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Late Night Linux – Episode 360
18 november 2025 · 27 min
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. Lees meer
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Say hi to Kit
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Mozilla Connect thread
End of Japanese community
Web API for AI Agents
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Late Night Linux – Episode 359
10 november 2025 · 22 min
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more. Lees meer
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 358
3 november 2025 · 36 min
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal. Lees meer
News
Linux Matters
Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help
The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support
SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself
Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!
Mark Shuttleworth
Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 357
27 oktober 2025 · 22 min
Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga. Lees meer
News
Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino
Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner
Happy Birthday to KDE
Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack
Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000
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Late Night Linux – Episode 356
21 oktober 2025 · 22 min
An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies. Lees meer
News
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken
WireGuard bug
Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan)
Confirmation from Sean
Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
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Late Night Linux – Episode 355
13 oktober 2025 · 27 min
The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon launches a Linux-based OS to replace Android on its streaming devices, Graham gives us an update on his Home Assistant hardware, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
v2.0.0 – Stable Release of Immich #22546
This open-source printer you can repair yourself is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W
Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading
Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
Open Home Foundation Jobs
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Late Night Linux – Episode 354
7 oktober 2025 · 32 min
The most expensive Raspberry Pi ever might appeal to kids and a new OS version looks somewhat more modern, AI does something Félim can’t complain about, F-Droid might be doomed, ChromeOS is probably being replaced by Android, the UK government wants to implement a disastrous digital ID scheme, and more. Lees meer
News
Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200
$5–$10 price increases for some 4GB and 8GB products
Trixie — the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
AI helped curl
F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree
Let’s talk security: Answering your top questions about Android developer verification
Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs
We finally know how Android’s new app verification rules will actually work
Google reveals its Android for PC is coming next year
Baldur’s Gate 3 | Steam Deck – Native Version
New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK
ID cards: UK risks sleeping walking into pre-crime state
“It will not be compulsory to obtain a digital ID but it will be mandatory for some applications”
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Late Night Linux – Episode 353
29 september 2025 · 25 min
The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we’ll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 352
23 september 2025 · 27 min
Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious potential revenue stream, and a glimpse of a Blade Runner style dystopian tech future. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Chris from Linux After Dark. Lees meer
News
OggCamp 2026
OggCamp tickets
OggCamp CfP
Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE
A few corrections about the transition from Blue Systems to Techpaladin
The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin
Android 16 QPR1’s source code is nowhere to be found, but Google swears it’s coming
Music video Chris mentioned
Ubuntu 25.10’s Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings
Service offerings from Mastodon
Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape
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Late Night Linux – Episode 351
15 september 2025 · 29 min
Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
Clonezilla
Kobo Clara Colour
Just a QR Code
mini-qr
libqrencode
Nallely-midi
pico-rv32ima
typr
Epistory
KDE Korner
2024 KDE e.V. Report
We’ve formally sent a proposal to the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. leadership for a unified Linux App Summit (LAS) that would merge GUADEC, Akademy, and the current LAS into a single event
Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 350
9 september 2025 · 32 min
Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can’t keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a brief review of a classic Bond movie, and more. Lees meer
News
A new layer of security for certified Android devices
With Apple M1/M2 Graphics Driver Code Working, Alyssa Rosenzweig Stepping Away From Asahi Linux
Consultation on the review of the DMA
Judge who ruled Google is a monopoly orders modest remedies
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 – Future Releases
Firefox ESR won’t quit Windows 7 until March 2026
AI Is Now Being Used To Help Determine Patches For Backporting In The Linux Kernel
Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the ‘Antithesis of Wikipedia’
Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers
Vivaldi browser capo doubles down on generative AI ban
Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
So short, and thanks for all the flinch
Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC
Windows 10 support shutdown offers window of opportunity for a Linux OS developed in Dublin
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Late Night Linux – Episode 349
1 september 2025 · 32 min
What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner. Lees meer
News/disccussion
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court
Foldable phone
Graham has just bought a Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Joe has had his for about 7 months. It’s chunky, fragile, but really cool. Especially for reading, playing old games, and using ssh. Graham mentioned a screenshot of his old phone and Will mentioned a photo that Graham took of the new phone.
