Late Night Linux

How to document a collection in the long-term, and how to get rid of it once it’s a bunch of old crap. Plus your feedback about video players, email clients, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.   Félim mentioned Camara Education.       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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

A new cheap Pi and a new version of Raspberry Pi OS, Firefox gets pretty new colours, a management shakeup at GitHub, Red Hat’s new dev hiring policy, KDE Korner, and more. With guest host Jim Salter from 2.5 Admins.   News Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 The Pi Zero 2 W Is The Most Efficient Pi Ubuntu Server support Bullseye – the new version of Raspberry Pi OS Nat Friedman leaves GitHub Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers amid budget freeze Firefox 94 Released with Big Performance Improvements Introducing new Colorways for Firefox 94 Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 34 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner November App Update as well as Kalendar 0.1.0 Nicco gives us a quick run through the new KDE Bugs and accent colours on folders Nice look through PolKit Updates in KDE PIM       Giant Swarm Site Reliability job Giant Swarm are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (and other roles) https://giant-swarm.jobs.personio.de/job/180887?_pc=533308   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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

We are all impressed by an obscure open source OS. Plus your feedback about duplicated effort by app devs, ignoring the modern web, Flathub confusion, a positive way to view of the FOSS future, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at Haiku, an open source OS that’s “inspired by BeOS, is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.”   Feedback We mentioned a couple of Flathub bug reports and a new frontend preview.       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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Microsoft upsets the FOSS community, Moxie trolls NFT clowns, Trump’s people don’t seem to understand licences, a 1337 haxx0r tool, KDE Korner, and more.   News Apple joins Blender Development Fund L0phtCrack is now open source Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it Trump’s Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon) Donald Trump’s new social media SPAC, explained Copyleft Compliance Projects Introducing the PinePhone Pro Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision Can we trust Microsoft with Open Source? Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 33 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Graham to start – KDEConnect for iOS and KDEnlive too KDEnlive used for Italian TV 23 ways to help KDE KDE on Touchscreens… not PerfeKt Finally 5.23.1 is out… and NVidia support is coming       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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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

The pros and cons of tiling window managers, and how we nearly use them. Plus your feedback about Flatpak, Firefox as a Snap, a web-based image editor, starting a FOSS career, and why we have a Telegram group instead of IRC or Matrix.   First Impressions We had a look at Regolith, a modern desktop environment that’s built on top of Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3. Graham mentioned tiling scripts for kwin.   Feedback We mentioned Photopea.     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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Mozilla disappoints again, a beacon of hope in the mobile world, whether the future of the Internet really is a dystopian nightmare, and the usual KDE goodness in the Korner.   News Fairphone 4 review 10 Year Smartphone Firefox’s address bar has ads now, but you can disable them News from Firefox Focus and Firefox on Mobile Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 32 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner KDE has a FOSS role going KDE’s 25th birthday How Gwenview got its name Kalendar devblog 17 & 18 Krita 5.0 beta 2 is out and 5 will bring a price bump in the Mac/Windows stores       Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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

Why one of us is probably switching to Xfce, and why Graham couldn’t use a proper Linux phone full-time. Plus your feedback about sandboxed apps, Vivaldi in Manjaro, and why we don’t talk about Fedora very often.   First Impressions We had a look at Xfce, a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems that Joe loves. Félim mentioned Zorin OS.   Graham and the Pinephone Graham’s phone broke recently so he decided to try using the Pinephone as his main phone. He tells us how it went. He mentioned Waydroid.       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.   Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Ubuntu sets out its enterprise stall and makes a big move for Snaps on the desktop, excellent gaming news, disquiet downstream of GNOME, KDE Korner, and details of a new show in the LNL family.   News Linux After Dark has launched! Ubuntu Podcast after-party live stream Ubuntu Makes Firefox Snap the Default Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years Steam Deck FAQ Epic Online Services launches Anti-Cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck GOL BattlEye to support the Steam Deck GNOME 41 released Building an Alternative Ecosystem   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 31   KDE Korner KDE Window Rules Get Drawing With Krita with this Book Ever. So. Closer. And a beta test in October     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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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 we’d do if we were in charge of the Linux desktop, first impressions of an unusual but frustrating distro, and your feedback about Mastodon and Bodhi Linux.   First Impressions We had a look at GoboLinux, an alternative Linux distribution which redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.   If we were in charge of the Linux desktop What we’d do if if we were magically in charge of the Desktop teams of Red Hat, Canonical, and SUSE.       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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Manjaro is shipping a proprietary browser and some people are upset, a win for Firefox on Windows, Proton Mail doesn’t make you magically impervious to the long arm of the law, Bitcoin becomes an official currency in El Salvador, influential friends call it a day, and more.   News Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users? Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy Open source is selfish Ubuntu Podcast is ending Introducing Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python El Salvador becomes first country to adopt Bitcoin as an official currency   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 30   KDE Korner Killing the dreaded hamburger menu and Tags are nearly there NERC Space Geodesy Facility featured on Tom Scott       Crowdsec CrowdSec is a free and open-source and collaborative Linux security solution designed to protect your servers, containers, services, apps, VMs, and more.If you want to join the community and protect your IT assets, visit crowdsec.net   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.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here