Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 17.   NFTs Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare? NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world Jack’s first tweet is for sale The climate controversy swirling around NFTs   KDE Korner Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series Frameworks 5.80 is out     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.   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  

How do we get the next generation of kids into Linux and FOSS? A question we tried to answer in this recording from a community meetup.   The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here.   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.    

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.   RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.   Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Feedback Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.       Linode 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.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.   News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Introducing the Framework Laptop Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Xfce Xorner Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update And Now For Something Completely Different   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Documentation Offline Updates       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

In the latest community meetup recording we discuss the best distros for low end and high end hardware.   Check out the 2.5 Admins podcast.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.   Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.   Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.   Linux on Chrome OS devices We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.     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

Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.   News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi Patch in this commit Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone! K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 26th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   KDE Korner Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog) Plasma 5.21 approaches Kate colour picker & project tools Checksums are important     Linode 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.   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 recording from the second community meetup we talk about why we use our particular distros including Mint, Manjaro and Solus, and hear from a WSL user who’s relatively new to Linux.     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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.   Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store. Full instructions here. Félim’s 800×480 screen   News/discussion Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply Must ‘completely free’ mean ‘hard to install’? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person Join the community mumble get-together on 12th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   Feedback Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps. We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.       Linode 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.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.   News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon How We Ported Linux to the M1 M1 Macs booting from NVMe Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies Firefox stops working on progressive web app support Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project   Admin Popey on LNLE 14 about Snaps Join the community mumble get-together on 12th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   KDE Korner JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build Kate HUD Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge Consistency Nitpicks     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 Alan Pope – Developer Advocate at Canonical working on Snapcraft & Ubuntu to talk about Snaps. The PR problem, the non-free element, security, speed issues, and even some positive stuff. Honest. Alan posted a transcript of this episode on his blog.     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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.   Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13   Feedback Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without. Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi Steve’s series of posts     Linode 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

Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.   News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future? Doubling down on open, Part II Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones Right to Repair Europe   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13.   Feedback We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.   KDE Korner Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only Fedora Kenoite     Linode 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.   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

What’s likely to happen over the next year in open source, how we evaluate the security and privacy of distros, and more in this recording of the first LNL community meetup.     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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.   Home monitoring and automation   Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED   Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack   Félim’s links: Graphite Grafana   KDE Korner KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat KDE Apps in the Windows store Highlights from 2020 Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths         Linode 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.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.     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

We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.   Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones Shipping PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open Second PinePhone Community edition postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2 marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs   Mozilla Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue Readying for the Future at Mozilla Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit Changing World, Changing Mozilla If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended   Admin Join the first Late Night Linux community mumble get-together on 1st January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   CentOS CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream     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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.   News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra   Feedback Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.   KDE Korner Plasma Big Screen Beta 2 Alternate Character Input Digikam on Big Sur progresses     Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here .