KDE Korner
KDE Gear 25.08 & Kdenlive
Karton Update
Getting Ready for Akademy
On screen keyboard feedback wanted
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 348
26 augustus 2025 · 21 min
The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name. Lees meer
News
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
these sham community engagement exercises piss me off
Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
Thunderbird Pro August 2025 Update
There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
putty.software
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Late Night Linux – Episode 347
18 augustus 2025 · 33 min
Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind data from planes. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News/discussion
Try Xfce on Wayland with openSUSE Leap 16.0 RC
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
OpenPrinting News – 25 years of working full-time for printing with free/open-source-software
OpenPrinting News to stay up-to-date
OpenPrinting on LinkedIn
Till Kamppeter on LInkedIn
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.16
Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs
Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go
Discoveries
just
cargo-update
ADS-B Weather Model
copyparty
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 346
12 augustus 2025 · 25 min
A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
News
Debian 13 “trixie” released
AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro works on Linux now
KomoDo, my first KDE app
Developers, Reinvented
Let’s properly analyze an AI article for once
Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
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Late Night Linux – Episode 345
4 augustus 2025 · 32 min
Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam
How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sound Track
Death by a thousand slops
A nudge to fund our future
Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast
PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client
KDE Korner
KDE’s Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI
Talking FOSS on Daft Code
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Late Night Linux – Episode 344
28 juli 2025 · 22 min
Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more. Lees meer
News
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
UK to lead crackdown on cyber criminals with ransomware measures
Hacker Plants Computer ‘Wiping’ Commands in Amazon’s AI Coding Agent
Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database
Terribly edited video
KDE Linux
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Late Night Linux – Episode 343
21 juli 2025 · 30 min
The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment. Lees meer
News/discussion
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
FSF calls Anubis malware
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org
Two weeks of wayback
The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Discoveries
smegcli
Flagsmith
cheatsheets
privacy-redirect
CPU-X
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 342
15 juli 2025 · 25 min
Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
DOGWALK Official Release
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out Sovereign Premium Support
Ubuntu 25.10 Raises RISC-V Profile Requirements
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
KDE Korner
Plasma Keyboard
This Week in Plasma: tablet dials and day/night cycles
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Late Night Linux – Episode 341
7 juli 2025 · 30 min
Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites. Lees meer
Discoveries
Home Assistant Developer Environment
xLights
QLC+
Telegram snap issue
faff
PrivacyPlease
Jacob Collier
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Late Night Linux – Episode 340
1 juli 2025 · 30 min
Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more. Lees meer
News
Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – potentially bad news for Steam gamers
Fedora proposal to drop 32-bit
Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
Proposal to drop 32-bit in Fedora 44 withdrawn
Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: “We’ll Be Parting Ways”
Libxml2’s “no security embargoes” policy
A bug caused some major websites to break and this guy has quite a take on it
maintenance-terms
I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration
Accepting donations on OpenCollective – FlightGear
Donate Less
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Plasma 6.4 is much juicier than I remembered
This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore
Porkbun.com
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Late Night Linux – Episode 339
23 juni 2025 · 24 min
Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time. Lees meer
Discoveries
Strudel
rsyncy
Spring
IceCream
DNS4EU
News/discussion
Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft amid Trump and US Big Tech concerns
‘We’re done with Teams’: German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
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Late Night Linux – Episode 338
17 juni 2025 · 29 min
X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more. Lees meer
News
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
Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver
The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts
Linux Foundation tries to play peacemaker in WordPress spat
Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
AOSP isn’t dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues
apple/container
Plasma 6.4 is nearly out!
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Late Night Linux – Episode 337
9 juni 2025 · 32 min
Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux. Lees meer
News
Redis is now available under the the OSI-approved AGPLv3 open source license.
Supercharging Ubuntu Releases: Monthly Snapshots & Automation
Canonical + thanks.dev = giving back to open source developers
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
The GNOME Foundation has a new executive director
Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
Discoveries
Frigate 0.16 Beta 3
Auto dark mode in Plasma
Fender Studio
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Late Night Linux – Episode 336
3 juni 2025 · 32 min
Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more. Lees meer
News
Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025
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
Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions
Valve’s huge Steam Deck update is now ready for everyone, including rival AMD handhelds
SteamOS 3.7.8: Go Country – Steam News
SteamOS
Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain.
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Microsoft open-sources Windows Subsystem for Linux
Edit is now open source – Windows Command Line
Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories
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Late Night Linux – Episode 335
26 mei 2025 · 23 min
Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance. Lees meer
Discoveries
entii-for-workcubes
Learn C, Coding for Kids
Isonzo
Material for MkDocs
markata
mdq
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Late Night Linux – Episode 334
20 mei 2025 · 33 min
It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start). Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 333
12 mei 2025 · 36 min
The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 332
5 mei 2025 · 35 min
Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more. Lees meer
News
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure
Windows isn’t an OS, it’s a bad habit bordering on addiction
Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Intel’s AI PC chips aren’t selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
Fangtooth Unifies the TrueNAS Community
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Late Night Linux – Episode 331
28 april 2025 · 23 min
Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
POWKIDDY X55
ROCKNIX
undercut-f1
WebTUI
Astro Docs
Pinta 3.0
python-sh
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Techmoan
r/LiminalSpace
The Conet Project
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Late Night Linux – Episode 330
22 april 2025 · 24 min
Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix
The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
What’s new in APT 3.0
Getting Forked by Microsoft
The Day AppGet Died
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service
Akademy Registration Now Open
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Late Night Linux – Episode 329
14 april 2025 · 31 min
Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
Frigate
Coral TPUs
daylight
RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module
The Visible Zorker
Flightgear new LTS
Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker
Pixel 9 desktop mode
pinchflat
fixing locale
KIOT
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Late Night Linux – Episode 328
7 april 2025 · 31 min
AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
It might be a good time to temporarily uninstall atop
Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all
Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship
Zorin OS 17.3 takes Brave step of changing default browser
Stop using Brave Browser
Look Mum No Computer on Steam
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
Firefox maker Mozilla prepares Gmail-like Thundermail
Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services
KDE Korner
Roadmap for a modern Plasma Login Manager
Akademy 2025
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Late Night Linux – Episode 327
31 maart 2025 · 25 min
What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix. Lees meer
Discovery
Wilsonic MTS-ESP
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Late Night Linux – Episode 326
25 maart 2025 · 25 min
Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon. Lees meer
News
Home Assistant officially Matters
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive
Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management
Announcing Techpaladin Software
Fedora 42 Beta now available
Ubuntu 25.10 plans to swap GNU coreutils for Rust
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu
GIMP 3.0 Released
The first new Pebble smartwatches are coming later this year
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Late Night Linux – Episode 325
17 maart 2025 · 27 min
Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
espargos and demo video
OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet
Cyd
twitter-defollower
Cross Views
About apt upgrade and phased updates
Feedback
Rapid Photo Downloader
Become a sponsor to Damon Lynch
scc
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Late Night Linux – Episode 324
11 maart 2025 · 30 min
Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more. Lees meer
News
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
Firefox 136.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
‘Flow’ wins best animated feature film Oscar
“thank you Blender”
Godot 4.4, a unified experience
EA just open sourced Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Android’s native Linux Terminal app is live in Google’s latest update
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Late Night Linux – Episode 323
3 maart 2025 · 30 min
Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more. Lees meer
Discoveries
Guacamole
Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)
Skies-ADSB
Home Assistant Voice PE
Casio F91W to 5000m underwater
Pi-hole v6
gammastep
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Late Night Linux – Episode 322
25 februari 2025 · 31 min
The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin. Lees meer
News
Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
Passing the torch on Asahi Linux
[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself
On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) – Theodore Ts’o
Terence Eden on young people in FOSS
Linux Dev Time – Episode 118
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon Kindles jailbroken
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Fingerprinting: Critics say Google rules put profits over privacy
Apple pulls encryption feature from UK over government spying demands
Matrix is at a T junction
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Late Night Linux – Episode 321
17 februari 2025 · 24 min
What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses. Lees meer
Voice of the Masses
What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 320
11 februari 2025 · 26 min
Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more. Lees meer
News
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers
Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting
EU OS
The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google
We’re bringing Pebble back!
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant
Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199
Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage
How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow
Flow – Official Trailer
Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow
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Late Night Linux – Episode 319
3 februari 2025 · 31 min
What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days. Lees meer
Discoveries
n8n
isd
redshift
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Late Night Linux – Episode 318
28 januari 2025 · 37 min
We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers. Lees meer
News
Free Our Feeds
Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone
Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025
Foldable future?
Pixel 9 Pro Fold
Discoveries
Hugin
Stratoshark
OuterTune
BarCamp Surrey
Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey
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Late Night Linux – Episode 317
20 januari 2025 · 40 min
Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024. Lees meer
Molly’s personal website
[citation needed] newsletter
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes video
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes article
Web3 Is Going Great
Best 2024 Discoveries
Thanks Matt for collating our discoveries
Will
Thingino
Motion
Spotify Car Thing
Graham
Osci-render
ink – inkle’s narrative scripting language
An IDE for retro game development 8bitworkshop
Synth of the year, https://github.com/aaronaanderson/Terrain
Felim
Pikchr
AITrack
Klevernotes & a very near taskfinder
Joe
InnerTune
StezStix Fix?
yt-dlp
Linux Mint 22
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Late Night Linux – Episode 316
14 januari 2025 · 34 min
SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more. Lees meer
News
Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized third-party SteamOS handheld
Valve will officially let you install SteamOS on other handhelds as soon as this April
SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck
Microsoft is combining ‘the best of Xbox and Windows together’ for handhelds
VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos
Remembering and thanking Steve Langasek
Aligning Automattic’s Sponsored Contributions to WordPress
Joost/Karim Fork – WordPress News
Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork
Why Matt Should Resign (from 2010)
16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
New $120 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is for the people who use it like an everyday PC
TRIGKEY N100 Mini PC
Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
Servo Revival: 2023-2024
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Late Night Linux – Episode 315
6 januari 2025 · 37 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025. Lees meer
Sandfly Securitry
Sandfly Security’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 314
31 december 2024 · 32 min
It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom. Lees meer
2024 Linux News in review
NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide
Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy
GNOME Added Many New Features This Year Amid Foundation Woes
KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community
Asking for donations in Plasma
I think the donation notification works
Automattic vs WP Engine: WordPress wars heat up
Mullenweg’s WordPress Pause Triggers Unexpected Complications
What drama should I create in 2025?
Meta connects Threads to the Fediverse
Starting today, people using Threads in 100+ countries can turn on sharing to the fediverse
Extending our Mastodon social media trial – BBC R&D
Bluesky: An Open Social Web
Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media
Raspberry Pi is going public to expand its range of tiny computers
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
Raspberry Pi value surges past one billion on US buying
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers
Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
Our remedies proposal in DOJ’s search distribution case
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Late Night Linux – Episode 313
23 december 2024 · 35 min
Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment. Lees meer
Discoveries
motion & frigate
Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant
klevernotes
zrhythm 1.0
helium
vim-medieval
markitdown
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 312
17 december 2024 · 36 min
SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more. Lees meer
News
Send us your predictions for 2025
Valve’s master plan for Steam Machines is finally coming into focus
Lenovo might soon announce a SteamOS handheld
Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat
Halo for PC Uses Ogg Vorbis!
Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now
£4 more (plus a keyboard) for a LOT more performance
New era of slop security reports for open source
Xfce 4.20 released
Longtime Xfce users will love it. Folks on the outside looking in won’t see any reason to switch
The new release certainly had a ton of work, but it won’t drum a lot of conversation or interest
KDE Korner
I think the donation notification works
This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incomingThis Week in Plasma: Oodles of features! & Better fractional scaling
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Late Night Linux – Episode 311
9 december 2024 · 34 min
Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8. Lees meer
Voice of the Masses
Do you dual boot and why?
Feedback
The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer
gui-scale-applet
gui-scale-application
Discovery
Terrain
elementary OS 8
elementary OS 8 Available Now
elementary OS
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