Late Night Linux
by The Late Night Linux Family
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Late Night Linux – Episode 411
Late Night Linux – Episode 411
About this podcast
Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
Episodes
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- Late Night Linux – Episode 411 · 27 minMozilla made a silly advert to try and win Firefox users back and has a handy new web dev feature, and HACS is now built into Home Assistant. Plus using Apple Airpods on Linux, a…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 410 · 26 minLots of security news including PHP, comically weak SSL cert keys, and accidental Linux kernel CVE disclosure. Plus Canonical is ramping up development of its immutable version…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 409 · 27 minMozilla has a new revenue stream that might actually work, GNOME OS gets closer to a stable release, Raspberry Pi OS for x86 machines returns, and Amazon has expensive new…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 408 · 26 minA true legend of computer science leaves us, Fortnite is coming to Linux, Steam is finally moving away from 32-bit, Microsoft Defender comes to the Linux Desktop, Adobe’s…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 407 · 30 minNew Snapdragon SoCs will officially support Linux, Firefox’s redesign confuses us, the Dutch government is embracing NixOS, F-Droid has a new modern look, and Ubuntu starts…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 406 · 28 minJoe gives his first impressions of the Steam Frame – a Linux PC that you wear on your face. It’s great for VR games, but it also has a KDE desktop. Support us on patreon and get…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 405 · 27 minWhat Linux and open source will look like in 10 years, the aspects of Linux that got us hooked all those years ago, our happiest and most miserable experiences of converting…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 404 · 27 minThe Steam Frame is finally here and it’s not quite as expensive as we feared. Graham was selected in the lottery but will he actually buy one? We finally talk about Omarchy, its…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 403 · 29 minWe answer your questions including the last new distro we tried, what distro we’d switch to if ours went away, whether we should limit our computer use, our vision for the Linux…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 402 · 26 minAudacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 401 · 26 minKDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 400 · 28 minTo celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news. Plugs Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 399 · 26 minGuest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 398 · 27 minReports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 397 · 26 minInitial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 396 · 28 minWith several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 395 · 26 minSome of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 394 · 24 minMozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 393 · 27 minA great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 392 · 28 minWe finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 391 · 7 minOur favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 390 · 33 minThe new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 389 · 27 minA new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 388 · 28 minSteam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 387 · 25 minDebian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 386 · 28 minGreat funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 385 · 29 minVoice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 384 · 30 minThere’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 383 · 29 minWhether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 382 · 28 minThe French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 381 · 27 minRaspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 380 · 20 minSteam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 379 · 23 minMaking silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 378 · 26 minAge declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 377 · 24 minDrama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more. News/discussion LibreOffice…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 376 · 27 minDiscord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 375 · 25 minThe freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 374 · 25 minDiscord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 373 · 25 minThe professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 372 · 24 minPricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 371 · 27 minMalware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 370 · 28 minWikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 369 · 23 minWe cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 368 · 27 minHype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 367 · 26 minIt’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026. Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 366 · 24 minIt’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 365 · 24 minGood news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 364 · 22 minThe Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 363 · 27 minArduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because…
- Late Night Linux – Episode 362 · 23 minKDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope. News…
