Late Night Linux (Ogg)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant.     News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to MIT (and WordPress threatening to move away from FB license)     Entroware 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.     Ikey’s trip to New York Ikey has just come back from the Ubuntu Summit in New York. He tells us all about it.     Replicant Jesse and Félim have been trying out the totally FOSS version of Android called Replicant.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more.   News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign Public money, public code!   Solus growing pains Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them.     Entroware 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.   All software has bugs. But should it? Joe attempts to argue that properly written software should be bug-free and should only require maintenance for compatibility and new features.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation.   OggCamp Recap Joe and Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences.   News Sailfish for the Xperia X Librem 5 – Matrix blog post Ubuntu Rally in NYC   Playing with old rubbish Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish tip. It turns out that getting Linux to run on it is more difficult than you might think.     Entroware 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 Ikey has been on Destination Linux again     New funding models With the recent news that Disney is pulling (at least some of) its content from Netflix to start its own streaming service, we discuss how far a person’s budget can stretch. In a world where every company has a subscription service and every creator has a Patreon, can FOSS projects expect anything more than some beer money?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks.   News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24   Q&A We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us.     Sorry to System76 On the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS. It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault.   News Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions Krita had some tax troubles but the community came to the rescue with Mega-Props to Private Internet Access Flash is moribund Debian reproducible builds Mycroft Plasmoid Version 2.0     Entroware 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.     Linux as a Windows/Mac replacement If someone is interested in switching to Linux, what distro or desktop would be the most suitable drop-in replacement? Perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it and we should show them a world beyond their old experience.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more.     Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS   News Akademy running 22nd – 27th July a nice overview of what went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness     Entroware 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 Destination Linux need a new co-host Jesse and Joe will be at OggCamp in a few weeks.   Mageia 6 Mageia has a long and colourful history so we thought we’d have a look at the recent release of version 6.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15.     News Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10 Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default O’Reilly exits direct book sales Project Common Voice LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018     Entroware 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 Uncut video of us at FOSS Talk Live   Linux hardware sellers’ own distros With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live.   News Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update   Entroware 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.   FOSS Talk Live Joe, Jesse and Félim met up at the 2nd annual FOSS Talk Live to record in front of an audience. We each talked about one thing that we like and one thing we dislike about Linux, followed by a discussion about FOSS business models. Ikey couldn’t make it but he was with us in spirit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13.   News KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10 The death of the x86 Windows PC? GPG fundraiser Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time     Entroware 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 FOSS Talk Live Mashup show questions OggCamp We are now on Youtube   openSuse Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.  

Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12.   News Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control) It’s designed for people with quadriplegia in reality but the video here has a nice demo Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0 just weeks before a new major Debian release     Entroware 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.     The realities of enterprise computing Joe recently attended a Linux meetup in London and learned the harsh reality is that although Linux is the standard on servers, almost no one uses it on the desktop, despite how terrible Windows 10 is.     Admin Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc.   We spoke about FOSS Talk Live and specifically the drunken mashup show which will feature Joe, Stuart Langridge, Dave Megaslippers and Marius Quabeck answering your questions!     Fedora We don’t seem to talk about Fedora very often so we invited Matthew Miller onto the show to tell us about it.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and proper convergence in action with Maru OS on LNL 11.   News Canonical starts IPO path; very interesting related article SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10 Raspberry Pi Foundation encourages kids to make their own Google Assistant in a box Google’s copyleft-free mobile OS Fuchsia starts to come together   Entroware 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 Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc. Linux Action News has launched   Maru OS We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about his project Maru OS which combines an Android Open Source base with a containerised Debian desktop to create a truly useful convergent device.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.  

Yet more Ubuntu fallout including forks of their dead desktop and mobile platform, Libreboot wants to rejoin GNU, mobile Linux coming together, IoT standardisation and how to spread the word about FOSS on LNL 10.   News Wayland and GNOME to be default in Ubuntu 17.10 Yunit tries to avoid a mutiny as UBports looks to have avoided theirs Libreboot applies to rejoin GNU Halium aims to standardise mobile Linux development The open interop platform for the IoT edge; Cloudflare has their own IoT security solution   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.   How to talk to normals about FOSS What’s the best way to introduce people to the idea of FOSS? Explain the practical benefits, go full on rms, or something in between?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and more on LNL 09.   News Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written Drupal needs a decent HR department Mastodon is the latest social media fad, despite having been around for several years under different names. It might not last Substantial update to Windows Subsystem for Linux Solus adds a GNOME edition   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.   Jesse’s black box Jesse tells us about the Raspberry Pi that he doesn’t connect to a network and asks whether it’s OK to avoid updates.   Admin Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc. We didn’t give people individual shoutouts but if you want to hear your name on the podcast, get in touch. If you want to join our existing supporters, check out the support page for various ways to do that. Also thanks to everyone who advised Jesse about moving away from LastPass.   Updates on the Ubuntu announcement Ubuntu GNOME to merge with the main edition Phones and tablet will only receive security patches until June 2017 (2 more months) UBports to carry on with Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8; will integrate Anbox Separate Unity 8 fork Staff layoffs and CEO to leave Ubuntu 12.04 ESM seems to only be aimed at servers         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

In this special episode, Joe, Ikey and Jesse discuss the bombshell that Ubuntu is abandoning Unity in favour of GNOME for its next LTS and has officially given up on dreams of mobile convergence.   We’ll back to our usual schedule with episode 9 on 18th April.   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Netflix on Linux, phishing with https, licensing, password managers, Android convergence, the inside story of Nextcloud scanning and more on LNL 07.   News Netflix now works in Firefox on Linux 14,766 Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites Inside OpenSSL’s battle to change its license   Password managers Jesse tells us why he’s still using LastPass and asks what the rest of us use.   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.   Android convergence With Android now more popular than Windows, how are the various efforts at desktop convergence coming along? Maru now available for the Nexus 7 Phoenix OS 2.0 alpha based on Android 7.1 Samsung has a go at convergence VMware and Citrix too   Admin There are now loads of ways that you can help out the podcast. See our support page for details. Following in Ikey’s illustrious footsteps, Joe was recently a guest on Destination Linux.   Nextcloud Interview After some of us slagged off Nexcloud on the last episode, Jos asked if he could come on the show and explain what really happened. Ikey and Joe were unconvinced to say the least.       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 but this time Félim is in his sick bed so it’s a 3 man show yet again. Some heated debates about Nextcloud’s actions, Ubuntu extended support and PowerPC distros, followed by a deep dive into the world of HiDPI 4k support in Linux.   News Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date? Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) With the death of Ubuntu MATE for PowerPC, a fork appears   Admin If you want to support the show by trying something for free, check out Digital Ocean. If you sign up using our affiliate link you’ll get $10 free credit. If you stick with them then eventually we will make a few quid and it won’t cost you any more than their normal service. We also spoke about a couple of upcoming events: FOSS Talk Live 2017 OggCamp 2017   HiDPI Ikey has been trying out some of the big desktop environments on his new 4k monitor.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Ikey is back but with Jesse on holiday, it’s a three man show again. VR gaming on Linux, a new Raspberry Pi, Mozilla buying Pocket, Web DRM, Kodi piracy and loads more on LNL 05.   News SteamVR Is Coming to Linux and SteamOS Raspberry Pi Zero W RetroPie needs legal help; Terminix face a similar situation Shutting down Manjaro-Arm Mozilla acquires Pocket FSF unimpressed with Encrypted Media Extensions   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2017. 24th June at the Harrison in London. OggCamp 2017. 19th and 20th of August 2017 at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, Kent, UK.   Kodi What should Kodi do about its PR problem?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

With Ikey languishing in his sick bed, the rest of the team discussed even more Linux hardware, Munich probably switching back to Windows, Elementary’s potentially ill-fated crowdfunded app store, Félim’s new phone and loads more. Plus we learn more about OpenSUSE from its chairman Richard Brown on LNL 04.   News 7 inch Ubuntu Laptop Indiegogo Munich takes decisive step towards returning to Windows Elementary OS are crowdfunding a pay what you want app store; They are writing it in Vala Gaming on Ubuntu 16.10 vs Windows 10   Félim’s new Oneplus 3T   Admin Shout out to Tuxedo Computers, a German Linux hardware company. Jesse tried to list the video editors we had recommended to us. FOSS Talk Live 2017 will happen on 24th June at the Harrison in Kings Cross, London. It will be a free evening of live Linux podcasts. We will hopefully have more details about it next time. For now, save the date. Jam Jesse checked out a FOSS Command line Google Play Music client called Jam   OpenSUSE The OpenSUSE chairman Richard Brown tells us about some of the great features of the distro. He mentioned a couple of FOSDEM talks.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A packed show this time. More Linux hardware, 32 vs 64-bit, Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Budgie, yet more Solus news and loads more on LNL 03.   News KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans Arch and Tails are dropping 32-bit but 32-bit CentOS is still available Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them Steam’s Linux Marketshare For January Was 0.8% Mozilla is shutting down the group behind Firefox OS   Chromium Ikey tells us why Chromium isn’t as Free as some people might think   Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi Joe spoke to Martin Wimpress about the upcoming release of Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 for the Raspberry Pi.   Ubuntu Budgie Jesse has abandoned KaOS in favour of Ubuntu Budgie on his laptop   (Yet more) Solus news Budgie turns its back on GTK, goes Qt and Wayland; is inevitably forked               See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

New Linux hardware, a profane rant about the FSF, the Chrome OS desktop Linux question, exciting Solus news and loads more on LNL 02.   News Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu; Other Dell Ubuntu Machines Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image A pipe dream or an excellent idea? Integrate your Android device with Ubuntu using KDE Connect Indicator fork Lineage OS update; Some images available FSF announces a major overhaul of free software High Priority Projects List   Chrome OS With proper windowed Android apps, is Chrome OS going to finally bring about the year of Linux on the desktop? Does Chrome OS even count as Linux on the desktop? All new Chromebooks will support Android apps   Solus news Solus adopts Flatpak for 3rd party applications The Solus view of flatpak in June 2016 Solus Linux Working On A Flatpak-Based, Optimized Steam Runtime     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.  

In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod becoming Lineage OS and loads more.   News 3% market share on the desktop? Goodbye to GNU Libreboot KDE Announces SystemdGenie, a Graphical Tool for Managing Systemd and User Units KDE Neon gets an LTS user edition, a Docker image and a Wayland ISO No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either   Predictions All four of us give a couple of predictions each for 2017.   Lineage OS New official site Pretty good write up of the end of CyanogenMod and the start of Lineage List of unofficial builds     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.