Joe is joined by Brent Gervais, a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent; including a deep sense of collaboration, and the inherent optimism which occasionally causes issues.       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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).   News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo   Admin Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.   Feedback: Trust We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation. Your computer isn’t yours Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process NSA Spying   KDE Korner Linux App Summit All Talks Playlist GCompris is 20 KDE Pinephone: The Point Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.         Datadog 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.   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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything, Fedora and Silverblue, Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, and much more.     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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.   News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store     KDE Korner New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback Kontact better & better KDE Android News Kate is 20 years old!     Datadog 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.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The Raspberry Pi 400 is here! Joe is joined by Jim Salter from Ars Technica and 2.5 Admins to discuss his initial impressions, and then Martin Wimpress to talk about Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu MATE on the Pi 400 and Pi 4.     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.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.   News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice Antennapod 2.0 released Ubuntu 20.10 Released 20.10 on the Pi 4 video Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25 New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4   KDE Korner Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released Krita 4.4.0 released Plasma browser integration on Edge Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning       Entroware 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.   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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner.   Linux-based Windows We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago.   Will’s adventures in DNS Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard.   KDE Korner My KDE Plasma Mobile update: September 2020 Plasma 5.20 is nigh       TrueNAS from iXsystems This episode is sponsored by TrueNAS from iXsystems, the number one Open Storage OS. See how TrueNAS can support your next storage project, whether it’s just a few terabytes, all the way up to multiple petabytes.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.   News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400% Killed by Mozilla Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal   WireGuard Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.   KDE Korner Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan KDE websites update         Datadog 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.   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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.   News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu community drama Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel   Admin Check out Paddy’s new show Tabs, Not Spaces Check out Jono Bacon’s book club   Fixing the Internet Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker urges European Commission to seize ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity EU lawmakers say it’s time to go further on tackling disinformation Telling people to delete Facebook won’t fix the internet   KDE Korner KDE Plasma 5.20 Will Alert You If Your Disk Is Failing, New Bluetooth page & in 20.12 (while out) Annotations in Spectacle Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland Akademy makes the magic happen: Check Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu & Fri / Fri Wrap       Datadog 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.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Kyle returns again, this time to address some of the feedback we have received from previous episodes, and to talk about his brief experiences with Pop!_OS.   Kyle mentioned f.lux and Winamp.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner.   News Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again Changing World, Changing Mozilla Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended You can buy Fairphone’s new handset or just its cameras as an upgrade Last October we talked about FlightGear being used in the AlphaDogfight Trials, well now we’re all doomed as the AI wins 5-0   Admin Make sure you’re subscribed to the Late Night Linux Extra feed to get more episodes with Joe and Kyle.   AMA We were asked whether Canonical is standing on the shoulders of giants, or building castles on the sand.   KDE Korner KDE neon Rebased on 20.04 (plus all the 20.08 app updates) Kdenlive 20.08 is out Plasma Mobile Update Linux Spotlight EP56 – Nate Graham of KDE Plasma     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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

Kyle returns, this time to talk to Joe about his experiences with Xubuntu.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem.   Kyle the Windows user We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Late Night Linux Extra so make sure you are subscribed to the RSS feed to hear his thoughts on Joe’s beloved Xubuntu.   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about corporations having public political views, and NixOS and Guix.   Félim’s RSI issues Félim tells us about the new vertical mouse he bought to tackle his shoulder and neck pain. He should have probably bought this cheaper version. Graham mentioned his trackball mouse.         Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux before the end of August to get free access to a beta of a new devops training site called Lernard.   TrueNAS from iXsystems This episode is sponsored by TrueNAS from iXsystems, the number one Open Storage OS. See how TrueNAS can support your next storage project, whether it’s just a few terabytes, all the way up to multiple petabytes.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Kyle, a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. We try to get to the bottom of why that happened.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.   Lineage Love-in OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1 Lineage 17.1 on the Pi   Admin Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed   FOSS trends 2020 We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.   KDE Korner New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes DigiKam becomes sentient Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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

It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner.   News COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter Pine update postmarketOS PinePhone update LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions Official u-turn Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad What Does the Future Hold for Edge Computing?   KDE Korner HiDPI Fixes Coming KDE PIM Updates More Apps & More Stores Konsole in 2020   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux before the end of August to get free access to a beta of a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions.   News UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support   KDE Korner KDE has completed the move to GitLab Modern process management on KDE   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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

Will reminisces about netbooks, Joe has a new Pinebook Pro, Facebook’s complex morals, Bountysource worries the community, and KDE Korner.   News Facebook did a bad thing to do a good thing Bountysource was going to change its terms so it could keep unclaimed bounties but then backtracked Xfce considers leaving   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Linux hardware – old and new Joe talks about his new Pinebook Pro, and after Will read an article about netbooks, we have a nostalgic look back to those good old days.   KDE Korner Plasma 5.19: A more Polished Plasma which wasn’t (Updated Wallet… broke it… then later that day fixed it) so they polished it again KDE Plasma is Switching to a Windows-style Icon-only Task Bar Krita 4.3 with good features video & overall KDE apps in the Windows store (no Krita numbers)       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get exclusive free access to a beta of a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever.   News 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi Mint not keen on snaps AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode. Joe on Linux Spotlight Joe on Ubuntu Podcast   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop Nvidia Wayland & KDE     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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

