Late Night Linux
278 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsLate Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 276
April 07, 2024 23:06 - 29 minutes - 23.4 MBThere’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 275
April 01, 2024 20:56 - 28 minutes - 22.8 MBThe main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 274
March 26, 2024 02:05 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBCanonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 273
March 18, 2024 21:56 - 30 minutes - 24.2 MBWhat pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more. Voice of the masses What’s pulling... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 272
March 12, 2024 02:51 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBKDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source Switch emulator, Mozilla does another great thing for the Web, another reason to hate Spotify, and more. News KDE MegaRelease 6 – KDE Community Megarelease Teething Problems This week... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 271
March 04, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBIn a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and the new way he sniffs Bluetooth traffic, Félim loves AI when it’s tracking his head, the open source way to control lighting rigs, a BBS-like... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 270
February 27, 2024 02:31 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MBThe BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Apple kills web apps in the EU, Mozilla focuses on Firefox… and AI, Graham tells us about Canonical’s new Open Documentation Academy, and to celebrate this week’s release of... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 269
February 19, 2024 21:56 - 28 minutes - 23 MBAn open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping, a static site generator for people migrating away from Bandcamp, hello world in every possible language, a synthesizer for making music by drawing objects on an oscilloscope, why... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 268
February 13, 2024 01:57 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBGreat news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts, the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, Xfce is finally moving towards Wayland, Kubuntu sticks with KDE 5 for the LTS, Mozilla makes changes at the top, and more. News Unattended updates for everyone, F-Droid 1.19 is... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 267
February 05, 2024 21:56 - 35 minutes - 28.3 MBChris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekeeper, being tolerant of other people’s choices, accepting that not everyone can use Linux, spreading the word that Linux has improved over the years, contributing where you can, and more. Plus why... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 266
January 30, 2024 01:58 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBApple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source that we hoped it would be. Plus the Mars helicopter has flown for the last time, Microsoft hands FOSS a great opportunity to stand out on privacy, Ubuntu annoys yet... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 265
January 22, 2024 21:56 - 31 minutes - 25.6 MBA Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get free electricity, a dirt cheap travel router, a simple game exposes an issue with Firefox’s extreme privacy settings, rock solid proof that Linux market share is doing well, and... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 264
January 15, 2024 21:56 - 29 minutes - 23.6 MBFélim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way in making AI open, OpenAI admits it doesn’t have a legal business model, and Plasma 6 is almost here. News Dublin Linux Install fest Sat Feb 3 What I... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 263
January 08, 2024 21:56 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MBThe easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising security and admin concepts in a fun game, giving in and using an Amazon stick to watch TV, getting the most out of Bash, and how we host the show’s website... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 262
January 01, 2024 21:56 - 29 minutes - 24 MBIt’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024. Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/lnl and try Tailscale out for free for up to... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 261
December 25, 2023 21:39 - 20 minutes - 16.8 MBWhat would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts Gary and Chris from Linux After Dark, Allan from 2.5 Admins, and Kevin and Amolith from Linux Dev Time. Support us on Patreon and get an... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 260
December 19, 2023 03:41 - 27 minutes - 22.2 MBIt’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, and some tough love for Mozilla. Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! Subscribe to the Late Night Linux Family All Episodes Feed Will’s post that made it to Hacker... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 259
December 11, 2023 21:54 - 26 minutes - 21 MBGoogle’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent calendar, extreme synth geekery, your feedback on backing up photos, a plea to stop telling us about syncthing, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 258
December 05, 2023 04:24 - 25 minutes - 20.7 MBOur first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call to support open source AI/ML image processing, and a mini KDE Korner. News Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family Vulns expose ownCloud admin... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 257
November 27, 2023 21:56 - 29 minutes - 23.6 MBAn improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypass paywalls, making native apps out of web pages, bridging Zigbee devices to MQTT, a terrible way to back up photos and videos from a phone, Félim learns about HDMI standards, and more.... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 256
November 21, 2023 02:56 - 29 minutes - 23.3 MBA new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for GNOME, Signal tells us how expensive it is to run its service, GitHub goes all in on Copilot, our speculation about the OpenAI drama, and a mini... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 255
November 13, 2023 21:56 - 27 minutes - 21.7 MBUsing open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to get notifications, M1 Macbook Air problems, an epic ThinkPad collection, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Discoveries Control your... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 254
