

Late Night Linux
The Late Night Linux Family
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.
Episodes
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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
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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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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
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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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Aug 22, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 191
Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.
Discoveries
Tauno Serial Plotter
kdb-audio
ChromeOS Flex is now generally available
Discussion
Open source isn’t working for AI
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 15, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 190
It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines don’t use it on the desktop.
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.

Aug 8, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 189
Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.
Discoveries
bat
Beej’s guide to network programming
LinuxCommandLibrary and f-droid app
Galaxy Buds Client
Lineage problems
battop
Feedback
Late Night Linux Discoveries
code
Joe’s RSS Thingy
Bismuth
How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
GoatCounter
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 2, 2022 • 31min
Late Night Linux – Episode 188
Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in the URL war, Minecraft shuns NFTs, KDE Korner, and more.
News
London Meetup 5th August near The Eye
Microsoft clarifies store policy on commercial FOSS
Torvalds is using Asahi on an Arm Mac, and the next kernel will be 6.0
Torvalds didn’t expect to run Linux on Arm Macs
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
MicrocodeDecryptor
Facebook Is Now Encrypting Links to Prevent URL Stripping
Debian skip-skip-cross-up-grade
Official Unreal Engine 5 editor binaries for Linux have been published
Minecraft and NFTs
Banned from Minecraft, crypto group says it’ll just make a better game
KDE Korner
Latte Dock | Farewell…
The Eco Sprint
Kate incremental updates and Itinerary Update
Bit of love for Discover
Multihead will be no more
Linode
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Jul 25, 2022 • 30min
Late Night Linux – Episode 187
Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot follow-up, and more.
Discoveries
Firefox
xdg-ninja
Steam Deck
inxi
coconutBattery
Feedback
lnl-discoveries
LanguageTool
Linux Downtime 51
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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