Late Night Linux

Linux removes Russian maintainers and bungles the explanation, Flutter is forked due to Google’s “labor shortage”, the OSI finally defines open source AI (and we don’t take it very seriously), Hollywood uses loads of FOSS, an easy way to help out Home Assistant, and Thunderbird for Android arrives.

News

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel’s “Compliance Requirements” Around Russian Sanctions

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

We’re forking Flutter. This is why.

The Open Source Initiative Announces the Release of the Industry’s First Open Source AI Definition

Open-source AI must reveal its training data, per new OSI definition

New ‘Open Source AI Definition’ Criticized for Not Opening Training Data

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

Help us make voice better in under a minute – Home Assistant

Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight

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Yet another to do list manager, reflashing abandoned IP cameras, first impressions of the Framework 13 laptop, organising your workshop with 3D printed storage, what the death of Windows 10 means for Linux adoption, and more.

Discoveries

Taskfinder

Thingino

YouTube video on how to install it

follow up videoon Neos

Framework 13 DIY edition

Linux After Dark 80

HAL Project

How GFX Cards Work

GridFinity

Videos about a modular shed

WikiHouse

Tailscale

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Entroware

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The WordPress drama escalates, a great opportunity for Firefox to gain market share, Android will open up a little bit, the FOSS funding problem is solved, we laugh at WinAmp, a new release of Plasma, AAA gaming on Asahi, 20 years of Ubuntu, and more.

News

WordPress saga escalates as WP Engine plugin forcibly forked

WP Engine asks court to stop Matt Mullenweg from blocking access to WordPress resources

Google has started automatically disabling uBlock Origin in Chrome

Google must crack open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge

Open Source Pledge

Releasing WinAmp source goes badly – for its owners, anyway

RIP: Ward Christensen, co-developer of the CBSS

Plasma 6.2

AAA gaming on Asahi Linux

20 years of Ubuntu

Tailscale

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Loads of discoveries including Will’s terrible way of flashing Android phones from a web browser, real-time database analytics, editing audio with text, a great way to deal with log files, and learning about the fundamentals of computer graphics. Plus the best way to manage data and backups, and a reason to add an old laptop to the stack.

Discoveries

fastboot.js

android-webinstall

dolphie

audapolis

toolong

Topics in computer graphics

OpenZFS

sanoid

Feedback

linux-surface

Tailscale

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How the boss of WordPress spectacularly failed to read the room, why the CUPS vulnerabilities didn’t live up to the hype, Mozilla disappoints once again, great news for home automation, Valve supports Arch, and a Raspberry Pi 500 looks imminent. With guest host Andy from Linux Dev Time.

News

​Know Before You Go – OggCamp 24

Announcing the OggCamp Swap Shop

Get Involved at OggCamp 2024: bring a talk or demo

The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source

Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

David Culley’s post about K9

Aqara joins Works with Home Assistant

Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration

We have discussed the need for a signing enclave and proper build service for *years*. They are supporting our priorities

The Raspberry Pi 500 Hints At Its Existence

KDE e.V. and Kdenlive team are looking for contractors

Tailscale

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Jason Evangelho tells us about the rosy state of Linux gaming, including a lot of games that perform as well or even better than on Windows. Plus feedback, and discoveries about interacting with GitHub via the command line, a handy DNS testing tool, and playing ancient games with accurate audio.

Discoveries

GitHub CLI

dug

asid-vice

Feedback

Archiveteam

Jason Evangelho

Jason’s Mastodon

Jason’s articles on Forbes

Entroware

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We look back at the biggest news stories and trends from the last 7+ years and 300 episodes of LNL. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

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Seven and a bit years of news

Google launches game streaming service called Stadia

A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy

Introducing a new version of Steam Play

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Ubuntu is abandoning Unity

Canonical starts IPO path

Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

IBM to Acquire Red Hat

CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream

Red Hat’s new source code policy and the intense pushback, explained

Mozilla acquires Pocket

Mozilla to shut down their Mastodon instance

Mozilla recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab

Microsoft to buy Github

Announcing WSL 2

GitHub and OpenAI launch an AI Copilot tool that generates its own code

Linux has made it to Mars

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more

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Learning undergraduate level signal processing for free, a few more uses for KDE Connect, analysing audio for HiFi setups, deep inspection of Python objects, viewing HTTP archives, and more on the problem with micropayments.

Discoveries

Signal Processing Course

KDE Connect

Friture

wat

HARview

1Password

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Mono moves to the Wine project, the Internet Archive can’t lend books but should have seen it coming, Mozilla adds unpopular AI to Firefox, and KDE asks for donations in Plasma. With guest host popey from Linux Matters. Check out his newsletter.

News

A long, weird FOSS circle ends as Microsoft donates Mono to Wine project

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox

Asking for donations in Plasma

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To what extent can you avoid services and products from companies who do bad things? Plus whether we should try to convert WSL users to “proper” Linux, if so how, and if it’s even possible in Voice of the masses.

Voice of the masses

Should we try to convert Windows Subsystem for Linux users into “proper” native desktop Linux users? If so, how?

1Password

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