Jupiter Extras

Texas LinuxFest Day 2 Apr 13, 2024

Texas LinuxFest day two live from the floor. It's a busy one, and we have some great guests sit down and chat. Then we send out Brent to walk the show expo hall.

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Texas LinuxFest Day 1 Apr 12, 2024

Live from the floor of Texas LinuxFest. We capture the structured chaos 1 from Austin Texas.

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Texas Linux Festival 2024 — Texas Linux Fest is the first state-wide annual community-run conference for Linux and open source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State.

Nostr Workshop Apr 05, 2024

Our Nostr workshop. We’ll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.

Plus, where we see this protocol going and features coming.

The protocol is very promising

We're finding new use cases for it every week. It's based on simple and flexible event objects (passed around as plain JSON).
A public key identifies every user. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures.

And, of course - it's open source.

How Nostr could be useful for Podcasting

One of the more compelling usecases emerging is decentralized realtime chat.

Because everything is passed around as plain JSON, the ability to build cross-app and platform apps is built in.

Create one identity and use it across all the apps and sites. Taking your identity with you is as simple as bringing your key.

Help us test, learn a little Nostr.

Fountain.fm is building a new live experience, with an embeddable webchat built around Nostr. The chat can be pulled into any app or website. And it will be easy to build tooling around.

Create an identity: https://primal.net/
Setup Alby: https://getalby.com/
Create an account at https://fountain.fm
Connect your Fountain.FM and Nostr ID

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Our First Official LIT Stream 🎉 Jan 09, 2024

A bonus stream and our first official LIT Coder stream! Chris discusses CES 2024 day two and its focus on artificial intelligence.

Then, explore AI regulations with Carolyn Posner from the Consumer Technology Association.

Additionally, we delve into the potential approval of Bitcoin ETFs and the fading of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in big businesses.

Note: Description and Chapters genreated by AI, Boost in and tell me how it did!

First Monday Live Stream of the year w/Chris Jan 08, 2024

Chris hangs with the live stream while we wait for the Coder that never starts. We cover new transparent OLED TVs, the trend of canceling streaming services, a government spending deal, affordable televisions, Nvidia's Super Series, Apple's AI strategy, drug use in Silicon Valley, Bitcoin ETFs, the Y2K issue, and the importance of safety in updating chips and programs. Stay tuned for more.

Note: Description and Chapters have been AI-generated. How'd it do?

Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham Jul 10, 2022

Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.

Special Guest: Tim Canham.

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LINUX Unplugged
LINUX Unplugged - Tim Canham
Timothy Canham - People Profile - NASA Mars
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) - Robotic Space Exploration
Mars Helicopter - NASA Mars
Mars Perseverance Rover | NASA
Cassini | NASA
Curiosity – NASA Mars Exploration
Sun Microsystems - Wikipedia
Oracle Solaris - Wikipedia
Fry's Electronics - Wikipedia
Matplotlib — Visualization with Python
Elasticsearch — The Official Distributed Search & Analytics Engine
BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon
BBC World Service - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut — The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anything like it. Apollo 11 was “the first time software ran on the moon”.
Impostor syndrome - Wikipedia
How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars - IEEE Spectrum
GitHub - F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
F´ - A Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework
Meet the Open-Source Software Powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
quickemu — Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines.
MythTV, Open Source DVR
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser Jun 19, 2022

Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and invention, challenging the patent system, and more.

Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.

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Quentin's Personal Website
Quentin's Blog - Status-Q
Telemarq
SPARCstation - Wikipedia
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Raspberry Pi — Computing for everybody
OpenStreetMap — a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license
T9 (predictive text) - Wikipedia
The GNU General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
Moore's law - Wikipedia
One Laptop per Child - Wikipedia
Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop per Child, two years on - TED Talk
Social Warming: The Dangerous and Polarising Effects of Social Media by Charles Arthur
Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser - @quentinsf on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Headline Hangout w/Chris Apr 04, 2022

Chris's thoughts on Linux's NVIDIA conundrum, Elon's takeover of Twitter, MailChimp's insider hack, and the Google Drones taking off in Texas.

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Matthew Miller's Thread on Twitter — "Here's the conundrum with @Nvidia drivers on Linux, in a thread. I have a Fedora perspective, obviously, but I think it's a shared problem. (🧵 rant which I'm not going to bother to count or number.) #linux #nvidia #opensource #freesoftware"
Elon Musk Buys 9.2% Twitter Shares in Passive Stake — Elon Musk took a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc. to become the platform’s biggest shareholder, a week after hinting he might shake up the social media industry.
Hackers breach MailChimp's internal tools to target crypto customers — Sunday morning, Twitter was abuzz with reports from owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets who received phishing notifications claiming that the company suffered a data breach.
Fortnite raised $144 million for Ukraine relief — The game raised $36 million in its first day alone, and today, Epic revealed the final total of $144 million. The funds are being put towards several aid groups, including Direct Relief, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the World Food Programme.
Alphabet's Wing will begin drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth on April 7th — Alphabet's Wing division has announced that it's launching a drone delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex on April 7th. "With this service, the DFW area will be the largest metro in the world, and the first in the United States, with access to on-demand drone delivery," a company spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

March Boost Battle Mar 31, 2022

The Unplugged team holds a live event with a special guest, your questions, and we give away a lot of Bitcoin sats!

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Links:

Jupiter Broadcasting Meetup Page
Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Server Info
Link to Our Matrix
Guides to Learn to Matrix — Imagine a place... where you are welcomed to be yourself, where you have control on your data, and where you can talk more privately, while also allowing you to socialize with others.
New Podcast Apps that Support Boosts
Fountain Podcasts
Castamatic
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet and Lightning wallet for iOS and Android
The Bitcoin Dad Pod
nixos-challenge: NixOS Challenge
LINUX Unplugged 451: The NixOS Challenge — We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

Who Wants to be a Satoshionaire Land of the Snow Edition Feb 02, 2022

Brent's in the hot seat and plays to win 1000 Satoshis, while Wes adds a little color commentary.

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Microsoft is now the Disney of Video Games Jan 18, 2022

We react to Microsoft gobbling up yet another game studio, chat about Crypto.com's recent $15M hack, the massive failure YouTube just admitted, and a few personal crew stories.

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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard — Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash. When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. The planned acquisition includes iconic franchises from the Activision, Blizzard and King studios like “Warcraft,” “Diablo,” “Overwatch,” “Call of Duty” and “Candy Crush,” in addition to global eSports activities through Major League Gaming. The company has studios around the world with nearly 10,000 employees.
Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 25 million subscribers
Crypto.com Suffers Hack for At Least $15M in Ethereum — The crypto exchange has reportedly lost at least $15 million in Ethereum, and security experts believe the true losses could be much higher.
Coinbase NFT Marketplace Will Enable Purchases With Mastercard — Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced a partnership with Mastercard to address the 'pain points' of purchasing NFTs.
Intel to Unveil 'Ultra Low-Voltage Bitcoin Mining ASIC' in February — One of Intel's "highlighted chip releases" at the conference is entitled "Bonanza Mine: An Ultra-Low-Voltage Energy-Efficient Bitcoin Mining ASIC." The session is scheduled for Feb. 23.
YouTube Shuts Down Original Content Group — “We will honor our commitment for already contracted shows in progress and creators who are involved with those shows should expect to hear from us directly in the coming days,” Kyncl wrote in the message posted to Twitter.
Susanne Daniels Exits YouTube as Global Originals Head — Susanne Daniels is exiting YouTube after nearly seven years at the Google-owned global video-sharing company. The YouTube global head of original content will depart in March.
Apple retakes top spot in global smartphone market in Q4 2021 — Apple accounted for 22% of worldwide smartphone shipments in Q4 2021, thanks to strong demand for the iPhone 13.

Road Trip Tech Jan 13, 2022

Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.

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MultiPlus - Victron Energy — The MultiPlus, as the name suggests, is a combined inverter and charger in one elegant package. Its many features include a true sine wave inverter, adaptive charging, hybrid PowerAssist technology, plus multiple system integration features.
Dual LTE Router — With a compact form factor, simultaneous dual-band 11ac Wi-Fi, and two embedded LTE modems, the MAX Transit Duo is ready to deliver fast, reliable connectivity in transportation and public safety deployments
RØDECaster Pro — Featuring four microphone inputs with studio-grade preamps for recording crystal-clear audio, smartphone, USB, and Bluetooth channels for seamlessly integrating remote guests, eight sound pads for triggering music and sound effects, powerful audio processing at the touch of a button and so much more, the RØDECaster Pro is all you will ever need to create incredible podcasts.
Zoom H5 4-Track Portable Recorder — Our favorite portable recorder

Road Trip Memories Jan 11, 2022

During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.

Don't miss this exclusive look behind the wheels!

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Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years Jan 04, 2022

It's a casual community hangout, and we spin the Wheel of Topics. From what Linux does worst, our thoughts on EndlessOS, Ubuntu Web Remix, QubesOS, Brent's adventures with JellyFin, and why Linux will ultimately dominate all operating systems in 20 years.

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elementary OS 6.1 Secrets with Founder and CEO Danielle Foré Dec 21, 2021

Big internal process improvements have resulted in a major new version of elementary OS hot on the heals of the previous release. Find out why 6.1 is a lot more than just a number.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré .

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elementary OS 6.1 Available Now — Just over four months ago we announced elementary OS 6 Odin with new ways to be in control and express yourself, a slew of innovative new features, and a focus on gettability and inclusivity. So far, OS 6 has been downloaded from our website over 250,000 times—and as always, that’s not including downloads from third parties or direct downloads via torrent that bypass our download page!
elementary Store — Every purchase goes towards developing elementary OS, its apps, and its services. We're a small team, mostly volunteer, working constantly to make elementary better—your support helps make elementary OS more sustainable.

Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris Dec 06, 2021

Taken from Monday's Coder live stream, Chris reacts to discovering that the city of Miami has its own crypto coin. As the conversation goes on it turns into a broader discussion about how cryptocurrency gets a bad reputation, and why that reputation is completely divorced from the reality of the technology.

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CityCoins — MiamiCoin — MiamiCoin gives citizens and supporters the power to support, improve and program the Magic City.
Cash App - Bitcoin
Bitcoin and energy consumption — Michael Saylor on the Bitcoin Environment Argument - YouTube

Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge: Our Reaction Oct 05, 2021

Our virtual LUG of experts had a lot to say about the Linus Tech Tips Switch to Linux challenge. We recap what is going on, how it could go wrong, and what we hope happens.

This release is an excerpt from our LINUX Unplugged live stream on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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Valve Did the IMPOSSIBLE... Anti-Cheat on Linux - WAN Show September 24, 2021 — Linus brings up Linux video challenge idea
Pre-Built PCs Are About to get MUCH Worse - WAN Show October 1, 2021 — The challenge is REAL

Brunch with Brent: Carl Richell Jul 24, 2020

Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more.

Carl's Community Ask: Be Bold.

Special Guest: Carl Richell.

Links:

System76 — Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers
LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware — Special guest Jeremy Soller, Principal Engineer at System76
Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall — Happiness Manager at System76
Pop!_OS by System76
SpaceX
13 Minutes to the Moon, Ep.05 The fourth astronaut - BBC World Service — The computer that got us to the moon.
Carl Richell - @carlrichell on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Philip Müller Jun 19, 2020

Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years.

Special Guest: Philip Müller.

Links:

Manjaro
Manjaro Webdad (JADE Desktop)
Manjaro Hardware
StationX Announces New Laptop Customized for Manjaro Linux - It's FOSS
LINUX Unplugged - Special Guest: Philip Muller
PINE64
Snapcraft — Snaps are universal Linux packages
Brunch with Brent: Martin Wimpress
Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
FOSDEM
PinePhone - PINE64
Pinebook Pro - PINE64
Pi-hole — A black hole for Internet advertisements
Flatpak — the future of application distribution
Philip Müller - philm a Manjaro forums
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Kyle Rankin May 22, 2020

Brent sits down with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism and former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. We explore his 10+ years with Linux Journal, as well as Purism's culture, ideals, product design and engineering philosophies, and more.

Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.

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Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna Apr 21, 2020

Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more.

Special Guest: Sri Ramkrishna.

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The Resilience of the Voyagers Apr 12, 2020

Heather, of SciByte fame, joins Chris and Wes to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and amazing resiliency of the Voyager probes.

Special Guest: Heather.

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Pagure a GitLab Alternative: Neal Gompa Apr 07, 2020

Pagure, the free software GitLab alternative no one is talking about.

Neal Gompa joins us to discuss what makes it unique, which projects are using it, and the significant adoption in progress.

Special Guest: Neal Gompa.

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Pagure.io — With pagure you can host your project with its documentation, let your users report issues or request enhancements using the ticketing system and build your community of contributors by allowing them to fork your projects and contribute to it via the now-popular pull-request mechanism.
Pagure project on Pagure.io
Pagure project documentation — The name Pagure is taken from the French word 'pagure'. Pagure in French is used as the common name for the crustaceans from the Paguroidea superfamily, which is basically the family of the Hermit crabs.
Fedora Magazine article introducing Pagure (2016)
Talk on Pagure at openSUSE Conference 2019
[Release] pagure: 5.9 - Pagure-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists
A new site for fully free collaboration - Free Software Foundation — As we said in an end-of-year post highlighting our work supporting free software development and infrastructure, the Free Software Foundation is planning to launch a public code hosting and collaboration platform to launch in 2020.

Brunch with Brent: Daniel Foré Apr 03, 2020

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more.

Special Guest: Danielle Foré .

