Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability. Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Shane’s platform engineering newsletter News/discussion... Read More

Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS... Read More

In this episode: Alan, Martin and Mark read some highlights from your wonderful feedback. Thank you for all the kinds words you have sent us. Here are the links to everything we mentioned. Snaps Bucklespring Localsend Snapdrop Hardware Mark’s funky monitor – the LG DualUp 8BitDo Micro Gamepad Security keys and passwords https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-cryptenroll.1... Read More

How we all keep our Linux systems secure in Voice of the masses, and another German government is giving Linux a shot. Plus removing backgrounds from images, monitoring GPUs, making music with loops, and nostalgic boot sounds. Voice of the masses How do you keep your Linux systems secure? News German state ditches... Read More

We are joined by Jorge Castro for an update on the world of what used to be called immutable Linux. Jorge doesn’t really like that word. He prefers “composable” Linux. Whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about an image-based approach to desktop Linux – built with cloud native technologies – that allows you... Read More

A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, OpenZFS improves ZVOL performance on Linux, Twitter devs fail at regex, and adding SATA ports to a home NAS. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night... Read More

The most amused we’ve ever been, how we’d cobble a meal together with limited ingredients, and whether we have an inner monologue. With Amolith from Linux Dev Time, Gary from Linux After Dark, and and Jim from 2.5 Admins. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago. Soggy or Hard? ElectroBOOM ... Read More

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes... Read More

We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility. We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. ... Read More

There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between. In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees... Read More

Glassdoor seemingly doesn’t understand its raison d’etre, Telegram wants to cheap out on sending verification codes, law enforcement makes YouTube give them details of everyone who watched certain videos, and tuning a low end VPS to host a blog. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

In this episode: Alan has the most exotic GPU configuration and needs your help now! Martin has improved his desktop Linux chat quality of life with Telegram GTK4 Color palette, Fractal and Halloy. Mark is migrating data to his new home server in a very snappy way. You can send your feedback via show@linuxmatters.sh... Read More

The main reasons that we all use open source software in Voice of the masses, a Raspberry Pi-based network KVM switch, a fancy terminal that uses your graphics card, a classic synth in the browser, and the Arch Wiki proves to be a fountain of Linux knowledge yet again. With guest host Gary from Linux... Read More

Ubuntu is nearly 20 years old so we wanted to see how the first versions compare with the upcoming LTS. Unfortunately installing Warty turned out to much harder than we thought it would be. Dalton talks us through his adventure with a turn of the century Mac, Gary had a much easier time with an... Read More

The FreeBSD version of TrueNAS is going away, a major Apple antitrust case begins, encrypted LLM chat responses are relatively easy to read, and scaling a fleet of FreeBSD hosts with jails. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News TrueNAS CORE 13 is the... Read More

Canonical struggles to get to grips with malicious Snaps, a KDE theme wipes a whole machine, Mozilla looks foolish, Redis isn’t open source now, Ubuntu 14.04 gets 12 years of paid support, Meta joins the Fediverse, and more. With guest host Gary from Linux After Dark. News Guess Who’s Back? Exodus Scam BitCoin Wallet... Read More

How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Snake in Terraform Snake in lots of languages Web server in Sinclair BASIC Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more. Support... Read More

Prison officials took away inmate student laptops for no good reason, Warner Bros. ruined gamers’ experiences, Google’s terrible office WiFi, and managing gold images. Plug Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes News/discussion An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost... Read More

In this episode: Mark is migrating services between servers Martin is stress-testing Linux with stress-ng Alan is coding for fun in PHP 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 community you can join: The Linux... Read More

What pulls us away from open source and what pulls us back, a cross between Teletext and a bulletin board, a simple way to monitor precise memory usage, boilerplate code without AI, visualising plate tectonics, Tiny Core Linux is still a thing, making websites from screenshots, and more. Voice of the masses What’s pulling... Read More