Late Night Linux Extra

We are joined by Amolith from Linux Lads and Alan Pope to discuss Generation Z’s view of technology, and whether modern abstraction layers ultimately detract from ideas of software freedom and digital rights.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe to the RSS feed.

We are joined by Alex from Self-Hosted to talk about home media setups. Is it a good idea to use a NAS running a desktop while connected to a TV, or does something like an Nvidia Shield make more sense?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.   Subscribe... Read More

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.