Nixers Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The nixers community podcast tries to tackle subjects that rotate around the world of unix in a novel way, linking ideas into an interesting discussion, seeing the big picture.
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What are software distributions? You may think you know everything there is to know about the term software distribution, but take a moment to think about it, take a step back and try to see the big picture.
We take for granted scripting, automation, glue code, software as tools, so let's visit their history and learn more about them.
Let's play futurists. What do you think will happen in some years? Long and short term predictions.
Unix is known for its set of small command line utilities. What are your ideas and features for the best CLI programs. What makes a complete.
What would you say or give as advice to newly unix users. What is there first to dabble with.
Files, the predominant representation of everything on Unix, how are they scattered around?
Browsers, your windows to the world wide web. What do you use, customize, problems you've stumbled upon, the ties with your Unix system.
What introduced you to Unix and how these reasons shaped up with time (aka why are we here now)
There are many Unix-like operating systems and each use their own executable formats. What is there to know about them. We'll talk about the format specificities, the OS, linking, and the architectures.
Feedback, ideas, contributions, and discussion on the nixers community projects for the month of June.
Unix is known for its set of small command line utilities. What are your ideas and features for the best CLI programs. What makes a complete utility.
Minimalism, we've all heard of the philosophy. Some adhere to it, some don't. How did it affect your life as a Unix user, what's your relation with minimalism? Share your stories.
You've certainly tried plenty of configurations to reach the one you currently have. Why and how did you come up to this? What's your philosophy behind it?
You've certainly tried plenty of configurations to reach the one you currently have. Why and how did you come up to this? What's your philosophy behind it?
There are many Unix distributions available and it's fun to switch from one to another. What are the must knows when going back and forth between them, what are the frustrations, what tips would you give.