Neal Gompa
Special guest
Software Engineer. Linux systems aficionado and developer in @Fedora, @Mageia_org, and @openSUSE. DevOps Engineer at @datto. Views are my own.
Neal Gompa has been a guest on 43 episodes.
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320: RHELhide
September 24th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
adder ws, centos 8, centos stream, encryption, jupiter broadcasting, laptops, lennart poettering, linux, linux laptops, linux podcast, luks, nvidia, obs, openbenchmark, pinebook, red hat, rhel, rust, starship, system76, systemd, systemd-homed, twitch, ubuntu touch, unplugged
CentOS goes rolling and announces version 8. Find out why we're excited to take a dip in this stream.
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319: Positive in the Freedom Dimension
September 17th, 2019 | 58 mins 51 secs
avree, balena, balenaos, bernhard landauer, clipgrab, csail, dm, free software foundation, fsf, gnome, gnu, interview, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux 5.3, linux podcast, manjaro, mit, nextcloud, nextcloud 17, powershell, powershell on linux, powershellonlinux.com, raspberry pi, raspberry pi 4, richard stallman, rms, unplugged
Richard Stallman has resigned as president and director of the Free Software Foundation, and that's just one of the major shifts this week.
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314: Bigger. Faster. Harder to Maintain.
August 13th, 2019 | 56 mins 20 secs
4k, adder, arch linux, centos, cki, continuous integration, coreboot, distro hoppers, fedora, jupiter broadcasting, kconfig, kde, laptop, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, livepatch, major hayden, open firmware, openqa, opensuse, patchwork, plasma, quicktile, red hat, system76, thunderbolt, ubuntu lts, wobbly windows, xfce
It's huge, and it's getting bigger every month. How do you test the Linux Kernel? Major Hayden from Red Hat joins us to discuss their efforts to automate Kernel bug hunting.
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312: What Modern Linux Looks Like
July 30th, 2019 | 57 mins 33 secs
containers, darling, docker, embedded devices, etcd, fedora coreos, freeoffice, iot, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, macos, manjaro, podman, raspberry pi 4, raspberry pi desktop kit, softmaker, thinkpad, thinktiny, ubucon, ubuntu core, wine
Manjaro takes significant steps to stand out, and the shared problem major distributions are trying to solve, and why it will shape the future of Linux.
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306: Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora
June 18th, 2019 | 59 mins 49 secs
atari vcs, chromium, command line bookmarks, containers, docker, fedora, fedora 30, fedora server, freebsd, freenas, grep, jupiter broadcasting, linus tech tips, linux podcast, linux unplugged, marker, nas, netflix, nfs, openzfs, picks, rga, ripgrep, sack panic, snap packages, storage, system76, tcp, thelio, windows, wsl2, zfs, zfs on linux
We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.
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301: Peak Red Hat
May 14th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins
clear linux, command line threat hunting, containers, github package registry, gyre, hybrid cloud, jupiter broadcasting, linux unplugged, openshift 4, python 3, red hat summit, rhel 8, ryzen thinkpad, texas linux fest, ulauncher, universal base image
We scale the Red Hat Summit and come back with a few stories to share.
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300: Ultimate Fedora Test
May 7th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins
18.04, bootloaderspec, buku, dell, dell precision 3540, fedora, fedora 30, flicker free boot, gnome 3.32, grub, homebrew smart watch, jupiter broadcasting, l4t, linux on the switch, linux unplugged, lxqt, mir, nintendo switch, pantheon, pcap, project sputnik, python classroom, red hat, red hat logo, rhel 8, shadowman, silverblue, smarch watch, sysctl explorer, systemd-boot, termshark, ubuntu, wayland, wayland conformance suite, wireshark, xfce
Is Fedora 30 the peak release of this distribution? We put it through the ultimate test, live on the air, and put everything on the line.
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294: Tainted Love
March 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 10 mins
alcosynth, ansible, asus firmware hack, backdoor, backtrack, cellular hacking, convergence, curl, curl 21st birthday, debconf, debian, desktop linux, firmware updates, install fests, jupiter broadcasting, kali linux, kernel modules, linux advocacy, linux hardware support, linux podcast, nano, nexdock 2, open source, proprietary firmware, ruby on rails, shadowhammer, sigintos, switching people to linux, synthehol, tainted kernel, text editors, unplugged, wifi
Why we sometimes go too far with our Linux advocacy, and a few humble strategies to switch people to Linux.
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289: The Meat Factor
February 19th, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins
cgroups, cgroups v2, clear linux, community, containers, darktable, debian, desktop linux, digikam, email, eta, fedora 31, firewalls, geary, intel, iptables, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux podcast, meatspace, meetups, mx linux, netdata, photography, pi musicbox, progress bar, scale, shorewall, snap packages, snapcraft, systemd, unplugged
Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed?
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288: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Repo
February 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins
apparmor, containers, copr, cryptominers, discover, dnf, docker, fedora, fedora 30, fedora schedule, gtk, journalism, jupiter broadcasting, kde, korkerds, linux journalism, linux podcast, lxc, opensuse, opensuse challenge, packagekit, pantheon, plasma 5.15, red hat, rolling release, runc, scale 17x, security, selinux, solvitaire, suse, tumbleweed, uberwriter, unplugged, user metrics, uuid, vala, vulnerability, wireguard, yast, zdnet, zypper
The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release.
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284: Free as in Get Out
January 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 2 mins
amazon, apple, apt search, cddl, celluloid, centos, chezmoi, chromeos, cloudkit, computer mouse, delphix, documentdb, dotfiles, ephemeral browser, fedora, foundationdb, foundationdb record layer, gnome, gpl, jupiter broadcasting, linux apps, linux on chromeos, linux podcast, mpv, neal gompa, ota 7, rhel, sql, stratis, ubports, ubuntu touch, unplugged, zfs, zol
ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.