Late Night Linux
Late Night Linux is a weekly podcast that covers the latest news and releases in the Linux and open source software world. The hosts, Joe, Félim, Graham, and Will, discuss broader industry trends and share strong opinions, often with humor and occasional drinking. The show is known for its candid and sometimes irreverent take on technology.
Episodes
Late Night Linux – Episode 392
We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty pric
Late Night Linux – Episode 391
Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 390
The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
Plugs
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Graham’s talk
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Late Night Linux – Episode 389
A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Kagi
Shelly Wall Display
Ubuntu Summit
Ubunt
Late Night Linux – Episode 388
Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as la
Late Night Linux – Episode 387
Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discu
Late Night Linux – Episode 386
Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News
LVFS Sponsorship Announcement
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE so
Late Night Linux – Episode 385
Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
VoxType
Tennis
tooler
SONOFF NSPanel Pro Gen2
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
The future of A
Late Night Linux – Episode 384
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
Plugs
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June
Late Night Linux – Episode 383
Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
&
Late Night Linux – Episode 382
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age c
Late Night Linux – Episode 381
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.
News/discussion
A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases
Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch
Late Night Linux – Episode 380
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam S
Late Night Linux – Episode 379
Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.
Discoveries
creepy link
Supercell Wx
whosthere
Ultramaster KR-106
AI in FOSS
systemd 260-rc3 Release
Late Night Linux – Episode 378
Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.
News
Just over a month until OggCamp!
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late
Late Night Linux – Episode 377
Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.
News/discussion
LibreOffice Online: a fresh start
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic
LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control
Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Your Pix
Late Night Linux – Episode 376
Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.
News
Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing
US state laws push age checks into the operating system
C
Late Night Linux – Episode 375
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.
News/Discussion
The FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind
Late Night Linux – Episode 374
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (jus
Late Night Linux – Episode 373
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be bet
Late Night Linux – Episode 372
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
Late Night Linux – Episode 371
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software.
News
Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
Linux Mint user gets Gn
Late Night Linux – Episode 370
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.
News
Wikipedia ce
Late Night Linux – Episode 369
We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries.
Discoveries
CAW
FossFlow
Félim’s bad diagram
Blade Runner Radio
LUX on Bandcamp
Network Survey
Late Night Linux – Episode 368
Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product.
News
The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And
Late Night Linux – Episode 367
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 366
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.
Gaming
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit
Open source devs say AI cr
Late Night Linux – Episode 365
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
News
Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2
The (su
Late Night Linux – Episode 364
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.
News
Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
Remember Google Stad
Late Night Linux – Episode 363
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.
News
Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of
Late Night Linux – Episode 362
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.
News
Going all-in on a Wayland future
Help us reach the inflection point
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time”
Rewiring Mozi
Late Night Linux – Episode 361
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more.
News
Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP
Google will let
Late Night Linux – Episode 360
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.
News
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve
Say hi to Kit
Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
Mozilla Connect thread
End of Japanese community
Web API for AI Agents
&
Late Night Linux – Episode 359
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 358
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.
News
Linux Matters
Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for he
Late Night Linux – Episode 357
Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga.
News
Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community
Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source
Qualco
Late Night Linux – Episode 356
An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.
News
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpa
Late Night Linux – Episode 355
The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon launches a Linux-based OS to replace Android on its streaming devices, Graham gives us an update on his Home Assistant hardware, and more.
News/discussion
v2.0.0 – Stable Release of Immich #22546
This open-source printer you can repair
Late Night Linux – Episode 354
The most expensive Raspberry Pi ever might appeal to kids and a new OS version looks somewhat more modern, AI does something Félim can’t complain about, F-Droid might be doomed, ChromeOS is probably being replaced by Android, the UK government wants to implement a disastrous digital ID scheme, and more.
News
Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200
$5–$10 price increases for some 4GB and
Late Night Linux – Episode 353
The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we’ll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 352
Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious potential revenue stream, and a glimpse of a Blade Runner style dystopian tech future. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Chris from Linux After Dark.
News
OggCamp 2026
OggCamp tickets
OggCamp CfP
Adios Chicos, 25 Years o
Late Night Linux – Episode 351
Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
Discoveries
Clonezilla
Kobo Clara Colour
Just a QR Code
mini-qr
libqrencode
Nallely-midi
pico-rv32ima
typr
Epistory
KDE Korner
2024 KDE e.V. Report
We’ve formally sent a proposal to the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. leade
Late Night Linux – Episode 350
Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can’t keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a brief review of a classic Bond movie, and more.
Late Night Linux – Episode 349
What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.
News/disccussion
The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one
‘Ad Blocking is Not Piracy’ Decision Overturned By Top German Court
Late Night Linux – Episode 348
The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.
News
It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
these sham community
Late Night Linux – Episode 347
Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind data from planes. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, a
Late Night Linux – Episode 346
A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News
Debian 13 “trixie” release
Late Night Linux – Episode 345
Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News/discussion
Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
Save 20% on Look Mum No Computer on Steam
How we Made A Game With An Interactive Sou
Late Night Linux – Episode 344
Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.
News
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the fat
Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than
Late Night Linux – Episode 343
The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and an update on Joe’s KDE experiment.
N
Late Night Linux – Episode 342
Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones
DOGWALK Official Release
Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
SUSE to roll out So
Late Night Linux – Episode 341
Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.
Discoveries
Home Assistant Developer Environment
xLights
QLC+
Telegram snap issue
faff
PrivacyPlease
Jac
Late Night Linux – Episode 340
Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.
News
Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler
Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages –
Late Night Linux – Episode 339
Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.
Discoveries
Strudel
rsyncy
Spring
IceCream
DNS4EU
News/discussion
Two city governments in Denmark are moving away from Microsoft
Late Night Linux – Episode 338
X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.
News
Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions
An update on t
Late Night Linux – Episode 337
Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s new audio workstation is released for Linux.
News
Re
Late Night Linux – Episode 336
Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.
News
Investing in what moves the internet forward
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
Late Night Linux – Episode 335
Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.
Discoveries
entii-for-workcubes
Learn C, Coding for Kids
Isonzo
Material for MkDocs
markata
mdq
Moving to a new Mastodon instance is very easy
Tailsc
Late Night Linux – Episode 334
It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).
Porkbun.com
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Tailscale
Tail
Late Night Linux – Episode 333
The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.
Tailscale
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Late Night Linux – Episode 332
Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.
News
Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia
Bluesky restricts acce
Late Night Linux – Episode 331
Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.
Discoveries
POWKIDDY X55
ROCKNIX
undercut-f1
WebTUI
Astro Docs
Pinta 3.0
python-sh
Attention K-Mart Shoppers
Techmoan
r/LiminalSpace
The Conet Project
You are listening to
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Late Night Linux – Episode 330
Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix
The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Downloa
Late Night Linux – Episode 329
Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.
Discoveries
Frigate
Coral TPUs
daylight
RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module
The Visible Zorker
Flightgear new LTS
Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker
Pixel 9 desktop mode
pinchflat
fixing locale
KIO
Late Night Linux – Episode 328
AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwi
Late Night Linux – Episode 327
What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.
Discovery
Wilsonic MTS-ESP
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Late Night Linux – Episode 326
Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon.
News
Home Assistant officially Matters
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on Mar
Late Night Linux – Episode 325
Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forcing Ubuntu to give you all the available updates, efficiently importing photos, counting lines of code, and more.
Discoveries
espargos and demo video
OSM2GoogleMaps Bookmarklet
Cyd
twitter-defollower
Cross Views
About apt upgrade and ph
Late Night Linux – Episode 324
Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command & Conquer games, the EFF releases a tool to detect cellular spying, an official Debian VM on Pixel devices, a brief foldable update, and more.
News
Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
An update on our Terms o
Late Night Linux – Episode 323
Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is a touch buggy, and more.
Discoveries
Guacamole
Lumon Industries (Macrodata-Refinement)
Skies-ADSB
Home Assistant Voice PE
Casio F91W to 5000m underwater
Pi-hole v6
gammastep
1Password Extended Access Management
Late Night Linux – Episode 322
The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very nearly gets it, Chrome gets even worse, Apple takes its ball home, and Matrix rattles the donation tin.
News
Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code
Passing the torch on Asahi Linux
[PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself
On communi
Late Night Linux – Episode 321
What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the Masses.
Voice of the Masses
What are you self-hosting, and what are you relying on others to host for you?
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Late Night Linux – Episode 320
Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.
News
Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Mai
Late Night Linux – Episode 319
What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.
Discoveries
n8n
isd
redshift
Late Night Linux – Episode 318
We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.
News
Free Our Feeds
Pixelfed Launch
Late Night Linux – Episode 317
Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.
Molly’s personal website
[citation needed] newsletter
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes v
Late Night Linux – Episode 316
SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.
News
Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized
Late Night Linux – Episode 315
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.
Sandfly Securitry
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Late Night Linux – Episode 314
It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.
2024 Linux News in review
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Late Night Linux – Episode 313
Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.
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