
Late Night Linux
Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
Latest episodes

Oct 31, 2022 • 29min
Late Night Linux – Episode 201
Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old photos, complaints from new Ubuntu users, KDE Korner, and more.
Discoveries
rtl_433
Ardour 7
Palette.fm
Pocket Casts Mobile Apps Are Now Open Source
Santa Circles
Feedback
Unattended upgrades doesn’t upgrade additional repository
KDE Korner
On hiring, and fundraising to make it more biggerer
KDE neon Rebased on Jammy
UserBase Rebooted
This Week in KDE: QA pays off & UI Improvements
digiKam Recipes
Kolide
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Linode
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Oct 25, 2022 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 200
It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The rise of Arm and RISC-V, the death of 32-bit x86, Mozilla’s decline, the Ubuntu Phone fever dream, gaming wins, and loads more.
Linode
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Kolide
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Oct 17, 2022 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 199
Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket, what we do to procrastinate, and more.
Discoveries
ADS-B Exchange
Virtual Smart Home introduce Pro tier
tuning-workbench-synth
tune CLI
HPR New Year live show and FOSDEM podcast table
Tailscale
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Linode
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Oct 11, 2022 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 198
Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RISC-V laptops, KDE Korner, and more.
News
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
New games were still being added last month
Canonical launches free personal Ubuntu Pro subscriptions for up to five machines
Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
First RISC-V laptop available
The Steam Deck is now available with no reservations required (mostly)
What KDE are doing to improve Steam Deck and desktop mode (shipped over a MILLION!)
Debian Chooses A Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware
KDE Korner
Akademy videos Day 1 & Day 2 (incl. Nate’s Goal)
Akademy BOFs & Translations on UserBase
KDE Neon 22.04 will have Firefox PPA instead of snap
Overhall of Kontact Encryption
MiTubo Adds Feeds
Linode
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Kolide
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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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Oct 3, 2022 • 28min
Late Night Linux – Episode 197
Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the problem with open-sourcing AI, Graham makes a dreadful racket, and more.
Discoveries
The CIA has a podcast
CIA museum: Inside the world’s most top secret museum
The Fuck
OPNsense
samplebrain
Mutable Instruments Clouds
httm
Ventoy
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice on Apple’s Mac App Store
Feedback
Mimic 3
Tailscale
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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.
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Sep 27, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 196
systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.
News
Listener Michael sent Joe a LMN 3
Systemd support is now available in WSL
Systemd support lands in WSL
Audacity 3.2 Released with Realtime Effects, VST3 Support
Mozilla calls out Microsoft, Google, Apple over browsers
KDE Korner
Intel Becomes First Krita Development Fund Corporate Gold Patron
Kdenlive Fundraiser
This week in KDE: It’s a big one, folks
This week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability
Plasma Bigscreen
KDE Neon 22.04 Rebase Imminent – Vote Firefox Snap/Other
Official ppa
Kolide
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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.
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Sep 19, 2022 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 195
Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and more.
Discoveries
Navidrome
ImHex
Moonlight
UTM running Windows 10 on an M1 iPad Pro
AI “art”
Artwork generated using AI software Midjourney won a state competition
Professional AI whisperers have launched a marketplace for DALL-E prompts
Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8
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.
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Sep 13, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 194
Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Plasma isn’t default in many major distros, along with the usual goodness in the Korner.
News
NASA Selects SiFive and Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions
Ubuntu Unity Becoming An Official Flavour With 22.10 Release
github-cli Debian package GPG key expires
LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs – The Verge
NFT shit-list
Feedback
UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files
KDE Korner
Neal Gompa explains why do none of the major distros have KDE Plasma as default
KDE Promo Sprint
Kaidan 0.9 E2E & ATM
These Weeks in KDE
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.

Sep 5, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 193
A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earbuds, being stuck in the Apple ecosystem, and more.
Discoveries
TTS
audible-activator
Furnace
Feedback
Gadgetbridge
LNL-Discoveries
LNL-Discoveries – GitHub
Kolide
Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here: https://l.kolide.co/3QqaWW8
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.
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Aug 30, 2022 • 32min
Late Night Linux – Episode 192
We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false positives in scans, and KDE Korner.
News
Introducing multitasking to Arduino
GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash
Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users
GitHub courts controversy by suspending Tornado Cash developers and reneging on cookie commitments
Code, Speech, and the Tornado Cash Mixer
VLC Media Player banned in India, website and VLC download link blocked
Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
KDE Korner
Nate’s updates: Fewer microscopic bugfixes and weekly updates 1 2 3 4
Kate macro recording
Krita 5.1 & KDEnlive 22.08
KDE Snap Packages
Neon 22.04 Docker Images
Akademy Talk Schedule Live
Tailscale
Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.
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.
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