What we’re excited about in the Linux and FOSS world, what we’re worried about, and what we can do about it. From the upcoming Plasma release to getting more young people involved. Plus what a long-standing bug with Snaps shows us about the open source ecosystem.         Tailscale Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. Go to tailscale.com and try it for free on up to 100 devices.   Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and dev ..read more

Graphing pings in the terminal, streaming playstation games to your Linux machine, finding secrets and sensitive information in your repos, keeping your FOSS Android apps bang up to date, whether programming students should be using Linux, and loads more.   Discoveries  gping Chiaki image stabilised Apollo 15 Apollo 11 VR HD on Steam The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide Nosey Parker Joe’s Mastodon thread Obtainium GCompris   Feedback Configure Firefox to reject cookie banners automatically Bavarder: Chit-chat with an AI         TrueNAS from iXsystems To ..read more

Thunderbird shows that asking users for money works, Red Hat’s priorities seem to be moving away from the community, Mozilla is set to show the Fediverse how it’s done, Mastodon simplifies its onboarding experience, Linux is better than Windows on handhelds, Roblox stops working for us, a peek at the upcoming Plasma 6 release, and more.   News Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report Fedora Program Manager layed off (what that role was) Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation A new onboarding experience on Mastodon Goodbye to R ..read more

Great new releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, growing pains as Red Hat turns 30, Firefox continues to improve, old drive encryption can be cracked, and KDE Korner.   News Linux Matters has launched Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically Resist Fingerprinting PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function Red Hat: Biggest Linux company of them all turns 30 More layoffs at Red Hat Fedora 38 released Ubuntu 23.04 released Azure AD authentication comes to Ubuntu Desktop 23.04     KDE Korner KDE Gear 23.04, Nanonote 1.4.0, Announcing Arianna 1.0 & digiKam 8.0.0 is releas ..read more

A tried and tested way to stream your music collection, Silverblue but hot rodded, a GUI to monitor your network traffic, the modern way to do 2FA, KDE Korner, and loads more.   Discoveries Logitech Media Server (LMS) First Universal Blue image Mission – Universal Blue Scope – Universal Blue CLARK sniffnet Yubikey Manager   Feedback ngrep rsyncy   KDE Korner Plasma Mobile catchup ktechlab isoimagewriter a pile of snaps Krita Yearly report Most plasma widgets ported to 6 & Nate’s weekly updates         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode ..read more

Keeping your house plants alive using open hardware, searching for apps in multiple package formats at once, processing and analysing smartwatch data, working out who is using all the bandwidth on your network, and building a minimal Linux ISO to play Doom. Plus a novel way to solve the FOSS funding problem, and Proton as the ultimate Linux gaming platform.   Discoveries chob Chirp plant alarm Garmin watch offline sync with Postrunner ntopng DoomLinux         Kolide Kolide believes that maintaining endpoint security shouldn’t mean compromising employee privacy. Learn m ..read more

Docker damages what little FOSS goodwill it has left, the Internet Archive inevitably loses a legal fight, GitHub’s SSH key snafu, Microsoft fails to read the room regarding crypto, Mozilla’s foray into AI raises an eybrow or two, a national treasure takes the piss out of Félim, and more.   News Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of Moore’s Law, has died Docker is deleting Open Source organisations – what you need to know We apologize. We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams. We’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan The Internet Archive has lost its firs ..read more

Will is annoyed with calculators, Félim adds GUIs to his ropey Python, Graham attempts to tune a Piano, and Joe dreams of playing darts without the maths. Plus your feedback about robot vacuums, guitar cables, Arch, why we don’t talk about Fedora, KDE wins, and more.   Discoveries  qalculate NiceGUI Entropy Piano Tuner Autodarts (video of it in action)   Feedback Quinny DustBuilder Valetudo Material for MkDocs         Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster a ..read more

Flathub’s grand plans spark a debate the merits of modern packaging, we feel old 20 years on from the SCO lawsuit, great news for un-Googled Android users, a lengthy quest to stream DRM-restricted media on Arm Macs, KDE Korner, and more.   News Flathub in 2023 The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later NewF-Droid  repository format for faster and smaller updates The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux   KDE Korner Plasma 6 kick off and outline fixes & Wayland zooming Apps in MS Store Tutorial Plasma codemap Kubuntu Manual KDE for Scientists PIM Update Krita Tutorial Video Akademy Talks Re ..read more

Troubleshooting microcontroller projects, reinstalling Ubuntu the quick and easy way, loads of gaming discoveries, follow-up on backups, playing guitar with Linux, keeping kids safe online, and more.   Discoveries mqttshark device IDs to get steering wheel nim Turrican II AGA Zelda a Link to the Past on Linux   Feedback Timeshift Kopia Grsync Cronopete UrBackup Neon AI OS for the Mycroft Mark II Nextcloud localization Behringer UMC22 audiophile 2×2 USB audio interface           Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and ..read more