Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Also check out Hybrid Cloud Show – the new podcast in the Late Night Linux Family.   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes How to upstream code to open source projects   News Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike   Free Consulting We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.           Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   News Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers Announcing the Open Home Foundation tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again A thread about people who need to run Windows Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed         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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Shane’s platform engineering newsletter   News/discussion Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork Why AWS Supports Valkey OpenTofu not being good fork IAM Is The Worst UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out       Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Here’s our first look at Apple’s in-the-box iPhone updating machine Amazon Ditches ‘Just Walk Out’ Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them Caribbean nation of Aruba backs itself up to Internet Archive   Free Consulting We were asked about disk queue schedulers in Linux.             Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here are the links to everything we mentioned. Snaps Bucklespring   Localsend Snapdrop Hardware Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp 8BitDo Micro Gamepad   Security keys and passwords https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1 https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/04/fido2-hardware-passwordsecret-management.html https://blog.fraggod.net/2023/01/26/more-fido2-hardware-authkey-uses-on-a-linux-machine-and-their-quirks.html Virtualization & Containers Introduction to Virtualization systemd-nspawn containers Gaming A guide to a good docked gaming experience on Steam Deck Voice assistant topics StyleTTS2 Pied Comic and ebook reading topics Calibre Companion Calibre Web FBReader CDisplayEx Komga BorrowBox Audiobookshelf Booksonic Microserver topics N100 upgrade     You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxmatters to learn more.   Tailscale Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds.   Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure?   News German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating   Discoveries rembg Photopea nvtop Giada OMG! Ubuntu article about login sound Joe’s video of the laptop booting with the sound (play -v 0.9 –magic startup.ogg)         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you to build and deploy anything from the ultimate developer workstation to a basic Chromebook-like experience for a non-technical relative.   Bazzite Universal Blue Project Bluefin Install Collector on Linux Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems CNCF Landscape         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Also check out Hybrid Cloud Show – the new podcast in the Late Night Linux Family.   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family!   News backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance for zvols X fixes URL blunder that could enable social media phishing   Free Consulting We were asked about adding SATA ports to a home NAS.             Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.