Late Night Linux

We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.   News Free Our Feeds Pixelfed Launch...

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sources, objective truth, false equivalence in the media, and more. Plus our favourite discoveries from 2024.   Molly’s personal website [citation needed] newsletter Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes v...

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 makes no sense to at least one of us (who now owns an N100 mini PC), the Linux Foundation seems to think Chromium-based browsers need a helping hand, we troll Félim, and more.   News Lenovo Legion Go S official: $499 buys the first authorized...

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.         Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security ’s agentless threat detection identifies Linux threats without requiring software agents, ensuring no performance impact or system risk.   ServerMania Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with co...

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPress fiasco, why the idea of decentralised social media started to catch on, Raspberry Pi’s IPO, and the inevitable Mozilla doom and gloom.   2024 Linux News in review NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World H...

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser automation, converting Office documents to markdown, markdown in Vim, and why we think Raspberry Pi OS shouldn’t change its default desktop environment.   Discoveries  motion & frigate Octoprint PSU control with Home Assistant klevernotes...

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry Pi hardware divides opinion among us, AI security reports burden FOSS developers, Xfce gets a bit closer to a Wayland future, KDE Plasma’s donation notification really worked, and more.   News Send us your predictions for 2025 Valve’s...

Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.   Voice of the Masses Do you dual boot and why?   Feedback The Linux Foundation – Nonprofit Explorer gui-scale-applet gui-scale-application   Discovery Terrain   elementary OS 8 element...

We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs). With guest host Amolith from Linux Dev Ti...

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.   Discoveries pup 8bitworkshop 20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2 BlinkenLights European Alternatives WisBlock Smart Cube Companion Graham’s cubes Joe’s batt...

Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.   News Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% s...

Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus easily creating a customised Firefox profile, compiling Python, and what Mozilla would have to do for us to move to another browser.   Discoveries  firebuilder GNOME m.uber.com codon Ubuntu Summit   Feedback Zen Browser      ...

Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.   News Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requi...

Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.   Discoveries Taskfinder Thingino YouTube video on how to install it follow up videoon Neos Framework 13 DIY edition Linux After Dark 80 HAL Project How GFX Cards Work G...

The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.   News WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPre...

Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop to the stack.   Discoveries fastboot.js android-webinstall dol...

How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.   News ​Know Before You Go – OggCamp 24 Announcing the OggCamp Swap Shop Get Involved at OggCam...

Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.   Discoveries GitHub CLI dug asid-vice   Feedback Archiveteam   Jason Evangelho Jason&#8...

We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters . Check out his newsletter .   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Seven and a bit years of news Google launches game streaming service called Stadia A message about Stadia and our long term streaming st...

Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.   Discoveries Signal Processing Course KDE Connect Friture wat HARview               1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every...

Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters . Check out his newsletter .   News A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending...

To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.   Voice of the masses Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how?     &nb...

Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual boot, Google quietly drops support for Chrome on old Ubuntu, the Apple tax hits Patreon, and an exciting new Raspberry Pi.   News OggCamp Linux is 33 years old Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its F...

The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details about OggCamp, and whether FOSS people are all old.   Discoveries IPv6 for IPv4 admins bashsimplecurses Reverse engineering an old Seiko UC-2000 taskfinder   OggCamp Gary tells us about the upcoming free culture event in Manchester, UK . Get t...

Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.   Open source myths Open Documentation Academy ( GitHub repo )       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. RSS : Subscri...