Late Night Linux

Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the FOSS version of Android called Replicant.     News Nextcloud introduces end-to-end encryption Apple open sources some kernels MariaDB gets a large investment Facebook changes React License to MIT (and WordPress threatening to move away from FB license)     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     Ikey’s trip to New York Ikey has just come back from the Ubuntu Summit in New York. He tells us all about it.     Replicant Jesse and Félim have been trying out the totally FOSS version of Android called Replicant.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more.   News More eKciting developments in the land of KDE Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone Replicant doubles the number of supported devices Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign Public money, public code!   Solus growing pains Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them.     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   All software has bugs. But should it? Joe attempts to argue that properly written software should be bug-free and should only require maintenance for compatibility and new features.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation.   OggCamp Recap Joe and Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences.   News Sailfish for the Xperia X Librem 5 – Matrix blog post Ubuntu Rally in NYC   Playing with old rubbish Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish tip. It turns out that getting Linux to run on it is more difficult than you might think.     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Admin Ikey has been on Destination Linux again     New funding models With the recent news that Disney is pulling (at least some of) its content from Netflix to start its own streaming service, we discuss how far a person’s budget can stretch. In a world where every company has a subscription service and every creator has a Patreon, can FOSS projects expect anything more than some beer money?         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks.   News Nextcloud push into education Solus 3 Released Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24   Q&A We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

This isn’t a proper episode. It’s just Joe giving a very quick update on the OggCamp live show. It will be a joint effort with the Ubuntu Podcast and one of the sections will involve us answering your questions.   There are various ways you can ask a question. You can use the Google Form or you can use any of the methods from our contact page. It would be helpful if you used the hashtag #askogg   Your question doesn’t have to be about Linux or FOSS so you can ask us anything you like. We won’t have time to answer every question.     Hopefully see you there!  

Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more. With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us.     Sorry to System76 On the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS. It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault.   News Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions Krita had some tax troubles but the community came to the rescue with Mega-Props to Private Internet Access Flash is moribund Debian reproducible builds Mycroft Plasmoid Version 2.0     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.     Linux as a Windows/Mac replacement If someone is interested in switching to Linux, what distro or desktop would be the most suitable drop-in replacement? Perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it and we should show them a world beyond their old experience.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more.     Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS   News Akademy running 22nd – 27th July  a nice overview of what went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Admin Destination Linux need a new co-host Jesse and Joe will be at OggCamp in a few weeks.   Mageia 6 Mageia has a long and colourful history so we thought we’d have a look at the recent release of version 6.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15.     News Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22 KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10 Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default O’Reilly exits direct book sales Project Common Voice LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Admin Uncut video of us at FOSS Talk Live   Linux hardware sellers’ own distros With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live.   News Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update   Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   FOSS Talk Live Joe, Jesse and Félim met up at the 2nd annual FOSS Talk Live to record in front of an audience. We each talked about one thing that we like and one thing we dislike about Linux, followed by a discussion about FOSS business models. Ikey couldn’t make it but he was with us in spirit.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13.   News KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0 GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10 The death of the x86 Windows PC? GPG fundraiser Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time     Entroware This episode of Late Night Linux 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.   Admin FOSS Talk Live Mashup show questions OggCamp We are now on Youtube   openSuse Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.