Late Night Linux

With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, FSF mockery, a debate about licences, and more.   News RISC-V arrives! Firefox 57 Quantum and the Yahoo debacle Firefox 58 anti-fingerprint etc. Android kernel & SOCs looking a bit rosier Linus gets heated about kernel security, then calmly explains his position, Others act like children Gifts positive in the freedom dimension New magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation – Hackspace   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.   Copyleft vs permissive licences Listener Jeffrey Bouter asked about where we stand on FOSS licensing.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from elementary OS.   News Conservancy and SFLC fall out Canonical Joins the GNOME Advisory Board Ubuntu wants free art Solus, snaps and Steam RHEL gets an ARM version (Related hardware)   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 Joe wants to know if his Nexus 9 is slower than other ones   elementary OS Daniel Foré of elementary OS joins Joe and Ikey.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advocate called Jim Salter.   News Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement Mint to add Flatpak support Oracle Could Still Make ZFS A First-Class Upstream Linux File-System Shuttleworth confirms suspicions that he’s aiming for a Canonical IPO Solus looking for help with aesthetics for Solus 4     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.   Jim Salter Ikey and Joe are joined by Jim Salter to talk about ZFS and BTRFS. We mentioned an old article he wrote for arstechnica. He plugged his project Sanoid. Jesse mentioned this post on the hidden cost of using ZFS for home NAS.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu release for years.   News Librem 5 funded Konvergence Plasma 5.11 is out Jesse always feels like there’s someone watching him Google Announce new Hardware Ikey is singlehandedly saving gaming on Linux WPA2 attacked by nonces     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.   Ubuntu 17.10 It’s the first Ubuntu release since Shuttleworth dropped the bombshell about the death of Unity and Convergence. The final release was a few days away when we recorded this so there might be a few slight changes and bug fixes.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

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.

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.