Late Night Linux – Episode 384

Late Night Linux – Episode 384

Author: The Late Night Linux Family May 5, 2026 Duration: 30:21

There’s a new Ubuntu LTS release and quite a lot is new, Canonical’s infrastructure was taken down and we disagree about whether it could have been avoided, two recent examples of irresponsible vulnerability disclosure, and the Steam controller finally arrives with a hefty price tag.

 

Plugs

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

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News

Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS: What’s New Since Ubuntu 24.04?

An update on rust-coreutils

Pro-Iran group turns Ubuntu DDoS into shakedown

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed

Carrot disclosure: Forgejo and follow-up

Steam Controller: The Ars Technica review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Late Night Linux Family All Episodes podcast is your comprehensive archive for a whole ecosystem of shows dedicated to the open-source world. This feed bundles every episode from the network's distinct voices into one convenient stream. You'll hear the flagship Late Night Linux with its broad discussions on desktop Linux, software, and community news, alongside more focused sister shows. Dive into the developer-centric conversations of Linux Dev Time, explore the deeper technical and philosophical layers on Linux After Dark, and get practical sysadmin insights from 2.5 Admins. The network also branches into infrastructure with the Hybrid Cloud Show and offers a direct line to the creators with Ask The Hosts. Listening to this podcast means having the entire spectrum of the Late Night Linux perspective at your fingertips, from casual chatter to deep dives, all united by a genuine passion for technology and the Linux platform. It's the definitive collection for enthusiasts who want every angle covered.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 100

Late Night Linux Family All Episodes
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Ask The Hosts – Episode 33 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:20
The best museums we’ve been to, the people we admire, and our weirdest train journeys. With Gary from Linux After Dark. Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.
Late Night Linux – Episode 372 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:20
Pricing and release dates for the new Steam hardware are delayed, Xfce is getting a new Wayland compositor that’s written in Rust but it might take a while, the Sudo dev could do with sponsorship, Lennart Poettering and…
Linux Dev Time – Episode 143 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 25:42
The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone. Support us on Patreon a…
Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 49 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:55
Why we have doubts about the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud, what it would take to build a proper European cloud that could compete with AWS, and why it’s such a difficult undertaking. Antigravity A1 The Antigravity A1…
2.5 Admins 285: example.com.oops [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:41
Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters. Plugs ZFS in Production: R…
Late Night Linux – Episode 371 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:46
Malware in the Snap store highlights the risks of modern package management, but users accidentally ending up with a totally different desktop environment shows the perils of the older approach. Plus the UK government wa…
Linux After Dark – Episode 114 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:51
How do you convince people to stop using unethical technology like generative AI? Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe t…
2.5 Admins 284: BooTooth [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 26:08
Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for backups, and the best practices and stack for set…
Late Night Linux – Episode 370 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:35
Wikipedia is 25 years old and has found a good way to deal with the AI scraping problem, the Python Software Foundation funds the security work they had planned, curl’s bug bounty program is ending, Raspberry Pi has new…
Linux Dev Time – Episode 142 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:46
Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it. Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed