Late Night Linux

Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.   News Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies Announcement video An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership...

What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.   A new hope for search? Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version   Admin The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here .  ...

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged   Admin The next mumble get-together date...

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.   RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS .   Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on Thursday 11th March 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details her...

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.   News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture and Total Cookie Protection Introducing...

Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.   Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.   Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.   Linux on Chrome OS devices We are joined by Chris P...

Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.   News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio Code comes to Raspberry Pi Patch in this commit Dev creeped out after...

Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.   Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play Store . Full instructions here . Félim’s 800×480 screen   News/discussion Tw...

Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.   News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon How We Ported Linux to the M1 M1 Macs bo...

Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.   Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here . Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13  ...

Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.   News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, o...

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.   Home monitoring and automation   Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED   Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack   Fé...

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.     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/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – t...

We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.   Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones Shipping PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open Second PinePhone Community edi...

Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.   News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra   Feedback Thanks to everyone who wrote to...

What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).   News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo   Admin Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra .  ...

Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.   News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical’s Snap Store...

Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.   News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die youtube-dl removed from...

Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner.   Linux-based Windows We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that ESR put out there a few weeks ago.   Will’s adventures in DNS Will...

Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.   News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up 400% Killed by Mozilla Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine...

How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.   News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu community drama Mark Shuttleworth to revive Ubuntu Community Council...

Bad news for Mozilla, divided opinion on modular phones, AI takes over aviation, whether Canonical is on the right path, and plenty of great developments in KDE Korner.   News Joe will be doing Linux Action News again because Jupiter Broadcasting is independent again Changing World, Changing Mozilla Sources: Mozilla extends its Google search deal If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox A...

How a Windows user views desktop Linux, some ask us anything questions, and Félim’s attempts to solve his RSI problem.   Kyle the Windows user We discuss the recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra where Joe spoke to Kyle. He’s a technical Windows user who cares about privacy and security. He tried Linux but didn’t stick with it. Kyle will be back on the next episode of Lat...

A look back at the year in Linux so far, some speculation about what’s coming, Lineage OS on the Raspberry Pi, and KDE Korner.   Lineage Love-in OnePlus One, Sony Xperia XZ2 series, F(x)tec Pro1 get LineageOS 17.1 Lineage 17.1 on the Pi   Admin Keep an eye on the Late Night Linux Extra feed   FOSS trends 2020 We take stock on the year in Linux and FOSS so far, and speculate on...

It’s been an unusually busy couple of summer weeks so we dig into the news including Canonical teaming up with Google, more updates from Pine64, and LibreOffice drama. Plus Will came up with a new segment, and KDE Korner.   News COVID Tracker Ireland app one of Linux Foundation Public Health’s first open source projects Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter Pine...