Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

We look back at some of the biggest stories and trends of 2021 including Linux on Mars, gaming, Arm, drama, and NFTs.   2021 Linux year in review Mars Linux has made it to Mars [feb] NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter achieves historic powered flight on Mars [apr] NASA’s Mars helicopter makes second flight [apr] Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight [apr] “Huge leap” for NASA’s Mars helicopter ushers new mission support role [jul] Mars helicopter has Log4j bug, breaks records all the same [dec]   Gaming Google closes Stadia’s dedicated game studios after less than 2 years [feb] Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap [nov] Amazon Luna runs on Windows — and yet it’s hiring Linux gaming engineers [dec] Steam Link now available on Linux [mar] Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC [jun] Steam Deck [jul] EAC has come to Linux and BattlEye is inbound [sep] Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 [nov]   Drama Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies [mar] FSF Adopts New Governance Framework for Board Members [dec] Audacity 3.0.0 Released [mar] Audacity & MuseScore Announcement! [may] Audacity finds new and exciting ways to annoy contributors with a Contributor License Agreement [jun] Audacity privacy notice [jul] Clarification of Privacy Policy [jul] Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management [may] Welcome to Libera Chat [may] GitHub Copilot is AI pair programming where you, the human, still have to do most of the work [jun] Vivaldi is the default browser on Manjaro Linux Cinnamon [sep]   Arm Meet Raspberry Silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico now on sale at $4 [jan] Arduino To Release Board Based on Raspberry Pi Silicon [jan] Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on sale now at $15 [nov] Pinephone Pro [oct] How We Ported Linux to the M1 [jan] M1 Macs booting from NVMe [jan] GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1 [aug] The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple’s M1 SoC [dec] Asahi Linux looks forward to exciting 2022 on Apple silicon [dec]   NFTs Source Code for the WWW Tim Berners-Lee, an NFT [jun] Signal’s founder is trolling with an NFT that’ll turn to shit if you buy it [oct] Jimmy Wales is selling his first Wikipedia edit as an NFT [dec] Stan Lee’s memory defiled [dec] Brian Eno is not a fan of NFTs [dec]   Existential dread Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years [aug]   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 37 and Linux After Dark What’s Up With KDE, And How Was It Implemented! Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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

Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Achieving the dream of mobile and desktop convergence turns out to be pretty easy. Plus a serious contender for the best Arch-based distro, and your feedback about hacking and Lineage OS.   First Impressions We had a look at Garuda Linux, a rolling release distro based on Arch Linux.   Convergence Graham tells us about running proper Linux on his phone with AnLinux. He mentioned Termux.         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here      

What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else?     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Nextcloud and friends go after Microsoft, modern packaging comes under fire, whether we should be targeting less advanced users, a new old Raspberry Pi OS, KDE Korner, and more.   News EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft Nextcloud boss on Microsoft OneDrive complaint Who is the target user? More about those zero-dot users “New” old functionality with Raspberry Pi OS (Legacy) Listing rumours for Raspberry Pi? No ‘urgency’ says Upton Flatpak Is Not the Future On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 36 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner Icons… everywhere Quick update for KItinerary Digital Signatures in Okular – Thanks to NLNet Usual features & fixes       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here

Joe is joined by Allan Jude from the 2.5 Admins and BSD Now podcasts to talk about FreeBSD. Allan mentioned his company Klara.     CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A Russian distro teaches some of us a valuable lesson, plus the great email client debate, and your thoughts on documenting and discarding collections.   First Impressions We had a look at Alt Linux, a Russian distro.   Feedback Zim – a desktop wiki This Is What’s Wrong With The Linux Community       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here  

Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?   A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops Silverblue: pretty good family OS       Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.     Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Mixed news for the Steam Deck, deja vu in Germany, Canonical looks to solve an industry-wide issue, Stadia’s death rattle, Apple’s nod towards right to repair, and KDE Korner.   News Valve delays Steam Deck, now starts shipping February 2022 Here’s some of what we’ve learned about the Steam Deck German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice Google-translated interview Apple announces Self Service Repair The future of documentation at Canonical Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap   Admin Check out Late Night Linux Extra 35 and Linux After Dark   KDE Korner How to create KDE Applets KDE now also LTT proof Evolving 3D effects in Plasma Be flexible to win big PinePhone Cross Compilation         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/latenightlinux and get started with $100 credit.   CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.   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

Joe is joined by Carl George, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss Fedora, RHEL, CentOS Linux, and CentOS Stream. Carl is a regular in the Linux Unplugged Mumble room. We mentioned Carl’s Twitter thread about the relationship between Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS.       CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets.com/latenightlinux and sign up for a 7-day free trial.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.