Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.   Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   9.5 years of good news Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023) A...

Macros: are they a superpower, a necessary evil, or a mistake?                   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

Shane wants to make his homelab less janky so needs to decide on how to split up his compute and storage, plus some of the KVM over IP devices we own and how we use them.             Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes     Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Microsoft claims that Windows 11 will work well with 8GB of RAM, some of the innovations coming to high end SSDs, the arguments for TP-Link Omada over Ubiquiti UniFi.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes FreeBSD Support: Greatest Hits   Discussion Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 Windows quality: an up...

Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.   Bootc desktops bootc Using Bootc to Manage Ubun...

It’s a forced positivity episode! We all come up with some positive things to say about Linux and open source.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

In a world where photos can no longer be trusted, Jim argues that we should move to a default distrust model where images are signed at every stage of the process of creation. We get into some of the potential issues. Plus how to ensure continuity for your clients in the event of your demise, and setting up a system to demonstrate ZFS replication capabilities.   Plugs Support us on patreon an...

Our favourite emoji, favourite vehicles, and whether we’d prefer to live in an icy or cold climate or an extremely hot one. With Félim ,  Gary , Jim , Allan , May ,  Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show , and special guest Shane from Linux Lads .            

Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark , and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show .   News Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to L...

How deep should you go with your understanding of systems?                 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

The biggest homelab mistakes we’ve made, and what we learned from them.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Microsoft restored an account including files that it initially claimed wasn’t possible, Apple might lock down phones if people don’t keep up their lease payments, ZFS scrubs shouldn’t be painful, and accessing another network from a locked-down work machine.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need...

Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.   Ne...

We got a lot of feedback about choosing a distro for the friends and family we support, but a lot of suggestions didn’t make sense to us. We get into why we pick boring and safe choices instead of interesting and exciting ones.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes        ...

Google wants you to use a selfie video for account recovery, LG will stop apps turning their smart TVs into residential proxy nodes, we disagree about how serious OpenAI’s agent hacking Hugging Face is, FreeBSD removes the last bits of GPL software and suffers an embarrassing git flub , and backing up to an encrypted NAS without ZFS.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS f...

With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.   News/discussion Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late &...

Does language choice actually matter?               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

It’s another hot questions episode! Tech we’d use if we rebuilt everything from scratch, career advice to our past selves, how much of our jobs we could do from our phone, and the qualities we’ve seen in great managers.               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         &nbsp...

A new HTTP caching standard looks promising but might struggle to get adopted, a terrible space mirror idea is actually happening, cars will spy on us all, and picking a VPN for use with an IP that doesn’t change very often.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes   News/discussion HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop prete...

Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.   Discoveries Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert) open-apollo Ovine EndeavourOS        ...

Having seen some technologies come to a definite end, Chris wonders if we should be willing to draw a line under open source software sometimes.                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Microsoft really wants your Windows settings data, secure boot has been useless for a decade, our thoughts on (the idea of) Incus and IncusOS, and configuring ZFS for a Lightning Memory Mapped Database.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Jails, Not Containers: FreeBSD Isolation Done Right   News/discussion Microsoft flips Windows Backup to...

Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.     News Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’...

With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for...

Is the industry now better or worse than when we got into it?               Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed .