Late Night Linux

Late Night Linux – Episode 385

11 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Li...

Late Night Linux – Episode 384

05 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There’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 ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 383

27 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Whether 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 ha...

Late Night Linux – Episode 382

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 381

13 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Raspberry 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 “...

Late Night Linux – Episode 380

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when i...

Late Night Linux – Episode 379

30 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 378

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock And...

Late Night Linux – Episode 377

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more. &...

Late Night Linux – Episode 376

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might...

Late Night Linux – Episode 375

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The 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 grap...

Late Night Linux – Episode 374

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Discord’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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 373

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 372

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Pricing 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 t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 371

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 370

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Wikipedia 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 h...

Late Night Linux – Episode 369

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS is...

Late Night Linux – Episode 368

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hype 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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 367

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.   Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Cris...

Late Night Linux – Episode 366

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’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 Wayl...

Late Night Linux – Episode 365

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Good 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 ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 364

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 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...

Late Night Linux – Episode 363

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new mod...

Late Night Linux – Episode 362

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 361

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 360

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.   News Steam M...

Late Night Linux – Episode 359

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM...

Late Night Linux – Episode 358

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity ne...

Late Night Linux – Episode 357

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing ex...

Late Night Linux – Episode 356

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website...

Late Night Linux – Episode 355

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon...

Late Night Linux – Episode 354

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The most expensive Raspberry Pi ever might appeal to kids and a new OS version looks somewhat more modern, AI does something Félim can’t complain a...

Late Night Linux – Episode 353

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we’ll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it.   ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 352

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu’s transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a ser...

Late Night Linux – Episode 351

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 350

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim wi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 349

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 348

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 347

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world wi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 346

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new Debian version is out and it’s the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, Git...

Late Night Linux – Episode 345

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 344

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe co...

Late Night Linux – Episode 343

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller deskt...

Late Night Linux – Episode 342

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mixed gaming news, Google’s AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in f...

Late Night Linux – Episode 341

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joe can’t decide which distro to use for a proper KDE Plasma test, an easy way to develop Home Assistant integrations, automating lights, fixing the...

Late Night Linux – Episode 340

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linux gaming goes from strength to strength but puts off the inevitable death of 32-bit x86, devs are sick of companies expecting free fixes, Creative...

Late Night Linux – Episode 339

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Making music with code in real time, fancy rsync, an open source real time strategy engine, advanced print debugging, EU-based DNS resolvers, and Euro...

Late Night Linux – Episode 338

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

X11 is basically dead (again) and we are quite pleased, the Linux Foundation sets out to fix the WordPress mess and some of us are cynical, custom ROM...

Late Night Linux – Episode 337

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Redis finally picks the right licence but it’s probably too late, the Ubuntu release process is being modernised, GNOME drops X11 for good and gets ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 336

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla kills Pocket and Fakespot, SteamOS is now available for devices other than the Steam Deck, Nextcloud’s Android app was missing key functiona...

Late Night Linux – Episode 335

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Running an old version of Windows on a Wii for some reason, a nice way to learn programming languages, a couple of very different games, more document...

Late Night Linux – Episode 334

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the wheel of misfortune! Roughly 50 (mostly) Linux-related things are on the wheel, we take turns spinning it, and we all have to say at least ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 333

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The US government is trying to break up Google which sounds like a great idea, but it is potentially catastrophic news for Mozilla and Firefox. Alex f...

Late Night Linux – Episode 332

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wikipedia is attacked by Trump lackeys, Bluesky folds under pressure from the Turkish government, Linux YouTube is terrible as usual, Microsoft wants ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 331

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cheap handheld retro gaming, F1 stats in the terminal, running binaries as if they were Python functions, websites that look like TUIs, basic graphics...

Late Night Linux – Episode 330

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linus Torvalds’ other big project is 20 years old, new Ubuntu and Fedora releases, the downsides of permissive licences, a quick KDE Korner, and mor...

Late Night Linux – Episode 329

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two very different approaches to setting up security cameras, an IDE-like experience for text adventure games, a glimpse of convergence on Pixel phone...

Late Night Linux – Episode 328

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI crawlers are causing serious problems for open source projects, an example of disclosure by vagueposting, Zorin does something good and something b...

Late Night Linux – Episode 327

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Google hadn’t come along in the late 90s? What would search, mobile devices, and the web in general look like? Plus a musical discovery, and...

Late Night Linux – Episode 326

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Home Assistant gets even more credible and sustainable, open source users are entitled, changes in KDE land, Fedora says hello to Plasma and goodbye t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 325

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tracking WiFi devices with cheap ESP32 devices, using OSM and Google Maps together, deleting your Twitter data, “3D” images with any camera, forci...

