Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu.   KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint in Berlin and the recent beta of Plasma 5.13. We also spoke about running KDE Neon on the Pinebook, and also the Slimbook II.   Xubuntu Sean Davis talks about the future of Joe’s favourite distro, Xubuntu.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big?   News Fedora 28 released Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift Stallman shows who’s boss Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit The other flavours could follow suit Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store EFAIL   Admin Check out our new sister show Late Night Linux Extra and have a look at the RSS feeds page to subscribe.   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.   Can there ever be another big distro? With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.

A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5.   Fedora 28 Matthew Miller talks about the new release of Fedora.   elementary OS 5 beta Daniel Foré talks about the upcoming beta of Juno.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.

Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.   News Oracle being lovely netziens again GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement KDE Apps 18.04 Microsoft announces Linux-based OS German government chooses NextCloud   Admin OggCamp Call for papers   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 18.04 LTS We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.   New hosts We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.     News Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok? System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online? Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet     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.     AMP Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?     See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media.   News 2 factor authenticator for Linux The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin Cloudflare launches DNS service Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security   Good night, sweet princes Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their lives which mean they are leaving the show; Jesse for a while, Ikey forever. But fear not! We have some stellar new team members ready to take their place.   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.   Decentralised social networks In the wake of the Facebook scandal, we discuss some decentralised alternatives including Diaspora and some blockchain-based projects. If you are planning to delete your Facebook account, why not trash all your data first? If you are planning to keep using Facebook, using the new Firefox Facebook Container Extension would probably be wise.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show.     News GNOME 3.28 released KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video) Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10 Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps     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.   GNU/Linux? After Joe’s ill-fated attempt to have a reasonable discussion with Richard Stallman, we discuss the difference between the kernel and the operating system.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

It’s a  mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism.   News Sailfish is coming to more phones Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones Lineage 15.1 Purism starts the work to enable GNOME applications on the Librem 5   Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available! Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference     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.   Freedom vs Pragmatism Trying out the latest development release of Trisquel prompts the question of how much freedom we actually need on the Linux desktop. Jesse also mentioned an Arch-based alternative to Trisquel called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre         See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.

We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases.   News Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics elementary OS AppCenter changes   Admin FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!   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.   Purism We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.   Digital Ocean If you are looking for for a Linux VPS with full root access, check out Digital Ocean. With our affiliate link you can get $10 credit.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.      

It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?”     News Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices Flightgear hostile forks LinuxBoot Mycroft Mark II     Admin Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live!     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.   Communitising the community We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.     RSS: You can subscribe to the MP3 feed or the Ogg feed.