Linux After Dark

If we could go back in time, what advice would we give our younger, less experienced counterparts about Linux and FOSS?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

How efficient are our whole setups – including servers, client machines, and VPSs? Could we be doing more to save energy and money?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

In a world of cloud and serverless, is there any point in most people learning the command line?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Our smallest and our biggest FOSS wins.   Things we mentioned: Homebridge FOG Project boringtun vnStat EasyTAG HAProxy       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

We all tried to live with a touch-only experience on x86-64 devices. It turns out that Linux is very close to offering a great experience.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book.   Digital Minimalism book       Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in...

Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.       Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 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 Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Toda...

The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered.   Links MorphOS Maru OS       Vultr H igh-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit...

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...

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...

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. Subscri...

Dalton tells us about daily driving the Framework Laptop for the last 6 months.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

If you’re going to use proprietary software, why not just run it on a proprietary OS?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Where is the gate for the “Real Linux User”, and who’s keeping it?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.   Links mentioned: Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone         See our contact page for ways to get in t...

At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

What we all want to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2022.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .

What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.   Kinoite London timezone bug Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your...

What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else?     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 w...

Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?   A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops Silverblue: pretty good family OS       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...

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.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS...

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.     See our contact pa...

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.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .  

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.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed .