Late Night Linux

Mozilla has a new revenue stream that might actually work, GNOME OS gets closer to a stable release, Raspberry Pi OS for x86 machines returns, and Amazon has expensive new Android tablets that have the Play Store. Plus hacking old Echo Dots to work with Home Assistant, building ad blocking lists, and unbricking an M1 Mac with Linux in discoveries.

News

Mozilla introduces Firefox Enterprise

Introducing GNOME OS Preview

Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac

Amazon’s new Alexa Tablets drop the Fire branding but are more Android than ever

Discoveries

Echo Dot Hacks

PiHole Blocking Tool

idevicerestore

Tailscale

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A true legend of computer science leaves us, Fortnite is coming to Linux, Steam is finally moving away from 32-bit, Microsoft Defender comes to the Linux Desktop, Adobe’s flagship apps are cloned by AI as open source, and a quick KDE Korner.

News

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

The new Epic Games Launcher is finally here in Preview (Fortnite is coming to Linux)

Steam preemptively killed the only advantage Epic Games’ vibe-coded store would have had

Today’s Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App

Secure Linux desktops with Microsoft Defender

“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

KDE Korner

KDE: The Documentary

Plasma 6.8

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New Snapdragon SoCs will officially support Linux, Firefox’s redesign confuses us, the Dutch government is embracing NixOS, F-Droid has a new modern look, and Ubuntu starts shipping new kernels more regularly. Plus with the iPhone Duo about to come out, Graham is still enjoying his Pixel 9 Pro Fold but Joe’s 10 Pro Fold is in a drawer.

News

Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux

The new Firefox design: More modern, more flexible, still Firefox

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom

Google’s assault on F-Droid has begun

Ryanair Boarding Pass Liberation

Getting Ryanair tickets

Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy

Kernel Recipes 2026

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Joe gives his first impressions of the Steam Frame – a Linux PC that you wear on your face. It’s great for VR games, but it also has a KDE desktop.

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What Linux and open source will look like in 10 years, the aspects of Linux that got us hooked all those years ago, our happiest and most miserable experiences of converting people, and how we teach kids about privacy and security.

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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

Steam Frame

Not just Proton: Getting to know Valve’s new SteamOS compatibility layers

Power grab

DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks

CSS-Tricks could be a co-op

One week of LibreOffice 26.8 – The stats!

Yes, no AI is now a feature

Development/AI policy – The Document Foundation Wiki

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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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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

Audacity 4

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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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

Kubuntu Focus, Techpaladin Software, and KDE e.V. Announce the ‘bullet-proof’ KDE Software Initiative

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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To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.

Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 5th September from 5pm until late

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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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