Linux Inlaws

In this infomercial on Microsoft, our hosts discuss the infamous Halloween documents ('tis the season after all), a set of ancient scrolls dating back more than twenty years and giving an overview of the behemoth's then strategy on open source and how to possibly combat it. But fear not, ye of little faith :-), all is well now as the episode shows also the long way Microsoft has come since then an...

In this episode, Martin and Chris host an eclectic panel of contributors to the *other* major FLOSS operating system family - you guessed it: the flavours of the Berkeley Software Distribution (aka BSD among friends). Disclaimer: you may be tempted to diverge from the Path of the Righteousness also known as Linux and give this alternative a spin. So this episode is *not* for the faint-hearted - li...

In this episode, our two hosts host Rhys Davies, a developer advocate from Canonical. So all beans will be spilled on one of the most popular Linux distros out there. Like its past, present and future. Never mind how Canonical makes its moolah and where this goes... Plus an interesting infomercial on old big iron (IBM, if you're listening: the mail address is sponsor@linuxinlaws.eu). Links: Canoni...

This episode is dedicated to tiny kernels driving operating systems also known as micro-kernels. While discussing the last 100 years of operating system design and implementation, our two aging heroes also shed some light on operating systems in general and their recent history (like fifty years). Unless you're a true OS nerd, you find the episode mildly refreshing and educational on the layers of...

In this episode of our beloved open source podcast rapidly approaching its zenith of popularity (with hopefully not an equally rapid decline afterwards) our two elderly heroes pay tribute to Hacker Public Radio in general and Ken Fallon in particular. Plus: a never-heard-of-before peek into Martin's very own private life (we lift the veil and reveal it all - don't miss this!) Links: Hacker Public...

In this episode Chris is trying hard to get Martin to sleep by elaborating on the subject of free and open source software licenses but fails miserably. Listen to a more than riveting episode on the ins and outs of licensing FLOSS code bases in addition to banter about Brexit, plans for a reshaping of Europe after the invasion of England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland leave the UK. Links...

In this episode our aging heroes host the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). Its president, Matthias Kirschner talk about the past, the present and the future of free and open source software not only from an FSFE perspective. Never mind how he got into computers in the first place. Also, different opinions about communism in general and its implementations (and the flaws of the first rounds...

In this fourth part of our three-part miniseries on Deep and Machine Learning our two heroes shed some light on a DL architecture called Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT), a pretty sophistic piece of software that fools most humans when it comes to authoring text (ideal for budding writers with a block in place). Other topics of discussion includes OpenAI (the company behind this framework)...

In this episode - aptly named "The return of the Rust" our two heroes host a very special guest: no other than Steve Klabnik of Rust fame himself. Needless to say, this hipster programming language which is on everbody's mind at the moment (apart maybe from a few lost souls still crying over spilled coffee) plays a very important role in this show in addition to the newly founded Rust Foundation h...

In part three of the 27.64 episodes long mini-series on artificial intelligences, machine and deep learning and other hipster topics around machines trying to imitate humans (marketing made us do these :-), our two heroes discuss domain-specific frameworks on top of (more generic) infrastructure like TensorFlow or PyTorch. As usual, all will be revealed and no details be spared (apart from a very...

In this episode the inlaws host Paul Ramsey of OpenGeo fame. Apart from his PostgreSQL contributions, Paul is probably best known for GIS work and geo DB contributions in general (in addition to off-the-beaten track stuff like URL of his website among other things). Don't miss this for nuggets on geo databases and beyond! Links: Paul Ramsey: https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/ PostgreSQL: https://www....

After successfully navigating through the shallow (or not-so-shallow) depths of the first episode on deep learning fundamentals, our two heroes tackle a more concrete topic in this episode: How to use the damn stuff! No expenses will be spared to bring to the listeners the finer details of tensors, TensorFlow and other frameworks which serve as the basis for modern artificial intelligence / machin...

In this episode, our two ageing heroes host an eclectic panel of kernel contributors of a small, mostly unknown operating system called "Linux". The panelists hail from all over the planet (sadly, no money or love would buy Richard's or Linus' way onto that panel :-) but the discussion proves more than interesting regardless of these uber-nerds being absent. All will be revealed including the true...

In this episode, our two heroes explore the realm of artificial intelligence, paying special attention to deep learning (hoping that some of the stuff may rub on them :-). In this first part of a three-part mini-series the chaps discuss the foundation including networks, neurons and other topics of advanced black magic, carefully avoiding the temptations of introducing too much maths (we'll leave...

In this episode, our two heroes explore the realm of the great uncertainties also known as probabilistic data structures. For this adventures they managed to retain one of the experts in this field from the open source realm. Check out the episode to get in on this secret and its details! Links: Probabilistic data structures (PDS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Probabilistic_data_structur...

In this episode our two aging heroes discuss the proper temperature to drink beer at (spoiler: it's not 20 degrees as CAMRA would make you believe) and the ins and outs of basic and enhanced security on our beloved operating system. If you ever wanted to know more about Linux Security Modules, AppArmor and SELinux and how dames of negotiable affections relate to these concepts, this show is for yo...

This time our two heroes host an eclectic couple known as the grumpy old coders. Thomas, David, Martin and Chris discuss stealing, um, borrowing (and never giving back) of mottos and mascotts, programming languages including Java, Python and Rust woes and how they all arrived at podcasting. Never mind Chris revealing his true and only heritage and other little-known secrets. Don't miss out on this...

Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl Fortran: https://fortran-lang.org COBOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL ALGOL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL GNU Fortran: https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ IBM System/36: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36 IBM Z: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/hardware Niklaus Wirth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth Pascal...

Free software (not just Richard's idea): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html How Nvidia became Skynet: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3069 Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com Claudio and crew: https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3099 Not going out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Going_Out An American Pickle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9059704/?ref_=fn_...

Linux Professional Institute: https://www.lpi.org Kali Linux: https://www.kali.org Anti-pox of the week (Java is broken): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2210720/how-to-analyse-a-noclassdeffounderror-caused-by-an-ignored-exceptionininitialize Book of Monsters: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7260818 Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522 The serpent (BBC series): https://e...

Rust for the Linux kernel: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux Linus opinion on C++ in the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20 gdb: https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb lldb: https://lldb.llvm.org Novell's Netware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare strace: https://strace.io ltrace: https://www.ltrace.org DTrace: https://dtrace.org/blogs/about ptrace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

LinuxOne: https://developer.ibm.com/components/ibm-linuxone/gettingstarted IBM quantum computing: https://www.ibm.com/quantum-computing redis on LinuxOne(in German): https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/en/programm/beitrag/206 Ask IBM: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2015/01/13/hello-watson-ask-anything Jeff Bezo's real name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos Jeff Bezo's divorce:...

In this episode our two heroes interview Itamar Haber, community liaison for Redis, a popular open-source in-memory NoSQL database. Technology prevails in this episode; communism, free love and drugs take a backseat (but only for the moment! :-). The trio discuss the legacy of redis, bemoan their old age and reveal why Itamar initially wanted to be a mermaid. Listen to the episode for more shockin...

In this episode, Chris is harassed by quite a few artificial nuisance callers, among drug lords, Irish nurses and some random Linux Inlaws Chief Financial Officer. Based on these examples, our two heroes discuss the history and current state of text-to- speech (TTS) and voice recognition. We attempted to use voice recognition software in order to produce a transcript of the show . Shownotes: Waven...

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