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The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.           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.

Used Seagate drives are being sold as “new”, another reminder not to hack Windows 11 onto unsupported hardware, about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS   News Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dealers swap, Seagate investigates Fraud with Seagate hard disks: Dozens of readers report suspected cases openSeaChest Windows 11 on devices that don’t meet minimum system requirements   Free Consulting We were asked about using ZFS on VPS block storage, picking hardware to run VMs, and delegating datasets to containers. Klara: Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces         SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code 25ADMINS to get 50% off your first purchase.                 See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

The furthest north and south we’ve been, art that means something to us, which brand of battery power tools we use, and how we hang our toilet roll. With Félim from Late Night Linux, and Gary from Linux After Dark.   Félim’s moon book photo.     Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.   News Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’ New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting EU OS The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google We’re bringing Pebble back! U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199 Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow Flow – Official Trailer Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow               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/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   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.   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. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.   Moodle Mark’s Bash text adventure Bash associative array examples       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

Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?   Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com         SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code HCS to get 50% off your first purchase.     Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance   News/discussion Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage Migrating away from bcachefs   Free Consulting We were asked about malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.           SysCloud Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code 25ADMINS to get 50% off your first purchase.   Factor Eat smart with Factor. Get started at factormeals.com/25a50off and use code 25a50off to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping.               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act. Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems. keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts. archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums. Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.     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.           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

What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.   Discoveries  n8n isd redshift           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/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   1Password Extended Access Management Secure every app, device, and identity – even the unmanaged ones, at 1password.com/latenightlinux   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. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.   Boomstick Vesktop       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.