GNU World Order Linux Cast

A bonus episode to get you through the holiday: solo gaming and a neat adventure game engine called Twine, plus a review of 10 randomly-chosen lightweight distributions. shasum -a256=f016b8cd7b23b4dc4e12e00af0ba2d49ba987221cf73a81c552e6001ceb4a967

A review of 2018 and open source, including the Purism laptop, Eelo, Proton, Krita, GIMP 2.10, Appimages and Flatpak, and lots lots more. shasum -a256=c8cede97f96d6f6b107817e9f596ac3498a1813b489310949aa5da9949d4166e

Believe it or not, there's more discussion about ZFS in this episode. (Klaatu has, oddly, completely forgotten that he's actually running ZFS on OpenIndiana, and has been for months; more on this next month). Also, switching from Thunderbird to KMail. shasum -a256=ee11d49fe7ee00e81544587cea355f29d76fb1b18109f5d136c0fccbbec14508

More listener email about ZFS. Noise music. More about workflows, and how to find the right application for your task. shasum -a256=e5224b50fed846470873306fff9a04d03e744079c4ea564f5dfc3dcbb5f144ea

Linux has lots of creative apps, but how do they all fit together? That's obviously a big question with lots of different answers, but in this episode, Klaatu provides a real world example of the different applications involved in publishing a tabletop card game. shasum -a256=6205958e2866f3808a9552f8ed2057670a66f7e757c04ceac5a3f93f4fb35d05

Listener feedback about otters and ZFS, and Klaatu tries Steam Play and the Proton (WINE) layer. shasum -a256=c7effb4e2b27083c631c1444f3a9e0834643e9902e4299be9a8ef11e729f5128

SMART monitoring tools: smartctl and smartd. Also, why Klaatu has left JFS for good and is adopting that fancy new file system, EXT4. shasum -a256=6012f84b652aa2129b707809d605df6b309fbbda4ee5d2b4a5666c1bcbc5466b

A history lesson from some great listener feedback, social speculation, and a review of slocate. shasum -a256=543a45b89117c1554d7da56a15444b9e1710cc9f8bbe10e3dbc338976c4fabfa

IBM acquires Red Hat. Listener feedback, including Git stash, Lutris, and a recommendation for gamejolt.com shasum -a256=192f80432757f18f27e5b80e0d9ca241e8c37519c8344bd5e614e364038cd310

Coffee with lunch, and how to _correctly_ set the default entry in GRUB 2. shasum -a256=0c07346457ea7bb91f37b68fe75e3fa0fca9f35bbfac1527abe27fd30147aa86

Listener feedback, and learning new things. Also, musings about sweet tea, because technically Klaatu is in the American South, at the All Things Open conference, right now. shasum -a256=60ecb61c74f7dddf568545f447b8f309c05f36c5d0df748bb76192a41b3e8ffc

Some tips about gamepads on Linux, plus an overview of Antimicro. Also, Microsoft joins the Open Invention Network and brings its 60,000 patents along with it. Could this mean fancy things like native NTFS and exFAT support? the end of patent trolling? Klaatu speculates. shasum -a256=36fe3e39efcab41bf86953e06ea9a4a936ec549e5c58fc84da1d6e1ae6d56b1f

A quick episode about broadwayd, which is not a musical venue, but a cool display server that runs GTK3 apps in a web browser. shasum -a256=125a52706aa5ce52d247725fb39c11421e1180178a047f3bd968b076be0ee3b9

Listener email, and some pretty neato POSIX tips. shasum -a256=8100a3fa3f149d9c8e855df247e66f68bbdd956c68aef953f36a8aaead216c71

Itch.io, the other other place for gaming on Linux. shasum -a256=c61dcf13226cf2f75ca1ea470eb3f139efedb7ee3999032e9ed5a86b0c7ce536

A review of Lutris, the open gaming platform. Also, thoughts about learning new technology, based on Klaaut's experience with Fossil, compared to Git. shasum -a256=e63b5fb10b37083253f397cfa62158ce57fd8c4ecb015f4dff3c2eb59946fb53

Klaatu reviews Jeff Bigler's blog post from 22 years ago about the communication gap between nerds and "normal" people. shasum -a256=50df55271815c52f6a54e5775fa8b0099f8efc1b991dfc15f2b3693f768d6043

A sed tip, a killall comment, Steam rumours confirmed, and the woeful 90-10 problem. shasum -a256=377f7500d183b85bd0724cd2b31f7005da142aa00e89dae15b16e3f9032ba179

Fedberry, the latest Fedora remix for the Pi 2 and 3. Also, rumours about Steam OS shipping with a compatibility layer so you can play Windows games on Steam OS. The rumour mill spins faster than this show's release schedule, and apparently Valve has confirmed that it is going to ship a boosted version of WINE in SteamOS. shasum -a256=ede624e29ae249aba38d207bb71c6167765e6b35dc9ffdee54739459d9a4326...

Quota, rpm2tgz, sdparm, sed, shadow, and shar. shasum -a256=6212ce1c4fe784ce1711cc8b98083018c6b2cec289b1bc7a336c68753717750c

A quick Git tip for tagging releases in an automated way, and some responses to listener feedback. shasum -a256=3f75f909fccd53f2932fd4ef72ba86b78e701a0945c5879ecb1773bed879e928

Listener feedback, Slackware donations, and musings about how the modern Internet is financed. shasum -a256=c834de0372634eebd8b1e085118437df2fc7af018d6733e865ce25a372aa3592

The art and science of software evaluation. shasum -a256=25e59a59c383b6035ab6080cb4b03a3f69bed0e310c6a1cb06cf0a84a8ebcc38

Can you find the PID of a process, then learn what command launched it, and then kill or modify it? Listen to this episode, all about procps-ng, and you will! shasum -a256=f7c8133c830d54e1cef352c5ae3c10ea35dc0f96282f6d18fe4f591cc3afbd6f

Bonus episode! 25 reasons to try Slackware on its 25th anniversary. shasum -a256=8e53bdd8c8ef2fe0922d902cef9eba3821a0dd28016485544da3368dc30fbac7