Brent Gervais
Special guest
Photography in Sudbury, ON. -- Commercial, Editorial & Documentary Photography -- local food, sustainability, technology, photography on Linux + more!
Brent Gervais has been a guest on 90 episodes.
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Episode 274: Open Source by Default
November 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 13 mins
android, apple, automation, automation system, fedora, foss, fuse, huginn, hybrid cloud, kde connect, linux academy, linux podcast, open source, open source revolution, procdump, secure boot, show automation, sysinternals, sysinternals for linux, t2, unplugged
Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?
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Episode 271: Juno Jubilation
October 16th, 2018 | 1 hr 42 mins
chrome os, dalton durst, dxvk, elementary os, flatkill, flatpak, gnome, gpd pocket 2, gtk3 themes, juno, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, ota5, palm, photopea, plasma, ubports, vulkan
elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet.
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Episode 269: Alternate Desktop Universe
October 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
beos, fedora, fedora 29, firmware, flicker free boot, game streaming, haiku, halloween documents, kimchi, kvm, laptop stress test, linux gaming, linux podcast, lvfs, microsoft, project stream, s-tui, t480, thelio, thermal throttling, thinkpad, unplugged, virtual machine manager, virtual machines
What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.
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Episode 268: Elementary, My Dear Plasma
September 25th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
appcenter, cookies, dell precision 5530, elementary os, feedback, google, google chrome, kde plasma, linux audio, linux podcast, open source funding, pipewire, playonlinux, tidelift, traefik, unplugged, usability, wlinux, wsl, zfs
We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others.
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Episode 267: People Patches
September 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 19 mins
code of conduct, code of conflict, distributed web gateway, ipfs, jack, kxstudio, lenovo, linus, linus apologises, linux, linux podcast, t480, talk show, thinkpad, thinkpad throttling bug, unplugged
Linus takes a break and the Linux kernel adopts a new Code of Conduct. We work through these major watershed moments, and discuss what it means for the community.
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Episode 266: From Jupiter to Beyond
September 11th, 2018 | 54 mins 45 secs
libre application summit, linux academy, linux podcast, nextcloud, solus
We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge!
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Episode 264: Proton, Electron for Games!
August 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
codeweavers, fedora, gaming on linux, intel microcode, kde itinerary, libre application summit, linux podcast, lvfs, plasma, proton, realtek, steam, ubuntu touch, vulkan, wine
Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating.
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Episode 263: Updates from the Source
August 21st, 2018 | 47 mins 49 secs
akademy, docker, firmware, flathub, flatpak, fosscon, intel, kde, licensing, linux podcast, man pages, oggcamp, plasma, pulseeffects, sandboxing, snapcraft, um
Docker controversy is brewing, but it's probably not what you think. We get around of community updates directly from the source, and why Debian an Intel are playing the game of he said, she said.
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Episode 260: Thinkpad as a Service
July 31st, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
barton, chromebooks, dell, full time, george, kde neon, kirta, linux podcast, microsoft store, odio, s-tui, sputnik, stress test, windows as a service, xps 13
We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost.
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Episode 247: Year of the Linux Desktop 😎
May 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 33 mins
bpf, darktable tips, fedora 28, fedora atomic workstation, first impressions, gnome 3.28, iptables vs bpf, kubuntu, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lts, plasma, review, ubuntu 18.04, vortex linux maintainer
Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever.