In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord serv...
Apr 30, 2024•27 min
What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters . Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great Late Night Linux Family shows Voice of the masses What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro? Di...
Apr 29, 2024•25 min
Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust. Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Also check out Hybrid Cloud Sho...
Apr 26, 2024•22 min
ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess). Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes How to upstream code to open source projects News Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With En...
Apr 25, 2024•31 min
More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters . News Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers Announcing the Open Home Foundation tea.xyz causes open sourc...
Apr 22, 2024•25 min
Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means. Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. ...
Apr 21, 2024•28 min
Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Shane’s platform engineering newsletter News/discussion Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork Why AWS Supports Valkey OpenTofu not b...
Apr 19, 2024•26 min
Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its...
Apr 18, 2024•29 min
In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here are the links to everything we mentioned. Snaps Bucklespring Localsend Snapdrop Hardware Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp 8BitDo Micro Gamepad Security keys and passwords https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1 https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fid...
Apr 16, 2024•35 min
How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds. Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure? News German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating Discoveries rembg Photopea nvtop Giada OMG! Ubuntu article about...
Apr 15, 2024•29 min
We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative. Bazzite Universal Blue Project Bluefin Install ...
Apr 12, 2024•27 min
A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family! News backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols X fixes URL blunder that could en...
Apr 11, 2024•30 min
The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time , Gary from Linux After Dark , and Jim from 2.5 Admins . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Soggy or Hard? ElectroBOOM...
Apr 10, 2024•17 min
There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family! Subscribe to the All Episodes feed How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide backdoor in upstream xz/l...
Apr 07, 2024•29 min
We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare , which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility . We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscrib...
Apr 07, 2024•27 min
There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron , Gary , Sean , and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between. In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Cloud...
Apr 05, 2024•22 min
Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent Telegram’s Peer-to-Peer Login system is a risky way to save $5 a month Feds Orde...
Apr 04, 2024•32 min
In this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette , Fractal and Halloy . Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-mat...
Apr 02, 2024•27 min
The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark . Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Voice of the masses What’s the main reason you use open source software? Discoveries PiKVM Kitty Pro-54 (...
Apr 01, 2024•28 min
Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an x86 PC, Joe’s laptop wasn’t quite old enough, and Chris found some surprising aspects of virtualising it. Dalton’s blog post about installing Warty on an ancient Mac Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device...
Mar 29, 2024•24 min
The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version zVault Apple’s antitrust fight begins US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact Hackers can read private AI-assist...
Mar 28, 2024•29 min
Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark . News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet Snap! Stop the line? Manual review of all new snap name registrations KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user’s files CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founde...
Mar 26, 2024•35 min
How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Snake in Terraform Snake in lots of languages Web server in Sinclair BASIC Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed...
Mar 24, 2024•21 min
Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices Devs left with tough choices as Warner Bros. ends all Adult Swim Games downloads Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the...
Mar 21, 2024•31 min
In this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server. If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal . ...
Mar 19, 2024•31 min
What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more. Voice of the masses What’s pulling you away from open source, and what will pull you back? Follow us on Mastodon and you can reply to future questions. Discoveries Telstar ps_mem cookiecutter GPlates Mirroring Y...
Mar 18, 2024•30 min
We wonder what old concepts in the Linux and open source world are due for a comeback. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Mar 15, 2024•21 min
Roku stops its users watching TV until they accept a new ToS, the line between journalism and computer fraud and abuse, and when using jumbo frames on a network makes sense. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Roku disables players and TVs with attempt to coerce arbitration agreement Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware Op-ed: Charges against journalist Tim Burke are a hack job Free Consulting We were asked about...
Mar 14, 2024•30 min
Our brews of choice, what the minimum wage should enable a person to do, and how long we’d want to live if we stayed healthy. With Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time , Félim from Late Night Linux , popey from Linux Matters , and Gary, Chris and Dalton from Linux After Dark . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago....
Mar 13, 2024•19 min
KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more. News KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Megarelease Teething Problems This week in KDE: a smooth release Critical Plasma 6 piece on the Register Lightweight Windows-like desktop LXQt makes leap to Qt 6 with version 2.0 Nintendo’s Yuzu Lawsuit is Al...
Mar 12, 2024•31 min
