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Late Night Linux – Episode 110
2 februari 2021 · 32 min
Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4
Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon
How We Ported Linux to the M1
M1 Macs booting from NVMe
Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved
Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family
Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
Firefox stops working on progressive web app support
Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome
Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project
Admin
Popey on LNLE 14 about Snaps
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KDE Korner
JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build
Kate HUD
Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge
Consistency Nitpicks
Linode
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Late Night Linux – Episode 109
25 januari 2021 · 28 min
Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more. Lees meer
Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up
Double helping of Pi Hole
Admin
Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13
Feedback
Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without.
Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi
Steve’s series of posts
Linode
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Datadog
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Late Night Linux – Episode 108
19 januari 2021 · 32 min
Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS
Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach
BBC educational material about open source
Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future?
Doubling down on open, Part II
Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones
Right to Repair Europe
Admin
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Feedback
We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.
KDE Korner
Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only
Fedora Kenoite
Linode
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Datadog
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 107
11 januari 2021 · 31 min
Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
Home monitoring and automation
Will’s links:
Raspberry Pi Heating Controller
Heating controller code
Graphing library
InfluxDB Cloud 2
Node-RED
Graham’s links:
Home Assistant
Domoticz
HA Bridge
Rtl_433
BrewPi (legacy)
Fermentrack
Félim’s links:
Graphite
Grafana
KDE Korner
KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat
KDE Apps in the Windows store
Highlights from 2020
Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths
Linode
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Datadog
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Lernard
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Late Night Linux – Episode 106
5 januari 2021 · 35 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021. Lees meer
Linode
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Datadog
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Late Night Linux – Episode 105
22 december 2020 · 31 min
We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event. Lees meer
Two big 2020 topics
Arm
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Raspberry Pi 400
PinePhones Shipping
PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open
Second PinePhone Community edition
postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets
AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2
marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
Mozilla
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
Readying for the Future at Mozilla
Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit
Changing World, Changing Mozilla
If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended
Admin
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CentOS
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 104
8 december 2020 · 31 min
Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report
marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra
Feedback
Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.
KDE Korner
Plasma Big Screen Beta 2
Alternate Character Input
Digikam on Big Sur progresses
Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 103
24 november 2020 · 34 min
What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine). Lees meer
News
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA
We can do better than DuckDuckGo
Admin
Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.
Feedback: Trust
We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation.
Your computer isn’t yours
Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process
NSA Spying
KDE Korner
Linux App Summit
All Talks Playlist
GCompris is 20
KDE Pinephone: The Point
Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.
Datadog
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Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 102
10 november 2020 · 31 min
Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Raspberry Pi 400
Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support
Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400
Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store
How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux
Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet
Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store
KDE Korner
New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback
Kontact better & better
KDE Android News
Kate is 20 years old!
Datadog
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 101
27 oktober 2020 · 35 min
Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness. Lees meer
News
Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die
youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice
Antennapod 2.0 released
Ubuntu 20.10 Released
20.10 on the Pi 4 video
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25
New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released
Krita 4.4.0 released
Plasma browser integration on Edge
Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning
Entroware
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Datadog
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 100
13 oktober 2020 · 33 min
Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner. Lees meer
Linux-based Windows
We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago.
Will’s adventures in DNS
Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard.
KDE Korner
My KDE
Plasma Mobile update: September 2020
Plasma 5.20 is nigh
TrueNAS from iXsystems
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 99
29 september 2020 · 35 min
Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more. Lees meer
News
Amnesia is now open source!
BBC Micro Elite source code
Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400%
Killed by Mozilla
Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal
WireGuard
Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.
KDE Korner
Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan
KDE websites update
Datadog
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Entroware
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 98
15 september 2020 · 36 min
How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion
Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal
Ubuntu community drama
Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth
Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel
Admin
Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces
Check out Jono Bacon’s book club
Fixing the Internet
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity
EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation
Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet
KDE Korner
KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle
Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland
Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap
Datadog
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Lernard
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Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 97
31 augustus 2020 · 31 min
Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again
Changing World, Changing Mozilla
Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal
If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended
You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade
Last October we talked about FlightGear being used in the AlphaDogfight Trials, well now we’re all doomed as the AI wins 5-0
Admin
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AMA
We were asked whether Canonical is standing on the shoulders of giants, or building castles on the sand.
KDE Korner
KDE neon Rebased on 20.04 (plus all the 20.08 app updates)
Kdenlive 20.08 is out
Plasma Mobile Update
Linux Spotlight EP56 – Nate Graham of KDE Plasma
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 96
17 augustus 2020 · 35 min
How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem. Lees meer
Kyle the Windows user
We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Late Night Linux Extra so make sure you are subscribed to the RSS feed to hear his thoughts on Joe’s beloved Xubuntu.
Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about corporations having public political views, and NixOS and Guix.
Félim’s RSI issues
Félim tells us about the new vertical mouse he bought to tackle his shoulder and neck pain. He should have probably bought this cheaper version. Graham mentioned his trackball mouse.
Digital Ocean
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Lernard
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TrueNAS from iXsystems
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Late Night Linux – Episode 95
4 augustus 2020 · 30 min
A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
Lineage Love-in
OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1
Lineage 17.1 on the Pi
Admin
Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed
FOSS trends 2020
We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.
KDE Korner
New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too
KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes
DigiKam becomes sentient
Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 94
21 juli 2020 · 33 min
It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects
Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter
Pine update
postmarketOS PinePhone update
LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions
Official u-turn
Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
What Does the Future Hold for Edge Computing?
KDE Korner
HiDPI Fixes Coming
KDE PIM Updates
More Apps & More Stores
Konsole in 2020
Digital Ocean
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Lernard
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Late Night Linux – Episode 93
7 juli 2020 · 33 min
Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions. Lees meer
News
UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device
Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up
Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support
KDE Korner
KDE has completed the move to GitLab
Modern process management on KDE
Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 92
22 juni 2020 · 31 min
Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
Facebook did a bad thing to do a good thing
Bountysource was going to change its terms so it could keep unclaimed bounties but then backtracked
Xfce considers leaving
Admin
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Linux hardware – old and new
Joe talks about his new Pinebook Pro, and after Will read an article about netbooks, we have a nostalgic look back to those good old days.
KDE Korner
Plasma 5.19: A more Polished Plasma which wasn’t (Updated Wallet… broke it… then later that day fixed it) so they polished it again
KDE Plasma is Switching to a Windows-style Icon-only Task Bar
Krita 4.3 with good features video & overall KDE apps in the Windows store (no Krita numbers)
Digital Ocean
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Lernard
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Late Night Linux – Episode 91
9 juni 2020 · 35 min
Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever. Lees meer
News
8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75
Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version
Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi
Mint not keen on snaps
AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager
Admin
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Joe on Linux Spotlight
Joe on Ubuntu Podcast
Ask us anything sensible
We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop
Nvidia Wayland & KDE
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 90
26 mei 2020 · 36 min
The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux. Lees meer
News
LiMux is back
Patent case against GNOME resolved
Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering
OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact
Admin
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Microsoft Linux
Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”.
Nice article by original bug author
They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 89
12 mei 2020 · 31 min
Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more. Lees meer
Plugs
Check out Joe’s other podcasts The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.
News
/e/ Partners With Fairphone
postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets
SaltStack authorization bypass
Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses
RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support
Keybase joins Zoom
Admin
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Feedback
Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.
KDE Korner
Akademy: Call for Proposals
Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress
Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet
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ScholarPack
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Late Night Linux – Episode 88
28 april 2020 · 36 min
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news. Lees meer
Two new podcasts
Joe has been busy over the last couple of weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives
What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS?
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New
Admin
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News
ProtonMail Bridge is now open source
All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list!
Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results
GitHub is now free for teams
KDE Korner
KWinFT & Reaction
Qt 6 this year
Browser plugin update & Brave support coming
New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it
20.04 Apps, KDEnlive
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 87
14 april 2020 · 36 min
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more. Lees meer
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News
PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open
PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone
Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News
Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever
Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75
Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge
Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO
Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM
Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android
Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer
Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE
KDE Korner
KDE on Instagram
February/March in KDE Itinerary
Maui Project
Qt offering changes 2020
#1: Qt, Open Source and corona
#2: Qt, Open Source and corona
Qt and Open Source
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Late Night Linux – Episode 86
31 maart 2020 · 38 min
The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world. Lees meer
Linux and the virus
We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events.
KDE Korner
Plasma Bigscreen (homepage)
Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner
Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview
Linux vs the cloud
Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 85
17 maart 2020 · 38 min
We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more. Lees meer
News
Microsoft’s GitHub buys npm
When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests
Half Life Alyx is released 23rd March, with no Linux support, despite being developed by Valve using Vulkan.
Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE
KDE Korner
Plasma Mobile
Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally
Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.
Ask Linux
We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 84
3 maart 2020 · 40 min
Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner. Lees meer
FOSS Talk Live 2020
Tickets and info here
News
GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT
Pi4 Gets Server Ready
A birthday gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35
Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube
Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.
Open source apps vs desktops
Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.
KDE Korner
Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming
kTop Seekrit
kItinerary all the things
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 83
18 februari 2020 · 40 min
Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner. Lees meer
News
AppCenter for Everyone
South Korea switching to Linux?
Windows 7 users moving to Windows 10
Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge
KDE Korner
Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can)
Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that
KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!
Admin
Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra
FOSS Talk Live 2020
PinePhone
Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 82
4 februari 2020 · 41 min
Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner. Lees meer
FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement
The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details here.
News
PinePhone Freedom
HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up
Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March
Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop
Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella
WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel
Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source
Linux on Will’s Mac
Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.
KDE Korner
Qt News & Reactions 1 2 3
KDE gets a handshake
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 81
21 januari 2020 · 39 min
The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes back, bad news for Mozilla, a great new Nexcloud release, and more in the news. Lees meer
News
Y2020
Mozilla Lays off 70 people
PinePhones Shipping
Nextcloud Hub now with KItinerary
KDE Korner
KUserFeedback with a bit more detail
Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta
Admin
Joe’s Brunch With Brent
Graham talking about synths on Jupiter Extras
Linux as a replacement for Windows 7
Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, should we be advising people to change to Linux? Are we actually doing that?
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 80
7 januari 2020 · 39 min
It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020. Lees meer
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 79
24 december 2019 · 40 min
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. Lees meer
January
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
February
Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database
Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again
March
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
LVFS joins Linux Foundation
April
UBports Foundation finally created
Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features
May
Announcing WSL 2
Introducing Windows Terminal
June
Raspberry Pi 4 released
July
Fuchsia gets a website
August
Xfce 4.14 released
exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
September
Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF
Richard Stallman resigns from MIT
Stallman intends to keep leading GNU
October
Ubuntu 19.10 released
Will has left Canonical
November
Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support
Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch
December
Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 78
10 december 2019 · 38 min
Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more in the news. Lees meer
News
Ubuntu Pro
64-bit Ubuntu now works on Pi 4
The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey
First Ever Release of Ubuntu Cinnamon Distribution is Finally Here!
Zorin OS Responds to Privacy Concerns
Firefox 71
Kali Linux 2019.4 released with Xfce by default
KDE Korner
Kontributing to KDE is even easier than you kThink
Chrome OS
Joe has been playing with a “new” Chromebook. We discuss how this hugely popular Linux-based desktop OS compares to proper distros.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 77
26 november 2019 · 42 min
What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news. Lees meer
News
Google Kills Cloud Print
Google plans to offer bank accounts next year
Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta
Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support
PINEPHONE – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters
KDE Korner
KDE Neon snapcraft extension
KDE looking to hire an experienced project manager (PDF)
Admin
Joe on Linux Lads
Two weeks with macOS
Will’s new job means that he’s now using a Mac every day. How does macOS compare to Linux?
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 76
12 november 2019 · 38 min
We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE. Lees meer
News
LinuxApp Summit Kicks Off
Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites
Google open source VR SDK
The downside of Ubiquiti network gear
Linux Foundation introduces telemetry policy
Microsoft to offer Defender for Linux next year
Microsoft confirms new browser is coming to Linux
Ubuntu 19.10 on the Pi 4
Joe and Graham have been playing with Ubuntu on the Pi 4
Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4
Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4
KDE Korner
Indian Newspaper Switches 100% FOSS
KItinary into the browser a la Google Now
And finally… Getting stuff fixed
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 75
29 oktober 2019 · 39 min
Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news. Lees meer
News
The BBC has joined the dark web
Startpage bought by an Ad Company
Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds
GNOME fights patent troll
Firefox 70 released
KDE Korner
Akademy vids are out, Plasma Mobile catchups, KItinerary extractors again & The cashew is no more
Will leaves Canonical
Will tells us why he has left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop and where he’s going next.
Admin
OggCamp panel recording
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 74
15 oktober 2019 · 42 min
Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
Software as a Service Dangers
Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts
Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week
Chromium will be a snap
ARM reacts to RISC-V
What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?
KDE Korner
HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps, Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6
Admin
Come to OggCamp!
OggCamp panel questions
Campbell Barton from Blender
Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 73
1 oktober 2019 · 39 min
Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directories as a file, KDE Korner, and more. Lees meer
News
rms has left the building
FSF Award Nominations [Guess who’s now eligible to be nominated]
New webpage for Plasma Desktop, Plasma 5.17beta / 5.18 two weeks away, Kate’s External Tools Plugin, Akademy and adopted GitLab, KItinerary Extractor
Pulse Dolby Support
Reinventing Home Dirs
Admin
OggCamp panel questions
Home Networks
Félim recently had to redo his home network so we talk about our various setups.
