Late Night Linux (mp3)

Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more in the news.   News Ubuntu Pro 64-bit Ubuntu now works on Pi 4 The Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Pre-release Survey First Ever Release of Ubuntu Cinnamon Distribution... Read More

What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news.   News Google Kills Cloud Print Google plans to offer bank accounts next year Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support PINEPHONE –... Read More

We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE.   News LinuxApp Summit Kicks Off Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites Google open source VR SDK The downside of Ubiquiti network... Read More

Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news.   News The BBC has joined the dark web Startpage bought by an Ad Company Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds GNOME fights patent troll Firefox 70 released   KDE Korner... Read More

Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more.   News Software as a Service Dangers Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week Chromium will be a... Read More

Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directories as a file, KDE Korner, and more.   News rms has left the building FSF Award Nominations [Guess who’s now eligible to be nominated] New webpage for Plasma Desktop, Plasma 5.17beta /... Read More

It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us.   News GNOME 3.34 Released Kirogi.org, Kate planning & Kate in the Windows Store, POC KDE PIM Online Accounts with some PIM News and KDE Goals PinePhone Developer PreOrders Librem... Read More

We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more.   News KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept. GUADEC videos GNOME Firmware Updater Google’s Tracking... Read More

Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news.   News Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P... Read More

We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms.   News KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update… More good news for Blender from Ubisoft VLC... Read More

When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more.   News KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same... Read More

Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro.   News Test Plasma Easily, KDE PIM Update, U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as... Read More

It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”.   News Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack Raspberry Pi4! Plasma 5.16... Read More

It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one.   News KDE Apps Website Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers GMail Confidential Mode to be on... Read More

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead.   News Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released Xfce 4.14pre1 released! Google pulls Huawei’s Android... Read More

It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more.   News KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App... Read More

It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types users that they each target.   Distro round table Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu   Admin FOSS Talk Live   Digital Ocean This episode... Read More

Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it.   News Chef ditches Open Core Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a... Read More

What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in.   News Google launches game streaming service called Stadia New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive... Read More

A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news.   News First Plasma Mobile Sprint Krita: The only graphics app with HDR GNOME 3.32 released Debian Package Maintainer... Read More