Late Night Linux (mp3)

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.   News No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s... Read More

Graham plays with a synth, old desktops live on, Generation X11 yells at cloud, Will has been a naughty boy, TV alternatives, and Linux on weird hardware.   Discoveries Surge XT synth The Unity desktop is still alive (as is Trinity) 10 hours of a hairdryer noise Star Trek TNG bridge noise   Feedback Cloudfree.shop... Read More

The Mars Helicopter might be on its way out but it’s still a hero, bad things are happening to the UK Internet and we blame the government, whether software can ever be finished, some great discoveries, KDE Korner, and more.   News Martin Wimpress has joined Linux Downtime as a co-host Mars helicopter spots wreckage... Read More

Saving abandonded IoT devices with FOSS, watching directories for changes, monitoring disk usage, window managers vs desktop environments, further thoughts on work-supplied hardware, and more.   Discoveries Tuya Convert entr hw-probe Insteon Abruptly Shuts Down, Users Left Smart-Home-Less Parallel Disk Usage psst   Feedback Touristic Guide — DebConf 22 adblock · PyPI      ... Read More

A new Ubuntu LTS is here and it’s mostly great, the Steam Deck is a huge success, Brave proves that nuance isn’t dead, people flock to Mastodon, KDE Korner, and more.   News Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is released Canonical now hopes to IPO in 2023 Ubuntu Founder Explains Why Distro Won’t Support Flatpak Sinclair’s... Read More

Our discoveries including a better diff, a way to replace Snaps with Flatpacks, a command line cheat sheet, help with YAML, and signing PDFs. Plus your feeback about supporting us with crypto nonsense, running Linux on work machines, an esoteric browser, and more.   Discoveries  Saltstack linter difftastic Xournalpp navi qddcswitch unsnap asciinema   Feedback... Read More

Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more.   News Work with Will writing Go Fedora 37 Looks To Deprecate Legacy BIOS Support Fedora 37 Considering Removal Of Legacy X.Org Drivers... Read More

A varied selection of Discoveries including Telegraf, writing tools, a book about networking, and fixing a Mac. Plus your feedback about Matrix bridges, virtualisation, Pocket alternatives, the BBC, game development, and more.   Discoveries Computer Networks from Scratch a bit like Julia Evans Telegraf FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux It takes a Mac to... Read More

The Mars helicopter continues to excel, Linux arrives on M1 Macs, Canonical’s hiring methods cause a stink, Graham eats his words about MDM, KDE korner, and more.   News You can now support us on Kofi and Liberapay Software upgrades help Mars helicopter keep flying The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! Linux Downtime... Read More

We discuss whether computing become less interesting as performance and abstraction have increased over the years. Plus our discoveries including two way radios, synths, HTML from colourful terminal output, and a personal wiki for Vim.   Discoveries aha blame Canada for computer translation Chirp vimwiki Open Collidoscope (video) Borderlands synth   Computers are really fast,... Read More

Arch and the Web make us feel old, the BBC makes us rather cross, a kernel vulnerability makes us laugh, Mozilla makes us wonder, and KDE makes us happy.   News Arch is 20 years old The Web is 33 years old A new year, a new MDN (MDN Plus cling soon) Something is up... Read More

A varied selection of Discoveries including suspending apps, easy VMs, and controlling pretty lights. Plus your feedback about Linux gaming, whether bug fixes should be more important than new features, and more.   Discoveries Pandas (10mins to pandas) WLED XSuspender subnetcalc Quickemu and Quickgui     Feedback French Keyboard bug in KDE asus-linux.org GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom protondb... Read More

The Raspberry Pi turns 10, the Steam Deck reviews are here, Android is getting proper virtualisation, Arm ThinkPads are coming, and KDE is even better than ever.   News One decade, 46 million units: Happy birthday, Raspberry Pi Android 13 virtualization hack runs Windows (and Doom) in a VM on Android Steam Deck review: it’s... Read More

Loads of discoveries including window tiling, rich text for CLI Python apps, FOSS Wordle, 3D home design, and fractals. Plus your feedback about JSON, Matrix, audio, and an old Mac.   Discoveries Python Rich Sweethome 3D react-wordle wordle in under 50 lines of bash Bismuth Kröhnkite KWin-Tiling Mandelbulber2   Feedback fx: Command-line tool and terminal... Read More

Mixed gaming news, great Raspberry Pi news, Mozilla teams up with Meta and ditches their VR browser, KDE Korner, and more.   News Slackware 15 released Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit vs. 64-bit Performance Review Network install beta test Update on Firefox Reality Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising Pocket migration to Firefox... Read More

Why FOSS is unlikely to gain traction in education, what’s great about Discourse, Linux gaming, the uncertain future of Termux, our thoughts on Snap and Flatpak, and more.   Links mentioned: Termux and its plugins are no longer updated on Google Play Store Termux and Android 10 AppImage, Flatpak und Snap in comparison    ... Read More

The Steam Deck is nearly here, Will is looking for a new email host, Creative Commons is abused, Joe has kernel problems, Félim upgrades his phone, and Graham plays a synth. Plus KDE Korner.   News Steam Deck Deposit – Steam Deck Launching February 25th Farewell, G-Suite Legacy The Pains Involved In Moving on from... Read More

Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.   Discoveries HiFi Berry OS Ceefax lives! NimBLE ESP32 iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux   Why use Mint over Ubuntu? Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released! New Features... Read More

A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.   News JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort... Read More

A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.   Discoveries Barrier rdfind A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer   Feedback CalyxOS and a site to check... Read More