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 72
15 september 2019 · 38 min
It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us. Lees meer
News
GNOME 3.34 Released
Kirogi.org, Kate planning & Kate in the Windows Store, POC KDE PIM Online Accounts with some PIM News and KDE Goals
PinePhone Developer PreOrders
Librem 5 Shipping Announcement
Fairphone 3 gets perfect score from iFixit
Mumble 1.3 Released
Firefox 69 released and looks good
Test Pilot Is Back
Sunsetting Python 2
Manjaro is taking the next step
Brexit bastards want our data
Windows gains major desktop Linux feature
Admin
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Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 71
3 september 2019 · 41 min
We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more. Lees meer
News
KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept.
GUADEC videos
GNOME Firmware Updater
Google’s Tracking Protection BS? – EFF Chime in
Fairphone3
MS Graciously Allows Us To Use Its Obvious & Non-Novel Patent For exFAT
Glimpse of a GIMP
Chris Beard to step down as Mozilla CEO
Software Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry
Admin
Come to OggCamp!
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 70
20 augustus 2019 · 44 min
Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news. Lees meer
News
Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter
KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code
Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P sprint…but not really
Xfce 4.14 released
ZFS on / coming to Ubuntu desktop
Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman
Graham’s 3D printer
Graham recently bought a 3D printer and tells us all about it.
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 69
6 augustus 2019 · 39 min
We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms. Lees meer
News
KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update…
More good news for Blender from Ubisoft
VLC is somewhat fed up with security researchers
Xfce 4.14 Inches Closer to Release
Firefox Reality, browser designed for viewing the web in virtual reality
Valve and Colabora backed Xrdesktop Brings Linux Desktop Environments Into VR
Cloudflare terminating Service for 8Chan
8chan’s hardware provider discontinues service
A reimagined foundation for Linux
What would a foundation for Linux look like if we were to start one today?
Digital Ocean
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Late Night Linux – Episode 68
23 juli 2019 · 40 min
When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more. Lees meer
News
KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma
Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same time
Like Linux? Then don’t buy Dell’s new XPS 13
F-Droid Reproducible
New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files
Maintainer for gpodder.net needed
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Free Software and free speech
With Gab recently switching to a Mastodon base, an old debate has emerged. The Mastodon project has taken steps to isolate Gab and F-droid has taken a similar position.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 67
9 juli 2019 · 42 min
Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro. Lees meer
News
Test Plasma Easily, KDE PIM Update, U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again
Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as Internet Villian Of The Year
Pinebook Pro coming soon
Debian 10 Buster released
Raspberry Pi 4
Graham and Joe have been playing with their new toys
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Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 66
25 juni 2019 · 41 min
It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”. Lees meer
News
Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack
Raspberry Pi4!
Plasma 5.16 & 5.16.1, KDE Goals, Updates to KDE.org
Firefox Premium?
Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V
PinePhone looking good
Facebook to launch cryptocurrency
Digital Ocean
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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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Late Night Linux – Episode 65
11 juni 2019 · 46 min
It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one. Lees meer
News
KDE Apps Website
Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers
GMail Confidential Mode to be on by default for G Suite users
Stadia details announced
FOSSortunities
We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has cornered that market now. We keep missing opportunities like Vista and Windows 8. How do we prepare for the next opportunity, spot it early, and strike at the right time?
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 64
28 mei 2019 · 47 min
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead. Lees meer
News
Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released
Xfce 4.14pre1 released!
Google pulls Huawei’s Android license
Huawei responds
90 day reprieve
Now even Arm cutting them off
Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU
Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo)
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown
Github Sponsors
HN discussion
Time to ditch 32-bit x86 Linux for good?
Joe was recently given an old Atom netbook that is 32-bit only. What can you actually do with a machine of that age and low specs? Is it time to move on from this legacy architecture?
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 63
14 mei 2019 · 45 min
It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more. Lees meer
News
KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App Summit
Windows Shipping Linux
Apache SF joins Github
RHEL 8 Out Now
RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog
Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom
Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File sharing became self aware on this day
Mozilla certificate fun (Disable Studies again…) update & more updates
Debian Buster will be Wayland
Google creates ‘dedicated placement’ in search results for AMP Stories, starting with travel category
The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 62
29 april 2019 · 44 min
It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target. Lees meer
Distro round table
Fedora
openSUSE
Ubuntu
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FOSS Talk Live
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 61
16 april 2019 · 43 min
Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it. Lees meer
News
Chef ditches Open Core
Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit
How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey
UBports Foundation finally created
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FOSS Talk Live
With Age Comes Wisdom?
If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a good chance that you’ve compiled your own kernel, written modelines, and literally got the T Shirt (not that it fits any more). Do you have the time and energy to care about such things any more?
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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