In the latest community meetup recording we discuss the best distros for low end and high end hardware. Check out the 2.5 Admins podcast . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks. Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses. Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox. Linux on Chrome OS devices We are joined by Chris Pearse from Hither Green IT to talk about hacking Chromebooks and Chromeboxes to run “proper” Linux distros like GalliumOS...
Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner. News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi Patch in this commit Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep Martin Wimpress, Ubuntu Deskto...
In this recording from the second community meetup we talk about why we use our particular distros including Mint, Manjaro and Solus, and hear from a WSL user who’s relatively new to Linux. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux , create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt. See o...
Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback. Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store . Full instructions here . Félim’s 800×480 screen News/discussion Twitter’s decentralized social network project takes a baby step forward bluesky on Twitter and a funny reply Must ‘compl...
Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more. News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon How We Ported Linux to the M1 M1 Macs booting from NVMe Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved Welcoming Open Web Docs to the MDN family Firefox ...
Joe is joined by Alan Pope – Developer Advocate at Canonical working on Snapcraft & Ubuntu to talk about Snaps. The PR problem, the non-free element, security, speed issues, and even some positive stuff. Honest. Alan posted a transcript of this episode on his blog . Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/la...
Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more. Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here . Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13 Feedback Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we ...
Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more. News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future? Doubling down on open, Part II Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older ...
What’s likely to happen over the next year in open source, how we evaluate the security and privacy of distros, and more in this recording of the first LNL community meetup. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux , create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt. See our contact page ...
Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more. Home monitoring and automation Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack Félim’s links: Graphite Grafana KDE Korner KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat KDE Apps in the Windows store Highlights from 2020 Geeks, M...
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021. 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. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Sta...
We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event. Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones Shipping PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open Second PinePhone Community edition postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets AWS unveils new compute instances, includi...
Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more. News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra Feedback Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts. KDE Korner Plasma Big Screen Beta 2 Alternate Character Input D...
Joe is joined by Brent Gervais , a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent ; including a deep sense of collaboration, and the inherent optimism which occasionally causes issues. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial...
What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine). News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo Admin Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra . Feedback: Trust We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation. Your computer isn’t yours Apple respo...
Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything , Fedora and Silverblue , Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, and much more. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux...
Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner. News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux Let’s Encrypt: Standing on Our Own Two Feet Chrome will soon have its own dedic...
The Raspberry Pi 400 is here! Joe is joined by Jim Salter from Ars Technica and 2.5 Admins to discuss his initial impressions, and then Martin Wimpress to talk about Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu MATE on the Pi 400 and Pi 4. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux , create one dashboard, and you’ll ge...
Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness. News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die youtube-dl removed from GitHub by RIAA takedown notice Antennapod 2.0 released Ubuntu 20.10 Released 20.10 on the Pi 4 video Raspberry Pi Compute Mod...
Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner. Linux-based Windows We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago. Will’s adventures in DNS Will has been checking out Pi-hole and AdGuard . KDE Korner My KDE Plasma Mobile update: September 2020 Plasma 5.20 is nigh TrueNAS...
Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more. News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400% Killed by Mozilla Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over deal WireGuard Félim has been playing with WireGuard , and tells us abou...
How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more. News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu community drama Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council after body shrinks to single member – Mark Shuttleworth Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux...
Kyle returns again, this time to address some of the feedback we have received from previous episodes, and to talk about his brief experiences with Pop!_OS . Kyle mentioned f.lux and Winamp . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show....
Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner. News Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again Changing World, Changing Mozilla Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended You can buy Fairphone’s new handset ...
Kyle returns, this time to talk to Joe about his experiences with Xubuntu . See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem. Kyle the Windows user We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Late Night Linux Extra so make sure you are subscribed to the RSS feed to hear his thoughts on Joe’s beloved Xubuntu. Ask us any...
Joe is joined by Kyle, a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. We try to get to the bottom of why that happened. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner. Lineage Love-in OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1 Lineage 17.1 on the Pi Admin Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed FOSS trends 2020 We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on what we will see over the next few months. KDE Korner New Slimbook & here & Nate got one too KDEnlive Tutorials & ...
It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner. News COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter Pine update postmarketOS PinePhone update LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions Official u-turn ...
