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Late Night Linux – Episode 160
18 januari 2022 · 30 min
A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort
Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up
New year, new Signal CEO
Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations
Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web
Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity
Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.24 Beta out
KVer Graphics & Dev Videos
Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager
KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out
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Late Night Linux – Episode 159
10 januari 2022 · 29 min
A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire. Lees meer
Discoveries
Barrier
rdfind
A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer
Feedback
CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android
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Late Night Linux – Episode 158
4 januari 2022 · 30 min
Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News/discussion
Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects
UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!
Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down
Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager
In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers
Discoveries
ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp
The Rockstar Language Specification
KDE Korner
Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022
Krita 5.0 released!
A new browser from kMobile
KDE Art Stream
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Late Night Linux – Episode 157
27 december 2021 · 31 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022. Lees meer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 156
21 december 2021 · 30 min
We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs. Lees meer
2021 Linux year in review
Mars
Linux has made it to Mars [feb]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr]
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr]
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr]
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul]
Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]
Gaming
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb]
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov]
Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec]
Steam Link now available on Linux [mar]
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun]
Steam Deck [jul]
EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep]
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]
Drama
Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies [mar]
FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec]
Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar]
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may]
Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun]
Audacity privacy notice [jul]
Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul]
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may]
Welcome to Libera Chat [may]
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work [jun]
Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon [sep]
Arm
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 [jan]
Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon [jan]
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 [nov]
Pinephone Pro [oct]
How We Ported Linux to the M1 [jan]
M1 Macs booting from NVMe [jan]
GNOME desktop boots o…
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Late Night Linux – Episode 155
13 december 2021 · 30 min
Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Garuda Linux, a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux.
Convergence
Graham tells us about running proper Linux on his phone with AnLinux. He mentioned Termux.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 154
7 december 2021 · 32 min
Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint
Who is the target user?
More about those zero-dot users
“New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy)
Listing rumours for Raspberry Pi? No ‘urgency’ says Upton
Flatpak Is Not the Future
On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication
Admin
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KDE Korner
Icons… everywhere
Quick update for KItinerary
Digital Signatures in Okular – Thanks to NLNet
Usual features & fixes
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Late Night Linux – Episode 153
29 november 2021 · 30 min
A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro.
Feedback
Zim – a desktop wiki
This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community
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Late Night Linux – Episode 152
23 november 2021 · 31 min
Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022
Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck
German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Google-translated interview
Apple announces Self Service Repair
The future of documentation at Canonical
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap
Admin
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KDE Korner
How to create KDE Applets
KDE now also LTT proof
Evolving 3D effects in Plasma
Be flexible to win big
PinePhone Cross Compilation
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 151
15 november 2021 · 30 min
How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins. Lees meer
Félim mentioned Camara Education.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 150
9 november 2021 · 32 min
A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins. Lees meer
News
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15
The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi
Ubuntu Server support
Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS
Nat Friedman leaves GitHub
Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze
Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements
Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94
Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson
Admin
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KDE Korner
November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0
Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders
Nice look through PolKit
Updates in KDE PIM
Giant Swarm Site Reliability job
Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles)
https://giant-swarm.jobs.personio.de/job/180887?_pc=533308
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Late Night Linux – Episode 149
1 november 2021 · 29 min
We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Haiku, an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”
Feedback
We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 148
26 oktober 2021 · 32 min
Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Apple joins Blender Development Fund
L0phtCrack is now open source
Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it
Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)
Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained
Copyleft Compliance Projects
Introducing the PinePhone Pro
Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source?
Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry
Admin
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KDE Korner
Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too
KDEnlive used for Italian TV
23 ways to help KDE
KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt
Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 147
18 oktober 2021 · 29 min
The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.
Feedback
We mentioned Photopea.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 146
12 oktober 2021 · 30 min
Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner. Lees meer
News
Fairphone 4 review
10 Year Smartphone
Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them
News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile
Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist
Admin
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KDE Korner
KDE has a FOSS role going
KDE’s 25th birthday
How Gwenview got its name
Kalendar devblog 17 & 18
Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores
Crowdsec
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Late Night Linux – Episode 145
4 oktober 2021 · 31 min
Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.
Graham and the Pinephone
Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.
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Crowdsec
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Late Night Linux – Episode 144
28 september 2021 · 29 min
Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family. Lees meer
News
Linux After Dark has launched!
Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream
Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default
Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years
Steam Deck FAQ
Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
GOL
BattlEye to support the Steam Deck
GNOME 41 released
Building an Alternative Ecosystem
Admin
Check out Late Night Linux Extra 31
KDE Korner
KDE Window Rules
Get Drawing With Krita with this Book
Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 143
20 september 2021 · 30 min
What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which
redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.