The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux.   News LiMux is back Patent case against GNOME resolved Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Microsoft Linux Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”. Nice article by original bug author They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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

Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more.   Plugs Check out Joe’s other podcasts The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.   News /e/ Partners With Fairphone postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets SaltStack authorization bypass Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support Keybase joins Zoom   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Feedback Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.   KDE Korner Akademy: Call for Proposals Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   ScholarPack ScholarPack are the third largest supplier of Management Information Systems for Schools in the UK. If you’re in the Lincoln Area of the UK, check out their careers page at scholarpack.com/lnl         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news.   Two new podcasts Joe has been busy over the last couple of weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.   Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS? Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New   Admin Check out episode 6 of Late Night Linux Extra with Michael Hall and subscribe to the all episodes feed. If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future LNL Extra episode.   News ProtonMail Bridge is now open source All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list! Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results GitHub is now free for teams   KDE Korner KWinFT & Reaction Qt 6 this year Browser plugin update & Brave support coming New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it 20.04 Apps, KDEnlive     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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  

LNL Extra is back! Joe is joined by Michael Hall to talk about his experiences of converting conferences to online events.   Check out Michael’s blog post about the subject here and follow him on Twitter and visit his website.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more.   Keep an eye on the All Episodes Feed for upcoming episodes of Late Night Linux Extra   News PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75 Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE   KDE Korner KDE on Instagram February/March in KDE Itinerary Maui Project Qt offering changes 2020 #1: Qt, Open Source and corona #2: Qt, Open Source and corona Qt and Open Source   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world.   Linux and the virus We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events.   KDE Korner Plasma Bigscreen (homepage) Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview   Linux vs the cloud Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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 feed

We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more.   News Microsoft’s GitHub buys npm When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests Half Life Alyx is released 23rd March, with no Linux support, despite being developed by Valve using Vulkan. Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.   Ask Linux We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed

Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner.   FOSS Talk Live 2020 Tickets and info here   News GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT Pi4 Gets Server Ready A birthday gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35   Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.   Open source apps vs desktops Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.   KDE Korner Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming kTop Seekrit kItinerary all the things       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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 feed

Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner.     News AppCenter for Everyone South Korea switching to Linux? Windows 7 users moving to Windows 10 Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge   KDE Korner Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can) Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!   Admin Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra FOSS Talk Live 2020   PinePhone Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   CDN77 This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner.   FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details here.   News PinePhone Freedom HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source   Linux on Will’s Mac Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.   KDE Korner Qt News & Reactions 1 2 3 KDE gets a handshake       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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 feed.

The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes back, bad news for Mozilla, a great new Nexcloud release, and more in the news.   News Y2020 Mozilla Lays off 70 people PinePhones Shipping Nextcloud Hub now with KItinerary   KDE Korner KUserFeedback with a bit more detail Plasma 5.18 LTS Beta   Admin Joe’s Brunch With Brent Graham talking about synths on Jupiter Extras   Linux as a replacement for Windows 7 Now that support for Windows 7 has ended, should we be advising people to change to Linux? Are we actually doing that?     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   CDN77 This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020.         Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   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 feed.

It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.     January Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB MongoDB removed from major distros   February Redis Labs raises $60 million for its NoSQL database Redis Labs changes its open-source license — again   March Google launches game streaming service called Stadia LVFS joins Linux Foundation   April UBports Foundation finally created Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’ Released with New Features   May Announcing WSL 2 Introducing Windows Terminal   June Raspberry Pi 4 released   July Fuchsia gets a website   August Xfce 4.14 released exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!   September Richard Stallman resigns from the FSF Richard Stallman resigns from MIT Stallman intends to keep leading GNU   October Ubuntu 19.10 released Will has left Canonical   November Google gives most Chromebooks an extra year of software support Google Stadia will be missing many features for Monday’s launch   December Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   CDN77 This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.