
Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Linux Matters, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
Latest episodes

Nov 28, 2024 • 31min
2.5 Admins 223: Google Juice Abuse
Equinix is shutting down its bare metal service, D-Link advises people to dump old vulnerable routers, Google makes changes to how it ranks some affiliate-driven “reviews”, and data caps seem to be sticking around. Plus mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
Plug
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Introducing OpenZFS Fast Dedup
News/discussion
Equinix to shutter bare metal IaaS service in 2026
D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage
Google cracks down on “Parasite SEO,” punishing established publishers
Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you
Free consulting
We were asked about mixing different brands and types of disks, using other partitions on a ZFS drive, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails.
nomad-pot-driver
Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD
ServerMania
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1Password
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Nov 26, 2024 • 29min
Linux Matters 43: Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
OggCampIn this episode:
Alan uses vhs to make a short video
Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs
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Nov 25, 2024 • 33min
Late Night Linux – Episode 309
Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use web-based classic game IDE, reverse-engineered smart Rubik cubes, and more.
Discoveries
pup
8bitworkshop
20 Year Anniversary of Halflife 2
BlinkenLights
European Alternatives
WisBlock Smart Cube Companion
Graham’s cubes
Joe’s battery test data
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Entroware
This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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Nov 22, 2024 • 26min
Linux After Dark – Episode 83
We all compete to create the worst possible RAID array and network storage device. The mantra here was “what would Jim and Allan from 2.5 Admins NOT do”.
Guess who won with this monstrosity.
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Nov 21, 2024 • 30min
2.5 Admins 222: Surprise Upgrade
Windows server unexpectedly upgrades major versions, Microsoft reinvents the idea of a thin client, restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.
Plugs
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DKMS vs kmod: The Essential Guide for ZFS on Linux
News
Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise
No word from Microsoft on shock Windows Server 2025 installs
Windows Server 2025 known issues and notifications
Windows 11 update bug falsely warns of end of support, confusing users
Windows 365 Link—the first Cloud PC device
Free consulting
We were asked about restricting a friend’s access to just their backups, and the importance of warranties when buying hardware.
2.5 Admins 218: TLS TTL
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Nov 19, 2024 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 308
Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE Plasma to the same status as GNOME, Félim’s Neon update goes wrong, Will has network issues with Ubuntu 24.04, and Joe still can’t get Apple devices to play nicely with his WiFi access points.
News
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter?
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation
KDE does a whole lotta bug fixing & raising funds
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Nov 17, 2024 • 21min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 111
Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.
Some resources we mentioned
Andy’s videos – Rust, General
Lobsters
Amolith’s RSS feeds
Computer inside Terraria
Fasterthanlime
Self-Directed Research Podcast
Jon Gjengset
Jon Gjengset – YouTube
DevConf – YouTube
MEAP Catalog
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Nov 15, 2024 • 30min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 17
What would be on our cloud tools wishlist to make our lives better? Consistent APIs and IAM across clouds, vulnerability information for dependencies that doesn’t depend on vendor data, more private compute, and more.
Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com
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Nov 14, 2024 • 36min
2.5 Admins 221: Two Firewalls
Jim and Allan discover modern charging tech and marvel at what’s possible in the USB-C era, more on IPv6 firewalls, using ZFS like Git, and running your own authoritative DNS server.
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Nov 13, 2024 • 20min
Ask The Hosts – Episode 18
Our first games systems, whether we wear watches, and the most cringe moments from our youth. With popey from Linux Matters, Will from Late Night Linux, and Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time.
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