Linux Downtime – Episode 73

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Linux Downtime – Episode 73

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Jun 4, 2023

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Amolith attempts to argue that avoiding ads using open source software is piracy, and that piracy in this case is good. See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed.

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Jun 4, 2023

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Open source professionals Martin Wimpress, Hayden Barnes and Gary Kramlich join Joe for relaxed discussions in their downtime. From working in the industry and progressing your career, to managing a project’s community, and beyond.

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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 04: It’s the last episode of LNLE. At least for the time being. GIMP 2.10 Jehan Pagès spoke about the latest major release of GIMP, but forgot to plug the film that he’s working on called ZeMarmot. Bad News This is the last episode of Late Night Linu... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 17: How do we get the next generation of kids into Linux and FOSS? A question we tried to answer in this recording from a community meetup. The next mumble get-together date will be on Friday 26th March at 10pm UK time. Details here. by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 29: Gary, Chris, Dalton, and Joe discuss reporting bugs, why we don’t always do it, and why we really should. CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyone looking to build IT skills. Go to cbtnuggets. by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 31: Joe is joined by Alyssa Rosenzweig, a graphics developer who’s passionate about software freedom and leads the Panfrost and Asahi graphics drivers, about porting Linux to the M1 Macs. Gary, Chris and Dalton haven’t disappeared. by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 12: Joe is joined by Brent Gervais, a professional photographer who exclusively uses Linux, to discuss the insights he has gained into the open source mindset during his time as host of Brunch with Brent; including a deep sense of collaboration, by Linux Dev Time
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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 tou... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 25: Joe is joined by Chris and Gary again to discuss cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and NFTs. Our history, our mistakes, and ultimately why we became jaded about the whole thing. CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT p... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 22: In this community meetup recording, we discuss what lengths we all go to to protect our privacy. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more ... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 15: In this recording from the second community meetup we talk about why we use our particular distros including Mint, Manjaro and Solus, and hear from a WSL user who’s relatively new to Linux. Datadog This episode is sponsored by Datadog – the unified... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 11: Joe is joined by former colleague Drew DeVore to talk about his new job as a sysadmin, the ridiculous lengths he goes to in order to use Linux for everything, Fedora and Silverblue, Flatpak and Snaps, WSL, constantly trying out new software, by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 21: In this community meetup recording, we discuss the realities of using a FOSS-only phone. Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. by Linux Dev Time
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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. by Linux Dev Time
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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. by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 24: Joe is joined by Chris and Gary to discuss how we got into Linux around a decade ago, and what would be different for someone getting into it these days. CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets – training for IT professionals or anyo... by Linux Dev Time
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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 fo... by Linux Dev Time
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Late Night Linux Extra – Episode 37: Joe is joined by Chris from Linux After Dark and Fedora user Adam Dean to discuss using GNOME and why we shouldn’t bash it so often. Adam wrote a book called the Linux Administration Cookbook. CBT Nuggets This episode is sponsored by CBT Nuggets ... by Linux Dev Time
26 min listen

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Linux Downtime – Episode 73

Linux Downtime – Episode 73

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