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Linux Matters

Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. From tweaking your desktop to running production infrastructure — we cover the tools and workflows that actually matter.

Linux Matters · Linux Matters Team

84 episodesEN-GB

Show overview

Linux Matters has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 84 episodes. That works out to roughly 40 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.

Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 28 min and 33 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 12 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Linux Matters Team.

Episodes
84
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
30 min
Cadence
Fortnightly

From the publisher

Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. Whether you're tweaking your desktop, gaming, self-hosting, developing software, improving terminal productivity, or running production infrastructure — we cover the tools and workflows that actually matter. New episode every fortnight. Upbeat and family-friendly for Linux enthusiasts of all ages.

Latest Episodes

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snap install flatpak

Jun 9, 202642 min

Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce

May 26, 202633 min

Cooking up a framework desktop

May 12, 202632 min

Passing the Gourd

Apr 28, 202638 min

Pouring out the Sidra

Apr 14, 202633 min

Ep 78VNC? No way!

In this episode: Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher Alan has been confining things with Lincubate. Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Mar 31, 202634 min

Ep 77Tailor Snaps for Big Iron

In this episode: Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔 Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start. Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Mar 17, 202633 min

Ep 76The Smell of Git

In this episode: Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user, Alan spring cleans his GitHub, Martin gets busy with lazygit. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Mar 3, 202642 min

Ep 75Mark's Meshing About

In this episode: Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time. Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor. Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Feb 17, 202635 min

Ep 74Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers

In this episode: Martin creates a automated audio engineer. Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺 Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP) Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Feb 3, 202637 min

Ep 73Points of You

In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss: HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket Kazeta Recipe-Scribe FossFLOW Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix Toniebox Reverse Engineering Tonuino Yarg-lang Events SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026. Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Jan 20, 202623 min

Ep 72Lets get Trippy

In this episode: Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters. Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source) Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping. trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping gping: ping, but with a graph. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Jan 6, 202628 min

Ep 71Give me the Aux

In this episode: Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl. Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo. “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚” Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Dec 23, 202531 min

Ep 70Grummaging Gophers & Gods

In this episode: Martin has been learning Go and created: Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩 Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥 Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck. Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨ You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Dec 9, 202534 min

Ep 69He's a very nøughty boy

In this episode: Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books. Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux Nøughty Linux GitHub Project Alan has been live streaming. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Nov 25, 202532 min

Ep 68Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes

In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter. Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd. Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Nov 11, 202528 min

Ep 67Panache, for men

In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Oct 28, 202528 min

Ep 66Terminal Full of Sparkles

In this episode: Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala. Mark has been debugging his car charger. Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Oct 14, 202523 min

Ep 65macOS Made Me Snap!

In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps. Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework. Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Sep 30, 202526 min

Ep 64Ethical Retro Gaming

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server for Grype. You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The Linux Matters Subreddit. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Sep 16, 202528 min
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