How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments. Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/ldt and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code LATENIGHTLINUX for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed ...
Dec 14, 2025•28 min
How to connect your public environments across clouds and into your datacenter infrastructure – using official options, VPNs and new ideas like mTLS. Plus container networking, CNIs and other ways to plug extras into Kubernetes. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1 is the world’s first all-in-one 8K 360 drone. It’s a real game-changer. You get full immersive flight with the goggles, intuitive controls, and endless creative freedom in editing. If you’re thinking about buying a drone, make it this on...
Dec 12, 2025•24 min
The Crucial brand of consumer SSDs and RAM is going away, AMD and Intel memory encryption can be bypassed with cheap hardware, more AI buffoonery, and monitoring users’ usage on a network. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right News/discussion Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business Cheap Hardware Module Bypasses AMD, Intel Memory Encryption Google’s vibe coding platform deletes entire d...
Dec 11, 2025•29 min
How many jobs we’ve had, how seriously we take our Christmas decorations, whether we like pineapple on pizza, and memorable romantic dates. With Andy and Kevin from Linux Dev Time . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Dec 10, 2025•19 min
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way. News Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg Migrating Dillo from GitHub 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at ...
Dec 08, 2025•27 min
Some of the Linux and open source tech from our past that inspired where we are today. 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 ....
Dec 05, 2025•22 min
What a government crackdown on VPNs would look like, malware groups play the long game with browser extensions, a new major version of FreeBSD is released, and using a single database vs one DB per application or VM. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization News/discussion The VPN panic is only getting started Stealthy browser extensions waited years before infecting 4.3M Chrome, Edge users with backdoo...
Dec 04, 2025•26 min
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope. News Going all-in on a Wayland future Help us reach the inflection point Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time” Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself? Servo Announces Spons...
Dec 02, 2025•23 min
When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and 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...
Nov 30, 2025•25 min
Cloud security basics, some of the technical and compliance aspects, and why it ultimately comes down to a people problem. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Nov 28, 2025•28 min
Google kept collecting sensor data even after bricking Nest thermostats, FreeBSD’s container support gets serious, and where to find cheap (or even dirt cheap) used hardware. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats News/discussion Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats FreeBSD Officially Supp...
Nov 27, 2025•26 min
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more. News Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” PSF Gets a Donor Surge Af...
Nov 24, 2025•24 min
How we’ve all set up our backups including GUI distros vs doing it the hard way, ZFS vs Borg, and why it’s tricky to chose the right offsite location. 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 ....
Nov 21, 2025•25 min
Windows is becoming an “agentic OS”, some WD SMR drives are dying prematurely, backing up VMware with ZFS, and separating trusted and non-trusted devices on your network. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Understanding Storage Performance Metrics December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats News/discussion Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI featur...
Nov 20, 2025•27 min
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense. News Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve Say hi to Kit Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it Mozilla Connect thread End of Japanese community Web API for AI Agents Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex inf...
Nov 18, 2025•27 min
What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects. 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...
Nov 16, 2025•23 min
We dig into the recent major AWS outage, why a misconfiguration in one region called global issues, and whether there’s anything you can do to avoid being affected by a similar incident in the future. Gary mentioned an AWS whitepaper . Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed ....
Nov 14, 2025•29 min
Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS December Webinar: The 12 ...
Nov 13, 2025•26 min
The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark . Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Nov 12, 2025•20 min
In this episode: Alan dusts off his newsletter . Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd. Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode . You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form . If you’d like to hang out with other listeners...
Nov 11, 2025•29 min
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more. We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3 . Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 de...
Nov 10, 2025•22 min
Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use. 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 ....
Nov 07, 2025•25 min
Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages News/discussion Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Y...
Nov 06, 2025•25 min
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal. News Linux Matters Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program Fedora agr...
Nov 03, 2025•36 min
Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest! 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
Nov 02, 2025•27 min
Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RSS feed .
Oct 31, 2025•24 min
Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discussion Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk Free consulting We were asked about building a small home se...
Oct 30, 2025•28 min
In this episode: Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole. Martin created Glyph Party , for adding panache to your terminal applications. Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey . 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 enj...
Oct 28, 2025•29 min
Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga. News Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner Happy Birthday to KDE Schleswig-Ho...
Oct 27, 2025•22 min
We’ve done various challenges in the past where we’ve bought Linux machines on a seriously low budget, but what if we had an unlimited budget? What would we buy in this hypothetical situation? It turns out we all struggled to come up with anything and are pretty satisfied with the machines we already have. Note that this episode was recorded before we found out that Framework supports problematic projects. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our co...
Oct 24, 2025•22 min
