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A new version of Ubuntu is somewhat overshadowed by hateful translations but also runs on Arm Macs, more developments in the Unity saga, Microsoft teaches us how to install Linux, a serious lesson from false positives in Android’s malware scans, GNOME’s Halloween surprise, a mini KDE Korner, and more.

News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur

Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 release image translation incident – now resolved

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Unity’s CEO is out, but that still may not be enough for developers

Unity Announces Leadership Transition

How to download and install Linux

Android will now scan sideloaded apps for malware at install time

Has Play Protect removed KDE Connect from your phone? Let us know!

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Holly the shaman artist

Become a Plasma 6 Supporter & KNotifications going on a diet

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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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 audio workstation releases, realtime data about the urine tank on the International Space Station, Joe joins the ThinkPad cult, and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

Discoveries

LibreSpeed

Raspberry Pi iPad Pro Setup Simplified

elementary OS 7.1

Studio One DAW now available for Linux

bitwig/dawproject: Open exchange format for DAWs

Ardour 8.0 — What’s new

ISS Mimic

ThinkPad X270

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:31 — 23.7MB)

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 software updates for the Pixel 8, praise for Mozilla(!), and more.

With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark.

News

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

Testing PCIe on the Raspberry Pi 5

GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support

Incus 0.1 has been released

Gmail unleashes “email emoji reactions” onto an unsuspecting world

The Pixel 8’s best new feature is guaranteed updates

Google’s seven-year Pixel update promise is historic — or meaningless

Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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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 people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support

Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users 

Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work

Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage

The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

A new maintainer will take over

Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program

Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding

Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding

Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution 

Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community

KDE Sponsored Work

Entroware

This episode 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.

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Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.

Discoveries

isort

Firefox search hints

HeadSetControl

Asahi Fedora

Abort Retry Fail

Another Abort Retry Fail

Webhook.site

Regolith 3.0

Feedback

Salix

Factor

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Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:44 — 23.1MB)

The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more.

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News

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS 

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting 

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers 

Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

Plasma 6 coming in February 2024

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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, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more.

Discoveries

UVMOD

Antennapod

qutebrowser 3.0

acpi

Rewriting wipEout

Bash scripting cheatsheet

Feedback

FreshRSS

Nextcloud News

NewsFlash

Feedly

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/latenightlinux50 and use code latenightlinux50 to get 50% off.

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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 outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.

News

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Roblox is back on Linux

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

Firefox to drop support for old macOS and Windows versions

The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com

Merkuro Explainer & comparison to Kontact : also “Qt 6.6, to be released end of September, Qt apps will survive a restart of the Wayland compositor”

Entroware

This episode 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.

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 25:09 — 20.2MB)

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 and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.

Discoveries

Echo Root

Kyber

The End of Computer Magazines in America

Feedback

linkding

gum

35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes

exercism.org

Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux