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Linux Downtime – Episode 39

January 29, 2022
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Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub.

 

Jorge mentioned:

His list of resources

Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue

distrobox

ublue

sodalite

Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022

An example command for zoom which will show you what the app sees:
flatpak run –command=sh –devel us.zoom.Zoom

 

 

[This show used to be called Late Night Linux Extra. Don’t worry, the fabric of reality isn’t breaking down.]

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 161

January 24, 2022
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Why some people use Mint instead of Ubuntu, and your feedback. Plus all sorts of discoveries including programming lights, Ceefax, and a FOSS alternative to Sonos.

 

Discoveries

HiFi Berry OS

Ceefax lives!

NimBLE ESP32

iPlayer probably runs on 32-bit Linux

 

Why use Mint over Ubuntu?

Linux Mint 20.3 “Una” Cinnamon released!

New Features in Linux Mint 20.3 ‘Una’ Cinnamon Edition

 

 

 

 

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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 After Dark – Episode 09

January 21, 2022
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What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 160

January 18, 2022
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A theme of funding open source development runs throughout the news including npm sabotage, Mozilla accepting crypto donations, and Signal’s CEO standing down. Plus Wordle’s open web problem, the usual great stuff in KDE Korner, and more.

 

News

JavaScript dev deliberately screws up own popular npm packages to make a point of some sort

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won’t ante up

New year, new Signal CEO

Mozilla backtracks on crypto donations

Wordle is being punished by app stores for choosing the open web

Dev of namesake app donates proceeds to charity

Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days

Canon forced to ship ink cartridges without chips

 

KDE Korner

Plasma 5.24 Beta out

KVer Graphics & Dev Videos

Gnome App ID in KDE Task Manager

KDE PIM Updates and 4k LOC from Dolphin refactored out

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 38

January 16, 2022
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Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia.

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 159

January 10, 2022
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A simple FOSS way to share your mouse and keyboard across multiple machines, and a handy command line tool to find duplicate files. Plus your predictions for 2022 including gaming, GNOME, Firefox, Raspberry Pi, and PipeWire.

 

Discoveries

Barrier

rdfind

A CPU implemented in a modular synthesizer

 

Feedback

CalyxOS and a site to check which apps will work with de-Googled Android

 

 

 

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Linux After Dark – Episode 08

January 7, 2022
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What we all want to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2022.

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 158

January 4, 2022
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Ubuntu might be taking gaming more seriously, more Mozilla missteps, why Her Majesty’s demise might be really bad news, a brand new segment, KDE Korner, and more.

 

News/discussion

Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects

UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere

Firefox I Love You, But Can You Shut Up About Mozilla VPN?!

Mozilla begs for crypto & jwz lays some smack down

Canonical Seeks Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager 

In 2022, security will be priority number one for Linux and open-source developers

 

Discoveries

ts – Prefix any line with the current timestamp

The Rockstar Language Specification

 

KDE Korner

Highlights of 2021 and a Roadmap for 2022

Krita 5.0 released!

A new browser from kMobile

KDE Art Stream

 

 

 

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Late Night Linux – Episode 157

December 27, 2021
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It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2021 predictions, and make some new ones for 2022.

 

 

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CBT Nuggets

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Linux After Dark – Episode 07

December 24, 2021
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What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.

 

Kinoite London timezone bug

Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite

Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros

 

 

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