Episode 19: RedHat... i am disappoint.

December 12th, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins

appliances, automation, canonical, centos, centos streams, community, development, downstream, ibm, jim whitehurst, license, linux, mark shuttleworth, open source, oss, red hat, rhel, stefanie chiras, ubuntu, upstream, users

JT and Jeff discuss the recent CentOS Linux 8 drama.

Episode 18: The Dev/User Relationship

December 7th, 2020  |  43 mins 10 secs

automation, bsd, bug tickets, closed souce vs open source, community liason, development, deverloper, firefox, freenas, gnome, linux, open source, openrc, oss, popey, puppy linux, runit, tickets, tiling window manager, ubuntu, unix, users

Jt and Jeff talk about the Developer/User Relationship.

Episode 17: The Unix Philosophy

November 30th, 2020  |  40 mins 41 secs

bsd, design, development, eric raymond, esr, ken thompson, linux, open source, oss, philosophy, pragmatic, unix

Jeff and JT discuss what they like about the Unix Philosophy.

Episode 16: Does Openness of AI Algorithms matter?

November 23rd, 2020  |  37 mins 34 secs

ai, artificial intelligence, baysian, bill gates, bsd, covid vaccine, crosstraining, deep learning, development, facebook, genetic, google, gpt3, linux, machine learning, medical field, microsoft, ml, neat, oos, open source, openai, reinforcement, relu networks, research, reverse engineering, supervised, support vector machine, unix, unsupervised

JT and Jeff did deeper into the Open discussion this time focused on AI... and then go wildly off topic.

Episode 15: Unlicensed Listener Feedback

November 16th, 2020  |  45 mins 22 secs

community engagement, copyrights, development, disney, epipen, foss, george lucas, harry potter, jk rowling, kernel, licenses, linux, mickey mouse, open development, oss, own your labor, patents, star trek, star wars

Jeff & JT finally get to listener feedback and end up debating the merits and proper boundaries of copyright protection, intellectual property, and their value to a productive society.

Episode 14: Should Algorithms be Free and Open?

November 9th, 2020  |  40 mins 55 secs

algorithms, development, facebook, foss, instagram, internet, kernel, linux, open development, oss, politics, public benefit, recommendation engines, twitter

Episode 13: One does not simply learn linux

October 19th, 2020  |  33 mins 16 secs

development, devops, distro, foss, linux, open source, scratch, software, sysadmin, unix

Jeff asks the question about how one "Gets Gud" at linux... and as usual... the conversation goes off in a tangent.

Episode 12: AI KillBots in the Sky are not a problem, journalists are the problem.

October 5th, 2020  |  27 mins 43 secs

ai, air force, alphadog, development, f16, fighter pilot, hp reverb, nascar, pilot, simulation, software, usaf, vr

JT gives a perfect example of the pathetic state of Tech Journalism using AI Killbots from the sky.

Episode 11: LUGs in the Time of Corona

September 28th, 2020  |  34 mins 18 secs

bsd, bug, development, distro, floss, foss, linux, lug, operating system, os, software, sysadmin, unix

Jeff and JT are back after some emergency home repair, to talk about LUGs in the time of Covid-19.

Episode 10: What's in a name?

August 31st, 2020  |  32 mins 11 secs

development, distro, fedora, floss, foss, kernel, linux, open source, opensuse, operating system, os, redhat, release name, slackware, software, suse, sysadmin, unix

To quote Shakespeare, What's in a Name? The answer... when it comes to Linux release names... quite a lot.
JT quizzes Jeff on his Release Name Knowledge, and Jeff fails in spectacular style.