Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic media player is back from the dead, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   News Fedora Linux 40 Available For Download As A Wonderful Upgrade Canonical releases Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback US government reportedly ponders crimping China’s use of RISC-V Amarok 3.0 “Castaway” released! Akademy 2024, Würzburg and Online from Saturday 7th September to Thursday 12th September, Registration Open!           Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/latenightlinux to learn more.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.   Emily Bache cyber‑dojo Test with Go         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.   Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com       Subscribe to the RSS feed.

How a smart TV broke a Windows machine on the same network by pretending to be hundreds of different TVs, Jim’s alarming theory about AI malware, and encrypting offsite backups.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Is your PC having trouble? Your smart TV might be to blame   Free Consulting We were asked about encrypting offsite backups.           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/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.   Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/25a to learn more.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

In this episode: Alan gives the rationale for turning the Linux Matters Podcast upside down Mark explains why he hasn’t migrated Plex to his shiny new server Martin flies to the end of the alphabet to talk about Zoxide   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram. The #linux-matters channel on the Late Night Linux Discord server.   If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us using Patreon or PayPal. For $5 a month on Patreon, you can enjoy an ad-free feed of Linux Matters, or for $10, get access to all the Late Night Linux family of podcasts ad-free.         Tailscale Tailscale makes creating software-defined networks easy: securely connecting users, services, and devices. Go to tailscale.com/linuxmatters and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.           RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another classic game is now open source, Arch on easy mode, a trip report from a nuclear power station, and more. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Check out all the great Late Night Linux Family shows   Voice of the masses What’s the best non-mainstream Linux distro? Distrowatch is Not a Measure of Popularity   Discoveries mapscii Descent 3 Sizewell B EndeavourOS StezStix Fix?           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Dalton asks us when consumer computers peaked which stirs up a debate about various generations of XPS and ThinkPad laptops, trackpads vs trackpoints, P-cores and E-cores, and more. Plus follow-up on the devices and software we trust.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxafterdark to learn more.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Also check out Hybrid Cloud Show – the new podcast in the Late Night Linux Family.   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes How to upstream code to open source projects   News Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption After years of testing, Seagate claims its heat-assisted HAMR drives are as reliable as traditional PMR storage Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike   Free Consulting We were asked about learning ZFS, and which filesystem to use for a single SSD.           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/25a and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch.  

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, further proof that crypto nonsense isn’t the answer to funding open source, why telling Windows users to switch to Linux is counterproductive, and yet more FOSS in space. With guest host popey from Linux Matters.   News Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers Announcing the Open Home Foundation tea.xyz causes open source software spam problems, again A thread about people who need to run Windows Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu How Japan’s space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon NASA’s downed Ingenuity helicopter has a ‘last gift’ for humanity — but we’ll have to go to Mars to get it NASA’s Dragonfly Rotorcraft Mission to Saturn’s Moon Titan Confirmed         Entroware This episode 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.             See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps.  It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed