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Linux audio tips, upgrade vs nuke and pave, smartwatches, a new Raspberry Pi, Microsoft and Mint drama, and the shortest KDE Korner ever.   News 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75 Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) beta test version Ubuntu 20.10 desktop might be officially supported on the Pi Mint not keen on snaps AppGet ‘really helped us,’ Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode. Joe on Linux Spotlight Joe on Ubuntu Podcast   Ask us anything sensible We answered some of your questions about upgrading vs reinstalling, smartwatches, and audio on Linux.   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Update & How To Try It On Your Desktop Nvidia Wayland & KDE     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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 deeper implications of all of Microsoft’s recent announcements, good news for Munich, GNOME, and KDE, and mixed news for VR on Linux.   News LiMux is back Patent case against GNOME resolved Half-Life: Alyx Update Adds Native Linux Support, Vulkan Rendering OAuth sign-in with Gmail enabled again in KMail and Kontact   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Microsoft Linux Having admitted that they were on the wrong side of open source history, MS extends WSL2 Support with DirectX to come (more), embraces the terminal and package manager, and Extinguishes the MauiKit name (like before) but it’s OK “it went through legal”. Nice article by original bug author They’ve also open sourced some useless old guff.       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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

Good news for Linux phones and Raspberry Pi users, an embarrassing security incident, Keybase bought by Zoom, KDE Korner, some feedback, and more.   Plugs Check out Joe’s other podcasts The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.   News /e/ Partners With Fairphone postmarketOS now boots on over 200 Linux phones and tablets SaltStack authorization bypass Raspberry Pi announces $50 12-megapixel camera with interchangeable lenses RetroPie 4.6 released with Raspberry Pi 4 support Keybase joins Zoom   Admin If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future episode.   Feedback Ian got in touch to point out that GitLab isn’t quite as open source as we had made out.   KDE Korner Akademy: Call for Proposals Ubuntu Studio switching to Plasma and are already making progress Desktop Plasma on an Android Tablet       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   ScholarPack ScholarPack are the third largest supplier of Management Information Systems for Schools in the UK. If you’re in the Lincoln Area of the UK, check out their careers page at scholarpack.com/lnl         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released so we have a good look at the distro that will be around for 10 years. Plus good news for email, relative stability for Debian, GitHub’s power move, and loads of KDE developments in the news.   Two new podcasts Joe has been busy over the last couple of weeks and has launched The New Show with Daniel Foré and Alan Pope, and 2.5 Admins with Jim Salter and Allan Jude.   Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives What’s new in Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS? Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Official Flavors Released, Here’s What’s New   Admin Check out episode 6 of Late Night Linux Extra with Michael Hall and subscribe to the all episodes feed. If you are a patron, ask us anything sensible and we might answer your question on a future LNL Extra episode.   News ProtonMail Bridge is now open source All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list! Debian Project Leader Election 2020 Results GitHub is now free for teams   KDE Korner KWinFT & Reaction Qt 6 this year Browser plugin update & Brave support coming New kde.org site and a nice walk through time and the rationale behind it 20.04 Apps, KDEnlive     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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  

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including good news for UBports, changes to Firefox, Microsoft’s new LSM, potentially bad news for KDE, and more.   Keep an eye on the All Episodes Feed for upcoming episodes of Late Night Linux Extra   News PinePhone UBports Community Edition Pre-orders are Open PINEPHONE – “Community Edition: UBports” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone Ubuntu Touch Q&A 72: Foundation & Volla News Latest Firefox updates address bar, making search easier than ever Mozilla installs Scheduled Telemetry Task on Windows with Firefox 75 Firefox now 3rd most popular browser behind Chrome and Edge Mozilla goes back to Mitchell Baker as CEO Paul Cormier takes over as Red Hat CEO, as Jim Whitehurst moves to IBM Google and Apple launching coronavirus contact-tracing system for iOS and Android Windows 10 is getting Linux files integration in File Explorer Microsoft announce a new Linux Security Module called IPE   KDE Korner KDE on Instagram February/March in KDE Itinerary Maui Project Qt offering changes 2020 #1: Qt, Open Source and corona #2: Qt, Open Source and corona Qt and Open Source   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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

The impacts of Coronovirus on Linux and open source, KDE Korner, and whether we are seeing the second big split in the FOSS world.   Linux and the virus We mention that FOSS Talk Live 2020 is cancelled and talk about how Linux and FOSS will be affected by current world events.   KDE Korner Plasma Bigscreen (homepage) Plasma Video Winner & Apps Winner Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V. podcast interview   Linux vs the cloud Prompted by NASA’s recent AWS mistake, Joe asks if we are living through the second big split in the FOSS world.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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 feed

We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and more.   News Microsoft’s GitHub buys npm When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests Half Life Alyx is released 23rd March, with no Linux support, despite being developed by Valve using Vulkan. Pinebook Pro pre-orders start March 18th – will ship with Manjaro KDE   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile Frameworks 5.68 is out – and Telegram icons sorted finally Ikona: utilities for wrangling with icons and an icon preview.   Ask Linux We try a new segment where we shoehorn Linux into otherwise relatively sensible questions.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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 feed

Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE Korner.   FOSS Talk Live 2020 Tickets and info here   News GTK website revamp attempting to stake QT Pi4 Gets Server Ready A birthday gift: 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 now only $35   Félim spots OpenOffice on YouTube Félim grapples with whether to tell strangers to use LibreOffice.   Open source apps vs desktops Should we be concentrating more on open source applications like Krita and rather than obsessing over the desktop. We mentioned the AppCenter For Everyone crowdfunder again.   KDE Korner Has Gmail/Google Auth Been Fixed – No (refers to this issue) but updates to PIM coming kTop Seekrit kItinerary all the things       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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 feed

Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and a community crowdfunder in the news, and a packed KDE Korner.     News AppCenter for Everyone South Korea switching to Linux? Windows 7 users moving to Windows 10 Microsoft shares a roadmap for the new Microsoft Edge   KDE Korner Updates to Apps, Frameworks & Plasma: Enable User Feedback (if you can) Acknowledgment it was a bit buggy but plans in place to not repeat that KItinerary Fosdem Video & Repo for F-Droid!   Admin Joe’s Podcasting Basics Jupiter Extra FOSS Talk Live 2020   PinePhone Joe gives his first impressions of the PInePhone.     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   CDN77 This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE Korner.   FOSS Talk Live 2020 announcement The date has changed. It will now happen on 20th June at the Harrison near Kings Cross in London. More details here.   News PinePhone Freedom HardROCK64 single-board computer coming in April for $35 and up Rocket League will drop support for Mac, Linux versions in March Windows 10 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On A $199 AMD Ryzen Laptop Thunderbird moves to MZLA Technologies Corporation umbrella WireGuard will likely ship with the 5.6 kernel Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft ‘upcycles’ Windows 7… as open source   Linux on Will’s Mac Will seeks our advice on how to install Ubuntu on his Mac. Graham mentioned rEFInd and the Chameleon bootloader.   KDE Korner Qt News & Reactions 1 2 3 KDE gets a handshake       Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 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.   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 feed.