Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro. News Test Plasma Easily , KDE PIM Update , U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as Internet Villian Of The Year Pinebook Pro coming soon Debian 10 Buster released Raspberry Pi 4 Graham and Joe have been playing with their new toys Admin Come to OggCamp ! Digital Ocean...
Jul 09, 2019•42 min
It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”. News Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack Raspberry Pi4! Plasma 5.16 & 5.16.1 , KDE Goals , Updates to KDE.org Firefox Premium? Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V PinePhone looking good Facebook to launch cryptocurrency Digital Ocean This episode...
Jun 25, 2019•41 min
It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one. News KDE Apps Website Google Browser Control via DRM ; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers GMail Confidential Mode to be on by default for G Suite users Stadia details announced FOSSortunities We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has...
Jun 11, 2019•46 min
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead. News Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released Xfce 4.14pre1 released! Google pulls Huawei’s Android license Huawei responds 90 day reprieve Now even Arm cutting them off Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo )...
May 27, 2019•47 min
It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more. News KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first ( Neon writeup ), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App Summit Windows Shipping Linux Apache SF joins Github RHEL 8 Out Now RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File s...
May 14, 2019•45 min
It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target. Distro round table Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu Admin FOSS Talk Live 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 ...
Apr 29, 2019•44 min
Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it. News Chef ditches Open Core Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem) Stack Overflow Developer Survey UBports Foundation finally created Admin FOSS Talk Live With Age Comes Wisdom? If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a g...
Apr 16, 2019•43 min
What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in. News Google launches game streaming service called Stadia New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive picking up the pace as well Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play RISC-V fifty dollar dev board Ubuntu Studio back from the d...
Apr 02, 2019•45 min
A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news. News First Plasma Mobile Sprint Krita: The only graphics app with HDR GNOME 3.32 released Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence Maru OS We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that a...
Mar 19, 2019•48 min
Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again. News KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset MariaDB bossman lays in to AWS & Oracle Lineage 16.0 EU Radio Equipment Directive Admin Ubuntu Podcast get together FOSS Complexity The only real ways to make money from FOSS are suppo...
Mar 05, 2019•43 min
Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment. News KDE Plasma 5.15 & Snaps Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM Todd Weaver from Purism A year on from his last appearance on the show , Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5 , a...
Feb 19, 2019•56 min
Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more. News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop Pine64 forum announcement We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019 Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores HP joins LVFS Blue Systems hires a QA manager 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 worl...
Feb 05, 2019•27 min
Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more. News New FOSS Forge Librem 5 Update Purism announces PureOS Store Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5 Phoenix joins LVFS KDE Frameworks Android Integration ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but...
Jan 22, 2019•46 min
A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news. News Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel Kernel reaches 5.0 FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS) Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users Predictions We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then...
Jan 08, 2019•45 min
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Meltdown and Spectre February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin April Ubuntu 18.04 released 18.04 flavours also released Clear focus on cloud and containers Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch May Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images The other flavours could ...
Dec 24, 2018•53 min
Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF. News KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and … Maemo !? kde-Itinary Update Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs RISC-V & LF Joint Venture FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you! Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started w...
Dec 11, 2018•52 min
Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more. News NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland ( Relevant email) Accessibility starting off again in KDE Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of support RHEL 8 beta released iwd: Simplifying WiFi New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched Raspbian updated New kernels revert Spectre mitigation Tomorrow’s world special Digital Oce...
Nov 27, 2018•48 min
Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in. News Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here Purism dev boards when? Lineage OS changing update frequency Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy ReactOS 0.4.10 released Digital Ocean This episode of is sponsored by Digit...
Nov 13, 2018•50 min
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age. News Pine64 working on a KDE phone Ubuntu 18.10 released elementary OS 5.0 Juno released Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar IBM to Acquire Red Hat Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and ge...
Oct 30, 2018•49 min
It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world. News Plasma 5.14 released Exciting Xfce news GNOME dumps yet another feature Redis components forked Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it ChromeOS tablet launched Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by...
Oct 16, 2018•57 min
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more. News KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 Google loosens grasp on AMP Web 5.0? Fedora 29 beta released Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released Mir reaches 1.0.0 Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier At least half of Azure is running Linux Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1....
Oct 02, 2018•45 min
Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more. News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5.14 Beta Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive Linux User and Developer magazine to close Has Linus finally had enough? Maybe this is what did it The Post-meritocracy Manifesto Check out User Error 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...
Sep 18, 2018•50 min
Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. News KDE Pinebook release KItinary call for data Start wine-ing about Steam Commons Clause Desktop icons on GNOME Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma ? Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 Released 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 ov...
Sep 04, 2018•45 min
It’s the OggCamp 2018 live show! Joe is joined by Jon Spriggs , Martin Wimpress , Dan Lynch , and Dave Lee at OggCamp . We spoke about spreading the word about collaboration culture, and how we rationalise using proprietary solutions over open ones. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Aug 27, 2018•55 min
Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment. News Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support ) / Frameworks 5.49.0 , Inline notes in Kate Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released Open Source goes all Hollywood Help LVFS gather NVMe data Send me yer invites! Entroware This episode of is spo...
Aug 21, 2018•41 min
With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods. News Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Slackware dev has financial problems elementary OS receives large donation Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects GNOME might get rid of themes What’s next, extensions ? Android 9 to be called Pie Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based company who sells comp...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V. News KDE Plasma 5.13.3 , Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader NPM fail…again Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed) Arm talks down RISC-V But then backtracks Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware . They are a UK-based ...
Jul 24, 2018•49 min
Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more. News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s GitHub compromised Minimal Ubuntu released Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook FOSS synth for iPad Entroware This episode of 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 m...
Jul 09, 2018•45 min
It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently. News Catchup Microsoft to buy Github Endless lays off several of its employees An opportunity to invest in Mycroft Dockerhub malware Entroware This episode of 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 ...
Jun 26, 2018•57 min
It’s the last episode of LNLE. At least for the time being. GIMP 2.10 Jehan Pagès spoke about the latest major release of GIMP, but forgot to plug the film that he’s working on called ZeMarmot . Bad News This is the last episode of Late Night Linux Extra in its current format. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Jun 18, 2018•22 min
