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Linux Matters

Linux Matters

Linux Matters Team

Three experienced Open Source professionals discuss the impact Linux has in their daily lives. Upbeat family-friendly banter, conversation and discussion for Linux enthusiasts and casual observers of all ages. All the Linux Matters that matter.

  • 32 minutes 42 seconds
    Cooking up a framework desktop

    In this episode:

    • Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
    • Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
    • Martin builds his own Framework desktop.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    12 May 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 38 minutes 20 seconds
    Passing the Gourd

    In this episode:

    • Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
    • Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
    • Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    28 April 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 33 minutes 22 seconds
    Pouring out the Sidra

    In this episode:

    • Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
    • Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
    • Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    14 April 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 34 minutes 50 seconds
    VNC? No way!

    In this episode:

    • Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with NetworkManager-dispatcher
    • Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
    • Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    31 March 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 33 minutes 10 seconds
    Tailor Snaps for Big Iron

    In this episode:

    • Martin has created tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔
    • Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
    • Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    17 March 2026, 5:00 pm
  • 42 minutes 12 seconds
    The Smell of Git

    In this episode:

    • Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
    • Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
    • Martin gets busy with lazygit.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    3 March 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 4 seconds
    Mark's Meshing About

    In this episode:

    • Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
    • Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
    • Mark gets started with Meshtastic supher-highway country lanes.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    17 February 2026, 5:30 pm
  • 37 minutes 48 seconds
    Audio Trainers and Wallet Drainers

    In this episode:

    • Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
      • Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
    • Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
    • Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    3 February 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 23 minutes 24 seconds
    Points of You

    In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:

    • HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
    • Kazeta
    • Recipe-Scribe
    • FossFLOW
    • Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
    • Toniebox Reverse Engineering
    • Tonuino
    • Yarg-lang

    Events

    • SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
      • Get 40% off your SCaLE ticket with the Linux Matters coupon code: LMAT
    • OggCamp Manchester, UK: April 25th - 26th, 2026.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    20 January 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 28 minutes 42 seconds
    Lets get Trippy

    In this episode:

    • Mark has been playing Timesplitters Rewind, a remake of the classic Timesplitters.
    • Alan enters a coding competition and creates the marvellous MojiNav 📍🗺️ (Source)
    • Martin ups his network diagnostics game with trippy and gping.
      • trippy: a network diagnostic tool that combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
      • gping: ping, but with a graph.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    6 January 2026, 3:30 pm
  • 31 minutes 42 seconds
    Give me the Aux

    In this episode:

    • Alan sends Zane Lowe to a retirement home and grabs the Aux on Spotify with Auxolotl.
    • Martin sharpens his cultlery and hard forks ffmpeg-go as ffmpeg-statigo.
      • “Real FFmpeg bindings for Go. Not a wrapper. Not a CLI tool. The actual libraries 📚”
    • Mark carves up his monitors with Tiling Assistant.

    You can send your feedback via [email protected] or the Contact Form. If you’d like to hang out with other listeners and share your feedback with the community, you can join us on:

    • The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
    • The Linux Matters Subreddit.

    If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us.

    23 December 2025, 3:30 pm
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