Late Night Linux Extra

Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source.     See our contact page for ways to get... Read More

Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe... Read More

Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear.   Buy Hayden’s book about WSL.         Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal,... Read More

Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more.   Kyle’s Twitter thread       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations... Read More

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Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams... Read More

Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate. Governance and finances, the benefits of being an official Ubuntu flavour, hardware enablement, and more.     Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go... Read More

Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how his approaches have changed over the years.   Alex mentioned his Twitter, his blog, a specific blog post about transcoding video, and Serverbuilds.net.         Vultr High-performance... Read More

Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to... Read More

Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web.   Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix @sil on Twitter         See our contact page for ways to get... Read More

Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones.   A thread with some of Adam’s history Jolla forum post about Russia Twitter reply about Russia       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds... Read More

Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, and more. You can follow OMG! on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page... Read More

Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub.   Jorge mentioned: His list of resources Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue distrobox ublue sodalite Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022 An example command for zoom which will show... Read More

Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking... Read More

Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day... Read More

Joe is joined by Carl George, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Linux, and CentOS Stream. Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by... Read More

Joe and Alex from the Self-Hosted podcast discuss DockerSlim and Slim AI with Martin Wimpress. Martin mentioned SlimDevOps on Twitch.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.  ... Read More

Joe is joined by Btrfs advocate Neal Gompa and ZFS advocate Jim Salter (from 2.5 Admins) to discuss Jim’s recent criticism of Btrfs.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day... Read More