Linux Downtime – Episode 67
What is the right level of customisation for the Linux desktop? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Mar 12, 2023•20 min
Linux Dev Time
Professional software developers Amolith and Kevin join Joe and guests to discuss developing with, and for Linux.
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Linux Downtime – Episode 66
Should open source projects use open platforms for their communities, or should they meet people where they are – places like Discord? Join the Discord server, Telegram group, Matrix room, or IRC channel. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Feb 26, 2023•21 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 65
Martin tells us about why he decided to work with Nix and NixOS professionally. He mentioned Determinate Systems and Zero to Nix See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Feb 12, 2023•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 64
In the modern world where we run more and more software from outside our distros’ repositories, how do we know what to trust? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Jan 29, 2023•19 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 63
Martin, Gary, and Hayden explain how their regular live streams benefit the open source projects that they work on. Martin’s Twitch and YouTube Gary’s Twitch Hayden’s YouTube See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Jan 15, 2023•18 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 62
Modding a Game Cube with a Raspberry Pi Pico, writing a book about cross-platform and cross-architecture development, and the struggles of self-hosted security camera footage. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Dec 18, 2022•20 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 61
Alan Pope (popey) joins us to discuss building and fostering a positive and productive community. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Dec 04, 2022•19 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 60
Martin has created a new desktop environment and a container tool, Gary has been clustering Raspberry Pis, and Hayden has been playing with the new Microsoft Arm box. Butterfly Turing Pi Windows Dev Kit 2023 machinespawn See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS... Read More
Nov 20, 2022•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 59
Simon Butcher joins us to talk about how open source AI can be, in theory and in practice. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Nov 06, 2022•20 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 58
What problems that we are currently facing will be solved with Linux and FOSS in the future, and why does it involve AI/ML? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Oct 23, 2022•18 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 57
Does it matter where you host your FOSS code? GitHub benefits from the network effect, but other options have their own benefits. Plus Gary explains why he doesn’t use Git. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Oct 09, 2022•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 56
What’s the best way to implement telemetry and metrics in open source software, and should it be opt-in or opt-out? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Sep 25, 2022•21 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 55
What F/OSS means to us and why it’s important. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Sep 11, 2022•20 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 54
It’s part 2 of our discussion about sustainability in FOSS. Make sure to listen to part 1 first. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Aug 28, 2022•21 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 53
There is a sustainability problem in FOSS. How do we fix it? See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.
Aug 14, 2022•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 52
Hayden explains why he uses Windows Subsystem for Linux on a daily basis, and argues that Microsoft is a very different organisation from the one that was so hostile to FOSS 20+ years ago. He mentioned his unofficial timeline of Microsoft’s transition towards open source. See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
Jul 31, 2022•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 51
Martin and Hayden explain what it’s actually like to use GitHub Copilot, and why they think it’s going to have a positive impact open source software. Plus Hayden explains the legal nuances. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe... Read More
Jul 17, 2022•21 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 50
Stuart Langridge joins us to discuss the nuances of gatekeeping in the Linux community, and why he thinks we inadvertently engaged in it on the last episode. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
Jul 03, 2022•19 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 49
Kyle joins us again, along with Hayden Barnes to answer the question: what exactly is a Linux distribution these days? The rise of immutable filesystems, containerisation, virtualisation, hypervisors, and abstraction layers makes this more complex than it might appear. Buy Hayden’s book about WSL. Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal,... Read More
Jun 19, 2022•31 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 48
Martin and Joe are joined by Kyle Fazzari to reimagine the Linux desktop. What we’d do differently if we were starting over today, who we’d aim it at, what packaging system we’d use, what interface, and more. Kyle’s Twitter thread Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations... Read More
Jun 05, 2022•33 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 47
How do you progress your career as a FOSS enthusiast? Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days. Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack – Try for Free... Read More
May 22, 2022•30 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 46
Adam tries to sell Fedora to Joe and Martin, two Ubuntu (flavour) users. Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, and storage in 25 locations all over the world. Go to getvultr.com/ldt to sign up and get $150 free credit to use in 30 days. Kolide Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack... Read More
May 08, 2022•29 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 45
Joe and Adam are joined by Martin Wimpress to talk about what goes into running a distro like Ubuntu Mate. Governance and finances, the benefits of being an official Ubuntu flavour, hardware enablement, and more. Vultr High-performance cloud compute, bare metal, storage, and managed Kubernetes in 24 locations all over the world. Go... Read More
Apr 24, 2022•27 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 44
Joe is joined by Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast to talk about what and why Alex self-hosts, the hardware and software he uses, and how his approaches have changed over the years. Alex mentioned his Twitter, his blog, a specific blog post about transcoding video, and Serverbuilds.net. Vultr High-performance... Read More
Apr 10, 2022•21 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 43
Joe and Gary from Linux After Dark talk about installing and running the first alpha of Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini and Macbook Air, as both a desktop and a headless server. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to... Read More
Mar 27, 2022•18 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 42
Joe is joined by Stuart Langridge to talk about Open Web Advocacy, a group of software engineers from all over the world who have come together to advocate for the future of the open web. Stuart’s consulting company Kryogenix @sil on Twitter See our contact page for ways to get... Read More
Mar 13, 2022•22 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 41
Joe is joined by Adam Pigg, a member of the Sailfish OS Community who has ported the OS to various phones. A thread with some of Adam’s history Jolla forum post about Russia Twitter reply about Russia See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds... Read More
Feb 27, 2022•16 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 40
Joe is joined by Joey Sneddon from OMG! Ubuntu! to talk about how Ubuntu and its community have changed over the years, snaps, GNOME, Flutter, WSL, and more. You can follow OMG! on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page... Read More
Feb 13, 2022•19 min
Linux Downtime – Episode 39
Joe is joined by Jorge Castro to talk about distros with immutable filesystems like Fedora Silverblue, and Flatpak and Flathub. Jorge mentioned: His list of resources Setting yourself up for success before trying Fedora Silverblue distrobox ublue sodalite Ideas on growing the Flathub Community in 2022 An example command for zoom which will show... Read More
Jan 29, 2022•27 min
Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 38
Adam and Neal return to talk about Google’s mysterious open source operating system Fuchsia. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. See the RSS Feeds page for ways to subscribe to the show.
Jan 16, 2022•14 min
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