Late Night Linux

Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxic, and more.   News NVIDIA Working On An EGLStreams Back-End For KDE On Wayland (Relevant email) Accessibility starting off again in KDE Ubuntu 18.04 to receive 10 years of support RHEL 8 beta released iwd: Simplifying WiFi New mid-range Raspberry Pi launched Raspbian updated New kernels revert Spectre mitigation Tomorrow’s world special   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   What’s the FOSS community really like? Is the FOSS community really that toxic or is it full of idealists who wear rose-tinted glasses?           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible builds, ReactOS, mobile news and the usual Plasma love-in.   News Plasma updates in the pipeline from Nate Here & Here Purism dev boards when? Lineage OS changing update frequency Samsung announce Linux on DeX with Ubuntu Reproducible Builds gets 300k & joins Conservancy ReactOS 0.4.10 released   Digital Ocean This episode of 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.   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.   Pinebook Joe recently bought an 11” Pinebook and delivers his verdict on it.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interesting Kickstarter, and the promise of a KDE phone. Plus we ask whether FOSS is finally coming of age.   News Pine64 working on a KDE phone Ubuntu 18.10 released elementary OS 5.0 Juno released Simone Giertz launches Kickstarter for open hardware calendar IBM to Acquire Red Hat   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Is FOSS finally growing up? With everyone from GNU to Samba getting their HR houses in order, and behemoths like Microsoft fully embracing open source, is FOSS finally coming of age? Or is the community destined to always drag itself down with infighting and childish behaviour?             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us about his experiences as a new Linux convert. Plus a packed news section that includes Microsoft’s latest embrace of the FOSS world.   News Plasma 5.14 released Exciting Xfce news GNOME dumps yet another feature Redis components forked Microsoft joins OIN and the FSF have a take on it ChromeOS tablet launched   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 We are now on Spotify. Google+ 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.   Jason Evangelho Jason Evangelho is a recent Linux convert who writes articles for Forbes.com. We spoke to him about the ups and downs of switching to Linux.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more.   News KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04 Google loosens grasp on AMP Web 5.0? Fedora 29 beta released Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released Mir reaches 1.0.0 Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier At least half of Azure is running Linux Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 Sailfish OS not dead yet Mintcast needs new hosts   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.   News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5.14 Beta Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive Linux User and Developer magazine to close Has Linus finally had enough? Maybe this is what did it The Post-meritocracy Manifesto Check out User Error   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.     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.     Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it? After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source.     News KDE Pinebook release KItinary call for data Start wine-ing about Steam Commons Clause Desktop icons on GNOME Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma? Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 Released   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 OggCamp live show Bug Report   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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   VM Brasseur VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment.   News Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released Open Source goes all Hollywood Help LVFS gather NVMe data Send me yer invites!   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.   OggCamp 2018 report Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.   Jesse’s adventures in dadland Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods.   News Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS Slackware dev has financial problems elementary OS receives large donation Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects GNOME might get rid of themes What’s next, extensions? Android 9 to be called Pie   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.   Wes mason Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V.     News KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader NPM fail…again Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed) Arm talks down RISC-V But then backtracks   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.     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. Learn more at cdn77.com/lnl   Android Antitrust The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.