November 07, 2023 02:53 - 29 minutes - 23.3 MBWe imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. Plus mixed news in the RISC-V world, a glimmer of hope for desktop Linux on Arm, YouTube’s adblock tracking might be against the GDPR, and a micro KDE Korner.... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 253
October 30, 2023 21:56 - 29 minutes - 23.3 MBRunning your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials with people, a fully free and self-contained modular synthesizer, editing PDFs in Linux, and loads more. Discoveries archivebox.io ia command for the Internet Archive I, Voyager Multi-column view in Mastodon curl supports MQTT wyrd... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 252
October 24, 2023 01:16 - 28 minutes - 23.2 MBA new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more. News Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 251
October 16, 2023 20:56 - 26 minutes - 21.4 MBOpen source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. Discoveries... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 250
October 10, 2023 00:59 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBOur thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. News Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 Testing PCIe on the Raspberry... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 249
October 02, 2023 20:56 - 28 minutes - 23.1 MBSimulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Support us... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 248
September 26, 2023 01:31 - 26 minutes - 21.4 MBThe Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more. With guest host popey from... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 247
September 18, 2023 20:52 - 32 minutes - 26.1 MBSorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more. Discoveries isort Firefox search hints HeadSetControl Asahi Fedora Abort Retry Fail Another Abort Retry Fail Webhook.site Regolith 3.0... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 246
September 12, 2023 01:19 - 28 minutes - 23.1 MBThe Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News Steam... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 245
September 04, 2023 20:56 - 29 minutes - 23.8 MBHacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more. Discoveries UVMOD Antennapod qutebrowser 3.0 acpi Rewriting wipEout Bash scripting cheatsheet Feedback FreshRSS... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 244
August 29, 2023 01:50 - 22 minutes - 17.9 MBWe can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense. News 5 years ago Valve... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 243
August 21, 2023 20:56 - 25 minutes - 20.2 MBRooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more. Discoveries Echo Root... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 242
August 15, 2023 00:39 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MBRare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. News 2.5 Admins... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 241
August 07, 2023 20:56 - 25 minutes - 20.4 MBGreat news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal. News riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 240
August 01, 2023 01:42 - 26 minutes - 21.2 MBWe celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 239
July 24, 2023 20:56 - 32 minutes - 25.7 MBA simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client. Discoveries SQLite Browser WeeChat 4 David Beazley’s Python Courses Dive Into Systems Mission Center SatDump Decoding BW-3 Scott Tilley on Twitter Ebou... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 238
July 18, 2023 01:44 - 29 minutes - 23.5 MBCanonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma. News Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 237
July 10, 2023 20:56 - 31 minutes - 25 MBWill finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more. Discoveries Python tools hidden in the Std Lib... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 236
July 04, 2023 01:22 - 30 minutes - 24.6 MBThere’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they will restrict source code releases to paying customers only. Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes Keeping... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 235
June 26, 2023 20:56 - 33 minutes - 26.7 MBThe pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more. Discoveries Scrcpy lobste.rs Watchy Turris Omnia Footage chatGPT-shell-cli ... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 234
June 20, 2023 02:00 - 36 minutes - 29.3 MBA victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more. News Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him Thunderbird for Android... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 233
June 12, 2023 18:56 - 32 minutes - 25.8 MBA great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more. Discoveries Zeal Clonezilla Wallabag ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 232
June 06, 2023 01:08 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBThe future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio production, open source voice assistants suddenly seem possible, and more. News Check out Ask The Hosts. Episode 1 is available on Patreon. Ubuntu Plans to Switch CUPS Printing Stack to... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 231
May 29, 2023 20:56 - 31 minutes - 25.3 MBWhat we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem. Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 230
May 22, 2023 20:56 - 33 minutes - 26.8 MBGraphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more. Discoveries gping Chiaki image stabilised Apollo 15 Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam The Linux... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 229
May 16, 2023 02:46 - 33 minutes - 26.9 MBThunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 228
May 08, 2023 20:56 - 32 minutes - 26.2 MBWe come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for virtualising Linux on M1 Macs, more on DNS and Yubikeys, and more. Discoveries CEMU TrueNAS from iXsystems To learn more... Read More
Late Night Linux – Episode 227
May 01, 2023 20:56 - 33 minutes - 27.1 MBHow and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound, upscaling photos, and loads more. Discussion The Free Software Foundation is dying Discoveries ruff by Astral LNL Telegram Bot IEM Plugin Suite Graham’s audio demo Upscayl Félim’s Irish landcape photo Félim’s... Read More