What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN... Read More
We try to imagine what the future holds for our young kids, and realise how much the tech world has changed since we were young. Plus building a dirt cheap NAS, and more. ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations.... Read More
Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more. Discoveries gping Chiaki image stabilised Apollo 15 Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam The Linux... Read More...
Part 2 of our chat with Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great. This time we talk about Mastodon and the Fediverse, central bank digital currencies, cashless societies, the hype around AI, corporate surveillance, and more. Check out part 1 here Molly’s Mastodon ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully... Read More
In this episode: Martin switches to Apple Music on Desktop Linux Alan starts Sideloading Homebrew on Steam Deck Mark tries to find note-taking nirvana You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can... Read More
Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and... Read More
The times we’ve spent far too long troubleshooting simple problems – from permissions issues to unplugged cables and CDs in the wrong slots. Plus Dalton realises that he’s a happy Btrfs user. ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated, cloud, colocation, and IP Transit services, and free initial consultations.... Read More...
We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more. Discoveries CEMU TrueNAS from iXsystems To learn more... Read More
We are joined by Molly White from Web3 is Going Just Great to talk about the issues with crypto, Bitcoin, the Lightning network, blockchain, NFTs, and “web3”. Molly’s Mastodon Amolith will be at SELF June 9-11 in Charlotte NC. ServerMania ServerMania offers a wide range of fully customizable dedicated,... Read More
In this episode: Mark is choosing a D&D alignment based on your monitor layout Alan is building an ADB-S receiver to send flight data to FlightRadar24 Martin is unfathomably playing video games on Linux without a Steam Deck You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to... Read More
How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more. Discussion The Free Software Foundation is dying Discoveries ruff by Astral LNL Telegram Bot IEM Plugin Suite Graham’s audio demo Upscayl Félim’s Irish landcape photo Félim’s... Read More...
Whether the idea of “lightweight Linux” is outdated, your feedback about taming Windows and workspaces, a quick look at Bodhi, and digital waste – all the useless data that sits on hard disks and is never even accessed. We mentioned Linux Matters and Linux Lads Episode 100. ServerMania ServerMania offers a... Read More
Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner. News Linux Matters has launched Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically Resist Fingerprinting PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of... Read More...
Liam from Gaming on Linux joins us to talk about the current state of Linux gaming, the Steam Deck, how things progressed to this point, Valve being the driving force behind it all, whether the lack of native Linux games matters when Proton exists, and loads more. Gaming on Linux YouTube channel Check... Read More
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, and Martin Wimpress (from the old Ubuntu Podcast) have got the band back together for a new podcast called Linux Matters. In the first episode Alan discusses running Mastodon for a group of friends, Martin is looking for the best... Read More
A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more. Discoveries Logitech Media Server (LMS) First Universal Blue image Mission – Universal Blue Scope – Universal Blue CLARK sniffnet Yubikey Manager ... Read More
Windows is much better and so much worse than Joe remembers, and it makes him very grateful for desktop Linux. Plus what preparation (if any) we’ve made for our untimely demise. simplewall Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world,... Read More
25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two (more) potential ways to help solve the FOSS funding problem. News A quarter century of Mozilla Making the impossible possible — again A new era of transparency for Twitter Twitter... Read More
We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimately detract from ideas of software freedom and digital rights. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as... Read More
As companies tighten their belts during these uncertain times, could there be a silver lining for open source and self-hosting? Plus our brief thoughts on workspaces. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more. News Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder... Read More
We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or does something like an Nvidia Shield make more sense? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe... Read More
Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more. Discoveries qalculate NiceGUI Entropy Piano Tuner Autodarts (video... Read More
A year on from our episode about Ubuntu, we still have concerns about the direction of the project. Or should we just call it a product at this point? Plus your feedback about challenges, and Raspberry Pi alternatives. Our previous episode about Ubuntu zimaboard Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service... Read More
Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more. News Flathub in 2023 The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later NewF-Droid repository format... Read More
What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more. Discoveries mqttshark device IDs to get steering wheel nim Turrican II AGA Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux Feedback Timeshift Kopia Grsync Cronopete UrBackup... Read More...
We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros. Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel. Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.” Tailscale... Read More
Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft or Google are worse, NASA contributes to way more open source software than you might think, ten years of Steam on Linux, and KDE Korner. News Ubuntu Flavor Packaging Defaults NASA... Read More
