FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS. News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version (Related... Read More
The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter. News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms... Read More...
Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years. News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on... Read More...
Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant. News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to... Read More...
All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more. News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign... Read More
We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation. OggCamp Recap Joe and... Read More
It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks. News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists... Read More
This isn’t a proper episode. It’s just Joe giving a very quick update on the OggCamp live show. It will be a joint effort with the Ubuntu Podcast and one of the sections will involve us answering your questions. There are various ways you can ask a question. You can use the Google Form... Read More
Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us. Sorry to System76 On... Read More
Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more. Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS News Akademy running 22nd – 27th July a nice overview of what... Read More
Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15. News Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added... Read More
Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live. News Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux... Read More
A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13. News KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10 The death of the x86 Windows PC? GPG fundraiser Canonical are... Read More
Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12. News Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control) It’s... Read More...
Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and proper convergence in action with Maru OS on LNL 11. News Canonical starts IPO path; very interesting related article SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10 Raspberry Pi Foundation encourages kids to make... Read More...
Yet more Ubuntu fallout including forks of their dead desktop and mobile platform, Libreboot wants to rejoin GNU, mobile Linux coming together, IoT standardisation and how to spread the word about FOSS on LNL 10. News Wayland and GNOME to be default in Ubuntu 17.10 Yunit tries to avoid a mutiny as UBports looks... Read More
Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and more on LNL 09. News Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written Drupal needs a decent HR department Mastodon is the latest social media fad, despite having... Read More
In this special episode, Joe, Ikey and Jesse discuss the bombshell that Ubuntu is abandoning Unity in favour of GNOME for its next LTS and has officially given up on dreams of mobile convergence. We’ll back to our usual schedule with episode 9 on 18th April. See our contact page for ways to... Read More
Netflix on Linux, phishing with https, licensing, password managers, Android convergence, the inside story of Nextcloud scanning and more on LNL 07. News Netflix now works in Firefox on Linux 14,766 Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates Issued to PayPal Phishing Sites Inside OpenSSL’s battle to change its license Password managers Jesse tells us why... Read More...
Jesse is back but this time Félim is in his sick bed so it’s a 3 man show yet again. Some heated debates about Nextcloud’s actions, Ubuntu extended support and PowerPC distros, followed by a deep dive into the world of HiDPI 4k support in Linux. News Nextcloud going too far to ensure that... Read More
Ikey is back but with Jesse on holiday, it’s a three man show again. VR gaming on Linux, a new Raspberry Pi, Mozilla buying Pocket, Web DRM, Kodi piracy and loads more on LNL 05. News SteamVR Is Coming to Linux and SteamOS Raspberry Pi Zero W RetroPie needs legal help; Terminix face a... Read More
With Ikey languishing in his sick bed, the rest of the team discussed even more Linux hardware, Munich probably switching back to Windows, Elementary’s potentially ill-fated crowdfunded app store, Félim’s new phone and loads more. Plus we learn more about OpenSUSE from its chairman Richard Brown on LNL 04. News 7 inch Ubuntu Laptop... Read More
A packed show this time. More Linux hardware, 32 vs 64-bit, Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Budgie, yet more Solus news and loads more on LNL 03. News KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans Arch and Tails are dropping 32-bit but 32-bit CentOS is still available Black market Blackphones get... Read More
New Linux hardware, a profane rant about the FSF, the Chrome OS desktop Linux question, exciting Solus news and loads more on LNL 02. News Dell’s Latest Laptop is $100 Cheaper If You Buy It With Ubuntu; Other Dell Ubuntu Machines Mycroft Available as Raspberry Pi Image A pipe dream or an excellent idea?... Read More
In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod becoming Lineage OS and loads more. News 3% market share on the desktop? Goodbye to GNU Libreboot KDE Announces SystemdGenie, a Graphical Tool for Managing Systemd and User... Read More
In Episode 0 of Late Night Linux, Joe explains why we needed to have an Episode 0 and when the first proper episode will be released. RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.
