Late Night Linux (mp3)

Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner.   News Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management Welcome to Libera Chat Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now... Read More

The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager grml-rescueboot... Read More

Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.   News Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity elementary OS 6 Beta Available KDE Developer... Read More

Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.   First Impressions Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro... Read More

Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.   News NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight Ubuntu 21.04 is... Read More

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. We mentioned Launcher Manager.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 23th April at... Read More

Signal disappoints with crypto nonsense, Google finally triumphs over Oracle, Nvidia helps out Mozilla’s voice project, the EFF helps you find out if you’re part of Chrome’s latest experiment, KDE Korner, and more.   News Signal is testing a payments feature that lets you send cryptocurrency to friends WTF: Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Signal finally... Read More

The lengths that we’ve all been to for a smooth home media setup, your feedback about SUSE and NFTs, and we hear from some actual young people who use Linux.   Home media setups MythTV, Pis, x86 boxes, and grown-up solutions like the Firestick How to Stream Netflix, Disney Plus, and more on raspberry pi... Read More

Stallman is back and ruffling feathers, PHP moves to GitHub, AMP might be on its way out, Audacity’s latest update gives us pause, Fairphone delivers an unlikely update, online events, and more.   News Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies Announcement video An open letter... Read More

What’s changed about Linux and FOSS in the last crazy year, a new private search engine on the horizon, and your feedback about all sorts.   A new hope for search? Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version   Admin The next mumble... Read More

Graham tries to argue that NFTs are sometimes good, SUSE prepares IPO, Canonical gets friendly with Google, Konvergence in KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Link now available on Linux SUSE prepares for multi-billion Euro IPO Canonical Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps NASA Mars helicopter lead on Linux Unplugged   Admin... Read More

Why so many distros ship GNOME by default, a retro OS on modern hardware, Mint’s update woes, your feedback, and more.   RISC OS with the Pi 400 Will has a new Raspberry Pi 400 and has been trying out RISC OS.   Mint’s update problem Update your computer! Vague update   Admin Join the... Read More

Linux on another planet, Chrome OS enjoys huge success, great Firefox improvements, a flawed but well-meaning idea for a laptop, free RHEL for FOSS projects, Xfce news, and KDE Korner.   News Linux has made it to Mars Chromebooks outsold Macs worldwide in 2020, cutting into Windows market share Latest Firefox release includes Multiple Picture-in-Picture... Read More

Which messaging services we use, Debian, web apps and Firefox in your Feedback, and running proper distros on Chromebooks.   Messaging Overload Our thoughts on a recent blog post by popey about all the different messaging apps and services that he uses.   Feedback Follow-up on Debian, progressive web apps, and supporting Firefox.   Linux... Read More

Internet outrage about Raspberry Pi OS and Ubuntu on Azure, slightly new LibreOffice branding, when software freedom is a matter of life and death and more in the news, plus the usual Kool Kapers in KDE Korner.   News Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS Pitchforks set to Stun Visual Studio... Read More

Whether Debian should be easier for new users, Twitter pretends to care about decentralisation, a protip about portable monitors, how we should run an online FOSS Talk Live, and your feedback.   Using an Android tablet as a portable monitor All you need is a cheap USB capture device and an app from the Play... Read More

Graham’s Pi microcontroller prediction comes true, great progress with Linux on M1 Macs, Element’s Play Store troubles, hope for Firefox and web standards docs, mixed VR news, a new tablet distro in KDE Korner, and more.   News Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 Arduino To Release Board Based on... Read More

Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.   Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the... Read More

Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.   News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp... Read More

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.   Home monitoring and automation   Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED   Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack  ... Read More