Late Night Linux

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.

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.