Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.   Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive ( as is Trinity ) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise   Feedback Cloudfree.shop       Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try...

A new release of Lineage OS is out and we give it a go. Installing and running it, some of the issues we came across, why it’s getting more complicated to run custom ROMs, and why Gary just uses an iPhone. LineageOS 19 based on Android 12 is now officially available     Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr...

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.   News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage from Perseverance landing Ingenuity might not last much longer Oatmeal...

Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin , two Ubuntu (flavour) users.       Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our con...

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI      ...

Dalton tells us about using a Steam Deck for a month, and Chris has a solution for Joe’s Python problem.   audio-visualizer-python distrobox       Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Securit...

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s 8-bit home computer, ZX Spectrum, turns 40 The Steam De...

Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate . Governance and finances, the benefits of being an official Ubuntu flavour, hardware enablement, and more.     Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free c...

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.   Discoveries  Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema   Feedback Qutebrowser Nyxt Browser Int...

We need to talk about Ubuntu. The future, the present, the staff departures, slow snaps, and so much more.     Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  ...

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.   News Work with W ill writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers An update to Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye elementary update Ubuntu gets a new roll...

Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how his approaches have changed over the years.   Alex mentioned his Twitter , his blog , a specific blog post about transcoding video , and Serverbuilds.net .         Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, a...

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.   Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter , and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to save a Mac but there is a FO...

Dalton tells us about daily driving the Framework Laptop for the last 6 months.       Subscribe to the RSS feed .

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime Episode about Asahi This was the first step in the interview pr...

Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.   Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope ( video ) Borderlands synth   Computers are really fast, but less...

If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?       Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.   News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up with elementary GNOME, Mono, Xamarin founder Miguel de Icaza leaves Microsoft Linux has been bitten by its most high-severity vul...

Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy , a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.   Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix @sil on Twitter         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.   Discoveries Pandas ( 10mins to pandas ) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui     Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-...

Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?       Subscribe to the RSS feed .

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.   News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s not ready Lenovo announces the first Arm-based ThinkPad Qualcomm’s ne...

Joe is joined by Adam Pigg , a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.   A thread with some of Adam’s history Jolla forum post about Russia Twitter reply about Russia       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.   Discoveries Python Rich Sweethome 3D react-wordle wordle in under 50 lines of bash Bismuth Kröhnkite KWin-Tiling Mandelbulber2   Feedback fx: Command-line tool and terminal JSON viewer jo Unofficial LNL Mat...