PODCAST
Linux App Summit
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
Episodes
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Making our own Fate: Why GNOME and KDE need operating systems | Jorge Castro @ LAS 2026
Project sovereignty isn't just about hosting infrastructure, it's about shipping an experience as intended by the people who create it. In this talk I will explain why I think GNOME and KDE should not only make their own operating systems, but to...
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Open Source Office on the Linux Desktop | Thorsten Behr @ LAS 2026
Join a founder of LibreOffice for an in-depth look at the current state of open source Office applications on the Linux desktop. This talk will explore the evolving landscape of productivity tools, comparing different approaches to native platform...
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Emergence: a synchronization mechanism for personal user data | Carlos Garnacho @ LAS 2026
Emergence is (primarily) a data replication/synchronization mechanism for TinySparql databases, based on W3C standards, and oriented to personal data across multiple personal devices. A technical overview was presented for this project at GUADEC ...
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How to Crash Nicely | Harald Sitter @ LAS 2026
We'll look at KDE Plasma's magnificent crash reporting system and how it enables users to submit crash reports conveniently. Through the amount of aggregated crashes, developers can prioritize issues correctly and get enough data points to diagnos...
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Flatpak Next | Adrian Vovk & Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2026
An exploration of the mistakes we made the first time around, how the world around us has changed, and how the next generation of Flatpak and Portals will look like. Sebastian Wick is working on Flatpak, XDG Desktop Portal, and all kinds of deskt...
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BuildStream, KDE and reflecting on software compilation | Aleix Pol Gonzalez @ LAS 2026
In recent months Aleix has been exploring further the adoption of BuildStream in KDE with the goal to improve how we deliver our software. He'll discuss how this affects the compilation of KDE's flatpak runtime, KDE's flatpak applications and KDE ...
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TinySPARQL, LocalSearch, and the future of search in GNOME | Carlos Garnacho @ LAS 2026
This talk is a continuation (and partial rehash) of last year's "TinySPARQL, LocalSearch, and the future of search in GNOME", with the additional knowledge gained over the course of a year. If you want to hear about fancy concepts such as embeddi...
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Spectrum: A fail-closed approach to desktop security | Alyssa Ross @ LAS 2026
Spectrum is a desktop Linux operating system with a focus on security. Each application instance, and some drivers, are run in their own virtual machines, but this virtualization is designed to be as transparent as possible to users using standard...
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Growing the Linux App Ecosystem with RISC-V and RVA23 Platforms | René Rebe @ LAS 2026
The Linux application ecosystem continues to expand as new hardware platforms and distribution channels bring Linux to more developers and users worldwide. One of the most promising developments in this space is the rapid growth of the RISC-V ecos...
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TuxDoctor: A Hardware Diagnostic Tool for Mobile Linux | Petr Hodina @ LAS 2026
Mobile Linux devices span a wide range of hardware, distributions, and UI stacks making it hard to know whether a phone or tablet is actually working correctly. TuxDoctor is an open-source diagnostic tool written in Rust that brings a consistent, ...
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Digging Through the App Cemetery: Sustaining a Fork | Evangelos Paterakis @ LAS 2026
We are living through an unprecedented boom in indie app development on our platforms, which introduces new challenges at a larger scale. Every week, Flathub gets flooded with new, high-quality and innovative projects, but how many survive the te...
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EU is breaking up with MS Office: Here's What Works for Linux Users | Eeshaan Sawant @ LAS 2026
The EU is moving off proprietary platforms and onto Linux in the name of digital sovereignty. That gives us a unique opportunity to build up the Linux app ecosystem. Specifically, office suites are going to be singled out first, whether you're a g...
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Streamlined Application Development Experience at KDE | Nicolas Fella @ LAS 2026
In 2024 the KDE community elected "Streamlined Application Development Experience" as one of their goals for the coming years. In this talk we are going to explore what this means, what has been achieved since then, and what the future of develop...
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Designing Local-First GNOME Apps | Tobias Bernard @ LAS 2026
Over the past year Modal Collective has been working towards bringing local-first sync to native GNOME apps. As part of this, we built Reflection, a collaborative GTK notes app, improved p2panda APIs and documentation, organized developer events, ...
