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Late Night Linux – Episode 60
2 april 2019 · 45 min
What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in. Lees meer
News
Google launches game streaming service called Stadia
New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive picking up the pace as well
Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released
KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play
RISC-V fifty dollar dev board
Ubuntu Studio back from the dead
Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark
Admin
UK Open Source Awards 2019
LTS to LTS
Will breaks down exactly what happens in the two years between Ubuntu LTS releases.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 59
19 maart 2019 · 48 min
A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news. Lees meer
News
First Plasma Mobile Sprint
Krita: The only graphics app with HDR
GNOME 3.32 released
Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence
Maru OS
We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that allows you to run a full Debian desktop with Xfce in a container.
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 58
5 maart 2019 · 43 min
Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again. Lees meer
News
KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport
Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset
MariaDB bossman lays in to AWS & Oracle
Lineage 16.0
EU Radio Equipment Directive
Admin
Ubuntu Podcast get together
FOSS Complexity
The only real ways to make money from FOSS are support, services and training. So why would anyone make FOSS that’s simple to install, use and maintain, and works perfectly out of the box? Is this why everything is so over-complicated?
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 57
19 februari 2019 · 56 min
Beluister deze afleveringLibrem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment. Lees meer
News
KDE Plasma 5.15 & Snaps
Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo
Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM
Todd Weaver from Purism
A year on from his last appearance on the show, Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5, and how things are going for Purism in general.
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Techmeme Ride Home
Check out the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast
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Late Night Linux – Episode 56
5 februari 2019 · 27 min
Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more. Lees meer
News
Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop
Pine64 forum announcement
We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019
Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores
HP joins LVFS
Blue Systems hires a QA manager
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 55
22 januari 2019 · 46 min
Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more. Lees meer
News
New FOSS Forge
Librem 5 Update
Purism announces PureOS Store
Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed
postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5
Phoenix joins LVFS
KDE Frameworks Android Integration
ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
Cloud vs on prem
Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 54
8 januari 2019 · 45 min
A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news. Lees meer
News
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel
Kernel reaches 5.0
FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS)
Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users
Predictions
We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
This episode of 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.See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 53
24 december 2018 · 53 min
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. Lees meer
January
Meltdown and Spectre
February
Nintendo Switch runs Linux
Plasma running on a Switch
March
New Raspberry Pi 3B+
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
April
Ubuntu 18.04 released
18.04 flavours also released
Clear focus on cloud and containers
Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch
May
Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images
The other flavours could follow suit
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
June
Microsoft to buy Github
July
SUSE acquired
August
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
September
Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs
October
Linus back in charge of the kernel
IBM to Acquire Red Hat
November
Librem 5 slips again
December
Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
MIPS to be open sourced
Admin
FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 52
11 december 2018 · 52 min
Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF. Lees meer
News
KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!?
kde-Itinary Update
Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs
RISC-V & LF Joint Venture
FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars
Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed
AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you!
Digital Ocean
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Admin
FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June
Reminder that G+ is dead
Entroware
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Sailfish OS 3
Graham was recently sent a Jolla phone by listener Matt, and Joe has been checking out an unofficial Sailfish ROM on the Oneplus One.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 51
27 november 2018 · 48 min
Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more. Lees meer
News
NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email)
Accessibility starting off again in KDE
Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of support
RHEL 8 beta released
iwd: Simplifying WiFi
New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched
Raspbian updated
New kernels revert Spectre mitigation
Tomorrow’s world special
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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What’s the FOSS community really like?
Is the FOSS community really that toxic or is it full of idealists who wear rose-tinted glasses?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 50
13 november 2018 · 50 min
Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in. Lees meer
News
Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here
Purism dev boards when?
Lineage OS changing update frequency
Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu
Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy
ReactOS 0.4.10 released
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Pinebook
Joe recently bought an 11” Pinebook and delivers his verdict on it.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 49
30 oktober 2018 · 49 min
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age. Lees meer
News
Pine64 working on a KDE phone
Ubuntu 18.10 released
elementary OS 5.0 Juno released
Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar
IBM to Acquire Red Hat
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Is FOSS finally growing up?
With everyone from GNU to Samba getting their HR houses in order, and behemoths like Microsoft fully embracing open source, is FOSS finally coming of age? Or is the community destined to always drag itself down with infighting and childish behaviour?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 48
16 oktober 2018 · 57 min
It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world. Lees meer
News
Plasma 5.14 released
Exciting Xfce news
GNOME dumps yet another feature
Redis components forked
Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it
ChromeOS tablet launched
Digital Ocean
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Admin
We are now on Spotify.
Google+ is dead.
Entroware
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Jason Evangelho
Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 47
2 oktober 2018 · 45 min
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more. Lees meer
News
KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04
Google loosens grasp on AMP
Web 5.0?
Fedora 29 beta released
Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released
Mir reaches 1.0.0
Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier
At least half of Azure is running Linux
Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
Sailfish OS not dead yet
Mintcast needs new hosts
Digital Ocean
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CDN77
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Late Night Linux – Episode 46
18 september 2018 · 50 min
Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more. Lees meer
News
Nextcloud 14
KDE 5.14 Beta
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive
Linux User and Developer magazine to close
Has Linus finally had enough?
Maybe this is what did it
The Post-meritocracy Manifesto
Check out User Error
Digital Ocean
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Entroware
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Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it?
After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 45
4 september 2018 · 45 min
Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. Lees meer
News
KDE Pinebook release
KItinary call for data
Start wine-ing about Steam
Commons Clause
Desktop icons on GNOME
Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma?
Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 Released
Digital Ocean
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Admin
OggCamp live show
Bug Report
CDN77
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VM Brasseur
VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 44
21 augustus 2018 · 41 min
Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment. Lees meer
News
Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate
Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released
Open Source goes all Hollywood
Help LVFS gather NVMe data
Send me yer invites!
Entroware
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OggCamp 2018 report
Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.
Jesse’s adventures in dadland
Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 43
7 augustus 2018 · 1 uur 2 min
With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods. Lees meer
News
Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS
Slackware dev has financial problems
elementary OS receives large donation
Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects
GNOME might get rid of themes
What’s next, extensions?
Android 9 to be called Pie
Entroware
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Wes mason
Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 42
24 juli 2018 · 49 min
Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V. Lees meer
News
KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding
Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader
NPM fail…again
Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware
Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed)
Arm talks down RISC-V
But then backtracks
Entroware
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CDN77
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Android Antitrust
The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 41
10 juli 2018 · 45 min
Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more. Lees meer
News
SUSE acquired
Gentoo’s GitHub compromised
Minimal Ubuntu released
Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook
FOSS synth for iPad
Entroware
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20 years of Open Source
With the 20 year anniversaries of Open Source and the Apache licence, we discuss the differences between Free Software and Open Source.
CDN77
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Small community events
After FOSS Talk Live, Stuart Langridge wrote a blog post about smaller FOSS events and how there should be more of them. We discuss whether he’s right and if so, how we can make them happen.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 40
26 juni 2018 · 57 min
It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently. Lees meer
News Catchup
Microsoft to buy Github
Endless lays off several of its employees
An opportunity to invest in Mycroft
Dockerhub malware
Entroware
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Admin
Most of the recordings from FOSS Talk Live are now available, as well as some videos.
CDN77
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Newer News
Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released
UBports concerned about Article 13
A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics
Atari’s Ubuntu powered console
Atari’s PR train goes off the rails
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Late Night Linux – Episode 39
11 juni 2018 · 45 min
It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018! Lees meer
FOSS Talk Live 2018
Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen.
Entroware
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Late Night Linux – Episode 38
29 mei 2018 · 43 min
We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS. Lees meer
News
KDE 5.13 almost ready
LXQt 0.13 released
Portable Services arrives in systemd
Asteroid OS reaches 1.0
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
Steam link on android
Admin
An advert-free version of the show is now available for Patreon supporters.
FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come!
Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.
Entroware
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Ubuntu Touch
We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 37
15 mei 2018 · 54 min
A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big? Lees meer
News
Fedora 28 released
Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift
Stallman shows who’s boss
Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit
The other flavours could follow suit
Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store
EFAIL
Admin
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Entroware
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Can there ever be another big distro?
With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 36
1 mei 2018 · 51 min
Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04. Lees meer
News
Oracle being lovely netziens again
GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement
KDE Apps 18.04
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
German government chooses NextCloud
Admin
OggCamp Call for papers
Entroware
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 35
17 april 2018 · 43 min
With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines. Lees meer
New hosts
We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.
News
Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok?
System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board
WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online?
Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet
Entroware
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AMP
Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 34
3 april 2018 · 48 min
It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media. Lees meer
News
2 factor authenticator for Linux
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
Cloudflare launches DNS service
Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security
Good night, sweet princes
Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their lives which mean they are leaving the show; Jesse for a while, Ikey forever. But fear not! We have some stellar new team members ready to take their place.
Entroware
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Decentralised social networks
In the wake of the Facebook scandal, we discuss some decentralised alternatives including Diaspora and some blockchain-based projects.
If you are planning to delete your Facebook account, why not trash all your data first?
If you are planning to keep using Facebook, using the new Firefox Facebook Container Extension would probably be wise.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 33
19 maart 2018 · 44 min
A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show. Lees meer
News
GNOME 3.28 released
KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video)
Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10
Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps
Entroware
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GNU/Linux?
