Linux Matters
Join 3 experienced Open Source professionals as they 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. A new episode every two weeks covering terminal productivity, desktop experience, development, gaming, hosting, hardware, community, cloud-native and all the Linux Matters that matter.
Episodes
In this episode:
- Mark built a server rack using parts from LinxcomUK (ebay) and Kenable.
- Alan wrote a measure-syft for benchmarking syft performance.
- Martin created the LÖVE Game Development & Automated Build System.
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In this episode:
- Alan switches from self hosted markdown to self hosted mark down served from a docker container running CodiMD.
- Mark puts on his robe and wizard’s hat, and ventures into the Caves of Qud.
- Martin switches his console to KMSCON.
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In this episode:
- Martin runs GitHub Actions on his development workstations using act.
- Alan likes to help people and has upped his people-helping skills by making little tools to solve their problems.
- keyshield - A simple utility to protect your game inputs from GNOME keyboard shortcuts.
- archive-vbulletin-thread - A Python script to archive threads from vBulletin-based forums.
- Mark has been flexing his grey matter ...
In this episode:
- Mark has been a STEM Ambassador, talking to school children about his career.
- Alan is co-organising BarCamp Surrey, a free event at Godalming College on Saturday 2nd August 2025.
- Martin has switched from powerline-go to starship, and shared his starship config.
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In this episode:
- Alan migrates accounts from the silly bird website to BlueSky for Syft, Grype, and Anchore, and has fun with Starter Packs
- Mark migrates his personal Linux ISO hosting from Plex to Jellyfin.
- Martin migrates his life to the Fediverse, contributing to Owncast along the way.
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In this episode:
- Martin uses LittleLink and LittleLink Extended to create a “link in bio” page.
- Deployments to https://wimpysworld.link/ are automated using ssh-deploy.
- Mark is using GNOME on Wayland remotely.
- Alan’s coding journey expands his horizons to the Savannah.
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In this episode:
- Alan has written Grummage for inspecting the output of Grype.
- Martin is hosting his own personal Fediverse instance with GoToSocial, and has written a backup tool.
- Mark is listening to Critical Role with Audiobookshelf.
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In this episode:
- Alan uses vhs to make a short video
- Mark uses MARP to build a presentation in MarkDown for a lightning talk at OggCamp
- Martin uses pueue to manage all his mainframe jobs
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- The Linux Matters Chatters on Telegram.
- The
#...
In this episode:
- Martin has been keeping setting up simple monitoring and observability on a new server with ntfy.sh and gatus
- Alan has been creating animated gifs of terminal sessions with t-rec.
- Mark picked up a Keybow MINI from the swaps table at OggCamp.
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In this episode:
- Martin has been keeping his secrets safe with gocryptfs. ...
In this episode:
- Alan, Martin, and Mark read your feedback about streaming audio and video, those funny square monitors, funny keyboards and more.
- Some links and products mentioned in the show:
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In this episode:
- Martin has been overclocking and underclocking GPUs with the pretty tools:
- gpuviewer
- GreenWithEnvy
- Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of
28to enable power and fan control.
- Which needs a Coolbits bit mask of
- Linux AMDGPU Configuration Tool or LACT
- Requires the
amdgpu.ppfeaturemaskkernel parameter with this value0xfffd7fffto enable power and fan control.
- Requires the
- Alan, who is stil...
In this episode:
- Mark brings us a clutch of Subsonic apps for Android:
- Martin names a whole new category of “Top-like” tools for monitoring GPUS:
- Alan, who is not a developer, has been writing UncleClive in Python to send Mastodon posts to a Spectrum emulator and back.
In this episode:
- Alan snapped Syft and Grype with classic confinement
- Martin patched a font from the past to add quality-of-life glyphs and braile characters, to make it marginally better to look at.
- Mark went in search of a self-hosted streaming music solution, and found SubSonic with mobile clients.
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In this episode:
- Martin themes his Linux desktop and the Internet using Catppuccin.
- Alan has been streaming to Twitch, YouTube and Owncast with stream-sprout.
- Mark plays audio from his Android phone to his Linux desktop speakers.
- And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses
playerctlandbluetoothctlto control the iPad remotely.
- And Martin does the same with an iPad and uses
In this episode:
- Martin is migrating notes to Joplin and heynote, and getting 2 LG DualUp monitors.
- Alan attempts to contribute package updates to Void and Apline linux.
- Mark discovers what happens when you plug a phone’s USB port into TV.
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In this episode:
- Alan explains how and why he uses Listmonk to create, host and send out a personal email newsletter.
- Mark gets
guilt-trippednerd-sniped into updating the Flutter-based Quickgui project. - Martin digs into his pile-o-bits to craft a new home-lab server that is quieter, cooler, harder, faster, better, stronger, and mostly empty. Martin mentioned an episode of Ask The Hosts.
In this episode:
- Martin uses homepage to create a static highly customizable application dashboard. Martin also mentioned the New Tab Override extension for Firefox.
- Mark has been composing bass parts for an album using Tux Guitar.
- Alan has been visualising source code in 4K with Gource.
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In this episode:
- Martin announces what’s new in quickemu.
- Mark explains how quickgui came to be.
- Alan starts testing with quicktest.
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- The
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In this episode:
- Alan uses records his voice with Piper Recording Studio using the LJ format for use with Piper Train to create a new generation of the old Mycroft AI apope voice.
- Martin has eschewed Google Search to use Kagi instead.
- Mark has been judging a coding contest where students used Scratch to create games, including the use of backpack.
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