Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
Alle afleveringen
1.052 afleveringen, van nieuw naar oud
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 370
27 januari 2026 · 28 min
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation. Lees meer
News
Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (and does deals with more AI companies)
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them
Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
The end of the curl bug-bounty
Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5
Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
OggCamp 2026
OggCamp crew lead Andy Piper tells us about the upcoming unconference.
Call for volunteer crew
Call for papers
Check out Andy’s podcast
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 142
25 januari 2026 · 23 min
Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 48
23 januari 2026 · 26 min
Shane is worried about backups for his janky Kubernetes homelab. The rest of us advise him on exactly what to back up, how to go about picking an offsite backup location and setting it up, how best to back up databases, and more. Lees meer
Antigravity A1
The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 283: FSOD
22 januari 2026 · 25 min
The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
News/discussion
Windows activation by phone is seemingly dead
How Fake BSODs and Trusted Build Tools Are Used to Construct a Malware Infection
Free consulting
We were asked about recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 369
19 januari 2026 · 23 min
We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries. Lees meer
Discoveries
CAW
FossFlow
Félim’s bad diagram
Blade Runner Radio
LUX on Bandcamp
Network Survey
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 113
16 januari 2026 · 23 min
We follow up on episode 104 from September last year when we promised to tackle some Linux projects including moving to Immich and Jellyfin, learning about Docker Compose and Python, and ditching Synology. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 282: Fragile DNS
15 januari 2026 · 29 min
Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok into all its networks, and managing LVM snapshots. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community
A New Year, A New ZFS: What 2.4 Brings to the Table
News
Cisco routers knocked out due to Cloudflare DNS change
Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data
Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says
Free consulting
We were asked about managing LVM snapshots.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Ask The Hosts – Episode 32
14 januari 2026 · 7 min
The normal things we’ve never done. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 368
13 januari 2026 · 27 min
Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product. Lees meer
News
The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For
Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX
Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
GeForce NOW coming to Linux
Stack Overflow graph
GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger
Google will now only release Android source code twice a year
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 141
11 januari 2026 · 24 min
Dealing with a crisis as a developer, how to keep everyone in the loop while you fix systems and code, why pointing the blame isn’t useful, some of our horror stories, and more. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 47
9 januari 2026 · 28 min
What to consider when making a big move to a new technology for your on-prem or private cloud estate, for example when a provider suddenly hikes their subscription or license prices. Lees meer
Antigravity A1
The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 281: Lead The Target
8 januari 2026 · 27 min
The many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessing inappropriate content online, and why the answer probably isn’t a technical one. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
What We Built: Top ZFS Capabilities Delivered by Klara in 2025
Discussion
Please STOP trusting email
Free consulting
We were asked about blocking adult content at the network level.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 367
5 januari 2026 · 26 min
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026. Lees meer
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 112
2 januari 2026 · 24 min
We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2025, and talk about what we want to happen in 2026. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 280: Bad Parking
1 januari 2026 · 26 min
Why you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo squatting, a machine learning expert’s take on BS from LLMs, and whether to separate compute and storage in a home setup. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Can You Have Too Many VDEVs? A Practical Guide to ZFS Scaling
News/discussion
Digital Trust in Danger: When Authorities Forget Their Old Domains
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn’t mean they’re not useful
Free consulting
We were asked about whether to separate compute and storage in a home setup.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 366
30 december 2025 · 24 min
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE. Lees meer
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden
ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository
Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI
You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling
Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
FSF calls Anubis malware
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla
Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
An update on our Terms of Use
Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic
Investing in what moves the internet forward
When I say that I can’t recommend third-party forks of either Firefox or Chrome for real world use, this kind of thing is why
Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox
Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Wayland
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal
Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeD…
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 140
28 december 2025 · 6 min
What we are likely to be doing when you hear this, and why it’s unlikely to involve much in the way of development. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 46
26 december 2025 · 6 min
What we love most about the cloud and cloud native technologies. This is a short episode because (producer) Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. Lees meer
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 279: Short One
25 december 2025 · 7 min
The one bit of advice we’d give to someone wanting to become a professional sysadmin. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. Lees meer
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 365
22 december 2025 · 24 min
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more. Lees meer
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment
New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries
Better History
Operese
commodore64 is back!?
Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
PiFinder
Fullscreen Clock
Clasp
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 111
19 december 2025 · 8 min
We tell stories from some of the tech support nightmares we’ve found ourselves in. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 278: XXXfil
18 december 2025 · 26 min
Apple deletes a person’s entire digital life, PornHub Premium user data is leaked, Mozilla’s new CEO wants to ruin Firefox, Tech Force in the USA is alarming, and fine tuning storage for databases. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
News/discussion
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
PornHub extorted after hackers steal Premium member activity data
Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Rest assured, Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control
Tech Force
Trump administration launches Tech Force hiring push
Free consulting
We were asked about fine tuning storage for databases.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 364
16 december 2025 · 22 min
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM. Lees meer
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing
Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server!
Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature
Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
AI and GNOME Shell Extensions
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 139
14 december 2025 · 28 min
How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments. Lees meer
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/ldt and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 45
12 december 2025 · 24 min
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes. Lees meer
Antigravity A1
The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this one. Learn more at antigravity.tech
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 277: Battering RAM
11 december 2025 · 29 min
The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right
News/discussion
Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business
Cheap Hardware Module Bypasses AMD, Intel Memory Encryption
Google’s vibe coding platform deletes entire drive
One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today
Free consulting
We were asked about monitoring users’ usage on a network.
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Ask The Hosts – Episode 31
10 december 2025 · 19 min
How many jobs we’ve had, how seriously we take our Christmas decorations, whether we like pineapple on pizza, and memorable romantic dates. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. Lees meer
Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 363
8 december 2025 · 27 min
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way. Lees meer
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
Migrating Dillo from GitHub
1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises
Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
1Password Extended Access Management
Take the first step to better security by securing your team’s credentials. Find out more at 1password.com/latenightlinux and start securing every login.
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 110
5 december 2025 · 22 min
Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 276: Very Prudish Network
4 december 2025 · 26 min
What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization
News/discussion
The VPN panic is only getting started
Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoors and spyware
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement
Free consulting
We were asked about using a single database vs one DB per application or VM.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 362
2 december 2025 · 23 min
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope. Lees meer
News
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Help us reach the inflection point
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself?
Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 138
30 november 2025 · 25 min
When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and more. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 44
28 november 2025 · 28 min
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem. Lees meer
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 275: G-word
27 november 2025 · 26 min
Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s container support gets serious, and where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
News/discussion
Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats
FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3
Free consulting
We were asked about where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware.
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 361
24 november 2025 · 24 min
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more. Lees meer
News
Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend”
PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
Introducing Blender Lab
IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
KDE Korner
Help us reach the inflection point
Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 109
21 november 2025 · 25 min
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 274: Go Go Gadget Windows
21 november 2025 · 27 min
Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
News/discussion
Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
WD launches investigation into problems with its controversial SMR hard drives
Free consulting
We were asked about backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 360
18 november 2025 · 27 min
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. Lees meer
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Say hi to Kit
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Mozilla Connect thread
End of Japanese community
Web API for AI Agents
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 137
16 november 2025 · 23 min
What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 43
14 november 2025 · 29 min
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future. Lees meer
Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking
13 november 2025 · 26 min
Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats
Free consulting
We were asked about using a separate mini PC for work.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Ask The Hosts – Episode 30
12 november 2025 · 20 min
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark. Lees meer
Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
-
Linux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
11 november 2025 · 29 min
In this episode: Lees meer
Alan dusts off his newsletter.
Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.
You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.
Tailscale
Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 359
10 november 2025 · 22 min
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more. Lees meer
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux After Dark – Episode 108
7 november 2025 · 25 min
Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use. Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise
6 november 2025 · 25 min
Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS. Lees meer
Plugs
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks
November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages
News/discussion
Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?
Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve
Jim’s M.2 NVMe nightmare
Free consulting
We were asked about using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
-
Late Night Linux – Episode 358
3 november 2025 · 36 min
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal. Lees meer
News
Linux Matters
Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help
The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support
SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself
Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!
Mark Shuttleworth
Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.
1Password Extended Access Management
Take the first step to better security for your team by securing credentials and protecting every application — even unmanaged shadow IT.
Learn more at 1password.com/latenightlinux
Tailscale
Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here
-
Linux Dev Time – Episode 136
2 november 2025 · 27 min
Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest! Lees meer
Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
Subscribe to the RSS feed
-
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42
31 oktober 2025 · 24 min
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros. Lees meer
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Subscribe to the RSS feed.
-
2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet
30 oktober 2025 · 28 min
Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster. Lees meer
Plug
Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes
Discussion
Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware
When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk
Free consulting
We were asked about building a small home server cluster.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.