After Joe’s ill-fated attempt to have a reasonable discussion with Richard Stallman, we discuss the difference between the kernel and the operating system.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 32
6 maart 2018 · 56 min
It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism. Lees meer
News
Sailfish is coming to more phones
Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones
Lineage 15.1
Purism starts the work to enable GNOME applications on the Librem 5
Admin
FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!
Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference
Entroware
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Freedom vs Pragmatism
Trying out the latest development release of Trisquel prompts the question of how much freedom we actually need on the Linux desktop.
Jesse also mentioned an Arch-based alternative to Trisquel called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
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Late Night Linux – Episode 31
20 februari 2018 · 1 uur 9 min
We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases. Lees meer
News
Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain
Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics
elementary OS AppCenter changes
Admin
FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!
Entroware
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Purism
We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.
Digital Ocean
If you are looking for for a Linux VPS with full root access, check out Digital Ocean. With our affiliate link you can get $10 credit.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 30
6 februari 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?” Lees meer
News
Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices
Flightgear hostile forks
LinuxBoot
Mycroft Mark II
Admin
Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live!
Entroware
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Communitising the community
We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 29
23 januari 2018 · 1 uur 6 min
KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux. Lees meer
News
KWin/X11 is feature frozen
Exciting GNOME news
Purism keep up their excellent PR
Nextcloud Talk
Major vulnerability hoax site
Entroware
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Jonathan Nadeau
Ikey and Joe spoke to Jonathan Nadeau about the current state of accessibility in Linux and FOSS. He mentioned Sonar GNU/Linux and his podcast network. And KDE does indeed care about accessibility.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 28
9 januari 2018 · 1 uur 7 min
A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. Lees meer
News
KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June
Speech recognition on Linux?
Meltdown and Spectre
Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact
Entroware
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Predictions
We look back at the predictions that we all made at the start of 2017 and make some more about what will happen in 2018.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 27
25 december 2017 · 1 uur 5 min
It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. Lees meer
January
No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either
Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS
February
Arch and Tails announced that they were dropping 32-bit
Mozilla shutting down the group behind Firefox OS
March
Mozilla acquired Pocket
Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date?
April
Ubuntu abandoned Unity and Ubuntu Phone
May
SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10
Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android
June
Ikey quit his day job and to develop Solus full time
July
Project Common Voice
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September
Sailfish for the Xperia X
October
Librem 5 funded
Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement
November
Conservancy and SFLC fall out
Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle
Munich voted to return to Windows
December
Mozilla faced blowback after slipping Mr Robot plugin into Firefox
Bitcoin surged past $10k
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Late Night Linux – Episode 26
12 december 2017 · 51 min
Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate. Lees meer
News
KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years and its goal of Privacy
TeamViewer loves the Qt
Intel’s cunning plan to get everyone to upgrade their processors and AMD might be capitalising?
66% of page loads are https up from 46% in January this year
Big companies join the compliance-first approach to GPLv2
Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath
Entroware
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Funding FOSS
Patreon have recently made some changes which directly affect this show and Ikey’s distro. We discussed the implications and alternatives, and asked for your opinion.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 25
28 november 2017 · 57 min
With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more. Lees meer
News
RISC-V arrives!
Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle
Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc.
Android kernel & SOCs looking a bit rosier
Linus gets heated about kernel security, then calmly explains his position, Others act like children
Gifts positive in the freedom dimension
New magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – Hackspace
Entroware
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Copyleft vs permissive licences
Listener Jeffrey Bouter asked about where we stand on FOSS licensing.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 24
14 november 2017 · 1 uur 6 min
FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS. Lees meer
News
Conservancy and SFLC fall out
Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board
Ubuntu wants free art
Solus, snaps and Steam
RHEL gets an ARM version (Related hardware)
Entroware
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Admin
Joe wants to know if his Nexus 9 is slower than other ones
elementary OS
Daniel Foré of elementary OS joins Joe and Ikey.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 23
31 oktober 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter. Lees meer
News
Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement
Mint to add Flatpak support
Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System
Shuttleworth confirms suspicions that he’s aiming for a Canonical IPO
Solus looking for help with aesthetics for Solus 4
Entroware
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Jim Salter
Ikey and Joe are joined by Jim Salter to talk about ZFS and BTRFS. We mentioned an old article he wrote for arstechnica. He plugged his project Sanoid.
Jesse mentioned this post on the hidden cost of using ZFS for home NAS.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 22
17 oktober 2017 · 1 uur 9 min
Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years. Lees meer
News
Librem 5 funded
Konvergence
Plasma 5.11 is out
Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him
Google Announce new Hardware
Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on Linux
WPA2 attacked by nonces
Entroware
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Ubuntu 17.10
It’s the first Ubuntu release since Shuttleworth dropped the bombshell about the death of Unity and Convergence. The final release was a few days away when we recorded this so there might be a few slight changes and bug fixes.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 21
3 oktober 2017 · 54 min
Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant. Lees meer
News
Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption
Apple open sources some kernels
MariaDB gets a large investment
Facebook changes React License to MIT (and WordPress threatening to move away from FB license)
Entroware
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Ikey’s trip to New York
Ikey has just come back from the Ubuntu Summit in New York. He tells us all about it.
