Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Joe is joined by Carl George , a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora , RHEL , CentOS Linux , and CentOS Stream . Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS .       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or any...

How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins .   Félim mentioned Camara Education .       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your mod...

What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch?     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linu xafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     Subscribe to the RSS feed .

A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins .   News Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi Ubuntu Server support Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS Nat Friedman l...

Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress . Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch .     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to g...

We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at Haiku , an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”   Feedback We mentioned a couple of...

What it means for Linux to “win” and whether we even want that to happen, and why we talk about Arm so much.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linu xafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     Subscribe to the R...

Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more.   News Apple joins Blender Development Fund L0phtCrack is now open source Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of M...

Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins ) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs .     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways...

The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.   First Impressions We had a look at Regolith , a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for k...

It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get people started with Linux.       Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.   News Fairphone 4 review 10 Year Smartphone Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cea...

Joe is joined by Gary Kramlich , the Pidgin project maintainer. Gary mentioned the contributing page , and the upcoming State of the Bird event which will be streamed on his Twitch channel .     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial....

Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.   First Impressions We had a look at Xfce , a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS .   Graham and...

Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.   News Linux After Dark has launched! Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years Steam Deck FAQ Epic Online Serv...

In the first episode of a brand new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux family, Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe speculate about what will happen to Linux in the next 30 years.   https://linuxafterdark.net/         Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig , a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, about porting Linux to the M1 Macs.   Gary, Chris and Dalton haven’t disappeared. We’ve launched a new show called Linux After Dark .     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professio...

What we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux.   First Impressions We had a look at GoboLinux , an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.   If we were in charge of the Linux desktop What we’d do if if we were magically in...

Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more.   News Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing...

Dalton gives us his first impressions of the Framework laptop , why we didn’t talk about AMD mobile CPUs when the M1 came up, and what we do when the software we want isn’t in the main repo.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a...

Félim is trolled about the cloud, our first impressions of elementary OS, your feedback, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at elementary OS , the “thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS”.   Benefits of the cloud Gary from LNL Extra joins us to wind Félim up.     Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security so...

The kernel turns 30, flagship phones get even more locked down, great news for running Linux on M1 Macs, AMP looks to be exactly what we thought it was, KDE Korner, and more.   News DebConf just wrapped up and there are videos available Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years LINUX is obsolete Samsung will let you unlock your Z Fold 3’s bootloader, but...

Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   &nbs...

What we all thought about the open and federated Twitter alternative Mastodon, plus your feedback about the new user experience, and why Graham and Joe don’t use Linux for making music.   First Impressions We had a look at Fostodon , a FOSS-focused Mastodon instance.   Feedback We mentioned Going Linux .     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training...

New releases from elementary OS and Debian, Apple causes a big privacy stink, KDE Korner, your feedback about Linux grifters, and some mid-summer silliness.   News Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life Child Safety One Bad Apple elementary OS 6 Odin Available Now Debian 11 “bullseye” released   Admin Check o...