Late Night Linux

What does a long-term Linux user think of macOS? We ask Will. Plus gaming, Google, the PInephone, and KDE in the news.

News

Google Kills Cloud Print

Google plans to offer bank accounts next year

Steam’s Remote Play Together is out of beta

Half-Life: Alyx Releasing In March 2020 With Linux Support

PINEPHONE – “BraveHeart” Limited Edition Linux SmartPhone for early adopters

KDE Korner

KDE Neon snapcraft extension

KDE looking to hire an experienced project manager (PDF)

Admin

Joe on Linux Lads

Two weeks with macOS

Will’s new job means that he’s now using a Mac every day. How does macOS compare to Linux?

Digital Ocean

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CDN77

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We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and something about KDE.

News

LinuxApp Summit Kicks Off

Site Kit is now available for all WordPress sites

Google open source VR SDK

The downside of Ubiquiti network gear

Linux Foundation introduces telemetry policy

Microsoft to offer Defender for Linux next year

Microsoft confirms new browser is coming to Linux

Ubuntu 19.10 on the Pi 4

Joe and Graham have been playing with Ubuntu on the Pi 4

Install Xubuntu 19.10 on a Raspberry Pi 4

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

KDE Korner

Indian Newspaper Switches 100% FOSS

KItinary into the browser a la Google Now

And finally… Getting stuff fixed

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news.

News

The BBC has joined the dark web

Startpage bought by an Ad Company

Gitlab planned to introduce telemetry, then changed their minds

GNOME fights patent troll

Firefox 70 released

KDE Korner

Akademy vids are out, Plasma Mobile catchups, KItinerary extractors again & The cashew is no more

Will leaves Canonical

Will tells us why he has left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop and where he’s going next.

Admin

OggCamp panel recording

Digital Ocean

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CDN77

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Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, KDE Korner, and more.

News

Software as a Service Dangers

Adobe backtracks, will refund customers after cancelling their accounts

Ubuntu 19.10 coming this week

Chromium will be a snap

ARM reacts to RISC-V

What’s going on with WhatFreeWords?

KDE Korner

HiDPI, Plasma Mobile, Apps apps apps and more Apps,  Linux App Summit schedule is out, Speeding up plasma and the road to frameworks 6

Admin

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OggCamp panel questions

Campbell Barton from Blender

Blender developer Campbell Barton joins Joe. Check out the Blender news site, the Blender user and developer chat, and their Discourse forum.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home directories as a file, KDE Korner, and more.

News

rms has left the building

FSF Award Nominations [Guess who’s now eligible to be nominated]

New webpage for Plasma Desktop, Plasma 5.17beta / 5.18 two weeks away, Kate’s External Tools Plugin, Akademy and adopted GitLab, KItinerary Extractor

Pulse Dolby Support

Reinventing Home Dirs

Admin

OggCamp panel questions

Home Networks

Félim recently had to redo his home network so we talk about our various setups.

Digital Ocean

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CDN77

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It’s been another busy couple of weeks so we talk about the news including new GNOME, Linux on phones, and Windows catching up with us.

News

GNOME 3.34 Released

Kirogi.org, Kate planning & Kate in the Windows Store, POC KDE PIM Online Accounts with some PIM News and KDE Goals

PinePhone Developer PreOrders

Librem 5 Shipping Announcement

Fairphone 3 gets perfect score from iFixit

Mumble 1.3 Released

Firefox 69 released and looks good

Test Pilot Is Back

Sunsetting Python 2

Manjaro is taking the next step

Brexit bastards want our data

Windows gains major desktop Linux feature

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Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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We catch up with the news from a busy couple of weeks including KDE, exFAT, Google tracking, a new Fairphone, GIMP controversy, and more.

News

KPeople contacts for Plasma Mobile, KHighlighting Crosses 300, Plasma Browser Integration 1.6 & Akademy kicks off in Milan from the 7th-13th Sept.

GUADEC videos

GNOME Firmware Updater

Google’s Tracking Protection BS? – EFF Chime in

Fairphone3

MS Graciously Allows Us To Use Its Obvious & Non-Novel Patent For exFAT

Glimpse of a GIMP

Chris Beard to step down as Mozilla CEO

Software Developer reconsiders npm command line ad scheme after outcry

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Digital Ocean

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Graham tells us all about his new 3D printer, and the FOSS that he uses with it. Plus KDE, Xfce, ZFS, and more in the news.

News

Unpatched KDE vulnerability disclosed on Twitter

KDE rips out ability for KConfig to run shell code

Discover gets a Snap/Flat/App fix and the end of the U&P sprint…but not really

Xfce 4.14 released

ZFS on / coming to Ubuntu desktop

Richard Brown steps down as openSUSE chairman

Graham’s 3D printer

Graham recently bought a 3D printer and tells us all about it.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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We enter a parallel universe where Linux doesn’t have a foundation and decide what one should be like. Plus a packed news section including Blender, VR, Xfce, KDE, VLC, and other initialisms.

News

KDE Onboarding Sprint, KDEConnect SMS & well of course there’s a KItinerary update…

More good news for Blender from Ubisoft

VLC is somewhat fed up with security researchers

Xfce 4.14 Inches Closer to Release

Firefox Reality, browser designed for viewing the web in virtual reality

Valve and Colabora backed Xrdesktop Brings Linux Desktop Environments Into VR

Cloudflare terminating Service for 8Chan

8chan’s hardware provider discontinues service

A reimagined foundation for Linux

What would a foundation for Linux look like if we were to start one today?

Digital Ocean

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CDN77

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When Free Software and free speech clash, controversy ensues. We talk about Mastodon’s recent conundrum. Plus a packed news section including Blender, XPS machines, reproducibility, GNOME malware, and more.

News

KDE Plasma5 is 5, KDE UserBase refresh, iKDE iConnect & Runs Plasma

Epic MegaGrant for Blender while their CEO badmouths Linux users at same time

Like Linux? Then don’t buy Dell’s new XPS 13

F-Droid Reproducible

New EvilGnome Backdoor Spies on Linux Users, Steals Their Files

Maintainer for gpodder.net needed

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Free Software and free speech

With Gab recently switching to a Mastodon base, an old debate has emerged. The Mastodon project has taken steps to isolate Gab and F-droid has taken a similar position.

Digital Ocean

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Entroware

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