Late Night Linux

Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has changed over the decades that we’ve been using it.   News Chef ditches Open Core Linux developer abandons VMware lawsuit How We Measure Standards (and why it’s sort of a problem) Stack Overflow Developer Survey UBports Foundation finally created   Admin FOSS Talk Live   With Age Comes Wisdom? If you got into Linux early then you’re about 40 now. There’s a good chance that you’ve compiled your own kernel, written modelines, and literally got the T Shirt (not that it fits any more). Do you have the time and energy to care about such things any more?   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.

What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, video editors, KDE old and new, Ubuntu Studio, and Red Hat raking it in.   News Google launches game streaming service called Stadia New version of OpenShot & KDEnlive picking up the pace as well Trinity Desktop (fork of KDE) R14.0.6 released KDE Connect removed and reinstated on Google Play RISC-V fifty dollar dev board Ubuntu Studio back from the dead Red Hat crosses $3B revenue mark   Admin UK Open Source Awards 2019   LTS to LTS Will breaks down exactly what happens in the two years between Ubuntu LTS releases.   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.

A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new release. Plus KDE, GNOME, and Debian in the news.   News First Plasma Mobile Sprint Krita: The only graphics app with HDR GNOME 3.32 released Debian Package Maintainer Steps Down Complaining About Old Infrastructure but a partial defence   Maru OS We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about the recent 0.6 release of Maru OS – a Lineage-based ROM that allows you to run a full Debian desktop with Xfce in a container.   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.

Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and the faceless bureaucrats in Brussels are at it again.   News KDE Matrix & Refactored KDEnlive & kPublicTransport Largest open (and multilingual) voice dataset MariaDB bossman lays in to AWS & Oracle Lineage 16.0 EU Radio Equipment Directive   Admin Ubuntu Podcast get together   FOSS Complexity The only real ways to make money from FOSS are support, services and training. So why would anyone make FOSS that’s simple to install, use and maintain, and works perfectly out of the box? Is this why everything is so over-complicated?   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 of 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.

Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite, and Windows X86 apps on Arm Linux in a brief news segment.   News KDE Plasma 5.15 & Snaps Red Hat standardising to Postgres… no Mongo Wine Developers Release Hangover Alpha To Run Windows x86_64 Programs On 64-Bit ARM   Todd Weaver from Purism A year on from his last appearance on the show, Todd joins us to discuss the progress of the Librem 5, and how things are going for Purism in general.     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.   Techmeme Ride Home Check out the Techmeme Ride Home Podcast     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more.   News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Laptop Pine64 forum announcement We won’t see a Raspberry Pi 4 in 2019 Steam For Linux Now Lets You Play Windows Games From Other Stores HP joins LVFS Blue Systems hires a QA manager     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 of 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.

Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more.   News New FOSS Forge Librem 5 Update Purism announces PureOS Store Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5 Phoenix joins LVFS KDE Frameworks Android Integration ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB MongoDB removed from major distros   Cloud vs on prem Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.     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.

A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news.   News Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel Kernel reaches 5.0 FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS) Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users     Predictions We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 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.   EntrowareThis episode of 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: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.   January Meltdown and Spectre   February Nintendo Switch runs Linux Plasma running on a Switch   March New Raspberry Pi 3B+ The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin   April Ubuntu 18.04 released 18.04 flavours also released Clear focus on cloud and containers Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch   May Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images The other flavours could follow suit Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed Huawei locks down its bootloaders   June Microsoft to buy Github   July SUSE acquired   August Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux   September Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs   October Linus back in charge of the kernel IBM to Acquire Red Hat   November Librem 5 slips again   December Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base MIPS to be open sourced   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June   Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 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: See the feeds page for the various options.

Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF.     News KDE on Necuno Mobile: Has headphone jack and …Maemo!? kde-Itinary Update Xubuntu to drop 32-bit ISOs RISC-V & LF Joint Venture FSF gets one miiiiilion dollars Fedora 31 Will Likely Be Cancelled Or Significantly Delayed AMI BIOS updates coming to a fwupdmgr near you!     Digital Ocean This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 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.   Admin FOSS Talk Live 2019 8th June Reminder that G+ is dead   Entroware This episode of 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.     Sailfish OS 3 Graham was recently sent a Jolla phone by listener Matt, and Joe has been checking out an unofficial Sailfish ROM on the Oneplus One.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.