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A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5.
Fedora 28
Matthew Miller talks about the new release of Fedora.
elementary OS 5 beta
Daniel Foré talks about the upcoming beta of Juno.
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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.
News
Oracle being lovely netziens again
GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement
Microsoft announces Linux-based OS
German government chooses NextCloud
Admin
Entroware
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.
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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 includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.
New hosts
We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.
News
Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok?
System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board
WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online?
Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet
Entroware
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AMP
Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?
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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, Firefox OS, a new DNS service, Linux-Libre security, and whether we can move away from centralised social media.
News
2 factor authenticator for Linux
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
Cloudflare launches DNS service
Linux-Libre prioritises freedom over security
Good night, sweet princes
Ikey and Jesse have are experiencing some big changes in their lives which mean that be leaving the show; Jesse for a while, Ikey forever. But fear not! We have some stellar new team members ready to take their place.
Entroware
This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Decentralised social networks
In the wake of the Facebook scandal, we discuss some decentralised alternatives including Diaspora and some blockchain-based projects.
If you are planning to delete your Facebook account, why not trash all your data first?
If you are planning to keep using Facebook, using the new Firefox Facebook Container Extension would probably be wise.
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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.
News
KDE needs gnome support to be a real DE
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (7min video)
Debian and Kali Linux now available in Windows 10
Firefox and Chromium now available as Snaps
Entroware
This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
GNU/Linux?
After Joe’s ill-fated attempt to have a reasonable discussion with Richard Stallman, we discuss the difference between the kernel and the operating system.
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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 release and how we feel about freedom and pragmatism.
News
Sailfish is coming to more phones
Full Linux desktop on Samsung phones
Purism starts the work to enable GNOME applications on the Librem 5
Admin
FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!
Ian Kelling asked us to mention the LibrePlanet conference
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This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Freedom vs Pragmatism
Trying out the latest development release of Trisquel prompts the question of how much freedom we actually need on the Linux desktop.
Jesse also mentioned an Arch-based alternative to Trisquel called Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
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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 elementary OS have proposed some controversial changes for their next releases.
News
Plasma 5.12.0 LTS is out and the pineapple fund makes it rain
Ubuntu wants to collect user metrics
elementary OS AppCenter changes
Admin
FOSS Talk Live tickets are now available!
Entroware
This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Purism
We are joined by Todd Weaver who is the CEO and founder of Purism to talk about the completely FOSS-friendly phone that they are planning to deliver in January next year and their laptops that are available right now. Can they really deliver something good as well as private and secure? Todd certainly thinks they can.
Digital Ocean
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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, booting servers more quickly, and Mycroft will get a second attempt to answer the question “What are beans?”
News
Testing Plasma Mobile on x86 and mobile devices
Admin
Come to Oggcamp and FOSS Talk Live!
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This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Communitising the community
We are joined by Community expert, author, and podcaster Jono Bacon to talk about FOSS communities, their good and bad sides, and how to deal with problematic members within them. We mentioned his consulting business and his podcast Bad Voltage.
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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 state of accessibility in Linux.
News
Purism keep up their excellent PR
Entroware
This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Jonathan Nadeau
Ikey and Joe spoke to Jonathan Nadeau about the current state of accessibility in Linux and FOSS. He mentioned Sonar GNU/Linux and his podcast network. And KDE does indeed care about accessibility.
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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 Community 2017 & Browser integration in June
Epic Games and Redis throughput performance impact
Entroware
This episode of Late Night Linux is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
Predictions
We look back at the predictions that we all made at the start of 2017 and make some more about what will happen in 2018.
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