Late Night Linux

Late Night Linux – Episode 285

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your favourite obscure open source software in Voice of the masses. Plus whether AI is a load of old rubbish, and even if it is useful for some things...

Late Night Linux – Episode 284

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A brief news segment with mostly good stuff from Mozilla and KDE. Plus some great discoveries including downloading YouTube and other videos, processi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 283

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We look back at what Linux and open source was like when we first got into it, and consider some of the ways that things have improved over all these ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 282

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The whole band is back together for the first time in a while and we’ve got “excellent” news that Raspberry Pi is doing an IPO, another look at ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 281

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the last ~10 years we’ve seen a lot of changes happen in the Linux and open source world. So what do we think will happen over the next decade? W...

Late Night Linux – Episode 280

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ubuntu 24.04 is out and we have mixed feelings about it. Plus bad news for RISC-V, a new Linux distro might control safety systems in cars, a classic ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 279

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What we all think counts as a non-mainstream distro, and some great examples of them in Voice of the masses. Plus ASCII maps in the terminal, another ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 278

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

More bad news for Nintendo Switch emulators shows the risks of using Discord for open source communities, great news in the home automation world, fur...

Late Night Linux – Episode 277

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 276

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus det...

Late Night Linux – Episode 275

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your...

Late Night Linux – Episode 274

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubu...

Late Night Linux – Episode 273

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usag...

Late Night Linux – Episode 272

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

KDE Plasma 6 is here and Félim can barely contain his excitement. Plus the differing philosophies of GNOME and KDE, Nintendo crushes an open source S...

Late Night Linux – Episode 271

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a “brand new” segment we ask how you keep your kids safe online, and give our own thoughts. Plus Will tells us about a dirt cheap ham radio and...

Late Night Linux – Episode 270

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The BBC is sticking around on Mastodon, Signal gets a huge new feature, yet another win for the Asahi team, a surprising company commits to FOSS, Appl...

Late Night Linux – Episode 269

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An open source Spotify clone that’s almost there, simulating the control of a nuclear reactor, a network analysis tool that combines the functionali...

Late Night Linux – Episode 268

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Great news for Android users, more Linux in space, Windows gets sudo, Spotify fails to lock down podcasts,  the immutable Ubuntu desktop is delayed, ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 267

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chris from ExplainingComputers joins us to discuss his Promoting Linux: An End-User Manifesto video. We talk about being an advocate and not a gatekee...

Late Night Linux – Episode 266

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apple does the bare minimum required to allow other browser engines and sideloading on iOS, which isn’t the good news for Firefox and open source th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 265

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A Pi-hole PSA, an open source release of a classic game, making flow charts with markdown, resizing loads of animated gifs, writing a script to get fr...

Late Night Linux – Episode 264

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Félim gets angry about someone criticising desktop Linux, Snaps are going to be better on distros that aren’t Ubuntu, Mozilla wants to lead the way...

Late Night Linux – Episode 263

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The easy way to control Home Assistant from anywhere while also supporting the project, running LLMs with a single local file, learning and practising...

Late Night Linux – Episode 262

01 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2023 predictions, and make some new ones for 2024.       Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deplo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 261

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What would we do to make the Internet and the Web better? Various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family shows offer their answers. With guest hosts G...

Late Night Linux – Episode 260

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 2023 year in review episode. There’s some good news about gaming and space, enshittification aplenty, a lot of love for the fediverse, an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 259

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Google’s war on ad-blockers is potentially really good news for Firefox, and so are mobile extensions. Plus another quick terminal tip, a VM advent ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 258

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our first impressions of two new hot bits of hardware – the Steam Deck OLED, and the Raspberry Pi 5. Plus great news for self-hosted webmail, a call...

Late Night Linux – Episode 257

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An improvement to apt, a quick terminal tip, reverse-engineering Bluetooth devices with Android, an M1 Macbook Asahi update, a self-hosted way to bypa...

Late Night Linux – Episode 256

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new version of the Steam Deck looks to be a nice improvement, Amazon’s new Linux-based OS is probably bad news for Fire TV hackers, great news for...

Late Night Linux – Episode 255

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Using open source software to get paid for using electricity, automatically formatting your terrible Python code, speeding up Zsh, a couple of ways to...

Late Night Linux – Episode 254

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We imagine a scenario where we aren’t allowed to use Linux, try to decide what we’d use instead, and realise how much we actually appreciate it. P...

Late Night Linux – Episode 253

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Running your own self-hosted Internet archive, browsing the solar system in 3D, a Tweetdeck-like experience for Mastodon, securely sharing credentials...

Late Night Linux – Episode 252

24 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft tea...

Late Night Linux – Episode 251

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Open source self-hosted speed tests, SSHing into a Raspberry Pi via USB, a new and refined release of elementary OS, FOSS and proprietary digital audi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 250

10 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our thoughts on the Raspberry Pi 5 announcement, yet another nail in Xorg’s coffin, why we aren’t convinced by Google’s commitment to 7 years of...

Late Night Linux – Episode 249

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping but...

Late Night Linux – Episode 248

26 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives peopl...

Late Night Linux – Episode 247

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, dig...

Late Night Linux – Episode 246

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 245

04 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, es...

Late Night Linux – Episode 244

29 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 243

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 242

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unw...

Late Night Linux – Episode 241

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a ful...

Late Night Linux – Episode 240

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans fo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 239

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 238

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus m...

Late Night Linux – Episode 237

10 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 236

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There’s only one news story this week, and it’s a big one. Red Hat dropped a bombshell on the RHEL rebuild communities by announcing that they wil...

Late Night Linux – Episode 235

26 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 234

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyj...

Late Night Linux – Episode 233

12 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 232

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The future of containerised applications and immutable desktops looks more and more like the present, what looks like the Steam Deck moment for audio ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 231

29 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to g...

Late Night Linux – Episode 230

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping yo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 229

16 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fedi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 228

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We come up with tips for new users, and realise how complicated a lot of the things we do with Linux are. Plus emulating a Wii U, a cheeky hack for vi...

Late Night Linux – Episode 227

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How and why the Free Software Foundation should be reformed, checking your Python code incredibly quickly, Will’s Telegram bot, FOSS surround sound,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 226

25 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE...

Late Night Linux – Episode 225

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KD...

Late Night Linux – Episode 224

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

25 years of Mozilla, Twitter’s token open source efforts make us grateful for Mastodon, 3D printing faces a familiar open source challenge, and two ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 223

03 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data,...

Late Night Linux – Episode 222

28 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails t...

Late Night Linux – Episode 221

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the m...

Late Night Linux – Episode 220

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android...

Late Night Linux – Episode 219

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guita...

Late Night Linux – Episode 218

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Canonical angers the community again – this time by asking Ubuntu flavours to stop shipping Flatpak by default, we can’t decide whether Microsoft ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 217

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

More reverse-engineering, free tech books, a handy tool for fixing things you’ve aCCIDENTALLY CAPITALISED, Chromium in the terminal, putting apps an...

Late Night Linux – Episode 216

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Canonical’s latest Ubuntu PR blunder, Mastodon and the fediverse are doing a lot better than some journalists seem to think, yet another telemetry r...

Late Night Linux – Episode 215

06 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making Home Assistant easier to configure, scoring music with FOSS, protecting yourself against phishing, 3 very different distro releases, traffic sh...

Late Night Linux – Episode 214

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Mars Helicopter continues to amaze, aviation nerds get burned, Google lays off loads of open source people, running a Mastodon instance isn’t fo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 213

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recovering data from a broken SSD, configuring the lights on a new keyboard, trying stock Android on a Pixel 7, easily blocking ads with DNS, playing ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 212

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of RISC-V continues apace, we bust a recent ZFS myth, hybrid tiling in Plasma, Stadia departs with a nice gift for people, Joe draws an old s...

Late Night Linux – Episode 211

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The ultimate ESP system, VoIP & RTC capture and troubleshooting, overpriced keyboards, making arcade cabinets even more fun, some notable distro relea...

Late Night Linux – Episode 210

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Real hope for a local-only voice assistant, Matrix learns an age-old lesson about funding FOSS, 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop, Mozilla is ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 209

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2022 predictions, and make some new ones for 2023.         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastru...

Late Night Linux – Episode 208

20 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 2022 in review episode which features Linux in space, gaming wins and fails, Raspberry Pi drama, the year of user-facing AI, Canonical and ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 207

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loads of discoveries including picking the best DNS server for your connection, Telnet on the Amiga, some synth thing, markdown notes, and fixing down...

Late Night Linux – Episode 206

06 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Particle physics depends on software that’s maintained by one retiree, another argument about AI, YouTube disrespects Creative Commons, we find an e...

Late Night Linux – Episode 205

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An application firewall, reverse engineering with a better and scriptable version of Wireshark, getting the most out of webcams on Linux, running the ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 204

22 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Python comes to Arduino, a look at the new version of Fedora Silverblue, Linux helps Windows work with old printers, running your own Mastodon instanc...

Late Night Linux – Episode 203

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some great discoveries including traffic shaping, USB over IP, speech to text, and a funny Firefox extension. Plus Graham talks to Ken VanDine, the en...

Late Night Linux – Episode 202

08 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mastodon usage explodes in the wake of Musk ruining Twitter, AI training fair use is about to be legally tested, Signal tries to be Snapchat, KDE Korn...

Late Night Linux – Episode 201

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Docker firewall issues, Ardour’s major new feature, listening for your neighbours’ garage door openers and tyre pressure monitors, colourising old...

Late Night Linux – Episode 200

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s our 200th episode spectacular! We look back over some of the key events and trends from the last ~5 years that the show has been going. The ris...

Late Night Linux – Episode 199

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tracking planes that don’t necessarily want to be tracked, the catch 22 of communicating changes to FOSS users, Graham makes another terrible racket...

Late Night Linux – Episode 198

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stadia is finally dead, Valve has shipped a million Steam Decks, Canonical tries to win back the community, Debian votes for common sense, acres of RI...

Late Night Linux – Episode 197

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loads of discoveries including quickly fixing command line flubs, a must-have tool for USB booting, managing snapshots, and a router distro. Plus the ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 196

27 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more.   News Listener Michael sent Joe...

Late Night Linux – Episode 195

19 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whether images created by AI count as art, self-hosted audio streaming, a hex editor, playing Steam games from remote machines, QEMU on an iPad, and m...

Late Night Linux – Episode 194

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Huge wins for RISC-V and Ubuntu Unity, the changing ways that software is distributed, and a sad lament for young people’s privacy. Plus why KDE Pla...

Late Night Linux – Episode 193

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A great FOSS text to speech engine, taking ownership of your audiobooks, and making chiptune music. Plus your feedback about SMS messages, docks, earb...

Late Night Linux – Episode 192

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We catch up on a month’s worth of news including GitHub and GitLab controversies, Arduino multitasking, VLC being banned in India, Google’s false ...

Late Night Linux – Episode 191

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Playing with Arduinos, a 1337 h4x0r tool, ChromeOS Flex, a proprietary software win, whether open-sourcing AI makes sense, and more.   Discoveries Ta...

Late Night Linux – Episode 190

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the London meetup live show special! Joe is joined by Alex and Gary to discuss how to accept that most people who use/connect to Linux machines...

Late Night Linux – Episode 189

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Loads of useful discoveries, a Lineage tale of woe, yet more trolling of Félim, and more.   Discoveries bat Beej’s guide to network programming Li...

Late Night Linux – Episode 188

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Torvalds is using an Arm Mac with Asahi, potentially bad news for ChromeOS in Europe, a remarkable Debian server upgrade, Facebook wins a battle in th...

Late Night Linux – Episode 187

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graham played with a Steam Deck, Will switched to Firefox, Félim cleaned up his home directory, and Joe obsessed over battery health. Plus Copilot fo...

Late Night Linux – Episode 186

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thinkpads that won’t boot Linux by default, Lennart moves to Microsoft, the Firefox Snap is finally a lot faster, Reddit shows its true colours, KDE...