Linux After Dark

We are joined by Jorge Castro to talk about immutable filesystem Linux distros. Check out his project uBlue and his YouTube Channel.   Corrections from Jorge: “I mentioned hyperreal when I really meant to say Hyprland, and one is a person working on a ublue, the other is a wayland compositor.”       Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

What counts as a boutique distro, and do we recommend them? Plus Gary tells us about his experiences at the recent Fosdem conference.       Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It’s the nested virtualisation challenge! How many levels of VMs can we get running at once? Plus we get the inside story from Lenovo about running Linux on their Arm ThinkPad.   Challenge Red Hat article about nested virtualisation   Linux on Lenovo’s Arm ThinkPad Mark Pearson from Lenovo joins us to talk about running Linux on their X13s ThinkPad. Lenovo forum Linux section Instructions for flashing and installing the Debian installer on the X13s         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Who has the most compute cores, how many are we actually using, and how many of them are running Linux? We finally find out who has the biggest stack of laptops in our core index challenge. Plus Dalton tells us about hacking a Wii U with open source software.       Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We look back at what we wanted to happen in 2022, and look forward to what we want to see in 2023.   Episode 8 where we talked about our 2022 hopes         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 20 devices.         See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It’s almost impossible to buy a Raspberry Pi for a reasonable price at the moment so we talk about alternatives, why a lot of Pi users would be better off with a cheap low-power x86 machine, and why sometimes the Pi makes the most sense.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

With the holiday season upon us, we talk about all the tech that we have to have with us when we travel.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

The Linux setups from the past that we miss the most, and why they are all ones that gave us the freedom to tinker and learn.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Why do we stick with Linux and FOSS, even when our faith is tested?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

It’s our Halloween Spooktacular! What scares us about Linux, what we find spooky, and what seems like witchcraft.     See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.