Late Night Linux

It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Linux and FOSS news including an upgraded KDE Neon, Ubuntu and Fedora betas going head to head, Microsoft showing how much they love FOSS, Sailfish continuing to live, and loads more.

News

KDE Neon rebased on Ubuntu 18.04

Google loosens grasp on AMP

Web 5.0?

Fedora 29 beta released

Ubuntu (and flavours) 18.10 beta released

Mir reaches 1.0.0

Running Ubuntu VMs on Windows made easier

At least half of Azure is running Linux

Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0

Sailfish OS not dead yet

Mintcast needs new hosts

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Good stuff from Nextcloud, KDE, and fedora, politics in the kernel dev camp, a debate about contributing to FOSS, and more.

News

Nextcloud 14

KDE 5.14 Beta

Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive

Linux User and Developer magazine to close

Has Linus finally had enough?

Maybe this is what did it

The Post-meritocracy Manifesto

Check out User Error

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Entroware

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Do you need to use FOSS to contribute to it?

After finding out last time that VM Brasseur was using a Mac because she had lost her patience with Linux on the desktop, a fierce debate erupted.

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Yet more great stuff from KDE, more Windows games for Steam, and more in the news, and an interview about how to contribute to open source.

News

KDE Pinebook release

KItinary call for data

Start wine-ing about Steam

Commons Clause

Desktop icons on GNOME

Digium (makers of Asterisk) being bought by Sangoma?

Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 Released

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OggCamp live show

Bug Report

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VM Brasseur

VM Brasseur joins Joe to talk about her new book Forge Your Future with Open Source.

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Graham is away but Jesse is back! He tells us what he’s been up to over the last few months including thoroughly testing snaps and shouting at his NAS. Plus Joe has been to OggCamp, and a shortish news segment.

News

Lots of updates from Akademy: KDE Itinery & KDE Apps 18.08 (kontact gained Itinery support) / Frameworks 5.49.0, Inline notes in Kate

Trinity Desktop R14.0.5 released

Open Source goes all Hollywood

Help LVFS gather NVMe data

Send me yer invites!

Entroware

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OggCamp 2018 report

Joe attempts to explain how he managed to go to OggCamp without seeing a single talk.

Jesse’s adventures in dadland

Jesse tells us about switching distro, using snaps in the real world, and why he’s frustrated with his NAS.

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With Félim and Will absent, Alan Pope joins us to discuss the news, and an interview with Wes Mason about npm and modern software distribution methods.

News

Please welcome Lenovo to the LVFS

Slackware dev has financial problems

elementary OS receives large donation

Handshake appears and dishes out cash to FOSS projects

GNOME might get rid of themes

What’s next, extensions?

Android 9 to be called Pie

Entroware

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Wes mason

Wes Mason joins Joe to discuss the recent malware incidents with npm, and the wider topic of traditional software repositories vs user-submitted ones like the Snap Store.

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Google has been fined $5BN by the EU but before that we have a packed news section including KDE, Python, more crypto miners, the Librem 5, and RISC-V.

News

KDE Plasma 5.13.3, Frameworks 5.48.0 & applications 18.04.3 & Onboarding

Guido van Rossum resigns as Python leader

NPM fail…again

Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware

Librem 5 update (dev boards delayed)

Arm talks down RISC-V

But then backtracks

Entroware

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Android Antitrust

The EU has fined Google $5BN for anti-competitive behaviour with Android. Google responded publicly. Félim found a good write up.

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Some good and some bad news, Free Software vs Open Source, how to put smaller FOSS events together, and more.

News

SUSE acquired

Gentoo’s GitHub compromised

Minimal Ubuntu released

Ubuntu Studio Audio Handbook

FOSS synth for iPad

Entroware

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20 years of Open Source

With the 20 year anniversaries of Open Source and the Apache licence, we discuss the differences between Free Software and Open Source.

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Small community events

After FOSS Talk Live, Stuart Langridge wrote a blog post about smaller FOSS events and how there should be more of them. We discuss whether he’s right and if so, how we can make them happen.

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It’s been a while since we recorded a proper episode with all four of us so we catch up on the news that we have missed and then cover what’s been happening recently.

News Catchup

Microsoft to buy Github

Endless lays off several of its employees

An opportunity to invest in Mycroft

Dockerhub malware

Entroware

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Admin

Most of the recordings from FOSS Talk Live are now available, as well as some videos.

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Newer News

Ubuntu Touch OTA 4 RC released

UBports concerned about Article 13

A first look at Ubuntu desktop metrics

Atari’s Ubuntu powered console

Atari’s PR train goes off the rails

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It’s a live episode from FOSS Talk Live 2018!

FOSS Talk Live 2018

Joe, Will, Graham and Jesse discussed what we hope will happen over the next 5-10 years in the FOSS world, and also what we fear could happen.

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We find out how Ubuntu Touch is coming along after a year of independence from Canonical, but first we look at the news which includes great Qt-based releases on the desktop, major systemd news, great news for smartwatch wearers, bad news for Huawei owners, and potentially bad news for SteamOS.

News

KDE 5.13 almost ready

LXQt 0.13 released

Portable Services arrives in systemd

Asteroid OS reaches 1.0

Huawei locks down its bootloaders

Steam link on android

Admin

An advert-free version of the show is now available for Patreon supporters.

FOSS Talk Live is happening very soon and you should come!

Christoph Zimmermann asked us to mention the OpenRheinRuhr conference which is taking place on 3rd and 4th November in Oberhausen in Germany.

Entroware

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Ubuntu Touch

We talk to Dalton Durst from UBports about Ubuntu Touch.

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