Late Night Linux – Episode 54
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01/08/19 • 45 min
A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news.
News
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel
FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS)
Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users
Predictions
We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
Entroware
This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
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A new year dawns so we make some predictions for the months to come. Plus we look back at last year’s predictions, and have a look at what’s been happening in the news.
News
Raspberry Pi joins RISC-V Foundation
Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Driver Finally Being Mainlined With Next Kernel
FreeBSD admits that Linux is better (when it comes to ZFS)
Fedora Planning A Per-System Unique Identifier For DNF To Count Users
Predictions
We look back at our predictions from a year ago and then make some new ones for 2019.
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
Entroware
This episode of is sponsored by Entroware. They are a UK-based company who sells computers with Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE preinstalled. They have configurable laptops, desktops and servers to suit a wide range of Linux users. Check them out and don’t forget to mention us at checkout if you buy one of their great machines.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
RSS: See the feeds page for the various options.
Previous Episode
Late Night Linux – Episode 53
It’s almost Christmas so it’s time to look back at 2018 and talk about some of the news stories that shaped the year.
January
February
March
The final nail in the Firefox OS coffin
April
Clear focus on cloud and containers
Ubuntu 18.04 even runs on a Nintendo Switch
May
Lots of of Ubuntu flavours decided to drop 32-bit images
The other flavours could follow suit
Linux apps on Chrome OS confirmed
Huawei locks down its bootloaders
June
July
August
Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux
September
Kernel Maintainer’s Summit moved continents to accommodate Linus
Linus takes a break and a new CoC for kernel devs
October
Linus back in charge of the kernel
November
December
Librem 5 dev kits finally shipping
Microsoft Edge to move to a Chromium base
Admin
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $100 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
CDN77
This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.
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Next Episode
Late Night Linux – Episode 55
Are you better off with the elasticity of public clouds like AWS, or should you avoid lock-in by running servers on premises? Guess what Félim thinks. Plus ZFS is in the news again, the Librem 5 is slowly getting there, another major company joins LVFS, and more.
News
Jezra has a dev kit and isn’t impressed
postmarketOS post which mentions Librem 5
KDE Frameworks Android Integration
ZFS issues with the 5.0 kernel but there’s a workaround
Amazon launches Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
MongoDB removed from major distros
Cloud vs on prem
Félim and Joe fight it out over whether to roll your own infrastructure or to just submit to AWS and the like.
Digital Ocean
This episode is sponsored by Digital Ocean. Go to do.co/lnl and get started with $50 of credit. Digital Ocean provides virtual private servers all over the world with full root access starting at $5 per month, and other great features like block storage and load balancers.
CDN77
This episode is sponsored by CDN77. Trusted by the European Space Agency, CDN77 supports the latest tech innovations and provides fast, secure and reliable content delivery solutions all around the world.
See our contact page for ways to get in touch.
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