Podcast Episodes

Linux After Dark – Episode 98

It’s the £50 Linux machine challenge! We all had a budget of 50 GBP (~65 USD) to buy the best computer we could find to run Linux.

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Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 97

Some of our hot takes and some from other people. Your OS is a passive gateway to apps and services, OSTree sucks, when you need to reboot Ubuntu is a mystery, stop hiding things from users, Chris ne…

Published on 5 months ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 96

We recently talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to use as a daily desktop machine, but what about headless boxes? It turns out that it depends on what exactly it’s doing and to what …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 95

What Linux and FOSS technology should Joe learn next? Is it a case of waiting for a problem to present itself before even trying?

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Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 94

What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.

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Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 93

Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our i…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 92

We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.

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Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 91

A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 90

It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.

Haiku Package Management

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Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

Linux After Dark – Episode 89

The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.

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Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago