
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

May 4, 2025 • 26min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 123
Andy is convinced that functional programming isn’t boring. Listen to find out if he’s right!
Functional Programming & Haskell
Beautiful Racket
Functional Programming & Haskell – Computerphile
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May 2, 2025 • 29min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 29
Aaron and Shane both recently had a bad experience when buying hard drives, the hardware we picked for our homelabs, why gigabit LANs aren’t quite cutting it anymore, an update on Shane’s janky Kubernetes setup, and more.
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May 1, 2025 • 30min
2.5 Admins 245: IPaaS
Crosswalks were comically vulnerable to being hacked, even Google struggles with tiered SSD and HDD storage, some insight into how AI scrapers are using domestic IPs, and creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.
Plugs
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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking
News/discussion
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
Even Google struggles to balance fast-but-pricey flash and cheap-but-slow hard disks
How Colossus optimizes data placement for performance
The web is broken, IMHO
Free consulting
We were asked about creating a ZFS mirror one disk at a time.
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Apr 29, 2025 • 39min
Linux Matters 54: High Precision Solid Metal Balls
In this episode:
Martin switches from traditional mice to trackball and gets a bit carried away with customising them
L-Trac Trackball
L-Trac Trackball
Kensingston SlimBlade Pro Trackball
input-remapper: An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
Alan refines his contribution workflow to Savannah and brings it bang up to date.
Mark self-hosts an ONLYOFFICE integrated with Nextcloud.
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Apr 28, 2025 • 23min
Late Night Linux – Episode 331
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
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Apr 25, 2025 • 24min
Linux After Dark – Episode 94
What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.
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Apr 24, 2025 • 31min
2.5 Admins 244: Branded and Splintered
Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn’t appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.
Plugs
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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS
News
Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives
CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
Free consulting
We were asked about backing up the keys for encrypted backups.
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Apr 22, 2025 • 24min
Late Night Linux – Episode 330
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 42, that is
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
What’s new in APT 3.0
Getting Forked by Microsoft
The Day AppGet Died
KDE Korner
This Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
KWallet Now A Wrapper For Secret Service
Akademy Registration Now Open
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Apr 20, 2025 • 22min
Linux Dev Time – Episode 122
We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?
Vim for Fun or PeerTube version
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Apr 18, 2025 • 28min
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 28
With increasing numbers of organisations starting to seriously think about moving away from US-owned providers, we dig into the technical challenges of major cloud migrations.
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