Late Night Linux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The new Firefox design annoys Félim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.   Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama. FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.   News A fresh new Firefox is here The Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement Glimpse fails The Ardour The “paywall” and related matters Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC Phoronix Turns 17 Years Old   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 23.   KDE Korner PinePhone KDE Patron KDE Neon’s QT Built From KDE Git Mid-Year Update and Plasma 5.22 out… Tuesday hopefully     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

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

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

Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.   News Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity elementary OS 6 Beta Available KDE Developer tries out ElementaryOS 6 Odin Linux App Summit 2021 (13-15 May 2021): Timetable   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 21st May at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 21 and send in more non-Linux questions for us.   Where we get our news RSS feeds, Reddit, Slashdot, Hacker News, Twitter, mainstream news, and more.   KDE Korner Trinity Desktop R14.0.10 Released KDE Connect’s Android App Gets a Mini Makeover Kdenlive 21.04 – Subtitle STT       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

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

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

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

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.   News Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Signal finally updates public server code after months of silence US Government Sues Decentralized Content Platform LBRY Over $11M in Token Sales Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war LineageOS 18.1 based on Android 11 is here for nearly 60 devices Mozilla partners with NVIDIA to democratize and diversify voice technology Mozilla winds down DeepSpeech development, announces grant program Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla Am I FLoCed? A New Site to Test Google’s Invasive Experiment Bad Voltage 3×26: Luminiferous Aether popey to leave Canonical   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 19 and send in more non-Linux questions for us. Graham was on Linux Unplugged 400 talking about brewing beer with Linux.   KDE Korner Announcing KDE’s Qt 5 Patch Collection SoK: Improving Kirigami Docs KHamburgerMenu       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

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

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

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out Late Night Linux Extra 17.   NFTs Non-fungible tokens: a passing fad, a serious investment opportunity, or a dystopian nightmare? NFTs, explained: what they are, and why they’re suddenly worth millions Stop this digital ownership madness. NFTs are bullshit. And the stupid makes me angry The explosive (and inclusive) potential of NFTs in the creative world Jack’s first tweet is for sale The climate controversy swirling around NFTs   KDE Korner Elisa on the desktop and the phone… you could say… konvergence Save and load plasma config Nico Love Video Series Frameworks 5.80 is out     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.   RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.   Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Feedback Follow-up on messaging including Pidgin plugins, why GNOME is such a popular choice for distros, email on Android, and a possible reason for slow Xubuntu shutdowns.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.   News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Introducing the Framework Laptop Extending no-cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux to open source organizations   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Check out the latest recording on LNL Extra.   Xfce Xorner Xubuntu 21.04 Progress Update And Now For Something Completely Different   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Documentation Offline Updates       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.   Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.   Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.   Linux on Chrome OS devices We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS and POP!_OS. He mentioned MrChromebox.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.   News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi Patch in this commit Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Desktop Lead, is Leaving Canonical LibreOffice 7.1 “Community” Edition Released Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police NewPipe 0.20.10 released: Sepia Search for PeerTube, chapters for YouTube and tabs for everyone! K-9 Mail is looking for funding k9mail.app Terraria port for Stadia cancelled after owner locked out of Google Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 26th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   KDE Korner Make a KDE Theme With No Code & part 2 (Blog) Plasma 5.21 approaches Kate colour picker & project tools Checksums are important     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.   Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store. Full instructions here. Félim’s 800×480 screen   News/discussion Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply Must ‘completely free’ mean ‘hard to install’? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2021 isn’t happening in person Join the community mumble get-together on 12th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   Feedback Some follow-up on mailservers, Ubiquiti alternatives, some top trolling of Félim, and something Joe missed when he spoke to popey about snaps. We mentioned Mailcow, docker-mailserver, and Omada Enterprise Access Points.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.   News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon How We Ported Linux to the M1 M1 Macs booting from NVMe Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies Firefox stops working on progressive web app support Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome Google’s VR painting app is getting the axe, but it will live on as an open-source project   Admin Popey on LNLE 14 about Snaps Join the community mumble get-together on 12th February 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   KDE Korner JingOS, the Linux Tablet Distro, Releases First Alpha Build Kate HUD Plasma Browser Integration 1.8 with Edge Consistency Nitpicks     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.   Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13   Feedback Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without. Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi Steve’s series of posts     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.   News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future? Doubling down on open, Part II Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones Right to Repair Europe   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13.   Feedback We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.   KDE Korner Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only Fedora Kenoite     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.   Home monitoring and automation   Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED   Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack   Félim’s links: Graphite Grafana   KDE Korner KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat KDE Apps in the Windows store Highlights from 2020 Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

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

What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).   News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo   Admin Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.   Feedback: Trust We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation. Your computer isn’t yours Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process NSA Spying   KDE Korner Linux App Summit All Talks Playlist GCompris is 20 KDE Pinephone: The Point Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.         Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.   News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store     KDE Korner New SysMon on the way & Dolphin Feedback Kontact better & better KDE Android News Kate is 20 years old!     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.   News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice Antennapod 2.0 released Ubuntu 20.10 Released 20.10 on the Pi 4 video Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 on sale now from $25 New Home-Cloud platform: ODROID-HC4   KDE Korner Plasma 5.20 and 5.20.1 released Krita 4.4.0 released Plasma browser integration on Edge Inside KDE: leadership and long-term planning       Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

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

Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.   News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400% Killed by Mozilla Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal   WireGuard Félim has been playing with WireGuard, and tells us about how easy it is to set up and use.   KDE Korner Running PlasmaShell with Vulkan KDE websites update         Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

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

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

A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.   Lineage Love-in OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1 Lineage 17.1 on the Pi   Admin Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed   FOSS trends 2020 We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months.   KDE Korner New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too KDEnlive Tutorials & Coming in KDEnlive August – Modes DigiKam becomes sentient Wayland improvements coming to Plasma 5.20       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

Great mobile Linux news, dispelling myths about desktop market share, the beginning of the end for BIOS booting, KDE Korner, and some more of your ask us anything questions.   News UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device Yet more claims that desktop Linux market share is increasing, but those stats aren’t reliable, and Linux Steam usage hasn’t gone up Fedora Developers Discussing Possibility Of Dropping Legacy BIOS Support   KDE Korner KDE has completed the move to GitLab Modern process management on KDE   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about interviewing someone from the commercial RISC-V community, what it would take for us to stop using Linux, and what we wish we could do with the terminal but can’t.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

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

Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever.   News 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi Mint not keen on snaps AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode. Joe on Linux Spotlight Joe on Ubuntu Podcast   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop Nvidia Wayland & KDE     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux.   News LiMux is back Patent case against GNOME resolved Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Microsoft Linux Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”. Nice article by original bug author They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.   Entroware This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here