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Linux Matters episodes

January 06Lets get Trippy
In this episode:
Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
gping: ping, but with a graph.
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29 min
December 23, 2025Give me the Aux
In this episode:
Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
“Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.
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32 min
December 09, 2025Grummaging Gophers & Gods
In this episode:
Martin has been learning Go and created:
Jivedrop - Drop the mix, ship the show-metadata, cover art, and all 🪩
Jivefire - Spin your podcast .wav into a groovy MP4 visualiser. Cava-inspired real-time audio frequencies 🔥
Mark, true to form, has been playing Hades II, a fast-paced rogue-like that runs beautifully on the SteamDeck.
Alan revisits Grummage, an interactive terminal frontend to Grype, the vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
This new release focuses on UI and usability improvements ✨
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35 min
November 25, 2025He's a very nøughty boy
In this episode:
Mark is now buying his audiobooks from Libro.fm, and supporting Coles Books.
Martin has merged Ubuntu and Nix in Nøughty Linux
Nøughty Linux GitHub Project
Alan has been live streaming.
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33 min
November 11, 2025Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes
In this episode:
Alan dusts off his newsletter.
Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.
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29 min
October 28, 2025Panache, for men
In this episode:
Alan slipped down the nix rabbit-hole.
Martin created Glyph Party, for adding panache to your terminal applications.
Mark has lost all his free time to the latest Rimworld DLC, Odyssey.
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Sponsors
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29 min
October 14, 2025Terminal Full of Sparkles
In this episode:
Martin has been using a fancy and colourful alternative to apt called nala.
Mark has been debugging his car charger.
Alan swapped from Plex to Jellyfin.
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24 min
September 30, 2025macOS Made Me Snap!
In this episode:
Alan has been manifesting Snaps.
Martin has snapped and switched from macOS to Linux with a Framework.
Mark used Immich to find family favourite snaps.
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27 min
September 16, 2025Ethical Retro Gaming
In this episode:
Mark has been retro gaming with an Evercade.
Martin replaced the official Dropbox client with Maestral.
Alan created an MCP server for Grype.
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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Sponsors
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29 min
September 02, 2025Running Linux on an iPad
In this episode:
Martin has been running Linux on an iPad using a-Shell, a-Shell mini, and iSH. He also used copyparty.
Alan went to a hackathon and used Tessl. If you want to try their closed beta, join their discord and tell them popey sent you.
Mark installed GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a.
You can send your feedback via [email protected]. 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.
Sponsors
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Try Tailscale for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card required. Use code Linux25 for three free months of any Tailscale paid plan.
36 min

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