Late Night Linux

We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more.   News KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept. GUADEC videos GNOME Firmware Updater Google’s Tracking Protection BS? – EFF Chime in Fairphone3 MS Graciously Allows Us To Use Its Obvious & Non-Novel Patent For exFAT Glimpse of a GIMP Chris Beard to step down as Mozilla CEO Software Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry   Admin Come to OggCamp!       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.

Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news.   News Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P sprint…but not really Xfce 4.14 released ZFS on / coming to Ubuntu desktop Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman   Graham’s 3D printer Graham recently bought a 3D printer and tells us all about it.     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 enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms.   News KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update… More good news for Blender from Ubisoft VLC is somewhat fed up with security researchers Xfce 4.14 Inches Closer to Release Firefox Reality, browser designed for viewing the web in virtual reality Valve and Colabora backed Xrdesktop Brings Linux Desktop Environments Into VR Cloudflare terminating Service for 8Chan 8chan’s hardware provider discontinues service     A reimagined foundation for Linux What would a foundation for Linux look like if we were to start one today?     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.

When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more.   News KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same time Like Linux? Then don’t buy Dell’s new XPS 13 F-Droid Reproducible New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files Maintainer for gpodder.net needed     Admin Come to OggCamp!   Free Software and free speech With Gab recently switching to a Mastodon base, an old debate has emerged. The Mastodon project has taken steps to isolate Gab and F-droid has taken a similar position.     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.

Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, Debian 10, and the Pinebook Pro.   News Test Plasma Easily, KDE PIM Update, U&P Sprint bears fruit again and again Self congratulating idiots propose Mozilla as Internet Villian Of The Year Pinebook Pro coming soon Debian 10 Buster released     Raspberry Pi 4 Graham and Joe have been playing with their new toys   Admin Come to OggCamp!     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.

It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, the Raspberry Pi 4, KDE updates, and Facebook’s new “cryptocurrency”.   News Ubuntu announce that they’ll drop i386 but then backtrack Raspberry Pi4! Plasma 5.16 & 5.16.1, KDE Goals, Updates to KDE.org Firefox Premium? Lots of Debian packages being built for RISC-V PinePhone looking good Facebook to launch cryptocurrency   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.

It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next one.   News KDE Apps Website Google Browser Control via DRM; Use Firefox & block fingerprinting while you’re at it and trackers GMail Confidential Mode to be on by default for G Suite users Stadia details announced   FOSSortunities We all knew that privacy would be the next big market in computing but once again we have failed to capitalise. Apple has cornered that market now. We keep missing opportunities like Vista and Windows 8. How do we prepare for the next opportunity, spot it early, and strike at the right time?     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.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux isn’t dead.   News Plasma 5.16 – Wireguard GUI in NM & Wayland Remote Desktop & KItinerary continues & Elisa 0.4 Released Xfce 4.14pre1 released! Google pulls Huawei’s Android license Huawei responds 90 day reprieve Now even Arm cutting them off Félim very smug about buying an AMD CPU Nextcloud & Nitrokey Join forces for 2FA (and Gentoo) Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown Github Sponsors HN discussion   Time to ditch 32-bit x86 Linux for good? Joe was recently given an old Atom netbook that is 32-bit only. What can you actually do with a machine of that age and low specs? Is it time to move on from this legacy architecture?     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.

It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Debian, and more.   News KDE Apps 19.04 Is out & snapped first (Neon writeup), Next-Gen notifications & Akademy 2019 in Milan in Sept & Gnome&KDE Linux App Summit Windows Shipping Linux Apache SF joins Github RHEL 8 Out Now RIP In Peace Shadowman Red Hat Blog Shuttleworth on Desktop Linux Support boom Judgement Day for Nextcloud – File sharing became self aware on this day Mozilla certificate fun (Disable Studies again…) update & more updates Debian Buster will be Wayland Google creates ‘dedicated placement’ in search results for AMP Stories, starting with travel category The end of Works With Nest could be trouble for smart homes     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.

It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work together, what makes them different, and the types of users that they each target.   Distro round table Fedora openSUSE Ubuntu   Admin FOSS Talk Live   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.