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The Late Night Linux Family
All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Linux Matters, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
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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
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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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Apr 17, 2025 • 33min
2.5 Admins 243: 0.5 Centuries
IPv4 addresses are worth an awful lot of money, the serious dangers of a seemingly sensible deepfake law, Microsoft is 50 years old, and our thoughts on antivirus on Linux and Windows.
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Accurate and Effective Storage Benchmarking
News
Your IPv4 stash can now be collateral for $100M loans
Congress close to passing deepfake law—Trump said he wants to use it himself
Microsoft is now 50 years old
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Apr 15, 2025 • 30min
Linux Matters 53: Crafting Bookshelf Buddy
In this episode:
Alan gives a talk about Luddites at Monki Gras 2025
Mark continues developing and names “Bookshelf Buddy”, a self-hosted replacement for the Yoto or Tonie audiobook players.
Martin keeps an eye on his resources with Resources
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Apr 14, 2025 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 329
Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phones, a new LTS of the flight sim FlightGear, and more.
Discoveries
Frigate
Coral TPUs
daylight
RPi Improved Pan Tilt Module
The Visible Zorker
Flightgear new LTS
Bagels – TUI Expense Tracker
Pixel 9 desktop mode
pinchflat
fixing locale
KIOT
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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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Apr 11, 2025 • 25min
Linux After Dark – Episode 93
Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.
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