Late Night Linux All Episodes

What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

How we got started in our tech careers, how and why we moved into the cloud, and why the cloud often makes more sense than on-prem.           Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com... Read More

The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won't import.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation  ... Read More

In this episode: Alan has been manifesting Snaps. Martin has snapped and switched from MacOS to Linux with a Framework. Mark used Immich to find family favourite fotos.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you'd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the... Read More

The entrenched Linux or tech habits, workflows, and ideas we think we'll move away from in the next few years and how we see ourselves doing it.               Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go... Read More

We cover some of your emails, questions, and comments. A challenge suggestion of not using a package manager, donating old hardware, why we don't use custom ROMs on our phones, whether low end laptops with soldered eMMC storage are worth buying (they aren't), and tips for using Home Assistant with Apple gear and Jellyfin on... Read More

Intel and Nvidia are teaming up for multiple reasons, Open AI are planning to build data centers and use a ludicrous amount of power, LLM hallucinations aren't going away, and how long we keep servers and hard drives in production.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More

Drama in KDE land, more worries about Android source code, Ubuntu's transition away from GNU coreutils hits a slight speed bump, Mastodon adds a serious potential revenue stream, and a glimpse of a Blade Runner style dystopian tech future. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Chris from Linux After Dark.   News... Read More

Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to... Read More

SMTP relays and observability, why we didn't recommend Podman over Docker to a newcomer, and Gary gives us an update on his homelab.             Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use... Read More

Joe set up a FreeBSD box to serve as a replication target and it was surprisingly straightforward, if rather different from Linux. Plus the lies that storage tells us.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes           See our contact page for... Read More

In this episode: Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade. Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral. Alan created an MCP server for Grype.     You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you'd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community... Read More

Cloning disks (again), Félim's new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   Discoveries Clonezilla Kobo Clara Colour Just a QR Code mini-qr libqrencode Nallely-midi pico-rv32ima typr Epistory   KDE Korner 2024 KDE e.V. Report We've formally sent... Read More

Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it's time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, Home... Read More

Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn't seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn't understand best practices, and using S3... Read More

Historic musical performances that we'd go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.          

Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can't keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a... Read More

A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users.             Support us on Patreon and get... Read More

The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux.             Insta360 Go Ultra... Read More

McDonald's IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion How I... Read More

In this episode: Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty. Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you. Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.    ... Read More

What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner.   News/disccussion The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There... Read More

It's the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget.   Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously.... Read More

Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the... Read More

The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name.   News It seems like... Read More

We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.       Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard. Don't Let Architecture... Read More

What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps?               Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases... Read More

Why you can't rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure   News/discussion AWS deleted my 10-year account and all... Read More

In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3.     You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you'd like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the... Read More

Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind... Read More

It's our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes      ... Read More

AMD's recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS... Read More

The field of science we find most interesting, the bionic enhancements we'd want, the longest we've stayed awake, and the wisdom we'd pass onto the next generation. With Gary from Linux After Dark and Félim from Late Night Linux.         Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.    ... Read More

A new Debian version is out and it's the end of the 32-bit x86 era, an AWS user almost found out the hard way about the need for proper backups, GitHub is finally fully swallowed into Microsoft (having gone all in on AI), and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Gary from Linux After... Read More

Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed... Read More

Shane gives us an update on his janky Kubernetes homelab. The storage is under control with ZFS, he's got a decent switch, and everything is in Git – so maybe it isn't that janky anymore.           Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  ... Read More

The Web is a mess of tracking and AI scraping so do we need a new one, would it even be possible, or is this the wrong question? Plus setting up servers in a garage where dusty woodworking is happening.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More

In this episode: Martin has a fancy GitHub profile. Shields.io – Concise, consistent, and legible badges github-readme-stats – Dynamically generated GitHub stats. readme-scribe – Automatically generates & updates markdown content, like your README.md Latest blog posts, podcasts, live streams, YouTube videos from RSS Latest release, starred repos. Thank and mention sponsors. Uses git-auto-commit-action to automatically... Read More

Whether we need a properly open source ChromeOS alternative (or maybe we already have loads of them), what to do about bogus AI vulnerability reports, PuTTY's confusing website confusion, a cool new game, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News/discussion Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS Save 20% on Look Mum No... Read More

Gary has been using a Framework 12 laptop for a few weeks and gives us his impressions of it. Are the upgradability and repairability worth the premium price he paid for it?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes         See... Read More

Jim is concerned that although over-anthropomorphising LLMs is a mistake, we should be cautious about some of their human-like behaviour. Plus how to maintain old ZFS pools, and accessibility in the BSDs.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   Discussion It's a mistake to over... Read More

Intel kills its Linux distro without any notice, the UK government might ban state organisations from paying ransomware ransoms, we laugh at a vibe coding disaster, KDE's new immutable arch-based distro, and more.   News All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS Clear Linux OS terminated as Intel trims the... Read More

With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.    ... Read More

What to think about when picking a public cloud provider, and why it depends on the needs of your business. Free credits, billing complexity, available tools, small clouds vs the big three, hiring people with experience of particular cloud platforms, support, compliance, ease of repatriation, and more.         Support us on patreon... Read More

Two recent outages were handled very differently but show the dangers of centralisation, Let's Encrypt is introducing certificates for IP addresses, and the differences between backup and production systems.   Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News/discussion Microsoft's 19-hour Outlook outage exposes fragility in cloud... Read More

In this episode: Martin uses xdg-override to answer the question, How do you change browser in Slack anyway? Mark upgrades the SSD in his Framework laptop in the most elaborate way, e-v-e-r! Alan masters gh to build reports and automate GitHub operations.   You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If... Read More

The sad reality of the AI crawler bot arms race, the baddies seem to be obsessed with Xorg, but Wayland will soon be a reality for older smaller desktops (hopefully). Plus controlling a silly Red Dwarf thing, software releases with feature flags, a massive list of cheat sheets, another way to avoid the likes of... Read More

It's our 100th episode spectacular! We look back at some of the memes and themes of our first hundred episodes including our obsession with old hardware, our silly challenges, our move away from custom phone ROMs, our disappointment with Arm desktop Linux, composable/immutable distros, how we've changed as people, and more.       Support... Read More

To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS Practical... Read More

Mixed gaming news, Google's AI is seemingly inescapable, SUSE offers Europe-only support, Ubuntu is dropping support for loads of RISC-V boards in favour of future ones, a quick KDE Korner, and more.   News Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones DOGWALK Official Release Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access... Read More

What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed