Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more.   News Apple joins Blender Development Fund L0phtCrack is now open source Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon) Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained Copyleft Compliance Projects Introducing the PinePhone Pro Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 33 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too KDEnlive used for Italian TV 23 ways to help KDE KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.   First Impressions We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.   Feedback We mentioned Photopea.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get people started with Linux.       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.   News Fairphone 4 review 10 Year Smartphone Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 32 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner KDE has a FOSS role going KDE’s 25th birthday How Gwenview got its name Kalendar devblog 17 & 18 Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores       Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Gary Kramlich, the Pidgin project maintainer. Gary mentioned the contributing page, and the upcoming State of the Bird event which will be streamed on his Twitch channel.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.   First Impressions We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.   Graham and the Pinephone Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.   News Linux After Dark has launched! Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years Steam Deck FAQ Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck GOL BattlEye to support the Steam Deck GNOME 41 released Building an Alternative Ecosystem   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 31   KDE Korner KDE Window Rules Get Drawing With Krita with this Book Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

In the first episode of a brand new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux family, Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe speculate about what will happen to Linux in the next 30 years.   https://linuxafterdark.net/         Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig, a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, about porting Linux to the M1 Macs.   Gary, Chris and Dalton haven’t disappeared. We’ve launched a new show called Linux After Dark.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.  

What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux.   First Impressions We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.   If we were in charge of the Linux desktop What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more.   News Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users? Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy Open source is selfish Ubuntu Podcast is ending Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 30   KDE Korner Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott       Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Dalton gives us his first impressions of the Framework laptop, why we didn’t talk about AMD mobile CPUs when the M1 came up, and what we do when the software we want isn’t in the main repo.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at elementary OS, the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”.   Benefits of the cloud Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up.     Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more.   News DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years LINUX is obsolete Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras State of Magisk: 2021 GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Resigning from the AMP advisory committee   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 29   KDE Korner PineBook / PinePhone Review by Nico KDE PIM Update especially Kalendar (New ToDo app) and a video of it on a PinePhone Early days but Tokodon is a KDE mastodon client WARNING: scam mails about krita and youtube coming from krita.io       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music.   First Impressions We had a look at Fostodon, a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance.   Feedback We mentioned Going Linux.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness.   News Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life Child Safety One Bad Apple elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now Debian 11 “bullseye” released   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 28   KDE Korner KDE Apps 21.08 Along with KDEnlive 21.08 Ads for Elisa, Dolphin and Konsole       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   AlmaLinux Learn more about AlamLinux at almalinux.org and join the community at chat.almalinux.org         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Gary, Chris, and Joe are joined by Dalton to discuss whether platforms really matter in an age where they all offer so much choice with Virtualization, WSL, proton, and cloud desktops etc.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Our first impressions of a relatively unusual distro. Plus your feedback about Syncthing, GitHub Copilot, and advice for a new Linux user.   First Impressions We had a look at Bodhi Linux, a lightweight distribution featuring the Moksha Desktop.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows versions on dirt cheap modern hardware, KDE Korner, and more.   News “Every Preference Has a Cost” My proposal for scaling open source: don’t Cracking Open the Android/iOS Grip on Smartphones and the Mobile Internet Emulating The IBM PC On An ESP32 WEB@30 Exhibition – 26th July to 3rd September 2021   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 27   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile 21.07 KDE Connect is Now Available to Windows 10 Users & work has started on rewrite of Mac version Covid Certs in KItinerary KDE e.V. Looking for a PM       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Gary, Chris, and Joe cover some of your feedback about why we use traditional GTK desktops rather than Plasma or a tiling window manager, why we don’t use MikroTik network gear, and Joe’s “homelab”.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community might be susceptible to being exploited.   First Impressions We had a look at Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization program.   An inherent vulnerability in the FOSS community Is the FOSS community seems to be so susceptible to being taken advantage of?       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportunity for FOSS, KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Deck “Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our survey Why Windows 11 Could Be Good News for Ubuntu   KDE Korner Lots of new improvements to Tok New Kalender app coming along nicely Digikam 7.3.0 This week in KDE: KDE-powered Steam Deck revealed!     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe talks to Chris and Gary about their homelab setups, their use of the cloud, and how it all ties together with WireGuard.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré.   First Impressions We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation.     Feedback VueScan Scanner Software Swisscows   Software subscriptions and FOSS We are joined by Daniel Foré to discuss software subscriptions and monetising FOSS. We mentioned elementary Developer Weekend.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more.   News GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work Audacity privacy notice Clarification of Privacy Policy IBM Leadership Changes When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos’s £136m contract with NHS England   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 25.   KDE Korner KDE Search Tips KDE Search: Tip and Tricks with Krunner and Kickoff! FLOSS Weekly 635: KDE Neon 21.08 is coming with Konsole plugin system and Gwenview 16bit colour support aKademy video playlist MyGNUHealth 1.0 is out         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Chris and Gary again to discuss cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and NFTs. Our history, our mistakes, and ultimately why we became jaded about the whole thing.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years.   First Impressions We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer that’s based on Debian.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx: Custom CSS tweaks for Firefox 57+ Firefox: Hide Native Tabs and Titlebar Josh’s CSS for Tree Style Tabs     FOSS Talk Live leftovers More questions that we didn’t get round to answering at FOSS Talk Live.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here    

Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more.   Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.   News Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 24. Dev Null and the Kernel Panics   FOSS Talk Live leftovers The spinning wheel of meh at FOSS Talk Live ended up with loads of leftover questions so we answered a few of them.   Chrome OS at 10 10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS   KDE Korner Plasma 5.22 Video from the promo team Bug Triaging Needed – Nate Akademy is on with day 2 and day 3 reports up and BOFs ongoing this week (Channel) /u/wael_ch/ made some cool shortcuts for Dolphin, Plasma and Krunner check out /r/kde Dart/Flutter support for Kate     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Chris and Gary to discuss how we got into Linux around a decade ago, and what would be different for someone getting into it these days.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more.   Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.   First Impressions We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America’s top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction”.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Bodhi Linux Fedora Silverblue AI Noise Analyzer     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.   Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama. FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.   News A fresh new Firefox is here The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement Glimpse fails The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 23.   KDE Korner PinePhone KDE Patron KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Chris and listener Orlando to talk about why Arch and derivatives like Artix Linux are perfect for some users. Chris mentioned a talk called The Tragedy of systemd.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone.   First Impressions We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together will be on Friday 4th June at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 22.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Sweep ocenaudio mhwaveedit Audio Recorder Gnome Wave Cleaner Kwave Ventoy   Pinephone Graham finally has his hands on a Pinephone and so we asked him all about it.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinuxand get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner.   News Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management Welcome to Libera Chat Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now open, starting at $999 Hands-On with Framework’s Fully Modular Laptop! Improving Firefox stability on Linux Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own Google Play Store will be able to send you compromised Android apps from August Magisk developer leaves Apple to join Google on the Android security team How the UK’s Online Safety Bill threatens Matrix Online abuse: Why management liability isn’t the answer     Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 4th June at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 22.   KDE Korner Moving on KCommandBar LAS Tooling Update Telegram KDE Client Slim Mode       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

In this community meetup recording, we discuss what lengths we all go to to protect our privacy.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager grml-rescueboot FreeTube     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.   News Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity elementary OS 6 Beta Available KDE Developer tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 21st May at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 21 and send in more non-Linux questions for us.   Where we get our news RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.   KDE Korner Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover Kdenlive 21.04 – Subtitle STT       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

In this community meetup recording, we discuss the realities of using a FOSS-only phone.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.   First Impressions Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro will be Endless OS.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 7th May at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 20 and send in more non-Linux questions for us.   Feedback The real reason old phones slow down, suggestions for Signal replacements, machine learning with an AMD card, a defence of cryptocurrencies, a weird KDE issue, and where to get help with KDE. Things we mentioned: HIP and ROCm FOSDEM talks on using AMD GPUs Restored Genesis video     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.   News NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight Ubuntu 21.04 is here Ubuntu Server 21.04: What’s new? Ubuntu 21.04 Flavours Released, This is What’s New The Initial Preview of GUI app support is now available for the Windows Subsystem for Linux University duo thought it would be cool to sneak bad code into Linux as an experiment Reversion of all of the umn.edu commits An open letter to the Linux community   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 7th May at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 20 and send in more non-Linux questions for us.   KDE Korner Krita Arrives in the Epic Store KDE in Kerala Peruse Komics Nico’s video series: Plasma Panel       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

In this community meetup recording, we discuss how far we are all willing to go to support people who we switch to Linux.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. We mentioned Launcher Manager.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 19 and send in more non-Linux questions for us. Check out the Conversations in Code podcast.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.   News Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether popey to leave Canonical   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 19 and send in more non-Linux questions for us. Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.   KDE Korner Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs KHamburgerMenu       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Sean Davis to discuss the his shift from Xfce develpment towards elementary OS, and then we find out that Félim has a lot more tech superstitions than he thought. There is some bad language in this episode.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux.   Home media setups MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi 4 widevine   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 9th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 18 Check out Joe’s albums   Feedback Follow-up on getting young people into FOSS, more on why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, we hear from loads of SUSE users, and a potential use for NFTs. Will mentioned the openSUSE Virtual Conference 2021.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.   News Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies Announcement video An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions An open letter in support of RMS PHP repository moved to GitHub after malicious code inserted under creator Rasmus Lerdorf’s name Audacity 3.0.0 Released The End of AMP Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week elementary Developer Weekend   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 9th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 18   KDE Korner KDE Dev Tries Gnome 40 Kall kFor PapersK : Akademy QT6 is gettin’ going     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The importance of open source vs open standards, and the best way to move beyond the Linux desktop into servers and headless boxes. Keep an eye on this page for details of the next community meetup.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.   A new hope for search? Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here.   A year on from The Event Almost a year to the day since the UK went into its first lockdown we discuss what this last crazy 12 months has changed about Linux, FOSS, open standards, and privacy.   Feedback Follow-up on the Framework laptop, KDE offline updates, GNOME’s popularity, getting kids into FOSS, and more.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here