It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018! FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen. Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to menti...
Jun 11, 2018•45 min
Asteroid OS 1.0 and openSUSE Leap 15. Asteroid OS Florent Revest talks about the recent release of Asteroid OS , the open source operating system for smartwatches. openSUSE Leap 15 Richard Brown talks about the recent openSUSE Leap 15 release . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Jun 04, 2018•43 min
We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS. News KDE 5.13 almost ready LXQt 0.13 released Portable Services arrives in systemd Asteroid OS reaches 1.0 Huawei locks down its bootloaders Steam link on android Admin An advert-free version of the show ...
May 28, 2018•43 min
The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu. KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint in Berlin and the recent beta of Plasma 5.13 . We also spoke about running KDE Neon on the Pinebook , and also the Slimbook II . Xubuntu Sean Davis talks about the future of Joe’s favourite distro, Xubuntu . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
May 21, 2018•42 min
A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big? News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit The other flavours could follow suit Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store EFAIL Admin Check out our new sister show Late Night Linux Extra...
May 15, 2018•54 min
A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5. Fedora 28 Matthew Miller talks about the new release of Fedora . elementary OS 5 beta Daniel Foré talks about the upcoming beta of Juno. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
May 05, 2018•35 min
Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04. News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud Admin OggCamp Call for papers Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstal...
May 01, 2018•51 min
With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines. New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke . News Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok? System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online? Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve ...
Apr 17, 2018•43 min
It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media. News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin Cloudflare launches DNS service Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security Good night, sweet princes Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their l...
Apr 03, 2018•48 min
A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show. News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ ( 7min video ) Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10 Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled...
Mar 19, 2018•44 min
It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism. News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable GNOME applications on the Librem 5 Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available! Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference Entroware This episode of Late Nigh...
Mar 06, 2018•56 min
We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases. News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics elementary OS AppCenter changes Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available! Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based co...
Feb 20, 2018•1 hr 9 min
It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?” News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear hostile forks LinuxBoot Mycroft Mark II Admin Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live ! Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based compa...
Feb 06, 2018•1 hr 6 min
KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux. News KWin/X11 is feature frozen Exciting GNOME news Purism keep up their excellent PR Nextcloud Talk Major vulnerability hoax site Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable lapt...
Jan 23, 2018•1 hr 6 min
A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. News KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June Speech recognition on Linux? Meltdown and Spectre Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and ...
Jan 09, 2018•1 hr 7 min
It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. January No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS February Arch and Tails announced that they were dropping 32-bit Mozilla shutting down the group behind Firefox OS March Mozilla acquired Pocket Nextcloud going too far to ensure that people stay up to date? April Ubuntu abandoned Unity and Ubuntu Phone...
Dec 25, 2017•1 hr 5 min
Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate. News KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years and its goal of Privacy TeamViewer loves the Qt Intel’s cunning plan to get everyone to upgrade their processors and AMD might be capitalising ? 66% of page loads are https up from 4...
Dec 12, 2017•51 min
With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more. News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a bit rosier Linus gets heated about kernel security , then calmly explains his position , Others act like children Gifts positive in the freedom dimension New magazine from t...
Nov 28, 2017•57 min
FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS. News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version ( Related hardware) Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They ha...
Nov 14, 2017•1 hr 6 min
The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter. News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms suspicions that he’s aiming for a Canonical IPO Solus looking for help with aesthetics for Solus 4 Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by...
Oct 31, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years. News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on Linux WPA2 attacked by nonces Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubun...
Oct 17, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant. News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to MIT (and WordPress threatening to move away from FB license ) Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company wh...
Oct 03, 2017•54 min
All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more. News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign Public money, public code! Solus growing pains Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them. Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux...
Sep 19, 2017•59 min
We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation. OggCamp Recap Joe and Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences. News Sailfish for the Xperia X Librem 5 – Matrix blog post Ubuntu Rally in NYC Playing with old rubbish Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish ...
Sep 05, 2017•1 hr 5 min
It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks. News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24 Q&A We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd. See our contact page for ways to ge...
Aug 19, 2017•52 min
Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us. Sorry to System76 On the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS . It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault. News Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions ...
Aug 07, 2017•59 min
Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more. Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS News Akademy running 22nd – 27th July a nice overview of what went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Ent...
Jul 23, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15. News Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10 Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default O’Reilly exits direct book sales Project Common Voice LetsEncrypt offering...
Jul 11, 2017•1 hr 7 min
Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live. News Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a...
Jun 26, 2017•1 hr 11 min
A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13. News KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10 The death of the x86 Windows PC? GPG fundraiser Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware . They are...
Jun 13, 2017•1 hr 8 min
