talk
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Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2
Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
curl summer of bliss
Retro gaming handhelds
R36S
Fakes
R36H
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Late Night Linux – Episode 389
8 juni 2026 · 27 min
A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit. Lees meer
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Kagi
Shelly Wall Display
Ubuntu Summit
Ubuntu Summit 26.04 Timetable
Ubuntu Summit videos
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Late Night Linux – Episode 388
2 juni 2026 · 28 min
Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028. Lees meer
News
Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]
Lenovo pulls its controversial G02 retro handheld from sale – starting a chain reaction that could decimate the retro gaming market
Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]
No Raspberry Pi 6 before 2028
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
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Late Night Linux – Episode 387
25 mei 2026 · 25 min
Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News/discussion
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
Opera GX Lands on Linux
Steam Controller and Puck CAD files officially released under a Creative Commons license — Valve encourages users to create accessories for the device
Steam Frame coming soon?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 386
19 mei 2026 · 28 min
Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News
LVFS Sponsorship Announcement
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
DirtyCBC: When Linux Kernel Decrypt-Before-MAC Turns Authenticated Encryption Into a Page-Cache Write
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Late Night Linux – Episode 385
11 mei 2026 · 29 min
Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments. Lees meer
Discoveries
VoxType
Tennis
tooler
SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
The future of AI in Ubuntu
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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Late Night Linux – Episode 384
5 mei 2026 · 30 min
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag. Lees meer
Plugs
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
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News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
An update on rust-coreutils
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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Late Night Linux – Episode 383
27 april 2026 · 29 min
Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks. Lees meer
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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Late Night Linux – Episode 382
21 april 2026 · 28 min
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
Mythos and Cybersecurity
A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos
Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun
NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner
KDE at 30
Tighter KDE Connect Integration
KDE Gear 26.04
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Late Night Linux – Episode 381
13 april 2026 · 27 min
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers. Lees meer
News/discussion
A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash
TDF ejects its core developers
Let’s put an end to the speculation
Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Interesting GIMP numbers
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Late Night Linux – Episode 380
7 april 2026 · 20 min
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers. Lees meer
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB
Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
Windows 11 has lower requirements
Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
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Late Night Linux – Episode 379
30 maart 2026 · 23 min
Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days. Lees meer
Discoveries
creepy link
Supercell Wx
whosthere
Ultramaster KR-106
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added
New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
Automox Turnkey Results
Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com
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Late Night Linux – Episode 378
24 maart 2026 · 26 min
Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more. Lees meer
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
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Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date
When you tell me to just not implement age declaration, do you understand you’re asking me to risk thousands of dollars in fines?
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.
meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us
This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
Introducing GNOME 50, “Tokyo”
Automox Turnkey Results
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Late Night Linux – Episode 377
16 maart 2026 · 24 min
Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C
You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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Late Night Linux – Episode 376
10 maart 2026 · 27 min
Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses. Lees meer
News
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup
I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it
Do you really think that circumventing these things will always be a simple firmware mod or hardware hack?
Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
No right to relicense this project
Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app
Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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Late Night Linux – Episode 375
2 maart 2026 · 25 min
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries. Lees meer
News/Discussion
The FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days
Keep Android Open
Open letter to Google
FLX1s
Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
Launching Interop 2026
Discoveries
Creating a Wii U gamepad
Network UPS Tools
NASA eBooks
MapToPoster
maptoposter-docker
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Late Night Linux – Episode 374
24 februari 2026 · 25 min
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over.
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro
Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Sorry all this is my fault
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4
A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax
KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
Plasma 6.6
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Late Night Linux – Episode 373
16 februari 2026 · 25 min
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News/discussion
Ardour 9.0 — What’s new
Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
AI controls are coming to Firefox
Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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Late Night Linux – Episode 372
10 februari 2026 · 24 min
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News
Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ
Xubuntu Development Update February 2026
Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated
Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems
Introducing Amutable
Busy months in KDE Linux
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Late Night Linux – Episode 371
2 februari 2026 · 27 min
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software. Lees meer
News
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
Linux Mint user gets Gnomed
It looks like they followed these instructions to install Proton VPN (including selecting gdm)
They aren’t alone
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans
Lords back UK social media ban for under-16s
Under-16 social media ban would expand age-gating for millions and silence young people
UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Mission:Libre
Carmen tells us about her project that aims to get kids into Free Software.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 370
27 januari 2026 · 28 min
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation. Lees meer
News
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (and does deals with more AI companies)
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
The end of the curl bug-bounty
Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5
Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
OggCamp 2026
OggCamp crew lead Andy Piper tells us about the upcoming unconference.
Call for volunteer crew
Call for papers
Check out Andy’s podcast
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Late Night Linux – Episode 369
19 januari 2026 · 23 min
We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries. Lees meer
Discoveries
CAW
FossFlow
Félim’s bad diagram
Blade Runner Radio
LUX on Bandcamp
Network Survey
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Late Night Linux – Episode 368
13 januari 2026 · 27 min
Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product. Lees meer
News
The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For
Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX
Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
GeForce NOW coming to Linux
Stack Overflow graph
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
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Late Night Linux – Episode 367
5 januari 2026 · 26 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026. Lees meer
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 366
30 december 2025 · 24 min
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE. Lees meer
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
FSF calls Anubis malware
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
An update on our Terms of Use
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Investing in what moves the internet forward
When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Wayland
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeD…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 365
22 december 2025 · 24 min
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more. Lees meer
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries
Better History
Operese
commodore64 is back!?
Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
PiFinder
Fullscreen Clock
Clasp
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Late Night Linux – Episode 364
16 december 2025 · 22 min
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM. Lees meer
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing
Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!
Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
AI and GNOME Shell Extensions
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Late Night Linux – Episode 363
8 december 2025 · 27 min
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way. Lees meer
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
Migrating Dillo from GitHub
1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises
Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
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Late Night Linux – Episode 362
2 december 2025 · 23 min
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope. Lees meer
News
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Help us reach the inflection point
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine
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Late Night Linux – Episode 361
24 november 2025 · 24 min
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more. Lees meer
News
Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
Introducing Blender Lab
IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
KDE Korner
Help us reach the inflection point
Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship
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