All four of us return to talk about KDE, FOSS phones and watches, Solus’ growing pains, perfect code and more.

News

More eKciting developments in the land of KDE

Purism will team up with KDE for their Librem 5 phone

Replicant doubles the number of supported devices

Connect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign

Public money, public code!

Solus growing pains

Ikey tells us about his recent scaling problems and what he has done to fix them.

Entroware

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All software has bugs. But should it?

Joe attempts to argue that properly written software should be bug-free and should only require maintenance for compatibility and new features.

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We are back for a proper episode but Félim is on holiday so it’s a 3 man show. We’ve been to OggCamp, we discuss some developments in the mobile space, Ikey is off to New York on Shuttleworth’s dime, Joe has an ancient Mac and we talk about Patreon saturation.

OggCamp Recap

Joe and Jesse briefly discuss their OggCamp Experiences.

News

Sailfish for the Xperia X

Librem 5 – Matrix blog post

Ubuntu Rally in NYC

Playing with old rubbish

Joe recently acquired an eMac that was destined for the rubbish tip. It turns out that getting Linux to run on it is more difficult than you might think.

Entroware

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Ikey has been on Destination Linux again

New funding models

With the recent news that Disney is pulling (at least some of) its content from Netflix to start its own streaming service, we discuss how far a person’s budget can stretch. In a world where every company has a subscription service and every creator has a Patreon, can FOSS projects expect anything more than some beer money?

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It’s the Late Night Ubuntu Podcast! Recorded live at OggCamp 17, Jesse and Joe are joined by Martin and Mark from the Ubuntu Podcast for a (very sober) mashup show. Normal service will resume in around two weeks.

News

Nextcloud push into education

Solus 3 Released

Snappy Sceptic Files Bug to Ask Why It Even Exists

GNOME turns 20 and Debian turns 24

Q&A

We asked each other a few questions and answered some pre-submitted ones from the Internet and the crowd.

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This isn’t a proper episode. It’s just Joe giving a very quick update on the OggCamp live show. It will be a joint effort with the Ubuntu Podcast and one of the sections will involve us answering your questions.

There are various ways you can ask a question. You can use the Google Form or you can use any of the methods from our contact page. It would be helpful if you used the hashtag #askogg

Your question doesn’t have to be about Linux or FOSS so you can ask us anything you like. We won’t have time to answer every question.

Hopefully see you there!

Mozilla launches yet more projects, Krita had a brush with the tax man, Flash is on the way out, Debian is almost totally reproducible, Mycroft on Plasma, and Linux as a Windows and Mac replacement and more.

With Jesse and Félim away, we asked Michael Tunnell to join us.

Sorry to System76

On the last episode Jesse told us about his nightmare with Pop!_OS. It turns out that he really did dd the iso over sda so it was definitely his fault.

News

Mozilla finds some new ways to spend their millions

Krita had some tax troubles but the community came to the rescue with Mega-Props to Private Internet Access

Flash is moribund

Debian reproducible builds

Mycroft Plasmoid Version 2.0

Entroware

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Linux as a Windows/Mac replacement

If someone is interested in switching to Linux, what distro or desktop would be the most suitable drop-in replacement? Perhaps that’s the wrong way to look at it and we should show them a world beyond their old experience.

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Jesse’s Pop!_OS nightmare, news about KDE’s event, desktop Android takes a hit, Mozilla are lazy, a look at distro with a lot of history and more.

Jesse regrets pop!_ing his cherry

Jesse tells us about his experience of trying Pop!_OS

News

Akademy running 22nd – 27th July  a nice overview of what went on Day 1 Here. And one for Jesse

Remix OS discontinued but Phoenix OS lives on

Mozilla using Google Analytics ‘cause you know… laziness

Entroware

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Destination Linux need a new co-host

Jesse and Joe will be at OggCamp in a few weeks.

Mageia 6

Mageia has a long and colourful history so we thought we’d have a look at the recent release of version 6.

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Endless has a major update, KDE continues to innovate, Ubuntu backtracks on Wayland, O’Reilly trolls Félim, System76 and Tuxedo make some distros, and more on LNL 15.

News

Endless OS 3.2 Released, Rebases From GNOME Shell 3.8 To 3.22

KDE Stash virtual folder for dumping files from all about your directories, Snaps added to KDE Discover, Vulkan support added to QT 5.10

Ubuntu Is Now Uncertain about Using Wayland by Default

O’Reilly exits direct book sales

Project Common Voice

LetsEncrypt offering wildcard certs in 2018

Entroware

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Uncut video of us at FOSS Talk Live

Linux hardware sellers’ own distros

With the recent news that System76 and Tuxedo Computers are making their own Ubuntu-based distros we discuss whether they actually are distros and whether they should even exist.

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Mozilla’s new mobile browser, a big Budgie update, Debian’s fluffing of their latest release, and our show from FOSS Talk Live.

News

Debian botches the ISO then is forced to disable hyperthreading

Firefox Focus – Android privacy browser

Ikey tells us about a big Budgie update

Entroware

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FOSS Talk Live

Joe, Jesse and Félim met up at the 2nd annual FOSS Talk Live to record in front of an audience. We each talked about one thing that we like and one thing we dislike about Linux, followed by a discussion about FOSS business models. Ikey couldn’t make it but he was with us in spirit.

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A new KDE Plasma release, yet more Ubuntu news, Ikey goes full time with Solus, openSUSE for containers, Snaps and Flatpak, and more on LNL 13.

News

KDE Plasma 5.10 is out and KDE Frameworks 5.35.0

GDM to Replace LightDM in Ubuntu 17.10

The death of the x86 Windows PC?

GPG fundraiser

Canonical are looking for devs to do some paid user testing in London

Ikey has quit his day job and is going to develop Solus full time

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.

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FOSS Talk Live

Mashup show questions

OggCamp

We are now on Youtube

openSuse

Richard Brown from openSUSE joins us to discuss their new container OS Kubic and we discuss Snaps, Flatpak and AppImage in depth.

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Nextcloud scaling up, decentralised Internet, KDE love, Devuan, Linux in the real world, Fedora’s sales pitch and more on LNL 12.

News

Nextcloud 12 Global Scaaaaaaaaaale and loads of new features including screen sharing

Blockstack: Browser for a decentralised Internet

KDE Simon 0.4.90 Beta Released (Speech recognition on Linux! Well for computer control) It’s designed for people with quadriplegia in reality but the video here has a nice demo

Devuan finally reaches 1.0.0  just weeks before a new major Debian release

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.

The realities of enterprise computing

Joe recently attended a Linux meetup in London and learned the harsh reality is that although Linux is the standard on servers, almost no one uses it on the desktop, despite how terrible Windows 10 is.

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We spoke about FOSS Talk Live and specifically the drunken mashup show which will feature Joe, Stuart Langridge, Dave Megaslippers and Marius Quabeck answering your questions!

Fedora

We don’t seem to talk about Fedora very often so we invited Matthew Miller onto the show to tell us about it.

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