Late Night Linux – Episode 400

To celebrate 400 episodes, we look back of the last (almost) ten years of positive Linux and FOSS news.

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9.5 years of good news

Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report (May 2023)

Asking for donations in Plasma (Aug 2024)

I think the donation notification works (Dec 2024)

Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43 to drop X11 in GNOME editions (Jun 2025)

An update on the X11 GNOME Session Removal (Jun 2025)

GNOME Mutter Now “Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend” (Nov 2025)

KDE Going all-in on a Wayland future (Nov 2025)

Give Fedora Silverblue a test drive (Sept 2018)

KDE Linux Alpha has been released (Sept 2025)

Introducing a new version of Steam Play (Aug 2018)

Steam Deck Launching February 25th 2022

Steam Machine, controller, VR headset incoming from Valve (Nov 2025)

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX (Jan 2026)

Announcing WSL 2 (May 2019)

How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide (Apr 2024)

Linux has made it to Mars (Feb 2021)

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more (Jan 2024)