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| Late Night Linux – Episode 404 | 22 Sep 2026 | 00:26:37 | |
The Steam Frame is finally here and it’s not quite as expensive as we feared. Graham was selected in the lottery but will he actually buy one? We finally talk about Omarchy, its huge fundraising effort, and why we are disappointed in companies who are contributing. Plus LibreOffice’s enviable download numbers. With guest hosts Andy from Linux Dev Time, and Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve’s new SteamOS compatibility layers DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats! Development/AI policy – The Document Foundation Wiki
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 403 | 14 Sep 2026 | 00:29:04 | |
We answer your questions including the last new distro we tried, what distro we’d switch to if ours went away, whether we should limit our computer use, our vision for the Linux desktop, and our unpopular Linux opinions.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 402 | 08 Sep 2026 | 00:25:50 | |
Audacity’s new major release makes it more like a proper digital workstation, Debian finally gets off the genAI fence and disappoints some of us, California exempts Linux from terrible age verification laws, and Asahi boots on M3 Macs. With guest host Shane from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News Debian Votes To Allow “Responsible Use Of Generative AI” Results for LLM usage in Debian Retiring from the Project (vv221) California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law M2: Episode 1 (or, Asahi Linux on M3)
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 401 | 31 Aug 2026 | 00:26:07 | |
KDE has a new proper LTS and Joe is very interested, the Steam Frame is (really) nearly here, the Epic Games Store is coming to Linux, Nintendo continues to play whack-a-mole with Switch emulators, and GitHub’s serious scaling issues are getting ridiculous.
News/discussion What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04 New Frame welcome videos pushed to Steam Store assets Epic Games Store Will Support Linux “Soon” Nintendo Wipes Out 400+ Switch Emulator Repos in Single-Day GitHub Sweep Fairphone 6 + PostmarketOS working main camera! The August 17 GitHub outage, and the work ahead
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 400 | 25 Aug 2026 | 00:28:15 | |
To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.
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9.5 years of good news Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023) Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024) I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024) Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025) An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025) GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025) KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025) Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018) KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025) Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018) Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022 Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025) Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026) Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019) How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024) Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021) Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 399 | 17 Aug 2026 | 00:25:58 | |
Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.
Bootc desktops Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts Mono repository for all bootcrew images How Steam Play/Proton makes Gaming on Linux Awesome
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 398 | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:26:51 | |
Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.
News Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses Proxmox Virtual Environment launches official Arm64 Support Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro Getting Started With Libvirt and Saltstack Felipe Borges: The Future of GNOME Boxes
KDE Korner This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026 This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 397 | 03 Aug 2026 | 00:26:01 | |
Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.
News Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 396 | 28 Jul 2026 | 00:28:19 | |
With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.
News/discussion “Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it” Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 395 | 20 Jul 2026 | 00:26:22 | |
Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.
Discoveries Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 394 | 14 Jul 2026 | 00:24:02 | |
Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.
News Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 393 | 06 Jul 2026 | 00:26:58 | |
A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.
Discoveries Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 392 | 30 Jun 2026 | 00:27:34 | |
We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.
News Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived] $100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250) Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
KDE Korner Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 391 | 22 Jun 2026 | 00:07:08 | |
Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 390 | 16 Jun 2026 | 00:33:26 | |
The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.
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News Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day [archived] 2 Arch Linux’s AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware 4.5 Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
Retro gaming handhelds
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 389 | 08 Jun 2026 | 00:26:52 | |
A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.
News/discussion Firefox 151.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing
Ubuntu Summit
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 388 | 02 Jun 2026 | 00:28:21 | |
Steam Deck price rises point toward high prices for the new Valve hardware, Lenovo puts its name to a cheap retro handheld and regrets it, Wikipedia management seems to be acting like a typical big tech company and the workers are organising, Bambu pisses off its 3D printer customers and Joe got given a free unrelated 3D printer, and we don’t believe that the Raspberry Pi 6 will arrive as late as 2028.
