Late Night Linux

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...

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-...

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...

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...

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.   News Slackware 15 released Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review Network install beta test Update on Firefox Reality Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising Pocket migration to Firefox accounts Google Stadia has reportedly...

Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.   Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store Termux and Android 10 AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s...

The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.   News Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th Farewell, G-Suite Legacy The Pains Involved In Moving on from Google Apps for Domains A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enab...

Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.   Discoveries HiFi Berry OS Ceefax lives! NimBLE ESP32 iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux   Why use Mint over Ubuntu? Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released! New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Editi...

A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.   News JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort Open source maintainer threatens to throw in...

A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.   Discoveries Barrier rdfind A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer   Feedback CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android   &n...

Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.   News/discussion Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?! Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz...

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.     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/latenightlinu x and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets...

We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.   2021 Linux year in review Mars Linux has made it to Mars [feb] NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr] NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr] Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr] “Huge leap” for NA...

Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS.   First Impressions We had a look at Garuda Linux , a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux.   Convergence Graham tells us about running proper Linux on his phone with AnLinux . He mentioned Termux...

Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more.   News EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint Who is the target user? More about those zero-dot users “New” old functionality with Ras...

A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections.   First Impressions We had a look at Alt Linux , a Russian distro.   Feedback Zim – a desktop wiki This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virt...

Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner.   News Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice Google-translate...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...