Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux? A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops Silverblue: pretty good family OS 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/linu xafterdark and get started with $100 credit. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Nov 26, 2021•22 min
Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner. News Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice Google-translated interview Apple announces Self Service Repair The future of documentation at Canonical Google Stadia is celebrating its second bi...
Nov 23, 2021•31 min
Joe is joined by Carl George , a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora , RHEL , CentOS Linux , and CentOS Stream . Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS . 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 fo...
Nov 21, 2021•20 min
How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins . Félim mentioned Camara Education . 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/latenightlinu x and get started with $100 credit. CBT Nuggets This episode i...
Nov 15, 2021•30 min
What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch? 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/linu xafterdark and get started with $100 credit. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Nov 12, 2021•21 min
A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins . News Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi Ubuntu Server support Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS Nat Friedman leaves GitHub Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze Firefox 94 Released with Bi...
Nov 09, 2021•32 min
Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress . Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch . 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Nov 07, 2021•21 min
We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more. First Impressions We had a look at Haiku , an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.” Feedback We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview . Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux vi...
Nov 01, 2021•29 min
What it means for Linux to “win” and whether we even want that to happen, and why we talk about Arm so much. 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/linu xafterdark and get started with $100 credit. Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Oct 29, 2021•21 min
Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more. News Apple joins Blender Development Fund L0phtCrack is now open source Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon) Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained Copyleft Compliance Projects Introducing the PinePhone Pro Microsoft...
Oct 26, 2021•32 min
Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins ) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs . 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Oct 24, 2021•22 min
The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix. First Impressions We had a look at Regolith , a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin . Feedback We mentioned Photopea . Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtua...
Oct 18, 2021•29 min
It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get people started with Linux. Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Oct 15, 2021•21 min
Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner. News Fairphone 4 review 10 Year Smartphone Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 32 and Linux After Dark KDE Korner KDE has a FOSS role going K...
Oct 12, 2021•30 min
Joe is joined by Gary Kramlich , the Pidgin project maintainer. Gary mentioned the contributing page , and the upcoming State of the Bird event which will be streamed on his Twitch channel . 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Oct 10, 2021•19 min
Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often. First Impressions We had a look at Xfce , a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS . Graham and the Pinephone Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it we...
Oct 04, 2021•31 min
Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family. News Linux After Dark has launched! Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years Steam Deck FAQ Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck GOL BattlEye to support the Steam Deck GNOM...
Sep 28, 2021•29 min
In the first episode of a brand new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux family, Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe speculate about what will happen to Linux in the next 30 years. https://linuxafterdark.net/ Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Sep 27, 2021•20 min
Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig , a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, about porting Linux to the M1 Macs. Gary, Chris and Dalton haven’t disappeared. We’ve launched a new show called Linux After Dark . 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...
Sep 26, 2021•18 min
What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux. First Impressions We had a look at GoboLinux , an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. If we were in charge of the Linux desktop What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux vir...
Sep 20, 2021•30 min
Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more. News Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users? Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” ...
Sep 14, 2021•30 min
Dalton gives us his first impressions of the Framework laptop , why we didn’t talk about AMD mobile CPUs when the M1 came up, and what we do when the software we want isn’t in the main repo. 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Sep 12, 2021•15 min
Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more. First Impressions We had a look at elementary OS , the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”. Benefits of the cloud Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up. Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect...
Sep 06, 2021•31 min
The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more. News DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years LINUX is obsolete Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but at the cost of your cameras State of Magisk: 2021 GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 Resignin...
Aug 31, 2021•29 min
Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should. 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Aug 29, 2021•18 min
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. Lin...
Aug 23, 2021•29 min
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 ...
Aug 17, 2021•30 min
Gary, Chris, and Joe are joined by Dalton to discuss whether platforms really matter in an age where they all offer so much choice with Virtualization, WSL, proton, and cloud desktops etc. 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. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Aug 15, 2021•20 min
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 sp...
Aug 09, 2021•29 min
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 Plas...
Aug 03, 2021•31 min