News Steam Deck back in stock, with updated pricing The golden age of handheld gaming is already over [archived] Sellers circumvent Lenovo’s retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia We’re Wiki Workers United, a global solidarity union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs Comprehensive Response to Bambu’s AGPLv3 Violations – Software Freedom Conservancy ‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing [archived] Don’t expect a Raspberry Pi 5 in 2023, says Eben Upton [21st Dec 2022] Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! [28th Sep 2023]
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 387 | 25 May 2026 | 00:25:22 | |
Debian’s ambitious aim to make all packages reproducible pushes us closer to a better future, yet more talk about age verification for VPNs, Firefox gets more users on mobile thanks to regulation, Opera’s gaming browser comes to Linux, Valve releases CAD files for the Steam Controller, and the Steam Frame might be coming soon. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox’s way
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 386 | 19 May 2026 | 00:27:47 | |
Great funding news for LVFS and KDE, why Europe probably needs some more home-grown distros, a conspiracy theory about Cloudflare seems unlikely, and we wonder what can be done about all the irresponsibly disclosed vulnerabilities that new tools are discovering. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.
News Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? ‘Dirty Frag’ Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 385 | 11 May 2026 | 00:29:02 | |
Voice to text, visualising CSVs in the terminal, managing software from releases on GitHub, a mini Android tablet for your wall, and Amiga music on Linux in Discoveries. Plus Ubuntu embracing AI makes us wonder if we should just stop having the same old arguments.
Discoveries Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator
News/discussion I wanted to reply with some clarifications The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next? Anthropic joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron Upcoming Blender Development Fund and AI Policies
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 384 | 05 May 2026 | 00:30:21 | |
There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.
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News Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04? Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 383 | 27 Apr 2026 | 00:29:10 | |
Whether you can trust small new distros, Amazon is officially abandoning Android on its new TV sticks in favour of their new Linux-based OS, and we have another pointless argument about AI bollocks.
News/discussion Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 382 | 21 Apr 2026 | 00:28:24 | |
The French government makes a start on moving to the Linux Desktop, the EU has a terrible but open source age verification app, some clarity on one of the exciting office suite dramas, the media swallows Anthropic’s nonsense about their new magically powerful model, a quick KDE Korner, and more.
News France’s digital agency dumping Windows desktops for Linux Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it Microsoft locks out VeraCrypt and WireGuard devs, blames verification process You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing UK gov’s Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype A few notes about the massive hype surrounding Claude Mythos Breathless parroting of Anthropic’s bullshit from the graun NSA using Anthropic’s Mythos despite blacklist
KDE Korner Tighter KDE Connect Integration
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 381 | 13 Apr 2026 | 00:27:20 | |
Raspberry Pi prices have gone up yet again, more drama in the exciting world of open source office suites, Red Hat looks to be going all in on “AI”, Cloudflare vibe codes a WordPress rip off, and GIMP shares some interesting download numbers.
News/discussion A new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases Forking frenzy ensues after Euro-Office launch sparks OnlyOffice backlash TDF ejects its core developers Let’s put an end to the speculation Memo: Red Hat Global Engineering plans to lean in to AI If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 380 | 07 Apr 2026 | 00:20:14 | |
Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.
News LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements Windows 11 has lower requirements Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 379 | 30 Mar 2026 | 00:23:24 | |
Making silly URLs, visualising complex weather data, a TUI network discovery tool, and an open source version of a classic synthesizer in discoveries, plus the sad reality that it’s more or less impossible to avoid code that’s been generated by “AI” these days.
Discoveries
AI in FOSS systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added New Xfce Wayland compositor is being developed with genAI
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 378 | 24 Mar 2026 | 00:26:25 | |
Age declaration and verification in Linux gathers pace, Google blesses us with some hoops to jump through to install the software we want on stock Android, the FSFE lost their payment provider, great new KDE Plasma and GNOME features, and more.
News Just over a month until OggCamp! Age verification isn’t sage verification when it’s inside operating systems The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux meta-lobbying-and-other-findings Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety 450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us This Week in Plasma: Press-and-Hold for Alternative Characters
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 377 | 16 Mar 2026 | 00:23:33 | |
Drama in the exciting world of office suites, new ThinkPads are properly repairable, hands on with the Android desktop convergence future, and more.
News/discussion LibreOffice Online: a fresh start LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic LibreOffice 26.2 is here: a faster, more polished office suite that you control Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability Your Pixel phone can now become a full Android PC via USB-C You will be able to install “unverified” Android apps with ADB
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 376 | 10 Mar 2026 | 00:26:46 | |
Discord delays their age-gating rollout but legislators are pushing for operating systems including Linux to verify ages, LLM licence laundering might mean the end of copyleft, and how and why you might want to detect Meta’s spy camera glasses.
News Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What’s Changing US state laws push age checks into the operating system I have actually read the text of California law CA AB1043 and, honestly, I don’t hate it Relicensing with AI-assisted rewrite – Tuan-Anh Tran Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens No right to relicense this project Hide from Meta’s spyglasses with this new Android app Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 375 | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:24:33 | |
The freedom to install what you want on stock Android ROMs is still in jeopardy, an interesting update on SETI@home, Intel looks to contribute to graphics on Linux, and Mozilla works towards Web standards. Plus making a Wii U gamepad, UPS software, free NASA ebooks, and making cool posters with mapping data in Discoveries.
News/Discussion Intel Hiring More Linux Developers – Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 374 | 24 Feb 2026 | 00:24:50 | |
Discord’s new age gating policy might be a real opportunity for open source but it’s not clear that we have anything that can compete, the complex and bizarre tale of an AI agent writing a blog post attacking a FOSS maintainer, why we lost some trust in a major tech publication, the Firefox AI kill switch arrives, and a quick KDE Korner.
News Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here’s What I Actually Handed Over. An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
KDE Korner 4 A quick anti-FUD FAQ to debunk “the KDE is forcing systemd!” hoax KDE endorses the UN’s Open Source Principles
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 373 | 16 Feb 2026 | 00:25:21 | |
The professional-grade audio workstation Ardour has a great new version, LinkedIn does a shocking but not surprising amount of browser fingerprinting, Firefox is getting a button to turn off the AI nonsense, a new way to prevent slop “contributions” to your project, another tale of someone failing to switch to Linux, and why we should talk more about why open source software can be better than proprietary alternatives. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News/discussion Linkedin-extension-fingerprinting AI controls are coming to Firefox Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 372 | 10 Feb 2026 | 00:24:20 | |
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and friends are cooking up something (but it’s not exactly clear what that is), KDE Linux is progressing nicely, and more. With guest host Kevin from Linux Dev Time.
News Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor Xfwl4 (Xfce’s Wayland Compositor) FAQ Xubuntu Development Update February 2026 Sudo’s maintainer needs resources to keep utility updated Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 371 | 02 Feb 2026 | 00:26:46 | |
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wants to do more age-gating, and we hear about a project to get kids into Free Software.
News Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains It looks like they followed these instructions to install Proton VPN (including selecting gdm) AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty UK government rolls back key part of digital ID plans Lords back UK social media ban for under-16s Under-16 social media ban would expand age-gating for millions and silence young people UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs
Mission:Libre Carmen tells us about her project that aims to get kids into Free Software.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 370 | 27 Jan 2026 | 00:27:35 | |
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new underwhelming hardware, and European AWS hasn’t won Félim over. Plus a reminder about the upcoming OggCamp event, and a call for participation.
News Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best (and does deals with more AI companies) Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security The end of the curl bug-bounty Introducing the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2: Generative AI on Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30: a high-quality essential accessory AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
OggCamp 2026 OggCamp crew lead Andy Piper tells us about the upcoming unconference. Check out Andy’s podcast
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 369 | 19 Jan 2026 | 00:22:43 | |
We cover your feedback including follow-up on old tablets as clocks, Firefox alternatives, and moving off Gmail. Plus building synths in Rust, FOSS isometric diagrams, a powerful network analysis tool for Android, and some cool ambient music in discoveries.
Discoveries
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 368 | 13 Jan 2026 | 00:27:00 | |
Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bose demonstrates how to kill a product.
News The Steam Machine’s Price Might Have Just Leaked And It’s Not What We Hoped For Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% GNOME dev gives fans of Linux’s middle-click paste the middle finger Google will now only release Android source code twice a year Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 367 | 05 Jan 2026 | 00:25:42 | |
It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026.
Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 366 | 30 Dec 2025 | 00:24:27 | |
It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE.
Gaming Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve Steam Deck LCD production is ending
AI bullshit Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden ardour.org has banned 1.2M distinct IP addresses for trying to slurp from our git repository Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges
Mozilla Updates on Mozilla’s Leadership and Growth Planning Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic Investing in what moves the internet forward Firefox is fine. The people running it are not Mozilla Slammed Over Battery-Draining “Garbage” AI in Firefox Firefox Adds CoPilot Chatbot, New Tab Widgets in Nightly Builds Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company
Wayland Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME GNOME Dropping X11 Support May Complicate Next Ubuntu LTS Ubuntu 25.10 drops support for GNOME on Xorg Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future
Politics The price of software freedom is eternal politics Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant
Intel All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025
KDE
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 365 | 22 Dec 2025 | 00:23:32 | |
Good news for custom Android ROMs, Rust is here to stay in the kernel, an open source success story in Germany, and a new version of elementary OS is out. Plus discoveries is back including better Firefox history, migrating from Windows to Linux, automating telescopes, turning old tablets into clocks, and more.
