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  1. Late Night Linux – Episode 260

    19 december 2023 · 28 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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

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  2. Late Night Linux – Episode 259

    11 december 2023 · 26 min

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    Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more. Lees meer

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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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  3. Late Night Linux – Episode 258

    5 december 2023 · 26 min

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    Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

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  4. Late Night Linux – Episode 257

    27 november 2023 · 29 min

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    An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    nala

    btsnoop logs in Android

    zigbee2mqtt

    ladder

    pake

    Entroware

    This episode 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.

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  5. Late Night Linux – Episode 256

    21 november 2023 · 29 min

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    A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini KDE Korner. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  6. Late Night Linux – Episode 255

    13 november 2023 · 27 min

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    Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more. Lees meer

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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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  7. Late Night Linux – Episode 254

    7 november 2023 · 29 min

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    We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  8. Late Night Linux – Episode 253

    30 oktober 2023 · 29 min

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    Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more. Lees meer

    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

    Entroware

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  9. Late Night Linux – Episode 252

    24 oktober 2023 · 29 min

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    A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  10. Late Night Linux – Episode 251

    16 oktober 2023 · 27 min

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    Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more. Lees meer

    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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  11. Late Night Linux – Episode 250

    10 oktober 2023 · 30 min

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    Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  12. Late Night Linux – Episode 249

    2 oktober 2023 · 29 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  13. Late Night Linux – Episode 248

    26 september 2023 · 27 min

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    The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more. Lees meer

    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

    Entroware

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  14. Late Night Linux – Episode 247

    18 september 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    isort

    Firefox search hints

    HeadSetControl

    Asahi Fedora

    Abort Retry Fail

    Another Abort Retry Fail

    Webhook.site

    Regolith 3.0

    Feedback

    Salix

    Factor

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    Kolide

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  15. Late Night Linux – Episode 246

    12 september 2023 · 29 min

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    The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more. Lees meer

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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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  16. Late Night Linux – Episode 245

    4 september 2023 · 30 min

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    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    UVMOD

    Antennapod

    qutebrowser 3.0

    acpi

    Rewriting wipEout

    Bash scripting cheatsheet

    Feedback

    FreshRSS

    Nextcloud News

    NewsFlash

    Feedly

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

    Factor

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  17. Late Night Linux – Episode 244

    29 augustus 2023 · 22 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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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  18. Late Night Linux – Episode 243

    21 augustus 2023 · 25 min

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    Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  19. Late Night Linux – Episode 242

    15 augustus 2023 · 27 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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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  20. Late Night Linux – Episode 241

    7 augustus 2023 · 25 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

    Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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  21. Late Night Linux – Episode 240

    1 augustus 2023 · 26 min

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    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. Lees meer

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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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  22. Late Night Linux – Episode 239

    24 juli 2023 · 32 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

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    HelloFresh

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  23. Late Night Linux – Episode 238

    18 juli 2023 · 29 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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 Bright2022 KDE e.V. Report & Akademy is on right now! Raw videos are available

    Entroware

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  24. Late Night Linux – Episode 237

    10 juli 2023 · 31 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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

    Kolide

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    Factor

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  25. Late Night Linux – Episode 236

    4 juli 2023 · 31 min

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    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. Lees meer

    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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  26. Late Night Linux – Episode 235

    26 juni 2023 · 33 min

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    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    Scrcpy

    lobste.rs

    Watchy

    Turris Omnia

    Footage

    chatGPT-shell-cli

    TrueNAS from iXsystems

    To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

    Tailscale

    Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.

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  27. Late Night Linux – Episode 234

    20 juni 2023 · 36 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  28. Late Night Linux – Episode 233

    12 juni 2023 · 32 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    Zeal

    Clonezilla

    Wallabag

    ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi

    TrueNAS from iXsystems

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  29. Late Night Linux – Episode 232

    6 juni 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  30. Late Night Linux – Episode 231

    29 mei 2023 · 32 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

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  31. Late Night Linux – Episode 230

    22 mei 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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

    TrueNAS from iXsystems

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  32. Late Night Linux – Episode 229

    16 mei 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  33. Late Night Linux – Episode 228

    8 mei 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    CEMU

    TrueNAS from iXsystems

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  34. Late Night Linux – Episode 227

    1 mei 2023 · 34 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  35. Late Night Linux – Episode 226

    25 april 2023 · 31 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  36. Late Night Linux – Episode 225

    17 april 2023 · 30 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  37. Late Night Linux – Episode 224

    11 april 2023 · 29 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  38. Late Night Linux – Episode 223

    3 april 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    chob

    Chirp plant alarm

    Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner

    ntopng

    DoomLinux

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  39. Late Night Linux – Episode 222

    28 maart 2023 · 32 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  40. Late Night Linux – Episode 221

    20 maart 2023 · 30 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    Discoveries

    qalculate

    NiceGUI

    Entropy Piano Tuner

    Autodarts (video of it in action)

    Feedback

    Quinny

    DustBuilder

    Valetudo

    Material for MkDocs

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  41. Late Night Linux – Episode 220

    13 maart 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  42. Late Night Linux – Episode 219

    6 maart 2023 · 35 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  43. Late Night Linux – Episode 218

    28 februari 2023 · 31 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  44. Late Night Linux – Episode 217

    20 februari 2023 · 31 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  45. Late Night Linux – Episode 216

    14 februari 2023 · 32 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  46. Late Night Linux – Episode 215

    6 februari 2023 · 33 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  47. Late Night Linux – Episode 214

    31 januari 2023 · 29 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  48. Late Night Linux – Episode 213

    23 januari 2023 · 30 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  49. Late Night Linux – Episode 212

    17 januari 2023 · 30 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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  50. Late Night Linux – Episode 211

    9 januari 2023 · 29 min

    Afspelen
    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. Lees meer

    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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