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Cloning disks (again), Félim’s new colour e-reader, 3 ways to make a QR code, improving your typing with a TUI and a game, a quick KDE Korner, and more. Discoveries Clonezilla Kobo Clara Colour Just a QR Code mini-qr libqrencode Nallely-midi pico-rv32ima typr Epistory KDE Korner 2024 KDE e.V. Report We’ve formally sent... Read More
Summer is officially over. As the nights draw in it’s time to hunker down and work on our technical debt. We all have Linuxy projects that we planning, so we commit to doing them by Christmas – when we will record a follow-up episode. Docker Compose, Immich, Jellyfin, learning Python, moving away from Synology, Home... Read More
Matrix shows how painful enormous databases can be to restore, why the certificate authority system doesn’t seem to make sense in 2025, a hosting provider thinks they are better than Cloudflare at blocking malicious traffic, a viral app turns out to be written by an enthusiastic dev who doesn’t understand best practices, and using S3... Read More
Historic musical performances that we’d go back and watch, and our scariest travel experiences. With Martin, Mark and Alan from Linux Matters. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Android becomes more like iOS, another key dev leaves the Asahi Linux project, Mozilla will probably keep their Google search deal, we troll Félim with some AI bollocks, GNOME can’t keep an executive director, Microsoft releases the source for an ancient BASIC implementation, friend of the show Connor is snubbed by an Irish newspaper, a... Read More
A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users. Support us on Patreon and get... Read More
The first steps to move away from a “pets” mindset and towards automation and infrastructure as code, why we use a lot of abstraction at home, and how to use your homelab to improve your employment prospects. With guest host Joe Ressington from Late Night Linux. Insta360 Go Ultra... Read More
McDonald’s IT systems seem to be riddled with 90s-style coding errors, we finally know where the fraudulent hard drives came from, when IT workers go rogue, and ZFS on root without using FreeBSD or Ubuntu. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion How I... Read More
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. ... Read More
What happens to Linux after Linus, what a German legal case might mean for blocking ads on the web, Graham tell us about his new foldable phone which Joe has also had for about 7 months, and a quick KDE Korner. News/disccussion The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There... Read More
It’s the £20 Linux machine challenge! This time the rules are stricter: no adding storage and RAM. It turns out that if you try really hard, you can buy a really nice Linux computer on a seriously low budget. Check out part 1 and part 2 of the £50 challenge that we did previously.... Read More
Google is planning to assert even more control over which Android apps can be installed, the US government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and minimum networking speeds in homes and offices. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS Basecamp Launch: A Panel with the... Read More
The AI crawler bot arms race has developed more quickly than we hoped, Google pretends to care what the community thinks, full Linux desktop apps are probably coming to Android, Thunderbird shares more details of their paid services and we are interested, and PuTTY has a great new domain name. News It seems like... Read More
We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences. Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard. Don’t Let Architecture... Read More
What exactly is platform engineering, and how does it differ from DevOps? Insta360 Go Ultra Insta360 have just launched their brand-new pocket camera, the GO Ultra. To get free Sticky Tabs with it go to store.insta360.com and use the promo code “hybridcloud”, available for the first 30 purchases... Read More
Why you can’t rely on a single cloud provider, Jim discovers AI that spreads itself like a worm, and configuring all-flash arrays. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes FreeBSD Summer Roundup: Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure News/discussion AWS deleted my 10-year account and all... Read More
In this episode: Alan prepares for the inevitable by mirroring GitHub to Forgejo. Martin sidesteps complexity with Just. Mark gives his first thoughts on the VW ID.3. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the... Read More
Xfce running on Wayland on openSUSE, Canonical laid off the printing guy, Mozilla pisses people off with AI tab groups, and what the post-x86 world will look like for desktop Linux. Plus a handy way to save and run project-specific commands, turning any device into a file server, and a convoluted way to get wind... Read More
It’s our annual episode where we need to talk about Ubuntu. This time most of us are broadly indifferent about the distro itself, so we end up mostly discussing our concerns about Canonical. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ... Read More
AMD’s recent mobile-class processors impress us with their power to performance ratio, the UK government suggests a preposterous way to save water, setting up verified boot with snapshots, and the best way to configure ZFS to run VMs. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes ZFS... Read More
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