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It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018!

FOSS Talk Live 2018

Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen.

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We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS.

News

KDE 5.13 almost ready

LXQt 0.13 released

Portable Services arrives in systemd

Asteroid OS reaches 1.0

Huawei locks down its bootloaders

Steam link on android

Admin

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FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come!

Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.

Entroware

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Ubuntu Touch

We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.

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A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption is knackered, and do small distros stand a chance of making it big?

News

Fedora 28 released

Red Hat to integrate CoreOS into OpenShift

Stallman shows who’s boss

Ubuntu MATE and Ubuntu Budgie drop 32-bit

The other flavours could follow suit

Malware found in (and removed from) the Snap store

EFAIL

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Can there ever be another big distro?

With the seeming demise of Void Linux and Korora, we ask whether small distros have any chance of surviving in the long term without an eccentric billionaire backer.

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Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu 18.04.

News

Oracle being lovely netziens again

GSConnect NIH KDEConnect replacement

KDE Apps 18.04

Microsoft announces Linux-based OS

German government chooses NextCloud

Admin

OggCamp Call for papers

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

We look at the latest long term support release of Ubuntu.

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With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that includes a new Qt music player, the end of passwords, and the potential death of Steam Machines.

New hosts

We introduce Graham Morrison and Will Cooke.

News

Elisa: Finally something to replace faltering Amarok?

System76 joins the Gnome foundation advisory board

WebAuthN to “replace” passwords online?

Steam Machines disappear from Valve’s site but Valve claim that Steam Machines aren’t dead yet

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.

AMP

Are Accelerated Mobile Pages a great way for publishers to offer a fast and unified experience on mobile browsers? Or is Google forcing content to be centralised in a way that the Web traditionally wasn’t? Or maybe both?

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