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It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”.   News Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack Raspberry Pi4! Plasma 5.16 & 5.16.1, KDE Goals, Updates to KDE.org Firefox Premium? Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V PinePhone looking good Facebook to launch cryptocurrency   Digital Ocean 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 our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one.   News KDE Apps Website Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers GMail Confidential Mode to be on by default for G Suite users Stadia details announced   FOSSortunities We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has cornered that market now. We keep missing opportunities like Vista and Windows 8. How do we prepare for the next opportunity, spot it early, and strike at the right time?     Digital Ocean 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 been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead.   News Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released Xfce 4.14pre1 released! Google pulls Huawei’s Android license Huawei responds 90 day reprieve Now even Arm cutting them off Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo) Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown Github Sponsors HN discussion   Time to ditch 32-bit x86 Linux for good? Joe was recently given an old Atom netbook that is 32-bit only. What can you actually do with a machine of that age and low specs? Is it time to move on from this legacy architecture?     Digital Ocean 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 been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more.   News KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App Summit Windows Shipping Linux Apache SF joins Github RHEL 8 Out Now RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File sharing became self aware on this day Mozilla certificate fun (Disable Studies again…) update & more updates Debian Buster will be Wayland Google creates ‘dedicated placement’ in search results for AMP Stories, starting with travel category The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes     Digital Ocean 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 a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target.   Distro round table Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu   Admin FOSS Talk Live   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.

Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it.   News Chef ditches Open Core Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem) Stack Overflow Developer Survey UBports Foundation finally created   Admin FOSS Talk Live   With Age Comes Wisdom? If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a good chance that you’ve compiled your own kernel, written modelines, and literally got the T Shirt (not that it fits any more). Do you have the time and energy to care about such things any more?   Digital Ocean 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.

What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in.   News Google launches game streaming service called Stadia New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive picking up the pace as well Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play RISC-V fifty dollar dev board Ubuntu Studio back from the dead Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark   Admin UK Open Source Awards 2019   LTS to LTS Will breaks down exactly what happens in the two years between Ubuntu LTS releases.   Digital Ocean 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.

A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news.   News First Plasma Mobile Sprint Krita: The only graphics app with HDR GNOME 3.32 released Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence   Maru OS We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that allows you to run a full Debian desktop with Xfce in a container.   Digital Ocean 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.

Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again.   News KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset MariaDB bossman lays in to AWS & Oracle Lineage 16.0 EU Radio Equipment Directive   Admin Ubuntu Podcast get together   FOSS Complexity The only real ways to make money from FOSS are support, services and training. So why would anyone make FOSS that’s simple to install, use and maintain, and works perfectly out of the box? Is this why everything is so over-complicated?   Digital Ocean 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 of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment.   News KDE Plasma 5.15 & Snaps Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM   Todd Weaver from Purism A year on from his last appearance on the show, Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5, and how things are going for Purism in general.     Digital Ocean 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.   Techmeme Ride Home Check out the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more.   News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop Pine64 forum announcement We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019 Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores HP joins LVFS Blue Systems hires a QA manager     Digital Ocean 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 of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more.   News New FOSS Forge Librem 5 Update Purism announces PureOS Store Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5 Phoenix joins LVFS KDE Frameworks Android Integration ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB MongoDB removed from major distros   Cloud vs on prem Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.     Digital Ocean 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.

A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news.   News Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel Kernel reaches 5.0 FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS) Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users     Predictions We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.   Digital Ocean 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.   EntrowareThis episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.   January Meltdown and Spectre   February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch   March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin   April Ubuntu 18.04 released 18.04 flavours also released Clear focus on cloud and containers Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch   May Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images The other flavours could follow suit Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed Huawei locks down its bootloaders   June Microsoft to buy Github   July SUSE acquired   August Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux   September Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs   October Linus back in charge of the kernel IBM to Acquire Red Hat   November Librem 5 slips again   December Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base MIPS to be open sourced   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June   Digital Ocean 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.   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: See the feeds page for the various options.

Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF.     News KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!? kde-Itinary Update Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs RISC-V & LF Joint Venture FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you!     Digital Ocean 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.   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June Reminder that G+ is dead   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     Sailfish OS 3 Graham was recently sent a Jolla phone by listener Matt, and Joe has been checking out an unofficial Sailfish ROM on the Oneplus One.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more.   News NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email) Accessibility starting off again in KDE Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of support RHEL 8 beta released iwd: Simplifying WiFi New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched Raspbian updated New kernels revert Spectre mitigation Tomorrow’s world special   Digital Ocean 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.   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   What’s the FOSS community really like? Is the FOSS community really that toxic or is it full of idealists who wear rose-tinted glasses?           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in.   News Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here Purism dev boards when? Lineage OS changing update frequency Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy ReactOS 0.4.10 released   Digital Ocean This episode of 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.   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.   Pinebook Joe recently bought an 11” Pinebook and delivers his verdict on it.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age.   News Pine64 working on a KDE phone Ubuntu 18.10 released elementary OS 5.0 Juno released Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar IBM to Acquire Red Hat   Digital Ocean 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.   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Is FOSS finally growing up? With everyone from GNU to Samba getting their HR houses in order, and behemoths like Microsoft fully embracing open source, is FOSS finally coming of age? Or is the community destined to always drag itself down with infighting and childish behaviour?             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world.   News Plasma 5.14 released Exciting Xfce news GNOME dumps yet another feature Redis components forked Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it ChromeOS tablet launched   Digital Ocean 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.   Admin We are now on Spotify. Google+ is dead.   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Jason Evangelho Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more.   News KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 Google loosens grasp on AMP Web 5.0? Fedora 29 beta released Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released Mir reaches 1.0.0 Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier At least half of Azure is running Linux Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 Sailfish OS not dead yet Mintcast needs new hosts   Digital Ocean 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.   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.   News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5.14 Beta Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive Linux User and Developer magazine to close Has Linus finally had enough? Maybe this is what did it The Post-meritocracy Manifesto Check out User Error   Digital Ocean 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.     Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it? After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source.     News KDE Pinebook release KItinary call for data Start wine-ing about Steam Commons Clause Desktop icons on GNOME Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma? Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 Released   Digital Ocean 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.   Admin OggCamp live show Bug Report   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   VM Brasseur VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s the OggCamp 2018 live show!   Joe is joined by Jon Spriggs, Martin Wimpress, Dan Lynch, and Dave Lee at OggCamp. We spoke about spreading the word about collaboration culture, and how we rationalise using proprietary solutions over open ones.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment.   News Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released Open Source goes all Hollywood Help LVFS gather NVMe data Send me yer invites!   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   OggCamp 2018 report Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.   Jesse’s adventures in dadland Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods.   News Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Slackware dev has financial problems elementary OS receives large donation Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects GNOME might get rid of themes What’s next, extensions? Android 9 to be called Pie   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Wes mason Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V.     News KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader NPM fail…again Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed) Arm talks down RISC-V But then backtracks   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Android Antitrust The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more.   News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s GitHub compromised Minimal Ubuntu released Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook FOSS synth for iPad   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   20 years of Open Source With the 20 year anniversaries of Open Source and the Apache licence, we discuss the differences between Free Software and Open Source.   CDN77 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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Small community events After FOSS Talk Live, Stuart Langridge wrote a blog post about smaller FOSS events and how there should be more of them. We discuss whether he’s right and if so, how we can make them happen.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently.   News Catchup Microsoft to buy Github Endless lays off several of its employees An opportunity to invest in Mycroft Dockerhub malware   Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Admin Most of the recordings from FOSS Talk Live are now available, as well as some videos.   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Newer News Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released UBports concerned about Article 13 A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics Atari’s Ubuntu powered console Atari’s PR train goes off the rails     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.    

It’s the last episode of LNLE. At least for the time being.     GIMP 2.10 Jehan Pagès spoke about the latest major release of GIMP, but forgot to plug the film that he’s working on called ZeMarmot.   Bad News This is the last episode of Late Night Linux Extra in its current format.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018!     FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen.   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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: See the feeds page for the various options.

Asteroid OS 1.0 and openSUSE Leap 15.   Asteroid OS Florent Revest talks about the recent release of Asteroid OS, the open source operating system for smartwatches.     openSUSE Leap 15 Richard Brown talks about the recent openSUSE Leap 15 release.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS.   News KDE 5.13 almost ready LXQt 0.13 released Portable Services arrives in systemd Asteroid OS reaches 1.0 Huawei locks down its bootloaders Steam link on android   Admin An advert-free version of the show is now available for Patreon supporters. FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come! Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     Ubuntu Touch We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu.   KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint in Berlin and the recent beta of Plasma 5.13. We also spoke about running KDE Neon on the Pinebook, and also the Slimbook II.   Xubuntu Sean Davis talks about the future of Joe’s favourite distro, Xubuntu.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big?   News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit The other flavours could follow suit Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store EFAIL   Admin Check out our new sister show Late Night Linux Extra and have a look at the RSS feeds page to subscribe.   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Can there ever be another big distro? With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5.   Fedora 28 Matthew Miller talks about the new release of Fedora.   elementary OS 5 beta Daniel Foré talks about the upcoming beta of Juno.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.   News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud   Admin OggCamp Call for papers   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Ubuntu 18.04 LTS We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.   New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.     News Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok? System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online? Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     AMP Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media.   News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin Cloudflare launches DNS service Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security   Good night, sweet princes Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their lives which mean they are leaving the show; Jesse for a while, Ikey forever. But fear not! We have some stellar new team members ready to take their place.   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Decentralised social networks In the wake of the Facebook scandal, we discuss some decentralised alternatives including Diaspora and some blockchain-based projects. If you are planning to delete your Facebook account, why not trash all your data first? If you are planning to keep using Facebook, using the new Firefox Facebook Container Extension would probably be wise.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show.     News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video) Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10 Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   GNU/Linux? After Joe’s ill-fated attempt to have a reasonable discussion with Richard Stallman, we discuss the difference between the kernel and the operating system.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism.   News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable GNOME applications on the Librem 5   Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available! Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Freedom vs Pragmatism Trying out the latest development release of Trisquel prompts the question of how much freedom we actually need on the Linux desktop. Jesse also mentioned an Arch-based alternative to Trisquel called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases.   News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics elementary OS AppCenter changes   Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Purism We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.   Digital Ocean If you are looking for for a Linux VPS with full root access, check out Digital Ocean. With our affiliate link you can get $10 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.      

It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?”     News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear hostile forks LinuxBoot Mycroft Mark II     Admin Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live!     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Communitising the community We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux.   News KWin/X11 is feature frozen Exciting GNOME news Purism keep up their excellent PR Nextcloud Talk Major vulnerability hoax site   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Jonathan Nadeau Ikey and Joe spoke to Jonathan Nadeau about the current state of accessibility in Linux and FOSS. He mentioned Sonar GNU/Linux and his podcast network. And KDE does indeed care about accessibility.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018.   News KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June Speech recognition on Linux? Meltdown and Spectre Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     Predictions We look back at the predictions that we all made at the start of 2017 and make some more about what will happen in 2018.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories.   January No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS   February Arch and Tails announced that they were dropping 32-bit Mozilla shutting down the group behind Firefox OS   March Mozilla acquired Pocket Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date?   April Ubuntu abandoned Unity and Ubuntu Phone   May SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10 Here comes Treble: A modular base for Android   June Ikey quit his day job and to develop Solus full time   July Project Common Voice     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     September Sailfish for the Xperia X   October Librem 5 funded Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement   November Conservancy and SFLC fall out Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Munich voted to return to Windows   December Mozilla faced blowback after slipping Mr Robot plugin into Firefox Bitcoin surged past $10k         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate.   News KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years and its goal of Privacy TeamViewer loves the Qt Intel’s cunning plan to get everyone to upgrade their processors and AMD might be capitalising? 66% of page loads are https up from 46% in January this year Big companies join the compliance-first approach to GPLv2 Mozilla Files Cross-Complaint Against Yahoo Holdings and Oath   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Funding FOSS Patreon have recently made some changes which directly affect this show and Ikey’s distro. We discussed the implications and alternatives, and asked for your opinion.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more.   News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a bit rosier Linus gets heated about kernel security, then calmly explains his position, Others act like children Gifts positive in the freedom dimension New magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – Hackspace   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Copyleft vs permissive licences Listener Jeffrey Bouter asked about where we stand on FOSS licensing.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS.   News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version (Related hardware)   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Admin Joe wants to know if his Nexus 9 is slower than other ones   elementary OS Daniel Foré of elementary OS joins Joe and Ikey.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter.   News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms suspicions that he’s aiming for a Canonical IPO Solus looking for help with aesthetics for Solus 4     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Jim Salter Ikey and Joe are joined by Jim Salter to talk about ZFS and BTRFS. We mentioned an old article he wrote for arstechnica. He plugged his project Sanoid. Jesse mentioned this post on the hidden cost of using ZFS for home NAS.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years.   News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on Linux WPA2 attacked by nonces     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Ubuntu 17.10 It’s the first Ubuntu release since Shuttleworth dropped the bombshell about the death of Unity and Convergence. The final release was a few days away when we recorded this so there might be a few slight changes and bug fixes.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.