All episodes from Late Night Linux, Linux Dev Time, Linux After Dark, 2.5 Admins, Linux Matters, Hybrid Cloud Show, and Ask The Hosts.
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Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
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Professional software developers Amolith and Kevin join Joe and guests to discuss developing with, and for Linux.
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Sysadmin Chris, cloud consultant Gary, and developer/admin May join Joe to talk about their recent Linux-related experiences, and discuss some of the more philosophical aspects of being a Linux user.
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Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software.
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Joe and various hosts from the Late Night Linux Family answer your questions. The catch is we aren’t allowed to talk about Linux or open source. Episodes are released two weeks early on Patreon.
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2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
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Linux Matters 62: Mirrors, Motors and Makefiles
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36:06In 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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community you can join: The Li…
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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 data from planes. With guest hosts G…
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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 data from planes. With guest hosts G…
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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 data from planes. With guest hosts G…
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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 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.…
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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 See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.…
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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 Summer Roundup: Smart Har…
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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 Summer Roundup: Smart Har…
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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.By The Late Night Linux Family
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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.By The Late Night Linux Family
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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 Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. News D…
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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 Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. News D…
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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 Dark and Hybrid Cloud Show, and Kevin from Linux Dev Time. News D…
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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 with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. …
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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 with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. …
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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 Subscribe to the RSS feed.By The Late Night Linux Family
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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 sometimes Free consulting We were asked about setting up servers in a ga…
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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 sometimes Free consulting We were asked about setting up servers in a ga…
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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. T…
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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 Computer on Steam How w…
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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 Computer on Steam How w…
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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 Computer on Steam How w…
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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 our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.…
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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 our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.…
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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 anthropomorphize LLMs, but…
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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 anthropomorphize LLMs, but…
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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 fat Final Benchmarks Of C…
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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 fat Final Benchmarks Of C…
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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 fat Final Benchmarks Of C…
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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. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed …
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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. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed …
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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 and get an ad-free RSS f…
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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 expose…
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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 expose…
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Linux Matters 60: Frankenstein’s Ubuntu Server Framework
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33:43In 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 [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang…
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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 Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and…
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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 Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and…
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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 Reddit, old skool CPU monitoring, and…
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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 us on Patreon an…
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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 us on Patreon an…
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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 ZFS See our cont…
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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 ZFS See our cont…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 feedBy The Late Night Linux Family
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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 feedBy The Late Night Linux Family
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How we access home environments from outside the home network while trying to stay secure using VPNs, Wireguard, overlay VPNs (like Tailscale and Nebula) and reverse proxies. Sean introduces us to Pangolin as an open source alternative middle-ground. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Subscribe to the RS…
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Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion Microsoft’s free updates for …
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