Late Night Linux (mp3)

A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big?   News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE... Read More

Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.   News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud   Admin OggCamp Call for papers... Read More

With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.   New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.... Read More

It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media.   News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the... Read More

A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show.     News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video) Debian and Kali Linux now available... Read More

It’s a  mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism.   News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable... Read More

We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases.   News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to... Read More

It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?”     News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear... Read More

KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the state of accessibility in Linux.   News KWin/X11 is feature frozen Exciting GNOME news Purism keep up their excellent PR Nextcloud Talk Major vulnerability hoax site   Entroware This episode... Read More

A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018.   News KDE Community 2017 & Browser integration in June Speech recognition on Linux? Meltdown and Spectre Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux... Read More

It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories.   January No New Ubuntu Phones on the Horizon, And No Major Updates for Existing Ones, Either Cyanogenmod became Lineage OS   February Arch and Tails announced that they... Read More

Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, corporations try to avoid GPL litigation while Mozilla faces a suit from Yahoo, and Patreon has reignited the FOSS funding debate.   News KDE’s vision for the next 3-4 years... Read More

With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more.   News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a... Read More

FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS.   News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version (Related... Read More

The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter.   News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms... Read More

Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years.   News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on... Read More

Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant.     News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to... Read More

All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more.   News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign... Read More

We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation.   OggCamp Recap Joe and... Read More

It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks.   News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists... Read More