Late Night Linux – Episode 324

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla does another terrible job of communicating an important policy change, the movie made with Blender wins an Oscar, EA open sources some Command...

Late Night Linux – Episode 323

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Remote desktop without a client, Macrodata Refinement, 3D plane tracking, Home Assistant’s new hardware voice assistant, a new version of Pi-hole is...

Late Night Linux – Episode 322

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The kernel Rust drama nears an end but not without some collateral damage, you should back up your Kindle books while you still can, Mozilla so very n...

Late Night Linux – Episode 321

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Linus Torvalds hadn’t written Linux? What if Canonical hadn’t dropped Unity and the phone? Plus what we are self-hosting in Voice of the M...

Late Night Linux – Episode 320

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a...

Late Night Linux – Episode 319

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus...

Late Night Linux – Episode 318

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 317

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Molly White joins us to talk about the recent far right attacks on Wikipedia. We get into the lies and false assumptions about funding, reliable sourc...

Late Night Linux – Episode 316

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SteamOS is coming to a new Lenovo handheld as well as getting a general beta release, the WordPress drama continues to roll on, the 16GB Raspberry Pi ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 315

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2024 predictions, and make some new ones for 2025.         Sandfly Securitry Sandfly Security’...

Late Night Linux – Episode 314

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 2024 review of Linux and open source news including the end of Linux on Mars, the xz backdoor, great stuff from GNOME and KDE, the WordPres...

Late Night Linux – Episode 313

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Monitoring your house with security cameras, automating a 3D printer, yet another note taking app, a great FOSS digital audio workstation, browser aut...

Late Night Linux – Episode 312

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

SteamOS is probably going to ship on 3rd party hardware, there’s a remote chance that games with anti-cheat will work better on Linux, new Raspberry...

Late Night Linux – Episode 311

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about...

Late Night Linux – Episode 310

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewha...

Late Night Linux – Episode 309

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Comparing laptop battery life with different desktop environments like Xfce, MATE, KDE Plasma, and GNOME. Plus processing scraped HTML, an easy to use...

Late Night Linux – Episode 308

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mozilla lays off another load of people and we offer to run the organisation for a fraction of what the current leadership earns, Fedora promotes KDE ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 307

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will went back to GNOME and made it exactly like Xfce, Félim used an unethical app ethically, and Graham had a great time at the Ubuntu Summit. Plus ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 306

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 305

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printe...

Late Night Linux – Episode 304

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is so...

Late Night Linux – Episode 303

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 302

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once a...

Late Night Linux – Episode 301

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feed...

Late Night Linux – Episode 300

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check ou...

Late Night Linux – Episode 299

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python o...

Late Night Linux – Episode 298

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 297

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” L...

Late Night Linux – Episode 296

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Linux is 33 years old and we wonder what would have happened without it, Mozilla might be about to lose the sweet Google cash, Microsoft breaks dual b...

Late Night Linux – Episode 295

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The easy way to learn IPv6, making shell scripts a lot prettier, a reverse-engineered watch with apps from the 80s, a cool tasks app, more details abo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 294

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Open source myths, Graham gives us an update on the Open Documentation Academy, and why we don’t really talk about mobile Linux anymore.   Open sou...

Late Night Linux – Episode 293

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Analysing MQTT data, getting domains unblocked from Cloudflare DNS, making ASCII animations, and why Joe is drawn to Linux Mint. Plus why we don’t t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 292

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

NVIDIA makes more of its drivers easier to install, the EU is probably going to redirect FOSS funding to AI, Mark Zuckerberg abuses the term “open s...

Late Night Linux – Episode 291

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Testing the security of your Bluetooth devices, diffing databases, visualising MQTT data, running Linux VMs on an iPad or Iphone, org mode in Kate, an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 290

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The EU are close to adopting a law to scan messages, Switzerland blazes the public money public code trail, Chromium-based browsers have a “special ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 289

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An incredibly powerful hex editor for reverse engineering binaries, easily searching through snaphots for end users, streaming audio from phones to th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 288

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Instead of the news which is all either boring or grim, we’ve come up with a fun Linux-themed game show that’s definitely not completely fixed. Pl...

Late Night Linux – Episode 287

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unlocking the full potential of Nvidia graphics cards, hacking the otherwise bricked Spotify hardware device, Félim realised that his Borg backups co...

Late Night Linux – Episode 286

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New RISC-V and Arm Linux laptops are starting to pave the way for an exciting future, Mozilla makes another divisive acquisition, a couple of big anni...