Late Night Linux

To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.



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9.5 years of good news

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023)

Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024)

I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024)

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025)

An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025)

GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025)

KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025)

Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018)

KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025)

Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018)

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025)

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026)

Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019)

How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024)

Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021)

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)



















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Guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show tell Joe and Félim about bootc desktop Linux distros, how they build, deploy, and update them, and why this modern approach is so powerful. Plus another system information tool, cutting edge upscaling on the Steam Deck, and why Chris has switched to the KDE Plasma desktop.



Bootc desktops

bootc

Using Bootc to Manage Ubuntu Hosts

ubuntu-summit-26-demo

ubuntu-bootc 

Mono repository for all bootcrew images

How Steam Play/Proton makes Gaming on Linux Awesome



Discoveries

HWall

ProtonPlus

KDE Plasma desktop













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Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.



News

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Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July

Valve may be putting the finishing touches to the Steam Frame software stack, because Lepton and FEX are now on Steam

Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses

Proxmox Virtual Environment launches official Arm64 Support

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

Getting Started With Libvirt and Saltstack

Felipe Borges: The Future of GNOME Boxes



KDE Korner

This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026

This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026















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Initial Steam Machine reviews are broadly positive, Jellyfin is losing some key project leaders, Sony deletes more movies that people “bought”, why you probably shouldn’t wipe your phone when the US authorities ask for access, Graham repurposes some discarded crypto hardware to play arcade games, Félim gets that old game working, a great terminal music player, and more.



News

Steam Machine with SteamOS Linux – initial thoughts

Jellyfin Project Leadership Changes

Sony Deletes A Bunch More Movies From The Accounts Of People Who ‘Bought’ Them

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82



Discoveries

AMD BC250 Documentation

Cholo

kew

Screenshot of kew in action















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With several open source figures taking a stance on either side of the generative AI debate, we have another argument about it. This time we actually come to something closer to an understanding of each other’s views, even if we still end up disagreeing.



News/discussion

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“Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it”

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian



















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