Late Night Linux
Episodes
Late Night Linux – Episode 85
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We try and lighten the mood with a silly new segment. Meanwhile in the news Microsoft makes another open source move, bad news for VR on Linux, and mo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 84
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is it time to give up on the Linux desktop and concentrate on open source apps? Plus a conundrum for Félim, Raspberry Pi and GTK in the news, and KDE...
Late Night Linux – Episode 83
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe has been playing with a PinePhone for a week and gives an honest appraisal. Plus Will’s simple solution to his Mac woes, switching to Linux and ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 82
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of news including Pine64, Linux gaming, Thunderbird, and WireGuard. Plus Will is looking to install a decent OS on his Mac, and mixed news in KDE...
Late Night Linux – Episode 81
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The death of Windows 7 presents yet another opportunity for the wide adoption of Linux on the desktop. Is that just wishful thinking? Plus Y2K comes b...
Late Night Linux – Episode 80
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It’s officially the future so we look back at our predictions from last year and make some new ones for 2020. Digital Ocean This episode...
Late Night Linux – Episode 79
24 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2019 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Amazon launche...
Late Night Linux – Episode 78
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and more ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 77
26 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news. News Google Kills Cloud Prin...
Late Night Linux – Episode 76
12 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something...
Late Night Linux – Episode 75
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news. News The BBC has joined the dark web Startpag...
Late Night Linux – Episode 74
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korn...
Late Night Linux – Episode 73
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 72
15 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us. News GNOM...
Late Night Linux – Episode 71
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more. News KPeo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 70
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news. News Unpatched KDE vuln...
Late Night Linux – Episode 69
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender,...
Late Night Linux – Episode 68
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blende...
Late Night Linux – Episode 67
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Graham and Joe managed to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 while they were HOT. Literally. Plus all sorts in the news including KDE, the villain that is Mozilla, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 66
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a full house for the first time in a while and a lot has been happening so we have a look at all the news including the Ubuntu i386pocalypse, t...
Late Night Linux – Episode 65
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our show from FOSS Talk Live! After KDE, Firefox, GMail, and Stadia in the news, missed opportunities for FOSS and how we can seize the next on...
Late Night Linux – Episode 64
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the news including ZombieLoad and the Huawei debacle, and Joe tries to convince himself that 32-bit x86 Linux is...
Late Night Linux – Episode 63
14 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a month since the last proper episode so we recap the news from the last few weeks including real Linux in WIndows, RHEL 8, Nextcloud, Deb...
Late Night Linux – Episode 62
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a special episode. Joe and Will are joined by Richard Brown from openSUSE and Matthew Miller from Fedora to discuss how their distros work toge...
Late Night Linux – Episode 61
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Félim is away so Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss news including Chef, VMware, web standards, UBPorts, and more. Then we discuss how Linux has ch...
Late Night Linux – Episode 60
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly goes into an LTS release of the most popular desktop distro? We find out from Will after a packed news segment that includes Stadia, vide...
Late Night Linux – Episode 59
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of companies have attempted convergence but none have approached it like Maru OS. We speak to the founder of the project about its major new rel...
Late Night Linux – Episode 58
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Does the need to fund FOSS explain its complexity? The four of us don’t seem to agree. Plus plenty of news including KDE, MariaDB, Lineage OS, and t...
Late Night Linux – Episode 57
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Librem 5 shipping when? Todd from Purism joins us to answer that question, as well as what’s going on with the dev kits. Plus KDE, Red Hat Satellite...
Late Night Linux – Episode 56
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Exciting Pine64 devices, no Pi 4 this year, good gaming and firmware news, and more. News Pine64 to Launch $79 Linux Tablet, $199 PineBook Pro Lapt...
Late Night Linux – Episode 55
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks...
Late Night Linux – Episode 54
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 53
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year. January Meltdown and Spec...
Late Night Linux – Episode 52
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Graham and Joe have been checking out Sailfish OS 3, and there’s a packed news segment including KDE, RISC-V, Fedora, and the FSF. News KDE on...
Late Night Linux – Episode 51
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yet more good KDE news, Ubuntu getting 10 years of support, WiFi improvements, a new Raspberry Pi and Raspbian, is the FOSS community really that toxi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 50
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe’s long-awaited Pinebook has finally arrived and we have a good chat about its ups and downs. Plus a packed news section including reproducible b...
Late Night Linux – Episode 49
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat Looms large over the news but we find time to talk about the latest releases of Ubuntu and elementary OS, an interestin...
Late Night Linux – Episode 48
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to forget how we all felt when we first discovered how great Linux is. On this episode we get a reminder from Jason Evangelho who tells us...
Late Night Linux – Episode 47
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Mic...
Late Night Linux – Episode 46
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more. News Nextcloud 14 KDE 5...