Replicant
Jesse and Félim have been trying out the totally FOSS version of Android called Replicant.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 20
19 september 2017 · 59 min
All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more. Lees meer
News
More eKciting developments in the land of KDE
Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone
Replicant doubles the number of supported devices
Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign
Public money, public code!
Solus growing pains
Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them.
Entroware
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All software has bugs. But should it?
Joe attempts to argue that properly written software should be bug-free and should only require maintenance for compatibility and new features.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 19
5 september 2017 · 1 uur 5 min
We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation. Lees meer
OggCamp Recap
Joe and Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences.
News
Sailfish for the Xperia X
Librem 5 – Matrix blog post
Ubuntu Rally in NYC
Playing with old rubbish
Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish tip. It turns out that getting Linux to run on it is more difficult than you might think.
Entroware
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Admin
Ikey has been on Destination Linux again
New funding models
With the recent news that Disney is pulling (at least some of) its content from Netflix to start its own streaming service, we discuss how far a person’s budget can stretch. In a world where every company has a subscription service and every creator has a Patreon, can FOSS projects expect anything more than some beer money?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 18
19 augustus 2017 · 52 min
It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks. Lees meer
News
Nextcloud push into education
Solus 3 Released
Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists
GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24
Q&A
We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 17
7 augustus 2017 · 59 min
Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. Lees meer
With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us.
Sorry to System76
On the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS. It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault.
News
Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions
Krita had some tax troubles but the community came to the rescue with Mega-Props to Private Internet Access
Flash is moribund
Debian reproducible builds
Mycroft Plasmoid Version 2.0
Entroware
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Linux as a Windows/Mac replacement
If someone is interested in switching to Linux, what distro or desktop would be the most suitable drop-in replacement? Perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it and we should show them a world beyond their old experience.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 16
23 juli 2017 · 1 uur 7 min
Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more. Lees meer
Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry
Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS
News
Akademy running 22nd – 27th July a nice overview of what went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse
Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on
Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness
Entroware
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Admin
Destination Linux need a new co-host
Jesse and Joe will be at OggCamp in a few weeks.
Mageia 6
Mageia has a long and colourful history so we thought we’d have a look at the recent release of version 6.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 15
11 juli 2017 · 1 uur 7 min
Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15. Lees meer
News
Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22
KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10
Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default
O’Reilly exits direct book sales
Project Common Voice
LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018
Entroware
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Admin
Uncut video of us at FOSS Talk Live
Linux hardware sellers’ own distros
With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 14
27 juni 2017 · 1 uur 11 min
Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live. Lees meer
News
Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading
Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser
Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update
Entroware
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FOSS Talk Live
Joe, Jesse and Félim met up at the 2nd annual FOSS Talk Live to record in front of an audience. We each talked about one thing that we like and one thing we dislike about Linux, followed by a discussion about FOSS business models. Ikey couldn’t make it but he was with us in spirit.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 13
13 juni 2017 · 1 uur 8 min
A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13. Lees meer
News
KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0
GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10
The death of the x86 Windows PC?
GPG fundraiser
Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London
Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time
Entroware
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Admin
FOSS Talk Live
Mashup show questions
OggCamp
We are now on Youtube
openSuse
Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 12
30 mei 2017 · 1 uur 14 min
Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12. Lees meer
News
Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing
Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet
KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control) It’s designed for people with quadriplegia in reality but the video here has a nice demo
Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0 just weeks before a new major Debian release
Entroware
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The realities of enterprise computing
Joe recently attended a Linux meetup in London and learned the harsh reality is that although Linux is the standard on servers, almost no one uses it on the desktop, despite how terrible Windows 10 is.
Admin
Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc.
We spoke about FOSS Talk Live and specifically the drunken mashup show which will feature Joe, Stuart Langridge, Dave Megaslippers and Marius Quabeck answering your questions!
Fedora
We don’t seem to talk about Fedora very often so we invited Matthew Miller onto the show to tell us about it.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 11
16 mei 2017 · 1 uur 4 min
Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and proper convergence in action with Maru OS on LNL 11. Lees meer
News
Canonical starts IPO path; very interesting related article
SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10
Raspberry Pi Foundation encourages kids to make their own Google Assistant in a box
Google’s copyleft-free mobile OS Fuchsia starts to come together
Entroware
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Admin
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Linux Action News has launched
Maru OS
We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about his project Maru OS which combines an Android Open Source base with a containerised Debian desktop to create a truly useful convergent device.
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