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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.