Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting joins us to discuss Syncthing, feedback about whether Silverblue is the future, and how the FOSS community might be susceptible to being exploited.   First Impressions We had a look at Syncthing, a continuous file synchronization program.   An inherent vulnerability in the FOSS community Is the FOSS community seems... Read More

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Late Night Linux – Episode 135

The Steam Deck is probably the best news for Linux gaming since Proton, the Mars helicopter has over-delivered, whether Windows 11 is a good opportunity for FOSS, KDE Korner, and more.   News Steam Deck “Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role Help us to improve LibreOffice Calc by completing our... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 134

A quick look at Fedora Silverblue, your feedback including scanning and iOS vs Android, and FOSS devs actually making money with guest Daniel Foré.   First Impressions We had a look at Fedora Silverblue, an immutable version of Fedora Workstation.     Feedback VueScan Scanner Software Swisscows   Software subscriptions and FOSS We are joined... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 133

GitHub might put coders out of a job and piss them off in the process, Audacity’s owners cause more drama, IBM’s surprising management announcement, KDE Korner, and more.   News GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work Audacity privacy notice Clarification of Privacy Policy... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 132

Our long-awaited look at RebeccaBlackOS and how it drove us over the edge, and your feedback about Arch, Firefox, and loud dogs. Then a shocking revelation about who Félim trusts, and where we think Linux will be in 10 years.   First Impressions We had a look at RebeccaBlackOS, a fan-made tribute to the singer... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 131

Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more.   News Microsoft’s Linux repositories were down for 18+ hours Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 24. Dev... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 130

A replacement for CentOS that seems identical so far, and your feedback about IRC, laptop marketing, Arch, alternatives to Windows terminal servers, loud dogs, and more.   Watch our FOSS Talk Live Show.   First Impressions We had a look at Rocky Linux, “a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 129

The new Firefox design annoys Féilim, more Audacity drama, Fuchsia launches with a whimper, Ardour faces an age-old problem, KDE Korner, and more.   Listen to 2.5 Admins episode 40 for a detailed breakdown of the Freenode drama. FOSS Talk Live is happening this Saturday, starting at 7pm UK time on YouTube.   News A... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 128

A quick look at a powerful distro that deserves a lot more time, your feedback, and Graham finally tries out a Pinephone.   First Impressions We had a look at NixOS – a distro with an unusual approach to package management.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together will be on Friday... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 127

Drama in the IRC world, the Framework modular laptop pre-orders are live, good and bad Android news, rare praise for Mozilla, the usual distaste for the UK government, and KDE korner.   News Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management Welcome to Libera Chat Preorders for the modular Framework Laptop are now... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 126

The perfect offline distro, and your feedback about WSLg, Plasma issues, our terrible artwork, some app suggestions, and more.   First Impressions We had a look at Endless OS, “the operating system that comes with everything your family needs”.   Feedback Things we mentioned: Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager grml-rescueboot... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 125

Big news for everyone’s favourite audio recorder and editor Audacity, KDE Korner, and the various ways we all follow the news.   News Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Ultimate Guitar launches Muse Group and acquires Audacity elementary OS 6 Beta Available KDE Developer... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 124

Whether there’s any point trying out random distros, and your feedback about AMD hardware, slow phones, messaging services, cryptocurrencies, and KDE.   First Impressions Is there anything to be gained from trying new distros? We’ll be pressing the random button on DistroWatch and briefly trying out the distro it picks for us. The first distro... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 123

Linux flies on Mars, a new Ubuntu release, the kernel is the subject of an ill-judged study, Linux GUI apps on Windows, KDE Korner, and more.   News NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight Ubuntu 21.04 is... Read More

Late Night Linux – Episode 122

We go through a load of your feedback about Auacity’s new file format and UI toolkit, hacking a Firestick, Google search, the future of Fedora, and more. Plus Joe gives up on KDE. We mentioned Launcher Manager.   Admin The next Late Night Linux community mumble get-together date will be on Friday 24th April at... Read More

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