Late Night Linux – Episode 45
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source. News...
Late Night Linux – Episode 44
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his N...
Late Night Linux – Episode 43
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution method...
Late Night Linux – Episode 42
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V...
Late Night Linux – Episode 41
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more. News SUSE acquired Gentoo’s GitHub ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 40
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been...
Late Night Linux – Episode 39
11 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018! FOSS Talk Live 2018 Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next...
Late Night Linux – Episode 38
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 37
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is kn...
Late Night Linux – Episode 36
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04....
Late Night Linux – Episode 35
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that in...
Late Night Linux – Episode 34
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, Fi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 33
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the show. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 32
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming Trisquel...
Late Night Linux – Episode 31
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and element...
Late Night Linux – Episode 30
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev politics, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 29
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
KDE are almost finished with X11, Purism make progress with their FOSS phone, Nextcloud video calling is here, a debate about CVE branding, and the st...
Late Night Linux – Episode 28
09 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A brief check-in with KDE and a look at FOSS speech recognition, Meltdown and Spectre, last year’s predictions, and new ones for 2018. News KDE C...
Late Night Linux – Episode 27
25 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a year of Late Night Linux! We wrapped up the year with a look back at some of the biggest Linux and FOSS stories. January No New Ubunt...
Late Night Linux – Episode 26
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse is back from Trumpistan so it’s a full house again. KDE looks forward, TeamViewer comes to Linux, more Intel ME problems, HTTPS is winning, co...
Late Night Linux – Episode 25
28 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With Jesse away it’s just Joe and the Irish this time. A good step forward for open hardware, Firefox is almost good now, kernel security politics, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 24
14 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
FOSS gets litigious, Canonical may or may not care about the desktop, Solus works more on Steam, Red Hat embraces an ARM-based future and we hear from...
Late Night Linux – Episode 23
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The kernel devs want compliance rather than cash, Mint backs Flatpack, Canonical aim for an IPO, Solus needs help with art, and we speak to a ZFS advo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 22
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Some great phone news and some very bad, KDE goodness, Google creepiness, Ikey saves gaming on Linux, nonces compromise WiFi, and the biggest Ubuntu r...
Late Night Linux – Episode 21
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Three of us plus a half dead Ikey get together to talk about Nextcloud, Apple, MariaDB, Facebook and React.js, the Ubuntu Rally in New York, and the F...
Late Night Linux – Episode 20
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more. News More eKciting developments in...
Late Night Linux – Episode 19
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 18
19 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very s...
Late Night Linux – Episode 17
07 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Pla...
Late Night Linux – Episode 16
23 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more....
Late Night Linux – Episode 15
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 14
26 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live. News Debian bot...
Late Night Linux – Episode 13
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13. New...
Late Night Linux – Episode 12
30 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12. News Nextcloud ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 11
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Canonical looking to go public, Microsoft adding new distros to Windows, Raspberry Pi and Google Assistant, Android’s possible replacement, and prop...
Late Night Linux – Episode 10
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Yet more Ubuntu fallout including forks of their dead desktop and mobile platform, Libreboot wants to rejoin GNU, mobile Linux coming together, IoT st...
Late Night Linux – Episode 09
18 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Tizen code is a shambles, Drupal struggles with HR, Mastodon is flavour of the month, Linux on Windows improvements, updates to the Ubuntu saga and mo...
Late Night Linux – Episode 08
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Joe, Ikey and Jesse discuss the bombshell that Ubuntu is abandoning Unity in favour of GNOME for its next LTS and has officia...
Late Night Linux – Episode 07
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Netflix on Linux, phishing with https, licensing, password managers, Android convergence, the inside story of Nextcloud scanning and more on LNL 07. ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 06
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse is back but this time Félim is in his sick bed so it’s a 3 man show yet again. Some heated debates about Nextcloud’s actions, Ubuntu extend...
Late Night Linux – Episode 05
07 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ikey is back but with Jesse on holiday, it’s a three man show again. VR gaming on Linux, a new Raspberry Pi, Mozilla buying Pocket, Web DRM, Kodi pi...
Late Night Linux – Episode 04
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With Ikey languishing in his sick bed, the rest of the team discussed even more Linux hardware, Munich probably switching back to Windows, Elementary’...
Late Night Linux – Episode 03
07 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A packed show this time. More Linux hardware, 32 vs 64-bit, Ubuntu MATE on the Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu Budgie, yet more Solus news and loads more on LNL ...
Late Night Linux – Episode 02
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
New Linux hardware, a profane rant about the FSF, the Chrome OS desktop Linux question, exciting Solus news and loads more on LNL 02. News Dell’s...
Late Night Linux – Episode 01
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 01 of Late Night Linux we talk about Desktop Linux market share, KDE Neon, Ubuntu Touch, what we think will happen in 2017, CyanogenMod bec...