Late Night Linux Family All Episodes

New Snapdragon SoCs will officially support Linux, Firefox’s redesign confuses us, the Dutch government is embracing NixOS, F-Droid has a new modern look, and Ubuntu starts shipping new kernels more regularly. Plus with the iPhone Duo about to come out, Graham is still enjoying his Pixel 9 Pro Fold but Joe’s 10 Pro Fold is in a drawer.



News

Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux

The new Firefox design: More modern, more flexible, still Firefox

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom

Google’s assault on F-Droid has begun

Ryanair Boarding Pass Liberation

Getting Ryanair tickets

Accelerating delivery of CVE fixes with a new Kernel release strategy

Kernel Recipes 2026

















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How do we recapture the passion we once had for computers and technology?

















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Google offers a few pennies to web publishers to make up for stealing their content and not sending them any traffic, the tech we’d try to use after the apocalypse, why Jim doesn’t virtualise his clients’ desktops, and setting up Volume Shadow Copy so your users can restore their own files.



Plugs

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FreeBSD: The Hidden Cost of Upgrading in Production



News/discussion

Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling

















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Joe gives his first impressions of the Steam Frame – a Linux PC that you wear on your face. It’s great for VR games, but it also has a KDE desktop.

















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Dogfooding: is it useful? Is it necessary? Can you build an application that people like to use without dogfooding? What are the differences between dogfooding and mere testing?

















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