Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Will’s hybrid cloud approach to Pi-hole, and huge batch of feedback about all sorts including Firefox, convergence, home monitoring, email servers, and more.   Pi-hole and WireGuard follow-up Double helping of Pi Hole   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13   Feedback Some predictions about Firefox, follow-up on convergence, and home monitoring/automation, email servers, and FOSS we couldn’t live without. Build an air quality monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana, and Docker on a Raspberry Pi Steve’s series of posts     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Will’s questionable network gear recommendations, Wikipedia at 20, terrible BBC educational material, minimising e-waste, VMs vs containers, KDE Korner, and more.   News Linux distro review: Intel’s own Clear Linux OS Ubiquiti, maker of prosumer routers and access points, has had a data breach BBC educational material about open source Wikipedia at 20: last gasp of an internet vision, or a beacon to a better future? Doubling down on open, Part II Samsung pushes useful retirement project for older phones Right to Repair Europe   Admin Join the community mumble get-together on 29th January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here. Listen to some of the last one on Late Night Linux Extra 13.   Feedback We were asked whether we use more VMs or containers.   KDE Korner Open-source contributors say they’ll pull out of Qt as LTS release goes commercial-only Fedora Kenoite     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   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

What’s likely to happen over the next year in open source, how we evaluate the security and privacy of distros, and more in this recording of the first LNL community meetup.     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Monitoring and automating our homes, heating systems, brewing the perfect beer with a raspberry Pi, modern databases, KDE Korner, and more.   Home monitoring and automation   Will’s links: Raspberry Pi Heating Controller Heating controller code Graphing library InfluxDB Cloud 2 Node-RED   Graham’s links: Home Assistant Domoticz HA Bridge Rtl_433 BrewPi (legacy) Fermentrack   Félim’s links: Graphite Grafana   KDE Korner KDE Matrix Client – NeoChat KDE Apps in the Windows store Highlights from 2020 Geeks, Mops & Sociopaths         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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2020 predictions, and make some new ones for 2021.     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.   Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

We look back at some of the biggest 2020 trends including Arm and Mozilla, consider the fallout from the recent CentOS announcement, and end on typically good KDE news. Plus details of a LNL community event.   Two big 2020 topics Arm 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi 400 PinePhones Shipping PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open Second PinePhone Community edition postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets AWS unveils new compute instances, including compute heavy C6gn powered by Graviton2 marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs   Mozilla Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue Readying for the Future at Mozilla Use your voice to #StopHateForProfit Changing World, Changing Mozilla If you think Mozilla pushed a broken Firefox Android build, good news: It didn’t. Bad news: It’s working as intended   Admin Join the first Late Night Linux community mumble get-together on 1st January 2021 at 10pm UK time. Details here.   CentOS CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream     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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Faux outrage over the Linux Foundation’s lack of dogfooding, an attempt to port Linux to modern Macs, follow-up on search engines and privacy, KDE Korner, and more.   News No dog food today – the Linux Foundation annual report marcan is creating Linux for Apple Silicon Macs Check out the most recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra   Feedback Thanks to everyone who wrote to us. See the contact page if you want to send in your thoughts.   KDE Korner Plasma Big Screen Beta 2 Alternate Character Input Digikam on Big Sur progresses     Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code latenightlinux to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here .

Joe is joined by Brent Gervais, a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent; including a deep sense of collaboration, and the inherent optimism which occasionally causes issues.       Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

What we actually mean when we use the word trust, good news for youtube-dl, why we don’t use DuckDuckGo, and Joe’s shocking switch to KDE Neon (on one machine).   News Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA We can do better than DuckDuckGo   Admin Check out a recent episode of Late Night Linux Extra.   Feedback: Trust We were asked what each of us mean when we talk about trusting an organisation. Your computer isn’t yours Apple responds to privacy concerns over Mac software security process NSA Spying   KDE Korner Linux App Summit All Talks Playlist GCompris is 20 KDE Pinephone: The Point Joe talked about his experiences of using KDE Neon.         Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.   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.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything, Fedora and Silverblue, Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, and much more.     Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified monitoring and analytics platform for comprehensive visibility into cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Start your Datadog trial today by visiting datadog.com/latenightlinux, create one dashboard, and you’ll get a free Datadog t-shirt.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.