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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 unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

Neal Gompa says KDE will be the flagship version

Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality

Incus – Introduction

Incus: A new fork of Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’

Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future

Factor

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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 fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal.

News

riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture

Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

Discoveries 

tio

HP-45 calculator emulator

Linux Air Combat

Passim

goread

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: 26:21 — 21.2MB)

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 for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book.

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News

Slackware turns 30

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Web-Environment-Integrity

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:02 — 25.7MB)

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 random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client.

Discoveries

SQLite Browser

WeeChat 4

David Beazley’s Python Courses

Dive Into Systems

Mission Center

SatDump

Decoding BW-3

Scott Tilley on Twitter

Ebou

Ebou GitHub

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

HelloFresh

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:17 — 23.5MB)

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 more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma.

News

Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Time to move on

Christian Brauner on Mastodon

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry

Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro… again

The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright2022 KDE e.V. Report & Akademy is on right now! Raw videos are available

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: 31:11 — 25.0MB)

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 to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more.

Discoveries

Python tools hidden in the Std Lib

Blender 3.6 LTS

Accurate dinosaurs edited with blender

Qodem

Telnet BBS Guide

Zimodem

2.5M Steam users on Linux?

ESP Home iBoost

linuxwave

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

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 30:36 — 24.6MB)

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 will restrict source code releases to paying customers only.

Furthering the evolution of CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s commitment to open source: A response to the git.centos.org changes

Keeping Open Source Open

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

HelloFresh

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:12 — 26.7MB)

The pros and cons of working on open source software, streaming your Android screen to desktop Linux, a Hacker News alternative, stabilizing video, an ESP32-based open hardware watch, a ludicrously expensive router, quickly cropping and rotating videos, Joe and Félim troll each other, and more.

Discoveries 

Scrcpy

lobste.rs

Watchy 

Turris Omnia

Footage

chatGPT-shell-cli

TrueNAS from iXsystems

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Tailscale

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Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 36:30 — 29.3MB)

A victory against the dystopian nightmare of facial recognition, Reddit drama might be good news long term, Google kills yet another service so muckyjpegs.com needs a new home, great KDE news, and more.

News

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: May 2023 Progress Report

What Reddit Got Wrong

Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen

Reddit CEO felt ‘reaffirmed’ by Musk’s handling of Twitter

Google Domains is yet another useful service to get the axe in favor of “focus”

Kdenlive news and fundraising report

This week in KDE: major plumbing work in Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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Kolide

Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn more here at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:08 — 25.8MB)

A great way to access documentation offline, moving Windows installations to new disks without breaking them, streaming VR games from a PC, replacing Pocket with a proper open source solution, living with Google’s flagship phone for a few months, and more.

Discoveries

Zeal

Clonezilla

Wallabag

ALVR: Stream VR games from your PC to your headset via Wi-Fi

TrueNAS from iXsystems

To learn more about TrueNAS and download it for free, visit truenas.com/lnl

Tailscale

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.