Jupiter Extras: Recent Episodes

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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, 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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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 .

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (https://canonical.com/) working on Snapcraft (https://snapcraft.io/) & Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/), co-host of User Error (https://error.show) and Ubuntu Podcast (https://ubuntupodcast.org/). Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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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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Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/) 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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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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Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 (https://system76.com) 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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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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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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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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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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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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We're back from Texas Cyber Summit with stories of new friends, great food, and our experiences from the event.

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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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Brent sits down with Angela Fisher, Executive Producer at Linux Academy, Jupiter Broadcasting co-founder, co-host of many JB productions including The FauxShow (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/fauxshow/), and Tech Talk Today (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/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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Chris, Alex, and Wes talk about reverse proxies, internal routing, and some popular methods to make it all work.

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Brent sits down with Christophe Limpalair, VP of Growth at Linux Academy (https://linuxacademy.com/) and founder of Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/), 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 Episode Links Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/) Scaling PHP Apps by Steve Corona (https://www.scalingphpbook.com/) Mixergy - Learn from Proven Entrepreneurs (https://mixergy.com/) Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Group (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram) Seth's Blog - Quieting The Lizard Brain (https://seths.blog/2010/01/quieting-the-lizard-brain/) Seth Godin: Quieting The Lizard Brain - 99U (video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZfTpV4KPE) The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss (https://fourhourchef.com/) The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook by Tim Ferriss - BitTorrent Bundles (https://now.bt.co/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27903fcbdc2c530b5c4a044935c1ed7bbdf60e7b307db) Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus (https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/) The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune by James Mellon (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387891-the-judge) Crush It! / Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/books/) Crush It! Audiobook - by Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.audible.com/pd/Crush-It-Audiobook/B0032G7016) The Solopreneur Hour (https://solopreneurhour.com/podcast-archive/) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16121.Titan) The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4839382-the-first-tycoon) The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131.The_House_of_Morgan) The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification - Linux Academy (https://linuxacademy.com/blog/amazon-web-services-2/the-definitive-guide-to-achieve-aws-cloud-certification/) Tim Ferriss' Fear-Setting - The 4-Hour Workweek chapter excerpt & TED talk (https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/) Special Guest: Christophe Limpalair.

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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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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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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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Brent joins Wes Payne, well-known Jupiter Broadcasting co-host of Linux Unplugged (https://linuxunplugged.com), Coder Radio (https://coder.show), and TechSNAP (https://techsnap.systems), 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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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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Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux (https://chooselinux.show/). We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.

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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 (https://error.show/73). There is some bad language.

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Brent joins Alex and Chris to discuss the origins of Jupiter Broadcasting's new selfhosted.show (https://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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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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A revealing conversation with Jupiter Broadcasting's designer Mr. Chz Bacon. We discuss his Linux roots, design philosophies, community involvement, and a lot more.

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

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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.