Links:

elementary OS
User Error
Brunch with Brent: Joe Ressington
Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope (popey)
Canonical — The company behind Ubuntu
Linux App Summit
GUADEC — The GNOME Conference
LinuxFest Northwest
GNOME Do & Docky - Wikipedia
Korora - Wikipedia
Gentoo Linux
GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus) - Wikipedia
OMG! Ubuntu! — Ubuntu Linux News, Apps and Reviews
AppCenter - elementary OS
Say Hello to the New Greeter - elementary Blog
Flatpak
Desire path - Wikipedia
Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design - 99% Invisible
Daniel Foré - @DanielFore on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

User Error: What Will Change Post-virus? Mar 31, 2020

Joe, Alan, and Dan speculate about what the world will be like after the situation with Coronavirus is under control and life returns to something resembling normality.

Special Guests: Alan Pope and Danielle Foré .

Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol Mar 27, 2020

Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more.

Special Guest: Aleix Pol.

Links:

KDE e.V.
KDE Education Project
KDE - Notable Uses - Wikipedia
Blue Systems — International developers working on Free/Libre Software
Netrunner GNU/Linux — KDE Plasma on Debian Stable
Linux App Summit
Barcelona Free Software
Akademy — KDE's annual world summit
GUADEC — The GNOME Conference
Brunch with Brent: Nuritzi Sanchez
Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
Aleix Pol - @AleixPol on Twitter — aleixpol@kde.org
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge Mar 20, 2020

Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.

Special Guest: Stuart Langridge.

Links:

Bad Voltage — Tasty stuff for your ears.
Bad Voltage 2×65: Email Avengers Assemble
Superhuman — The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made
Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
The UX of Text - Talk by Stuart Langridge
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - Wikipedia
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss - Wikipedia
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett - Wikipedia
Mycroft — The World's First Open Source Voice Assistant
Canonical
npm is joining GitHub
ChrisLAS Cast 6 - Taking Notes with Brent
Italian Hospital 3D Printing Valves For Reanimation Devices - 3D Printing Media Network
Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Group
Kryogenix Consulting
Stuart Langridge - @sil on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged Mar 17, 2020

We share what goes into making LINUX Unplugged special, and have a laugh at some of our bad ideas from show past.

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LINUX Unplugged 1: Too Much Choice — Does the Linux community lean on the age old excuse of choice, to brush of the real limitations of desktop Linux environments? We debate that, and then discuss the growing reasons to roll your own email server.
LINUX Unplugged 27: Debian’s systemd Decision — One of the bumpier chapters in Debian’s history looks to be drawing to a close, at least for now. But what was all the drama about? And where do things stand now? We’ll dig into the latest developments in the Debian init system debate.
LINUX Unplugged 67: Debian Community Divided — We recap the recent mini-exodus in the Debian project & discuss how the tone of discussion around systemd has had some terrible consequences. We follow that with some concrete ideas of what we can do to change that tone.
LINUX Unplugged 329: Flat Network Truthers — Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph Mar 13, 2020

Brent sits down with Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM Z, former Ubuntu Community Council member, and contributor to Ubuntu, Debian, Xubuntu, and others. We discuss her new passion for mainframes, her early contributions to open source projects, the niche opportunities in Z DevOps on mainframes, and more.

Special Guest: Elizabeth K. Joseph.

Links:

PrincessLeia.com — The Official Website of Elizabeth K. Joseph
Ubuntu
Debian
Xubuntu
IBM Z Mainframe Servers and Software - IBM
"Why Linux Systems Administrators Should Care About the Mainframe" - linux.conf.au 2020 - YouTube
ReBoot - Wikipedia — Bob and his companions Enzo and Dot Matrix work to keep the computer system of Mainframe safe from the viruses Megabyte and Hexadecimal.
An Ode to Movie Mainframes - YouTube
Master the Mainframe - IBM — Developing enterprise computing and coding skills in more than 3,500 schools in over 130 countries.
Open Mainframe Project - The Linux Foundation Projects
Open Mainframe Summit - Call for Proposals
Open Mainframe Summit - Linux Foundation Events
What is the Ubuntu Community Council - Ubuntu Community Hub
UBports - A Ubuntu Touch Community
The Official Ubuntu Book, 9th Edition - InformIT
LinuxONE Community Cloud — No-charge, open access to an enterprise grade Linux environment
Endianness - Wikipedia — "Big-endian" and "Little-endian" redirect here. For the conflicting ideologies in Gulliver's Travels, see Lilliput and Blefuscu § History and politics.
Elizabeth K. Joseph - Faces of Open Source
Elizabeth K. Joseph - @pleia2 on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Nuritzi Sanchez Mar 06, 2020

Brent sits down with Nuritzi Sanchez, Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab, former GNOME Foundation President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Founding Member of Endless, Inc. We explore her current experiences at GitLab, her deep involvement in the growth of GNOME's community, the evolution of the Linux App Summit, her involvement with Endless, and why she is so drawn to the human aspects of technology.

Special Guest: Nuritzi Sanchez.

Links:

GitLab
The Open Organization Definition - opensource.com
Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
GNOME
Endless OS - Endless Computers
OSTree
Linux App Summit
KDE
Flappy Bird - Wikipedia
FlappyBird.io — Play Flappy Bird!
Hack Computer - Coding for kids — "Hack lets kids explore basic coding concepts and computational thinking as they journey down learning pathways. Everything is hackable - hack your apps, games and operating system."
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Brandon Bruce Feb 28, 2020

Brent sits down with Brandon Bruce, Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy. We explore the world of support, how his former role as professional chef informs his "Kitchen Brigade" approach to building a support team, analytics data's ability to reveal surprising user experience patterns, and more.

Special Guest: Brandon Bruce.

Links:

Linux Academy
How To Train Your Customers: Changing the Course of Support - BSides San Antonio TX
BSidesSATX - BSides San Antonio, TX
Brigade de cuisine, Kitchen Brigade - Wikipedia
Heat by Bill Buford - Goodreads — An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - Goodreads — Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain - Goodreads — A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Linux Bible by Christopher Negus, Christine Bresnahan - Goodreads
BSidesBCS - BSides Bryan/College Station
SCaLE - Southern California Linux Expo
Brandon Bruce - @Netcromancer on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth Feb 21, 2020

Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.

Special Guest: Heather Ellsworth.

Links:

Canonical
Ubuntu
LibreOffice - Snapcraft
Snap Documentation - Snapcraft
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
CERN - Wikipedia
Higgs boson - Wikipedia
The GNOME Foundation
cherrytree — A hierarchical note taking application
Librem 5 - Purism
Librem 5 Documentation - Purism
Open Source Summit
Free Software Foundation
Free as in Freedom 2.0 (PDF) — Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution
Free as in Freedom 2.0, by Richard Stallman - FSF Shop
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
Onitama - BoardGameGeek
A Feast for Odin - BoardGameGeek
Magic: the Gathering - BoardGameGeek
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Podcasting Basics: Joe Ressington Feb 18, 2020

Joe talks about the basics of podcasting including recording spaces, types of microphones, post-production techniques, editing, and more.

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Building a Home Recording Booth — We want to create a recording booth with a minimum expense and making as few permanent modifications to the home as possible.

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2 Jan 31, 2020

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. In this Part 2 we explore open source and photography through workflows, lighting controls, and camera OSs, artificial intelligence and the future of photography, and more.

Special Guest: Peter Adams.

Links:

Faces of Open Source
Peter Adams Photography
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Krita
darktable
darktable/RawSpeed camera support
RawSpeed - submit camera RAW file samples
Self-Hosted
Magic Lantern — open source Canon camera firmware add-on
This Person Does Not Exist
StyleGAN2 - A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (NVIDIA) - YouTube
StyleGAN2, None of These Faces Are Real - Two Minute Papers - YouTube
p5.js — Processing simplicity times JavaScript flexibility
Processing.js — a port of the Processing Visualization Language
Red Hat Summit — April 27-29, 2020 San Francisco, California
All Things Open — October 2020, Raleigh, NC
Public.Resource.Org — Making Government Information More Accessible
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) — Protecting Freedom Where Law and Technology Collide
Software Freedom Conservancy
Internet Archive
Wayback Machine
Peter Adams - Printed Circuits
Faces of Open Source - @facesopensource on Twitter
Peter Adams - @PeterAdamsPhoto on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 1 Jan 28, 2020

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. We explore his photography project "Faces of Open Source", his history in the dot-com bubble era, how he came to love open source, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2 comes out this Friday.

Special Guest: Peter Adams.

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Brunch with Brent: Jim Salter Jan 21, 2020

Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire.

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

Links:

Jim Salter - Ars Technica
TechSNAP — Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia — "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and the Four Steps to Successful Nonviolent Resistance - Brain Pickings
Social gadfly - Wikipedia — "to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth."
Stoicism - Wikipedia
'No Man is an Island' by John Donne
Nebula - GitHub — A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
Ars Technica - Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently, by Jim Salter
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - YouTube — "Be Excellent To Eachother"
Jim's JRS-S.net - JRS Systems: the blog — technomancy made simple
Jim Salter - @jrssnet on Twitter
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Self-Hosted: Fixing Brent's WiFi Jan 10, 2020

Join Alex and Brent for a chat about upgrading your home network with an eye towards stability, simplicity, and hosting things yourself.

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Brunch with Brent: Joe Ressington Jan 07, 2020

Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more.

Special Guest: Joe Ressington.

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Brunch with Brent: Jackie DeVore Dec 31, 2019

Brent sits down with Jackie DeVore, co-host of horror podcast Sirens of Scream and multi-disciplinary artist. Our in-person chat explores the origins of her podcasting, creativity as a lifestyle, women in tech, art, and gaming, and her co-founding and recent launch of Hell Bunny Independents Club, a women's inclusive and supportive digital safe space.

Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.

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Brunch with Brent: Catherine Kretzschmar Dec 24, 2019

Brent sits down with Catherine Kretzschmar, professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant, for an in-person connective chat on the relationship between music and coding, the quality-of-life implications of ever-evolving home automation, an intro to humanist celebrancy, and more.

Catherine is a good friend of the Jupiter Broadcasting family and wife of Alex Kretzschmar, co-host of Self-Hosted.

Special Guest: Catherine Kretzschmar.

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Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 Dec 20, 2019

Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself through meditation, and more.

Special Guest: Jason Spisak.

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Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1 Dec 17, 2019

Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 1 we chat about everything from Jason's deep motivations behind his Linux projects, to patents vs. open source, digital independence and the nature of human endeavor. A few additional voices join us throughout for good measure...

Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2 comes our way this Friday.

Special Guest: Jason Spisak.

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Jason Spisak - IMDb
Lycoris (formerly Redmond Linux) - Wikipedia
Lindows/Linspire - Wikipedia
Symphony OS & Mezzo Desktop - Wikipedia
Symphony OS - ArchiveOS
Home Assistant - Open source home automation
WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel
Linux Unplugged 331: apt install arch-linux — Brent's first WireGuard project
Linux Unplugged - Episodes tagged "WireGuard"
Self-Hosted 7: Why We Love Home Assistant
Elementary OS
PINE64
System76 - Linux Laptops, Desktops, and Servers
MrChromebox — Custom coreboot firmware and firmware utilities for your Chromebook/Chromebox
GalliumOS
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam - The Guardian
The Unbelievers - IMDb — Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world.
Jason Spisak
Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope Dec 10, 2019

Brent sits down with Alan Pope (popey), who shares his knack for fuzzy-testing, the beginnings of Ubuntu Podcast, insights into Ubuntu Touch and Unity, the joys and perils of being "Internet Famous", and how to contribute meaningfully to your favorite Linux distributions.

popey is a Developer Advocate at Canonical working on Snapcraft & Ubuntu, co-host of User Error and Ubuntu Podcast.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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Brunch with Brent: Rocco Dec 03, 2019

Brent sits down with Rocco of Big Daddy Linux for a conversation about the origins of Linux Spotlight, some shared behind-the-scenes podcasting perspectives, and just how great we feel about our Linux community.

Special Guest: Rocco (BigDaddyLinux).

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Brunch with Brent: Jacob Roecker Nov 26, 2019

Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and its community was integral throughout.

Special Guest: Jacob Roecker.

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popey on ThinkPads Nov 22, 2019

Chz sits down with Alan Pope (popey) to discuss his thoughts about ThinkPads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.

Find out what those model numbers really mean, plus our tips for picking which one is right for you.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall Nov 19, 2019

Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 for a fun chat touching on her love of pinball and puppies, spreading happiness, women in tech, and more.

Note: This episode was recorded before the Superfans 3 event, which occurred between November 15-17, 2019.

Special Guest: Emma Marshall.

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Brunch with Brent: Jill Bryant Ryniker Nov 12, 2019

Brent sits down with Jill Bryant Ryniker, long time linux aficionado, for a connective conversation exploring her deep involvement in linux and open source, from community to professional animation and more.

Jill wears many complimentary hats, a few of which include: co-host of Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday, regular community guest on Linux Unplugged, LinuxChixs LA co-organizer, professional animator and teacher, ...and more! Grab a seat and join us..

Special Guest: Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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Brunch with Brent: Martin Wimpress Nov 04, 2019

Brent sits down with Martin Wimpress, co-founder and project lead for Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/, Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and co-host of Ubuntu Podcast https://ubuntupodcast.org/.

We dive into why innovative, creative people are attracted to open source, his journey through Linux and podcasting, his feelings on his new position in the Desktop Team at Canonical, and much more.

Special Guest: Martin Wimpress.

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A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci Oct 31, 2019

Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux, and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint. It is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices, it is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.

mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives. mergerfs transparently translates read/write commands to the underlying drives from a single mount point, such as /mnt/storage. Point all your applications at /mnt/storage and forget about how the underlying storage is architected, mergerfs handles the rest transparently. Multiple mismatched size drives? No problem.

Special Guest: Antonio Musumeci.

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Happy Halloween, 2019! Oct 31, 2019

Drew and Jackie DeVore talk about talk about their Halloween obsession, and give out a few recommendations for tech-related movies, shows, and podcasts to enjoy.

Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.

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OggCamp 2019 Panel Oct 28, 2019

Joe hosts the panel at OggCamp 2019 with guests Dr Laura Cowen, Josh Lowe, Caroline Keep, and Dan Lynch.

Special Guests: Caroline Keep, Dan Lynch, Dr Laura Cowen, and Josh Lowe.

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OggCamp

Our Trip To Texas Cyber Summit Oct 21, 2019

We're back from Texas Cyber Summit with stories of new friends, great food, and our experiences from the event.

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Photos From Texas Cyber Summit 2019 — Jupiter Gallery
Texas Cyber Summit — Texas Cyber Summit is a premier cyber security summit held in San Antonio Texas, with the mission of spreading knowledge and interest in the field of Cyber Security.
Red vs. Blue — ThreatGEN™ Red vs. Blue is the industry's first multi-player strategy computer game where players compete against each other, head-to-head, to take control/maintain control of a computer network.
Howdy Neighbor Smart House — “Howdy Neighbor” is GRIMM’s Internet of Things (IoT) Capture the Flag (CTF)-like challenge.

Brunch with Brent: Allan Jude Oct 15, 2019

Brent sits down for an in-person chat with Allan Jude for a retrospective storytelling of his beginnings in BSD, his long history with podcasting, BSDNow and Jupiter Broadcasting, a beginner's guide to the benefits of FreeBSD, with technical nuggets and nostalgic bits throughout.

Allan Jude wears many hats including FreeBSD developer and member of the FreeBSD Core team, ZFS expert, co-founder and VP Engineering at Klara Inc., co-founder and VP Operations at ScaleEngine Inc., host of BSDNow, former host of TechSNAP among many others.

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Brunch with Brent: Angela Fisher Oct 09, 2019

Brent sits down with Angela Fisher, Executive Producer at Linux Academy, Jupiter Broadcasting co-founder, co-host of many JB productions including The FauxShow, and Tech Talk Today, among others. We touch on a variety of topics including the early beginnings of Jupiter Broadcasting, the origins of Brunch with Brent, aswell as many that are closer to her heart - from painting to parenting.

"You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friends' nose." - A Wise Painted Rock

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Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics Oct 03, 2019

Chris, Alex, and Wes talk about reverse proxies, internal routing, and some popular methods to make it all work.

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Brunch with Brent: Christophe Limpalair Sep 27, 2019

Brent sits down with Christophe Limpalair, VP of Growth at Linux Academy and founder of Scale Your Code, for a get-to-know-you conversation that spans from taming your lizard brain through to mastering the miscellaneous, with a generous ask of the community.

Topics

Scale Your Code Podcast
Learning
Life lessons
Failing
Networking
Introverted
Social skill
Software development
Career path
Chaos vs Stability
Risk-taking
Opportunity cost
Taming the lizard brain
4-Hour Workweek
4-Hour Chef
Accelerated learning
Generalist as mastery
Books & biographies

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Special Guest: Christophe Limpalair.

Self-Hosted Production Meeting Sep 25, 2019

Alex and Chris are hard at work on the next Self-Hosted episode, here's a behind the scenes real moment from their recent production meeting.

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Thread to Watch: Re: Bits from the DPL

PowerShell on Linux Sep 17, 2019

Chris and Wes talk with DM from the PowerShell On Linux community about PowerShell's strengths and its place in the Linux ecosystem.

Special Guest: DM.

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PowerShell on Linux
PowerShell on Linux on Twitter
PowerShellOnLinux - FavoriteModules — Below you will find a list of PowerShell Modules that we've found useful.
Powershell on Linux Telegram Group
Installing PowerShell Core on Linux | Microsoft Docs
PowerShell on GitHub
PowerShell Gallery | FreeNas 1.2 — This module interact with FreeNas and TrueNas with the API REST 1.0

The Story Behind our Daily Linux Podcast Sep 13, 2019

Chris and Chz catch up on what's been going on and then share the story behind our new daily Linux podcast and the breakthrough it took to make it possible.

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Brunch with Brent: Wes Payne Sep 11, 2019

Brent joins Wes Payne, well-known Jupiter Broadcasting co-host of Linux Unplugged, Coder Radio, and TechSNAP, for a deep-dive conversation that touches a wide swath of life as a Wes, with topics including:

adventures in learning
a recipe for great collaborations
one definition of Wes-work
creativity and problem-solving in tech
introvertedness and the subtle art of being agreeable
strategies in brainstorming
entropy and evolution of routines in creativity
hammock time and meditation
Buddhism and our mind's understanding of the world
the importance of context in comprehension

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Librem 5 Unplugged Sep 05, 2019

We react to the "ship date" of the Librem 5, and look back at when it was first announced.

Then our take on what steps Pursim could take to turn this situation into a net postive.

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Librem 5 Will Begin Shipping In The Weeks Ahead, But Varying Quality Over Months Ahead — With the initial batch of phones at the end of September and early October, the hardware quality is said to be "Individually milled case, loose fit, varying alignment, unfinished switch caps. (Hand crafted)" On the software side there is their initial release of mobile software on PureOS while software updates will have to be done from the terminal. Their shipping window for this first batch is 24 September to 22 October.
Librem 5 Shipping Announcement – Purism — Due to the high volume, growing demand for the Librem 5, and in the interest of openness and transparency, Purism is publishing its full, detailed, iterative shipping schedule.
Massive Progress, Exact CPU Selected & Minor Shipping Adjustment – Purism
The Librem 5 from Purism: A Matrix Native Smartphone. | Matrix.org

Brunch with Brent: Drew DeVore Sep 04, 2019

Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux. We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.

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User Error Outtake: Bunk Beds Aug 30, 2019

What should have been an innocent question about bunk beds turned into the longest ever User Error outtake.

Here is the unedited version of a segment on User Error 73. There is some bad language.

The Story Behind Self-Hosted Aug 29, 2019

Brent joins Alex and Chris to discuss the origins of Jupiter Broadcasting's new selfhosted.show. It's a casual chat about a project in the making for two years, hit play and the drinks are on us.

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Self Hosted - Subscribe — Get the latest episodes of Self Hosted automatically
Brunch with Brent: Meet Alex from Self Hosted
Brunch with Brent: A Chat with Chz Bacon
LinuxServer.io — We are a group of like minded enthusiasts from across the world who build and maintain the largest collection of Docker images on the web, and at our core are the principles behind Free and Open Source Software. Our primary goal is to provide easy-to-use and streamlined Docker images with clear and concise documentation.
The Perfect Media Server - 2019 Edition — Storage should be boring. Boring is reliable. Reliable means you don't lose data. And that's exactly what the MergerFS + Snapraid combo I first wrote about in 2016 has provided. A solid, boring and reliable way of storing multiple TBs of data with little fuss.
Smart RGB LED strips with Home Assistant — 2019 is the year I am taking back control of my smart devices by bringing as much 'smarts' back inside my LAN as possible. To do this I've recently been experimenting with Home Assistant which I have running in a docker container on my media server.
Thievery Corporation — Thievery Corporation performing live in the KEXP studio.
Home Automation with Linux that Doesn't Rely on the Cloud — Alex's talk at LinuxFest Northwest 2019.

Brunch with Brent: Alex Kretzschmar Aug 27, 2019

Brent welcomes Alex into the podcast family and discusses his long journey from Apple to Red Hat, and London to Raleigh. Plus some tidbits about the new show he's co-hosting on Jupiter Broadcasting and spending time with the crew.

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FOSDEM 2016 - How containers work in Linux — A hands on demo of the types of containers that can be brought up in Linux using only the existing distribution tools. This talk will cover the theory of what containers are and how they work in Linux, including why they differ from hypervisors and what specific properties they have.
FOSDEM 2016 - How containers work in Linux (video)
Brexit - film featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings

Brunch with Brent: Chz Bacon Aug 23, 2019

A revealing conversation with Jupiter Broadcasting's designer Mr. Chz Bacon. We discuss his Linux roots, design philosophies, community involvement, and a lot more.

The Enthusiast Trap - Office Hours with Chris Aug 22, 2019

What is the enthusiast trap, and why does it seem to ensnarl every successful open source project? Also, some excellent listener power user tips for NextCloud.

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Email: The Enthusiast Trap — I recently heard of a name for the phenomenon that's happening with Manjaro (and many other projects): it's called the enthusiast trap.
Email: Nextcloud features to explore — Hey Chris I had some tips for Nextcloud features that I didn't hear mentioned that you would definitely find useful.
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2019, With Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak
Why Enthusiast Brands will Betray You - YouTube
Why is Oculus the only one still trying to make VR cheaper? (Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S) - YouTube

Dell's New Ubuntu Hardware for Late 2019 Aug 21, 2019

A quick update on the new XPS 13 details and Dell's Linux hardware plan for 2019.

Dell's got a new Developer Edition.

The laptops will be avaible in these areas:

Austria
Belgium (Dutch and French)
Switzerland (German and French)
Germany
Denmark
Spain
France
Ireland
Italy
The Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
The United Kingdom

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Details on Dell's new Consumer PC Portfolio

Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged Aug 20, 2019

Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.

Thomas Cameron Texas LinuxFest Keynote Aug 08, 2019

The complete keynote from Texas LinuxFest that inspired us to try harder. Thomas Cameron presents a keynote that everyone needs to hear. It's time to end the distro wars, invite everyone to the dance, and build the future.

Cloud dude, Linux advocate, Open Source evangelist and current Amazonian, Thomas Cameron's keynote is a must listen.

Special Guest: Thomas Cameron.