A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news. News Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel Kernel reaches 5.0 FreeBSD admits... Read More
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Meltdown and Spectre February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin April... Read More
Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF. News KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!? kde-Itinary Update Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs RISC-V & LF Joint Venture FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars Fedora 31 Will... Read More
Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more. News NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email) Accessibility starting off again in KDE Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of... Read More
Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in. News Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here Purism dev boards when? Lineage OS changing update frequency Samsung... Read More
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age. News Pine64 working on a KDE phone Ubuntu 18.10... Read More
It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world. News Plasma 5.14... Read More
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more. News KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 Google loosens grasp on AMP... Read More
Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more. News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5.14 Beta Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive Linux User and Developer magazine to close Has Linus finally had enough? Maybe this is what did it The Post-meritocracy Manifesto... Read More
Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. News KDE Pinebook release KItinary call for data Start wine-ing about Steam Commons Clause Desktop icons on GNOME Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma? Ubuntu... Read More
Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment. News Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained... Read More
With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods. News Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Slackware dev has financial problems elementary OS receives large donation Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects GNOME might... Read More
Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V. News KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader NPM fail…again Arch Linux AUR Repository Found... Read More
Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more. News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s GitHub compromised Minimal Ubuntu released Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook FOSS synth for iPad Entroware This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers... Read More
It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently. News Catchup Microsoft to buy Github Endless lays off several of its employees An opportunity to invest in Mycroft Dockerhub malware... Read More
It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018! FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen. Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They... Read More
We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS. News KDE 5.13 almost... Read More
A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big? News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE... Read More
Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04. News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud Admin OggCamp Call for papers... Read More...
With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines. New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.... Read More
It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media. News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the... Read More
A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show. News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video) Debian and Kali Linux now available... Read More
It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism. News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable... Read More
We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases. News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to... Read More
It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?” News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear... Read More
KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux. News KWin/X11 is feature frozen Exciting GNOME news Purism keep up their excellent PR Nextcloud Talk Major vulnerability hoax site Entroware This episode... Read More
A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. News KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June Speech recognition on Linux? Meltdown and Spectre Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux... Read More
It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. January No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS February Arch and Tails announced that they... Read More
Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate. News KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years... Read More
With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more. News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a... Read More
