Late Night Linux

Some of the tech from early on in our lives that inspired where we are today. Plus discoveries including and old game that doesn’t work, professional audio hardware that now works on Linux, Arch on easy mode, and an old chip that can do a surprising amount.



Discoveries

Celebrating 55 years of the 555 timer chip (flashing alert)

open-apollo

Ovine

EndeavourOS















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Mozilla is paying for Firefox to be on the front of Wrexham football shirts, SCO vs IBM might not be dead after all, Red Hat will support RHEL forever if you are willing to pay, OpenMandriva discovers why distros need good governance, Félim awaits his statue, and a quick Kagi update.





News

Wrexham AFC and Firefox announce a multi-year, front-of-kit partnership

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On: Your path to RHEL with no pre-determined end date

OpenMandriva Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

KDE at 30

















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A great example of accessibility features benefitting more than the target audience, a new version of the classic game Nethack, checking for bufferbloat, and Windows 10 limps on in discoveries. Then Félim’s question about the perceived value of open source goes in unexpected directions.



Discoveries

quick drag

Nethack 5

check your bufferbloat

opnsense help

Microsoft extends extended updates for Windows 10 in the most muted way imaginable















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We finally have pricing for the Steam Machine, but they are very hard to actually buy, and very expensive. SteamOS is now supported on your own hardware now though, and Joe gives it a go. Plus Ubuntu makes moves to tighten up the flavours situation and announces speech to text on the desktop, and a quick KDE Korner.



News

Valve opens Steam Machine pre-orders with queue lottery and hefty prices amid AI squeeze

Valve’s Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won’t be able to buy one yet

Gamers Nexus long review

Valve will finally let you build your own Steam Machine with SteamOS for desktop [archived]

$100 Steam Machine GPU Unlocked! PS5 APU (ASRock BC-250)

Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status

Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop



KDE Korner

KDE e.V. COMMUNITY REPORT

Plasma 6.7

Get started with Union, Plasma’s new theming engine, in 2 minutes or less: a FAQ















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Our favourite little things about Linux and open source. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.















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