If we were in charge of the Linux desktop
What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 142
14 september 2021 · 30 min
Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more. Lees meer
News
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users?
Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon
ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy
Open source is selfish
Ubuntu Podcast is ending
Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency
Admin
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KDE Korner
Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there
NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott
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Late Night Linux – Episode 141
6 september 2021 · 31 min
Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at elementary OS, the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”.
Benefits of the cloud
Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up.
Crowdsec
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Late Night Linux – Episode 140
31 augustus 2021 · 29 min
The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available
Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years
LINUX is obsolete
Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras
State of Magisk: 2021
GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1
Resigning from the AMP advisory committee
Admin
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KDE Korner
PineBook / PinePhone Review by Nico
KDE PIM Update especially Kalendar (New ToDo app) and a video of it on a PinePhone
Early days but Tokodon is a KDE mastodon client
WARNING: scam mails about krita and youtube coming from krita.io
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Late Night Linux – Episode 139
23 augustus 2021 · 29 min
What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Fostodon, a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance.
Feedback
We mentioned Going Linux.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 138
17 augustus 2021 · 30 min
New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness. Lees meer
News
Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life
Child Safety
One Bad Apple
elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now
Debian 11 “bullseye” released
Admin
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KDE Korner
KDE Apps 21.08
Along with KDEnlive 21.08
Ads for Elisa, Dolphin and Konsole
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Late Night Linux – Episode 137
9 augustus 2021 · 29 min
Our first impressions of a relatively unusual distro. Plus your feedback about Syncthing, GitHub Copilot, and advice for a new Linux user. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Bodhi Linux, a lightweight distribution featuring the Moksha Desktop.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 136
3 augustus 2021 · 31 min
Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows versions on dirt cheap modern hardware, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
“Every Preference Has a Cost”
My proposal for scaling open source: don’t
Cracking Open the Android/iOS Grip on Smartphones and the Mobile Internet
Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32
WEB@30 Exhibition – 26th July to 3rd September 2021
Admin
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KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile 21.07
KDE Connect is Now Available to Windows 10 Users & work has started on rewrite of Mac version
Covid Certs in KItinerary
KDE e.V. Looking for a PM
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Late Night Linux – Episode 135
26 juli 2021 · 30 min
Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community might be susceptible to being exploited. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization program.
An inherent vulnerability in the FOSS community
Is the FOSS community seems to be so susceptible to being taken advantage of?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 134
20 juli 2021 · 29 min
The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportunity for FOSS, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Steam Deck
“Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role
Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our survey
Why Windows 11 Could Be Good News for Ubuntu
KDE Korner
Lots of new improvements to Tok
New Kalender app coming along nicely
Digikam 7.3.0
This week in KDE: KDE-powered Steam Deck revealed!
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Late Night Linux – Episode 133
12 juli 2021 · 31 min
A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation.
Feedback
VueScan Scanner Software
Swisscows
Software subscriptions and FOSS
We are joined by Daniel Foré to discuss software subscriptions and monetising FOSS. We mentioned elementary Developer Weekend.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 132
6 juli 2021 · 31 min
GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work
Audacity privacy notice
Clarification of Privacy Policy
IBM Leadership Changes
When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos’s £136m contract with NHS England
Admin
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KDE Korner
KDE Search Tips
KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff!
FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon
21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support
aKademy video playlist
MyGNUHealth 1.0 is out
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Late Night Linux – Episode 131
28 juni 2021 · 31 min
Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer that’s based on Debian.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+
Firefox: Hide Native Tabs and Titlebar
Josh’s CSS for Tree Style Tabs
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
More questions that we didn’t get round to answering at FOSS Talk Live.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 130
22 juni 2021 · 30 min
Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more. Lees meer
Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.
News
Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours
Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT
Admin
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Dev Null and the Kernel Panics
FOSS Talk Live leftovers
The spinning wheel of meh at FOSS Talk Live ended up with loads of leftover questions so we answered a few of them.
Chrome OS at 10
10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.22 Video from the promo team
Bug Triaging Needed – Nate
Akademy is on with day 2 and day 3 reports up and BOFs ongoing this week (Channel)
/u/wael_ch/ made some cool shortcuts for Dolphin, Plasma and Krunner check out /r/kde
Dart/Flutter support for Kate
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Late Night Linux – Episode 129
14 juni 2021 · 30 min
A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more. Lees meer
Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.
First Impressions
We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction”.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Bodhi Linux
Fedora Silverblue
AI Noise Analyzer
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Late Night Linux – Episode 128
8 juni 2021 · 33 min
The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama.
FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.
News
A fresh new Firefox is here
The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement
Glimpse fails
The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters
Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia
Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old
Admin
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KDE Korner
PinePhone KDE Patron
KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git
Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully
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Late Night Linux – Episode 127
31 mei 2021 · 32 min
A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management.
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Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Sweep
ocenaudio
mhwaveedit
Audio Recorder
Gnome Wave Cleaner
Kwave
Ventoy
Pinephone
Graham finally has his hands on a Pinephone and so we asked him all about it.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 126
25 mei 2021 · 33 min
Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner. Lees meer
News
Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management
Welcome to Libera Chat
Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now open, starting at $999
Hands-On with Framework’s Fully Modular Laptop!
Improving Firefox stability on Linux
Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own
Google Play Store will be able to send you compromised Android apps from August
Magisk developer leaves Apple to join Google on the Android security team
How the UK’s Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix
Online abuse: Why management liability isn’t the answer
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KDE Korner
Moving on
KCommandBar
LAS Tooling Update
Telegram KDE Client Slim Mode
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Late Night Linux – Episode 125
17 mei 2021 · 30 min
The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more. Lees meer
First Impressions
We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.
Feedback
Things we mentioned:
Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager
grml-rescueboot
FreeTube
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Late Night Linux – Episode 124
11 mei 2021 · 30 min
Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news. Lees meer
News
Audacity & MuseScore Announcement!
Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity
elementary OS 6 Beta Available
KDE Developer tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin
Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable
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Where we get our news
RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.
KDE Korner
Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released
KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover
Kdenlive 21.04 – Subtitle STT
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Late Night Linux – Episode 123
3 mei 2021 · 30 min
Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE. Lees meer
First Impressions
Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro will be Endless OS.
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Feedback
The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE.
Things we mentioned:
HIP and ROCm
FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs
Restored Genesis video
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Late Night Linux – Episode 122
27 april 2021 · 31 min
Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight
Ubuntu 21.04 is here
Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new?
Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New
The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux
University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment
Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits
An open letter to the Linux community
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KDE Korner
Krita Arrives in the Epic Store
KDE in Kerala
Peruse Komics
Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel
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Late Night Linux – Episode 121
16 april 2021 · 30 min
We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. Lees meer
We mentioned Launcher Manager.
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Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 120
13 april 2021 · 29 min
Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends
WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence
US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales
Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war
LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices
Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology
Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program
Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla
Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment
Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether
popey to leave Canonical
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Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.
KDE Korner
Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection
SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs
KHamburgerMenu
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Late Night Linux – Episode 119
5 april 2021 · 31 min
The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux. Lees meer
Home media setups
MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick
How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi 4 widevine
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Check out Joe’s albums
Feedback
Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs.
Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 118
30 maart 2021 · 29 min
Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more. Lees meer
News
Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies
Announcement video
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
An open letter in support of RMS
PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name
Audacity 3.0.0 Released
The End of AMP
Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release
Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week
elementary Developer Weekend
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KDE Korner
KDE Dev Tries Gnome 40
Kall kFor PapersK : Akademy
QT6 is gettin’ going
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Late Night Linux – Episode 117
22 maart 2021 · 32 min
What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts. Lees meer
A new hope for search?
Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version
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A year on from The Event
Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.
Feedback
Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, and more.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 116
16 maart 2021 · 30 min
Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Steam Link now available on Linux
SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO
Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps
NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged
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NFTs
Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare?
NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions
Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry
The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world
Jack’s first tweet is for sale
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
KDE Korner
Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence
Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series
Frameworks 5.80 is out
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 115
8 maart 2021 · 30 min
Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more. Lees meer
RISC OS with the Pi 400
Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.
Mint’s update problem
Update your computer!
Vague update
Admin
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Feedback
Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.
Linode
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Lernard
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Late Night Linux – Episode 114
2 maart 2021 · 30 min
Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Linux has made it to Mars
Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share
Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection
Introducing the Framework Laptop
Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations
Admin
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Xfce Xorner
Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update
And Now For Something Completely Different
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile
Documentation
Offline Updates
Linode
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Late Night Linux – Episode 113
22 februari 2021 · 33 min
Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks. Lees meer
Messaging Overload
Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.
Feedback
Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.
Linux on Chrome OS devices
We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 112
16 februari 2021 · 33 min
Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS
Pitchforks set to Stun
Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi
Patch in this commit
Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep
Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical
LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released
Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone!
K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app
Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google
Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years
Admin
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KDE Korner
Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog)
Plasma 5.21 approaches
Kate colour picker & project tools
Checksums are important
Linode
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Datadog
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 111
9 februari 2021 · 34 min
Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback. Lees meer
Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor
All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store. Full instructions here.
Félim’s 800×480 screen
News/discussion
Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward
bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply
Must ‘completely free’ mean ‘hard to install’? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community
Admin
FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person
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Feedback
Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps.
We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.
Linode
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Datadog
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Lernard
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