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Linux Matters episodes

  • Ditching Grammarly for Open Sauce

    In this episode:

    • Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
    • Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
    • Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.

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        34 min
      • Cooking up a framework desktop

        In this episode:

        • Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
        • Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
        • Martin builds his own Framework desktop.

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            33 min
          • Passing the Gourd

            In this episode:

            • Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
            • Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
            • Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖

              • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

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                • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                39 min
              • Pouring out the Sidra

                In this episode:

                • Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
                • Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
                • Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.

                  • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

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                    • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                    34 min
                  • VNC? No way!

                    In this episode:

                    • Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
                    • Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
                    • Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.

                      • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                      • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                        • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                        35 min
                      • Tailor Snaps for Big Iron

                        In this episode:

                        • Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
                        • Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
                        • Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.

                          • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                          • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                            • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                            34 min
                          • The Smell of Git

                            In this episode:

                            • Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
                            • Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
                            • Martin gets busy with lazygit.

                              • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                              • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                                • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                                43 min
                              • Mark's Meshing About

                                In this episode:

                                • Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
                                • Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
                                • Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.

                                  • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                                  • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                                    • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                                    36 min
                                  • Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers

                                    In this episode:

                                    • Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
                                      • Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
                                      • Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
                                      • Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.

                                        • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                                        • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                                          • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                                          38 min
                                        • Points of You

                                          In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:

                                          • HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
                                          • Kazeta
                                          • Recipe-Scribe
                                          • FossFLOW
                                          • Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
                                          • Toniebox Reverse Engineering
                                          • Tonuino
                                          • Yarg-lang
                                            • Events
                                            • SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
                                              • Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
                                              • OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.

                                                • You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

                                                • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
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                                                  • If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

                                                  24 min

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