Episode 42: The view into the Linspire Saga

July 5th, 2021  |  1 hr 8 mins

cnr, development, foss, hardware, lindows, linspire, linux, open source, operating system, os, retro, root, software, sysadmin, unix

Jeff and JT have a guest this week to talk about Jeff's favorite topic... Linspire. Chris Waid of Think Penguin comes on the show to talk about his experience at Linspire.

Episode 41: Jeff can't get Doom running

June 28th, 2021  |  1 hr 43 secs

compiling, doom, foss, hardware, kernel, linux, open source, operating system, os, red hat, retro, software, source code, strace, sysadmin

Episode 37: Is Open Source a philosophy for Life?

April 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 50 mins

bsd, business, community, foss, helping others, learning, linux, open source, operating system, os, philosophy, problem solving, social media, sysadmin, unix

Keith Perry of DAO Technologies joins Jeff and JT to discuss Open Source being a general philosophy for life.

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.

Episode 9: Your Distro doesn't suck

August 24th, 2020  |  25 mins 13 secs

development, distro, distro wars, floss, foss, linux, open source, operating system, os, software, sysadmin, unix

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's other favorite argument... How your distro sucks.

Episode 8: Begun... the License Wars have

August 17th, 2020  |  31 mins 28 secs

beerware, bsd, copyright, development, floss, foss, gpl, isc, lawyer, legal, lgpl, licensing, linux, lumina, mit, mozilla, nosa, open source, operating system, os, patent, public domain, software, sysadmin, unix, wtfpl

Jeff and JT talk about everyone's favorite issue... FOSS Licensing. JT goes into detail about one concern he has for the future of Software Licensing. Surprisingly overall this was a polite and calm conversation... but we expect some spicy feedback from the community.

Episode 7: Much ado about Thumbnails

August 10th, 2020  |  29 mins 28 secs

desktop environments, development, file manager, foss, gnome, kde, linux, lumina, open source, operating system, os, photos, software, sysadmin, thumbnails, unix, videos, xfce

Jeff listens to JT rant about Thumbnails in Linux Desktop Environments and gives his thoughts.

Episode 6: Kernel Compiling

August 3rd, 2020  |  29 mins 36 secs

compiling, development, distribution, distro, foss, kernel, linux, open source, operating system, os, ragchew, retro, right of passage, software, sysadmin, unix

Jeff and JT talk about the first time they compiled their kernels, and Jeff reflects back on how it used to be an achievement.

Episode 5: Jeff isnt inspired by Linspire

July 27th, 2020  |  30 mins 12 secs

canonical, development, distribution, distro, foss, lindows, linspire, linux, microsoft, open source, operating system, os, paid support, partnership, ragchew, red hat, retro, software, suse, sysadmin, thinkpad, unix, xandros

Jeff opens up about his love/hate relationship with Linspire.