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

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Late Night Linux – Episode 108

What’s likely to happen over the next year in open source, how we evaluate the security and privacy of distros, and more in this recording of the first LNL community meetup.     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud... Read More

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 13

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

Late Night Linux – Episode 107

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   Datadog... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 106

We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.   Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 105

Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.   News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 104

Joe is joined by Brent Gervais, a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent; including a deep sense of collaboration, and the inherent optimism which occasionally causes issues.       Datadog This episode is... Read More

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 12

What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).   News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo   Admin... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 103

Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything, Fedora and Silverblue, Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, and much more.     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog –... Read More

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 11

Mint finally sorts out the Chromium mess, what distro we should be recommending to new users, a new Raspberry Pi, the problem with Let’s Encrypt’s success, and a packed KDE Korner.   News Raspberry Pi 400 Raspberry Pi 400 with Ubuntu support Late Night Linux Extra episode about the PI 400 Linux Mint pushes out... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 102

The Raspberry Pi 400 is here! Joe is joined by Jim Salter from Ars Technica and 2.5 Admins to discuss his initial impressions, and then Martin Wimpress to talk about Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu MATE on the Pi 400 and Pi 4.     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring... Read More

Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 10

Drama with open source office suites, the RIAA attacks open source, a new Ubuntu release complete with Raspberry Pi support, new Arm hardware, and the usual KDE goodness.   News Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Two Decades Of OpenOffice LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice’s 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to ‘do the right thing’ and die... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 101

Why Windows isn’t switching to a Linux kernel, Will tells us how he stopped his kids using TikTok with a Raspberry Pi, possible LNL merch, and the usual goodness in KDE Korner.   Linux-based Windows We discuss a recent post by Hayden Barnes about the ridiculous idea of Windows switching to a Linux kernel that... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 100

Why WireGuard is the only VPN software worth using, games becoming open source, the slow demise of Mozilla, Cloudflare synergy with the Wayback Machine, KDE Korner, 3D printing updates, and more.   News Amnesia is now open source! BBC Micro Elite source code Firefox usage is down 85% despite Mozilla’s top exec pay going up... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 99

How do we fix the broken Internet? We try to find solutions that don’t mean resorting to regulation. Plus Arm is sold again, Ubuntu community rumblings, a packed KDE Korner, and more.   News NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal Ubuntu... Read More

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