Late Night Linux All Episodes

Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.   News NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions... Read More

What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.   Discoveries TTS audible-activator Furnace   Feedback Gadgetbridge LNL-Discoveries LNL-Discoveries – GitHub         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security... Read More

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.

We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.   News Introducing multitasking to Arduino GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users... Read More

It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.   Discoveries Tauno Serial Plotter kdb-audio ChromeOS Flex is now generally available   Discussion Open source isn’t working for AI       Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy.... Read More

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.

It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster... Read More

There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.   Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app Galaxy Buds Client Lineage problems battop   Feedback Late Night Linux Discoveries code Joe’s RSS Thingy Bismuth How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries GoatCounter        ... Read More

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.

Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS Torvalds is using Asahi... Read More

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

Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.   Discoveries Firefox xdg-ninja Steam Deck inxi coconutBattery   Feedback lnl-discoveries LanguageTool Linux Downtime 51     Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee... Read More

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.

Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE Korner, and more.   News London Meetup 5th August near The Eye Lenovo Secured-core PC unable to boot Linux from a USB stick Responsible stewardship of the UEFI secure boot... 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

A modern alternative to the watch command, automating lights, and hacking routers, using FOSS to make installing Windows easier. Plus our thoughts on VC funding in open source, and more.   Discoveries viddy Cheerlights & cheerlights-hid Hacking a Netgear router to be a ‘mesh’ satellite Vita3K Rufus 3.19 adds bypass for mandatory Windows 11 22H2... Read More

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.