Late Night Linux
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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.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 411
Mozilla 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 classic Amiga game is updated …
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Mozilla 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 classic Amiga game is updated (and brought to Linux), fixing photos and solving magic eye pics, and making audio sound like it’s on a cassette tape in discoveries.
News/discussion
Firefox reunites meme royalty to ask what happened to the web
Meme Stars Battle It Out – SOUTH PARK
Local Mode — Firefox Source Docs documentation
HACS is now the Home Assistant Marketplace, and you’ll barely notice
Discoveries
Stunt Car Racer and Linux remake
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Late Night Linux – Episode 410
Lots 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 of the Ubuntu desktop, and it …
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Lots 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 of the Ubuntu desktop, and it (hopefully) won’t just be GNOME.
News
Today’s PHP Security Release, and How We’re Strengthening PHP Security
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business
Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List
A kernel bug for last weekend while we are at it
Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
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Late Night Linux – Episode 409
Mozilla 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 Android tablets that have the Play …
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Mozilla 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 Android tablets that have the Play Store. Plus hacking old Echo Dots to work with Home Assistant, building ad blocking lists, and unbricking an M1 Mac with Linux in discoveries.
News
Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise
Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac
Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever
Discoveries
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Late Night Linux – Episode 408
A 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 flagship apps are cloned by AI as open …
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A 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 flagship apps are cloned by AI as open source, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
The new Epic Games Launcher is finally here in Preview (Fortnite is coming to Linux)
Steam preemptively killed the only advantage Epic Games’ vibe-coded store would have had
Today’s Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Secure Linux desktops with Microsoft Defender
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
KDE Korner
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Late Night Linux – Episode 407
New 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 shipping new kernels more regularly …
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New 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 shipping new kernels more regularly. Plus with the iPhone Duo about to come out, Graham is still enjoying his Pixel 9 Pro Fold but Joe’s 10 Pro Fold is in a drawer.
News
Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux
The new Firefox design: More modern, more flexible, still Firefox
Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop
F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
Google’s assault on F-Droid has begun
Ryanair Boarding Pass Liberation
Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy
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Late Night Linux – Episode 406
Joe 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 an ad-free RSS feed with some …
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Joe 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.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 405
What 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 people, and how we teach kids about …
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What 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 people, and how we teach kids about privacy and security.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 404
The 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 huge fundraising effort, and why …
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The 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 huge fundraising effort, and why we are disappointed in companies who are contributing. Plus LibreOffice’s enviable download numbers. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News
Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve’s new SteamOS compatibility layers
DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats!
Development/AI policy – The Document Foundation Wiki
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Late Night Linux – Episode 403
We 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 desktop, and our unpopular Linux …
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We 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 desktop, and our unpopular Linux opinions.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 402
Audacity’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 terrible age verification laws …
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Audacity’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 terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News
Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI”
Results for LLM usage in Debian
Retiring from the Project (vv221)
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)
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Late Night Linux – Episode 401
KDE 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 with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s …
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KDE 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 with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.
News/discussion
What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets
Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon”
Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep
Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera!
The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead
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Late Night Linux – Episode 400
To 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 station) on Saturday 5th September from …
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To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.
Plugs
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9.5 years of good news
Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023)
Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024)
I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024)
Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025)
An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025)
GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025)
KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025)
Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018)
KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025)
Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018)
Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022
Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025)
Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026)
Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019)
How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024)
Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021)
Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)
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Late Night Linux – Episode 399
Guest 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 this modern approach is so …
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Guest 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 this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.
Bootc desktops
Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts
Mono repository for all bootcrew images
How Steam Play/Proton makes Gaming on Linux Awesome
Discoveries
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Late Night Linux – Episode 398
Reports 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 Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes …
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Reports 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 Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News
Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses
Proxmox Virtual Environment launches official Arm64 Support
Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro
Getting Started With Libvirt and Saltstack
Felipe Borges: The Future of GNOME Boxes
KDE Korner
This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
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Late Night Linux – Episode 397
Initial 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 your phone when the US authorities …
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Initial 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 your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.
News
Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts
Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes
Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them
US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
Discoveries
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Late Night Linux – Episode 396
With 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 an understanding of each other’s …
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With 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 an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.
News/discussion
“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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Late Night Linux – Episode 395
Some 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 works on Linux, Arch on easy mode …
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Some 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 works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.
Discoveries
Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)
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Late Night Linux – Episode 394
Mozilla 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, OpenMandriva discovers why …
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Mozilla 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, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.
News
Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership
Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date
OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
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Late Night Linux – Episode 393
A 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 in discoveries. Then Félim’s …
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A 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 in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.
Discoveries
Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
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Late Night Linux – Episode 392
We 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 it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes …
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We 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 it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.
News
Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze
Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet
Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]
$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
KDE Korner
Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ
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Late Night Linux – Episode 391
Our 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 some early episodes See our contact …
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Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.
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Late Night Linux – Episode 390
The 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, retro handhelds, and 3D …
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The 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, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
Plugs
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News
Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2
Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages
Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack
Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
Retro gaming handhelds
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Late Night Linux – Episode 389
A 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 your wall. Plus what we learned …
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A 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 your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion
Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Ubuntu Summit
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Late Night Linux – Episode 388
Steam 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 like a typical big tech company …
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Steam 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 like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
News
Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived]
Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts
Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia
We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs
Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy
‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived]
Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022]
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
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Late Night Linux – Episode 387
Debian’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 thanks to regulation, Opera’s …
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Debian’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 thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
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Late Night Linux – Episode 386
Great 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 about all the irresponsibly …
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Great 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 about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News
Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical?
‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
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Late Night Linux – Episode 385
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 Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder …
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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 Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries
Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion
I wanted to reply with some clarifications
The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next?
Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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Late Night Linux – Episode 384
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 have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability …
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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 have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
Plugs
SeaGL 2026 Call for Presentations
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News
Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?
Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up
Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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Late Night Linux – Episode 383
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 have another pointless argument about AI bollocks …
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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 have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
News/discussion
Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore
Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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Late Night Linux – Episode 382
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 the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows …
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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 the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News
France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux
Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it
Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process
You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype
A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos
Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun
NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner
Tighter KDE Connect Integration
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