News Good news for custom ROMs: Google just released the Android 16 QPR2 The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions elementary OS 8.1 Available Now
Discoveries Making History: Signing the Commodore Contract + C64 Ultimate Production Update
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 364 | 16 Dec 2025 | 00:22:24 | |
The Steam machine will use an older HDMI standard because of arbitrary rules, more details about running X86 Windows games on Arm Linux, and the Steam Controller lives on. Plus Calibre is adding “AI”, and we laugh at another LLM.
News Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow Remember Google Stadia? Steam finally made its gamepad worth rescuing Talk to your Fedora system with the linux-mcp-server! Calibre adds AI “discussion” feature Because the Calibre ebook library software just acquired AI garbage it has *already* been forked
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 363 | 08 Dec 2025 | 00:26:55 | |
Arduino’s new ToS has some people worried, some projects are starting to move away from GitHub for technical reasons, Raspberry Pi has a new model and prices are going up because of RAM costs, great news for OpenPrinting, old text adventure games get open source, and Joe’s foldable phone breaks in an unexpected way.
News Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 now available at $45, and memory-driven price rises Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 362 | 02 Dec 2025 | 00:23:05 | |
KDE Plasma is finally moving on from X11, Tuxedo Computers abandons their Arm laptop project, Mozilla completely loses the room, but there might be a glimmer of hope.
News Going all-in on a Wayland future Help us reach the inflection point Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC Linux Device Trees For Cancelled Products? Don’t “Waste Time” Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web Mozilla’s ‘Rewiring’ to AI – Saving the Web or Saving Itself? Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 361 | 24 Nov 2025 | 00:23:52 | |
Ubuntu get 15 years of support, Google finally releases Android source code and backs down on “sideloading”, more steps to move on from X11, IKEA launches a range of Matter IoS gear, and more.
News Canonical expands total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on The wait is over: Android 16 QPR1’s source code is now available on AOSP Google will let expert Android users to sideload all apps GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products Ikea’s new smart home collection is entirely Matter-compatible
KDE Korner Help us reach the inflection point Google Summer of Code 2025 Conclusion – KDE Mentorship
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 360 | 18 Nov 2025 | 00:26:57 | |
We are excited and enthusiastic about Valve’s new Linux hardware, and then angry and disappointed about Mozilla’s latest nonsense.
News Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we’re working on and how you can help shape it
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 359 | 10 Nov 2025 | 00:21:48 | |
What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.
We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 358 | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:35:32 | |
Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.
News Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!
Mark Shuttleworth Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 357 | 27 Oct 2025 | 00:21:59 | |
Intel is contributing less to open source and it could easily backfire, Qualcomm buys Arduino and we have concerns, KDE turns 29, Germans are doing excellent work moving towards Linux, and good news for those running Linux on an Amiga.
News Intel rethinking how it contributes to open source community Intel’s Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source Arduino’s got a new job: selling chips for its new owner Schleswig-Holstein waves auf Wiedersehen to Microsoft stack Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 356 | 20 Oct 2025 | 00:21:41 | |
An AWS outage takes down a lot more sites and services than it should have, the new Ubuntu release has some surprisingly bad bugs, the Xubuntu website is compromised, Discord proves that uploading IDs is a bad idea, and Framework disappoints by sponsoring the baddies.
News Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet Ubuntu 25.10 lands: Rustier and Wayland-ier, but Flatpak is broken Xubuntu website got hacked and is serving malware (trojan) Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach Framework flame war erupts over Linux controversy
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| Late Night Linux – Episode 355 | 13 Oct 2025 | 00:27:12 | |
The Google Photos clone Immich finally has a stable release and Joe is impressed with it, we hope an open source printer crowdfunder works out, Amazon launches a Linux-based OS to replace Android on its streaming devices, Graham gives us an update on his Home Assistant hardware, and more.
News/discussion v2.0.0 – Stable Release of Immich #22546 This open-source printer you can repair yourself is powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W Amazon launches Vega OS, its Android replacement for Fire TV with no sideloading Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
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