Late Night Linux

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.

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.  

Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12.   News Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control) It’s designed for people with quadriplegia in reality but the video here has a nice demo Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0  just weeks before a new major Debian release     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.     The realities of enterprise computing Joe recently attended a Linux meetup in London and learned the harsh reality is that although Linux is the standard on servers, almost no one uses it on the desktop, despite how terrible Windows 10 is.     Admin Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc.   We spoke about FOSS Talk Live and specifically the drunken mashup show which will feature Joe, Stuart Langridge, Dave Megaslippers and Marius Quabeck answering your questions!     Fedora We don’t seem to talk about Fedora very often so we invited Matthew Miller onto the show to tell us about it.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and proper convergence in action with Maru OS on LNL 11.   News Canonical starts IPO path; very interesting related article SUSE and Fedora being added to Windows 10 Raspberry Pi Foundation encourages kids to make their own Google Assistant in a box Google’s copyleft-free mobile OS Fuchsia starts to come together   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 Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc. Linux Action News has launched   Maru OS We are joined by Preetam D’Souza to talk about his project Maru OS which combines an Android Open Source base with a containerised Debian desktop to create a truly useful convergent device.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.  

Yet more Ubuntu fallout including forks of their dead desktop and mobile platform, Libreboot wants to rejoin GNU, mobile Linux coming together, IoT standardisation and how to spread the word about FOSS on LNL 10.   News Wayland and GNOME to be default in Ubuntu 17.10 Yunit tries to avoid a mutiny as UBports looks to have avoided theirs Libreboot applies to rejoin GNU Halium aims to standardise mobile Linux development The open interop platform for the IoT edge; Cloudflare has their own IoT security solution   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.   How to talk to normals about FOSS What’s the best way to introduce people to the idea of FOSS? Explain the practical benefits, go full on rms, or something in between?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and more on LNL 09.   News Samsung’s Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written Drupal needs a decent HR department Mastodon is the latest social media fad, despite having been around for several years under different names. It might not last Substantial update to Windows Subsystem for Linux Solus adds a GNOME edition   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.   Jesse’s black box Jesse tells us about the Raspberry Pi that he doesn’t connect to a network and asks whether it’s OK to avoid updates.   Admin Thanks to everyone for supporting us with PayPal and Patreon etc. We didn’t give people individual shoutouts but if you want to hear your name on the podcast, get in touch. If you want to join our existing supporters, check out the support page for various ways to do that. Also thanks to everyone who advised Jesse about moving away from LastPass.   Updates on the Ubuntu announcement Ubuntu GNOME to merge with the main edition Phones and tablet will only receive security patches until June 2017 (2 more months) UBports to carry on with Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8; will integrate Anbox Separate Unity 8 fork Staff layoffs and CEO to leave Ubuntu 12.04 ESM seems to only be aimed at servers         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.