Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Do we use Linux to avoid being locked into proprietary systems and services, or is that just as possible using any OS? Plus we bully Dalton for making us read a very American book.   Digital Minimalism book       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Thumbs up for Mozilla and KDE, mixed reaction to mobile Thunderbird and Microsoft, AI definitely isn’t sentient, and more.   News Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android Frequently Asked Questions: Thunderbird Mobile and K-9 Mail Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users worldwide How to easily switch from Chrome to Firefox How to set Firefox as your default browser on Windows Microsoft Store: no astronomical pricing and paid open source or free copycat applications anymore Microsoft Gives $10k to GNOME clap Ready to transform the enterprise world? We are! Google suspends engineer who claims its AI is sentient Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?   KDE Korner Plasma 5.25 along with Frameworks 5.95 Goal: Apps & the call for new Goals is open Platform Calendar Access followup Qt Patch Level 5.15.5       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   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

Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear.   Buy Hayden’s book about WSL.         Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Arch is really easy to install now, Graham uses his keyboard as a mouse, replacing expensive security platforms with FOSS, silly AI pictures, and Will baffles us with electronics technobabble. Plus feedback about all sorts, including a chance to hear the noise that sends Joe to sleep.   Discoveries Wazuh cheat Sigrok (better write up here) warpd archinstall Dwitter DALL·E mini     Feedback Monit Jason’s command: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1 Joe’s: play -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 150 lowpass -1 150 gain +10 Noice Linux After Dark 18         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Part 2 of the challenge to do something useful with our lowest-end hardware, and two polar opposite customer support experiences.       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The usual love for the Mars helicopter and KDE, rare praise for Mozilla, and fingers pointed at DuckDuckGo and Brave. Plus apprehension about Broadcom’s VMware acquisition, and Intel’s new “features”.   News Alex’s London meetup is going to be a day earlier than originally planned. He’s still working on a venue but stay tuned and watch the meetup page!  Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations NASA’s 161-second helicopter tour of Martian terrain Phoronix Turns 18 Years Old Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot DuckDuckGo: Why our browsers won’t block Microsoft trackers DDG has a tracker blocking carve-out linked to Microsoft contract Brave marketing gaffe Brave’s use of Direct Mailers Broadcom is acquiring VMware for $61 billion VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition Broadcom’s stated strategy ignores most VMware customers Drew’s Tweet Linux 5.18 Released With Intel SDSi, New CPU & GPU Features Intel’s software-defined silicon set to debut in Linux 5.18 Intel Upgrade Service   KDE Korner KDE a Google SoC participent SCAM: Lightmoon IS NOT Kdenlive. Lightmoon is MALWARE KDE ECO sprint May & Nico Fella KItinerary April/May Update KDE Goals: Wayland Job vacancy for furthering KDE in app stores           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more.   Kyle’s Twitter thread       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3iIyKov     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

FOSS alternatives to TeamViewer and Plex, Alexa automation made easy, Thunderbird is in great health, plus your feedback about all sorts including an amazing weird Linux installation.   Discoveries RustDesk Virtual Smart Home Jellyfin Thunderbird is very much alive and it has an RSS reader   Feedback Geekbench results for Linux on Surface devices barrier owncast       Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/3tONetk   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

The first part of our challenge to do something useful with the lowest-end hardware that we own, and whether forking really is as much of an open source benefit as it’s often considered.   Links MorphOS Maru OS       Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/lad to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days.   Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free Today! https://l.kolide.co/35nsvUa       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We break with tradition and talk about some of the things we love about Linux and FOSS. Plus overhyped NVIDIA news, Google relents on free custom email accounts, Félim is trolled about Chromebooks, KDE Korner, and a Rust supply-chain attack drags up an old debate.   News No FOSS Talk Live this year but there’s Alex’s outdoor meetup in August Nvidia takes first step toward open source Linux GPU drivers Hector Martin’s Twitter thread about it Google backtracks on legacy GSuite account shutdown, won’t take user emails Chromebooks are the perfect place to teach yourself about Linux When will we learn?   KDE Korner Lars Knoll Leaving The Qt Company, Starting New Chapter Outside Qt Leaving The Qt Company Almost time to pick new goals and end of KDE Goals: “Consistency”         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   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