

Linux Matters
Linux Matters
Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. Whether you're tweaking your desktop, gaming, self-hosting, developing software, improving terminal productivity, or running production infrastructure — we cover the tools and workflows that actually matter. New episode every fortnight. Upbeat and family-friendly for Linux enthusiasts of all ages.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Mar 31, 2026 • 35min
VNC? No way!
In this episode:
Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Mar 17, 2026 • 33min
Tailor Snaps for Big Iron
In this episode:
Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Mar 3, 2026 • 42min
The Smell of Git
In this episode:
Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
Martin gets busy with lazygit.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Feb 17, 2026 • 35min
Mark's Meshing About
In this episode:
Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Feb 3, 2026 • 38min
Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers
In this episode:
Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Jan 20, 2026 • 23min
Points of You
In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:
HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
Kazeta
Recipe-Scribe
FossFLOW
Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
Toniebox Reverse Engineering
Tonuino
Yarg-lang
Events
SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Jan 6, 2026 • 29min
Lets get Trippy
In this episode:
Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
gping: ping, but with a graph.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Dec 23, 2025 • 32min
Give me the Aux
In this episode:
Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
“Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Dec 9, 2025 • 34min
Grummaging Gophers & Gods
In this episode:
Martin has been learning Go and created:
Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

Nov 25, 2025 • 32min
He's a very nøughty boy
In this episode:
Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
Alan has been live streaming.
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 us on:
The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
The Linux Matters Subreddit.
If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.


