Late Night Linux (mp3)

Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY’s confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News/discussion Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS Save 20% on Look Mum No... Read More

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE’s new immutable arch-based distro, and more.   News All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the... Read More

The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of... Read More

Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones DOGWALK Official Release Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access... Read More

Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the Telegram snap on Wayland, some AI bollocks, and a browser extension to automatically use privacy-preserving versions of big websites.   Discoveries Home Assistant Developer Environment xLights QLC+ Telegram snap issue... Read More

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative Commons disappoints on AI, and more.   News Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing... Read More

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and European government departments moving away from Microsoft and they might stick with Linux and FOSS this time.   Discoveries Strudel rsyncy Spring IceCream DNS4EU   News/discussion Two city governments in Denmark are... Read More

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROMs for Pixel phones are going to be much more difficult to make, Apple is adding proper OCI containers to macOS, and more.   News Ubuntu 25.10 drops... Read More

Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets a new Executive Director, the Android Desktop mode is officially happening, and Linux Format magazine is no more. Plus a cool Frigate update, auto dark mode in Plasma, and Fender’s... Read More

Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functionality until they made a public stink about it, WSL is now open source, there’s a new open source command-line text editor in Windows, and more.   News Investing in what moves the... Read More

Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more documentation tools, and moving to a new Mastodon instance.   Discoveries entii-for-workcubes Learn C, Coding for Kids Isonzo Material for MkDocs markata mdq Moving to a new Mastodon instance... Read More

It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least some positive things about the thing we land on. (It makes sense once we start).           Porkbun.com Go to https://porkbun.com/LNL25 to get $1 off your... Read More

The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex from Open Web Advocacy tells us all about it. But first we talk about blocking ads on the web with Pi-hole, uBlock Origin, and AdGuard public DNS.    ... Read More

Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants you to use the “proper” VS Code, Intel AI chips aren’t selling well, yet another open source project has to deal with crawlers, TrueNAS goes Linux-only, and more.   News Trump DOJ goon... Read More

Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics manipulation, strange old audio archives, and more.   Discoveries  POWKIDDY X55 ROCKNIX undercut-f1 WebTUI Astro Docs Pinta 3.0 python-sh Attention K-Mart Shoppers Techmoan r/LiminalSpace The Conet Project You are listening to... Read More

Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution – Phoronix The answer is 42! Fedora Linux... Read More

Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.   Discoveries Frigate Coral TPUs daylight RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module The Visible Zorker Flightgear new LTS Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker... Read More

AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something bad, LibreOffice downloads are doing well, Thunderbird is planning new services, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries Wikimedia... Read More

What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and why moving to a new distro just means moving to new little problems to fix.   Discovery Wilsonic MTS-ESP         Tailscale Tailscale is an easy... Read More

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye to X11, Ubuntu looks to drop GNU coreutils, GIMP 3 is out and still has a terrible name, and new Pebble devices will be shipping soon™.   News Home Assistant officially... Read More