Late Night Linux

The Steam Deck pushes Linux gaming stats over a small but significant threshold, why you should definitely switch from Chrome to Firefox, Microsoft throws its legal weight behind its generative AI, a quick KDE Xorner, and more.

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News

Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS 

Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting 

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 

Microsoft announces new Copilot Copyright Commitment for customers 

Xubuntu Development Update September 2023

Plasma 6 coming in February 2024

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Hacking 2-way radios, upgrading Debian from 10 to 12, sshing into the Ubuntu Server installer, a new version of a minimal keyboard-focused browser, establishing the true health of your laptop battery, playing Wipeout in the browser, RSS aggregators, and more.

Discoveries

UVMOD

Antennapod

qutebrowser 3.0

acpi

Rewriting wipEout

Bash scripting cheatsheet

Feedback

FreshRSS

Nextcloud News

NewsFlash

Feedly

Kolide

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Factor

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We can’t believe Proton has been around for 5 years, a bad sign for the Linux desktop long-term, the dilemma of whether to support your software on outdated operating systems, a laughable plan from WordPress to host your website for 100 years, and Félim shoehorns in some KDE nonsense.

News

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Roblox is back on Linux

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

Firefox to drop support for old macOS and Windows versions

The 100-Year Plan on WordPress.com

Merkuro Explainer & comparison to Kontact : also “Qt 6.6, to be released end of September, Qt apps will survive a restart of the Wayland compositor”

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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Rooting Amazon Echo devices to use with your own open source software, a remote desktop solution to watch for the future, the state of tech magazines and why Linux ones are among the last remaining, another Pocket alternative, making shell scripts look prettier, a novel approach to IT training, and more.

Discoveries

Echo Root

Kyber

The End of Computer Magazines in America

Feedback

linkding

gum

35 Fedora Releases in 30 Minutes

exercism.org

Worker claims they’re unable to use Microsoft Windows OS due to their religion

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

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Rare praise for Mozilla as more extensions come to Firefox on Android, Fedora is coming to Arm Macs, a rolling version of “Ubuntu” appears, an unwise solution to the problem of funding open source, SUSE might be the baddies, LXD is forked, and more.

With guest host popey from Linux Matters.

News

2.5 Admins is now part of the Late Night Linux Family. Support us on Patreon

Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers

Prepare your Firefox desktop extension for the upcoming Android release

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

Neal Gompa says KDE will be the flagship version

Rhino Linux Makes Rolling-Release Ubuntu Reality

Incus – Introduction

Incus: A new fork of Canonical’s LXD ‘containervisor’

Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20

Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future

Factor

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Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal.

News

riscv64 is now an official Debian architecture

Building Debian For RISC-V Currently Relies Upon Nine HiFive Unmatched Boards

The next step for NVK: Merging into Mesa!

Discoveries 

tio

HP-45 calculator emulator

Linux Air Combat

Passim

goread

Kolide

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We celebrate Slackware’s 30th birthday by trying it out and basking in its classic glory. Plus the BBC joins Mastodon, Google has dystopian plans for the web, the LXD drama rumbles on, and KDE takes a leaf out of GNOME’s book.

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News

Slackware turns 30

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Web-Environment-Integrity

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web

Google’s browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

HelloFresh

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A simple GUI for browsing SQLite databases, a terminal IRC client, some great Python resources, a clone of Task Manager for Linux, decoding data from random satellites, and a slick Mastodon client.

Discoveries

SQLite Browser

WeeChat 4

David Beazley’s Python Courses

Dive Into Systems

Mission Center

SatDump

Decoding BW-3

Scott Tilley on Twitter

Ebou

Ebou GitHub

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

HelloFresh

With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to your doorstep. Get 50% off and free shipping at hellofresh.com/latenightlinux50 using the promo code latenightlinux50.

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Canonical takes control of LXD and it’s a little bit messy, Fedora might implement opt-out telemetry, and Félim sneaks in a mini KDE Korner. Plus more fallout from the RHEL source code restriction drama including surprising moves from SUSE and Oracle, and a sensible submissive solution from Alma.

News

Monica Madon’s Mastodon and LinkedIn

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Time to move on

Christian Brauner on Mastodon

Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry

Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment

SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro… again

The Future of AlmaLinux is Bright2022 KDE e.V. Report & Akademy is on right now! Raw videos are available

Entroware

This episode is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.

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Will finds a domain registrar with a terrible name, Graham baffles us with 3D graphics, Félim discovers hidden python tools, and Joe does some maths to reveal how many Linux users there are on Steam. Plus bulletin boards, free hot water, music from /dev/urandom, and more.

Discoveries

Python tools hidden in the Std Lib

Blender 3.6 LTS

Accurate dinosaurs edited with blender

Qodem

Telnet BBS Guide

Zimodem

2.5M Steam users on Linux?

ESP Home iBoost

linuxwave

Kolide

Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/latenightlinux

Factor

Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and enjoy. Go to factormeals.com/latenightlinux50 and use code latenightlinux50 to get 50% off.

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