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Flatpak and Portals: A Status Update | Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2026
Flatpak has become the de facto standard for distributing desktop Linux applications across distributions, and the XDG Desktop Portal ecosystem continues to evolve alongside it. This talk provides a status update on both projects: what's shipped ...
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Breaking architecture barriers | Tony Wasserka @ LAS 2026
Presenting FEX, a translation layer to run x86 apps and games on ARM devices: Learn why x86 is such a pain to emulate, what tricks and techniques make your games fly with minimal translation overhead, and how we are seamless enough that you'll for...
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Keynote: Adding Trust to Linux based OSes | Lennart Poettering @ LAS 2026
How can Linux systems be made more secure? And what does that look like for desktops and apps? Find out in this year's LAS keynote! Lennart Poettering is a software engineer and the original author of PulseAudio, Avahi and systemd. He currently w...
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Gtk Maintainer and Red Hat Engineer - Matthias Clasen and Sri Ramkrishna talk Linux App Summit!
GTK Maintainer - Matthas Clasen and Sri Ramkrishna talk about Linux App Summit in this short podcast video. Check it out! This is our first video post so feedback is really welcome especially if we get some things wrong. #Linux #Opensource #Apps #...
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Bringing Your App to GNOME Circle | Alireza Shabani @ LAS 2025
This presentation aims to inspire developers to build beautiful, free (as in freedom) apps and leverage the powerful tools and community available through GNOME Circle. Alireza Shabani is a developer from Iran. He enjoys coding, making music and ...
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A Distributed App Design Model for Linux Desktops | Andres Betts @ LAS 2025
A presentation on recent design developments in KDE Plasma. Building Plasma's next generation design model for a correlated and faster process to develop applications using the power of design systems and open source distributed communities. Andy...
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LAS 2023 - (Keynote) The Open Source Symbiosis
By Muhd Syazwan Md Khusaini Symbiosis in open source refers to the mutualistic relationship between the community of contributors and users that drive the development of open source software. It involves a give-and-take relationship, where users...
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LAS 2023 - Flathub Focus Group
By Robert McQueen & Martín Abente Lahaye Are you an app developer? We want to hear about your Flathub experience! We're running a survey to collect information about how app developers use Flathub and how Flathub could work better for them. Durin...
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LAS 2023 - Free & Open Source Software: Software Design For The Environment
By Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss (KDE e.V.) Information & Communications Technology currently accounts for 3% of global CO2 emissions. If nothing changes, it will rise to over 30% by 2050. Often overlooked is the crucial role that software design plays...
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LAS 2023 - Bringing Windows applications to Linux app stores with Wine snaps
By Merlijn Sebrechts (Ubuntu - Ghent University - imec) This is an introduction to the sommelier-core project, which tries to make it as easy as possible to package a Windows application for Linux. It uses Wine and Snapcraft to create a universal...
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Exploring openKylin's Kaiming Software Package Format | Shuoqi Yu @ LAS 2025
openKylin is an open-source project incubated and operated by the OpenAtom Foundation. It was co-founded by a diverse group of organizations, including foundational software and hardware companies, non-profit organizations, community groups, unive...
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Tuba: A fork success story | Evangelos Paterakis @ LAS 2025
On April 25, 2022, Twitter changed ownership which led to a user exodus to other platforms. One of the top choices was the fedivere and specifically Mastodon. Mastodon wasn't new, it already existed for 6 years at the time and had gathered a large...
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The Future of Flatpak | Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2025
Flatpak has served us well for 10 years and succeeded in establishing a direct distribution model for app developers, independent of the underlying platform. However, development has slowed down significantly and the containers ecosystem has evolv...
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Using LLMs to lower barriers to write apps | Sriram Ramkrishna @ LAS 2025
There are many choices of LLMs out there, many that are focused on writing code. But a lot of them provide wrong or incorrect answers. Some of this will cause more work for maintainers as increasingly these LLMs are being used to submit pull or me...
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Let's take back the AI — and integrate it properly into our desktops | Michal Kohútek @ LAS 2025
Ever since the release of ChatGPT 3.5 by the Not-so-OpenAI, the AI has become an annoying buzzword the likes of which we haven't seen the burst of the blockchain bubble. In contrast to that recent series of events, AI has already produces some rea...
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The App Ecosystem and the Future of Desktop Linux Distributions | Panel Session @ LAS 2025
During this panel session on App ecosystems and the future of desktop Linux distributions, we will go over the following: How would you describe the state of Desktop Linux in 2025?, What are the main obstacles for increasing user adoption?, W...
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An analysis of a changing Linux ecosystem | Aleix Pol Gonzalez @ LAS 2025
"We" have been doing "this" for about 3 decades and yet things keep changing: Stakeholders change, projects die and projects get born. How is the wider Linux community adapting to fulfill the needs of the present and future? What's the role of app...
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How I Am Rewriting GNOME Boxes to Bring it to the GTK4/Libadwaita Era | Felipe Borges @ LAS 2025
Keeping up with toolkit and design language evolution is not simple for a virtualization manager app. Add a bit of code quality decay driving away contributors and you have a recipe for a rewrite. Find out how I learned my lessons in app developme...
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Independent packaging of the printing stack | Till Kamppeter & Soumyadeep Ghosh @ LAS 2025
Distribution-independent packaging, like Snap, Flatpak, AppImage, and also OCI container images, gets more and more common, allowing users to freely choose from thousands of apps from app stores, like on smartphones. To be able to provide always ...
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TinySPARQL, LocalSearch, and the future of search in GNOME | Carlos Garnacho @ LAS 2025
Perhaps more popularly known as "tracker", LocalSearch is the filesystem and metadata indexer at service in GNOME desktops, and TinySPARQL is the crazy little data layer that makes it possible. This talk will cover the plans beyond the rename of ...
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Building an Open E-Ink Ecosystem | Alexander Soto @ LAS 2025
E-Ink displays offer significant advantages in power efficiency and readability, but their integration into modern Linux desktops remains fragmented. Most Wayland compositors assume high-refresh-rate displays, leading to suboptimal rendering, ghos...
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Connecting the dots with portals | Emmanuele Bassi @ LAS 2025
Desktop portals have become the linchpin of the application development platform for Linux: they not only provide a security boundary for sandboxed applications, and provide a way to mediate the access to system resources, but they are also a unif...
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Testing with Portals | Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2025
Portals have become the primary way of interacting with the platform for a lot of apps nowadays. If something goes wrong, apps can become completely unusable, so we better make sure that we don't break everything. But how do you even test Portals?...
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Flutter: A cross-platform alternative for the Linux Apps Ecosystem | Soumyadeep Ghosh @ LAS 2025
Flutter has been here from the starting of 2017. Initially, it was a mobile only framework which slowly and steadily got support for other platforms, like Web and Desktop. As Canonical started working on their own flutter based App Center, the F...
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GTK apps on Android | Matthias Clasen & Florian Leander Singer @ LAS 2025
This talk will introduce one of the more exciting things in GTK 4.18, the new Android backend. It will cover some of the technical difficulties that we had to overcome to make GTK apps work on Android, and outline the next steps for making Android...
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Coordinating a Windows 10 to Linux upcycling campaign | Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss @ LAS 2025
Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE's 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day (you cannot make these things up!). Hundreds of millions of functioning devices will become e-waste. This means manufacturing a...
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postmarketOS: the opportunities and challenges | Pablo Correa Gomez @ LAS 2025
postmarketOS is an Operating System which develops free and open-source software to extend the life of consumer electronics. Nowadays postmarketOS runs on every kind of device: phones, laptops, desktops, tablets, and even routers, smart clocks and...
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Flathub: A paradigm shift for distributing applications | Jordan Petridis @ LAS 2025
Flathub changed the game and gave developers a way to publish their applications directly to users. But how did this happen, what it take to get here, and what effects will it have on the future of the desktop? Jordan Petridis is a long time GNOM...
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Keynote: Horizontal scaling of Light RAG in Kubernetes | Emiliano Mankolli @ LAS 2025
This case study examines the deployment of a scalable Light Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed for processing and querying Albanian legal data. The system leverages lightweight retrieval methods combined with generative AI to del...
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