Linux After Dark

Why Linux operating systems on small Arm devices almost all feel half-finished, and what we can do to improve things.

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Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

Test 15 different PinePhone operating systems with Megi’s latest multi-distro demo image

PinePhone: trying out a Linux-based smartphone

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At what point is the FOSS solution more hassle and time-consuming than it’s worth? We confess our various compromises with non-free hardware and software.

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What’s the best way to criticise FOSS projects?

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What we all want to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2022.

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What it’s really like to live with Fedora Silverblue on your main machine. The good, the bad, and why Dalton is still using it.

Kinoite London timezone bug

Development on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite

Distrobox, a way to use Toolboxes on other distros

Linode

Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.

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What’s the ideal desktop Linux business model? As a loss-leader for your cloud offerings? Pay what you want? Bundled software? Hardware pre-installations? Something else?

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Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.

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Are distros like Fedora Silverblue with immutable filesystems the future of desktop Linux?

A list of resources for people who want to investigate image-based Linux desktops

Silverblue: pretty good family OS

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What exactly is desktop Linux? Does Chrome OS count? What about Ubuntu Touch?

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Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/linuxafterdark and get started with $100 credit.

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What it means for Linux to “win” and whether we even want that to happen, and why we talk about Arm so much.

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It’s not a great idea to wipe someone’s only laptop, install Linux on it, and then leave them to it. We talk about the responsible ways to get people started with Linux.

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