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Late Night Linux – Episode 320

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Linux kernel drama with Rust raises the old question about developer succession, the Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, great news for F-Droid, a movie made with Blender is nominated for an Oscar, RISC-V in a Framework, and loads more.

 

News

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: ‘Maybe the problem is you’

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers

Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting

EU OS

The Pebble smartwatch is making a comeback, with some help from Google

We’re bringing Pebble back!

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199

Modifying a Framework Laptop from x86 to RISC-V live on stage

How Blender helped Gints Zilbalodis make Oscar-nominated Flow

Flow – Official Trailer

Plasma 6.3 is out tomorrow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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Linux Dev Time – Episode 117

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Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.

 

Moodle

Mark’s Bash text adventure

Bash associative array examples

 

 

 

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 23

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Is being cloud-first more about the target for your workloads, or more about mindset?

 

Send your questions and feedback to show@hybridcloudshow.com

 

 

 

 

SysCloud

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2.5 Admins 233: 2.005 Admins

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We appreciate the elegance of subnets as well as the power of custom benchmarking, Xboxes will support large amounts of external storage, why it’s not looking great for bcachefs, malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

 

Plugs

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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance

 

News/discussion

Xbox beta tests support for massive amounts of external storage

Migrating away from bcachefs

 

Free Consulting

We were asked about malware and remote desktops, and our thoughts on Fortigate network gear.

 

 

 

 

 

SysCloud

Over 2,000 IT admins already trust SysCloud to protect their SaaS data. Head to SysCloud.com for a 30-day free trial—and for a limited time, use code 25ADMINS to get 50% off your first purchase.

 

Factor

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Linux Matters 48: Algorithms, Actions, and GitHub Adventures

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In this episode:

  • Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
  • Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
    • keyshield – A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
    • archive-vbulletin-thread – A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
  • Mark has been flexing his grey matter with challenging mathematical/computer programming problems at Project Euler.

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 319

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What if Qt had been under a friendlier licence? Would KDE have become the standard desktop instead of GNOME? What if IBM hadn’t bought Red Hat? Plus a self-hostable workflow automation platform, simple systemd management, and Redshift on Xfce in Discoveries. Then we wonder why there seems to be less in the way of interesting Linux news these days.

 

Discoveries 

n8n

isd

redshift

 

 

 

 

 

Tailscale

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Linux After Dark – Episode 88

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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.

 

Boomstick

Vesktop

 

 

 

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2.5 Admins 232: S:

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An embarrassing typo suggests that MasterCard’s monitoring isn’t as good as it should be, tricky offsite backups, why two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

 

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Klara Webinar, Feb 13th: RAID is NOT a Backup and Other Hard Truths About Disaster Recovery

 

News

MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

 

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We were asked about tricky offsite backups, why Two-factor authentication over SMS is a bad idea, and keeping two Mac laptops in sync.

 

 

 

 

 

ServerMania

Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/25a with code 25ADMINS

 

Automox

Check out the brand new Autonomous IT podcast. Listen in as a variety of experts in the IT Operations space discuss the latest Patch Tuesday releases, mitigation tips, and custom automations to help with CVE remediations. Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 318

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We get angry about a new decentralised social media initiative that seems to ignore the Fediverse, and explain why foldable phones are cool but not the future. Then stitching photos together, analysing applications at the system call level, and an Innertune fork that breaks less often in Discoveries. Plus the details of BarCamp Surrey from the organisers.

 

News

Free Our Feeds

Pixelfed Launches Kickstarter: Building Ethical Social Networks for Everyone

Plasma 6.3 beta 2 is out! and Season of KDE 2025

 

Foldable future?

Pixel 9 Pro Fold

 

Discoveries 

Hugin

Stratoshark

OuterTune

 

BarCamp Surrey

Laura and popey tell us about BarCamp Surrey

 

 

 

 

 

 

ServerMania

Get 15% Off dedicated servers – recurring for Life at servermania.com/lnl with code LATENIGHTLINUX

 

Tailscale

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Automox

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 116

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Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?

 

 

 

 

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