What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it. Kinoite London timezone bug Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux... Read More
We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs. 2021 Linux year in review Mars Linux has made it to Mars [feb] NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr] NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr] Ingenuity Mars... Read More
Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook. CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking... Read More
Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS. First Impressions We had a look at Garuda Linux, a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux. Convergence Graham tells us about... Read More
What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else? 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/linuxafterdark and get started with... Read More...
Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more. News EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint Who is the target user? More about... Read More
Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara. 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... Read More
A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections. First Impressions We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro. Feedback Zim – a desktop wiki This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community ... Read More
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... Read More...
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
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... Read More
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. ... Read More...
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,... Read More
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/linuxafterdark and get started with... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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.
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
