Podcast Season 2 Episode 22
Podcast RSS feeds: Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and Opus.
Title: Live from Berlin
In this episode: We’re joined by Lennart Poettering to discuss the Devuan Debian fork, the latest version of Firefox and the launch of Rocket. Plus, we’ve got some Finds and the Voice of the Masses, where we ask whether the Devuan fork a good thing.
What’s in the show:
- News:
-
Debian has forked with the creation of the systemd-less Devuan project. Firefox 34 has been released and includes ‘Firefox Hello‘, its own WebRTC communication client. The Purism Librem is a new crowdfunded Linux laptop with an emphasis on freedom. HP has launched an EliteBook with SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 and FreeDOS as operating system options. And the Docker container community has launched a rival project called Rocket.
-
- Finds of the Fortnight:
- Graham:
- Mark Shuttleworth is helping to restore botanical gardens on the Isle of Man, where he now lives.
- Mike:
- There are some weird and wonderful programming languages, including White Space and Malbolge.
- Lennart:
- Ben:
- You can use an Android phone as a USB wifi modem.
- Make sure you test everything before giving up and HDMI to analogue converters can work.
- Graham:
- Vocalise Your Neurons:
- Voice of the Masses: Is the Devuan fork a good thing?
-
Sorry for the lack of neurons this episode. If you’d like your neurons spoken in our last podcast of 2014, email mike@linuxvoice.com. Thanks!
Presenters: Ben Everard, Graham Morrison, Lennart Poettering and Mike Saunders.
Download as high-quality Ogg Vorbis (35MB)
Download as low-quality MP3 (48MB)
Download the smaller yet even more awesome Opus file (14MB)
Duration: 40:41
Theme Music by Brad Sucks. And a huge thanks to Lennart Poettering.
Related Posts
About The Author
Graham Morrison
A free software advocate and writer since the late 1990s, Graham is a lapsed KDE contributor and author of the Meeq MIDI step sequencer. @degville on Twitter.
Just listened to the podcast – really enjoyed it.
It was good to hear from Lennart Poettering – as well as having some interesting things to say he seemed to be a thoroughly nice guy too.
Thanks
Lennart is a nice bloke indeed. He took us to an awesome Indochinese restaurant, helped us to find the East Side Gallery, and was a good sport for being in our podcast. Yes, he’s a big believer in systemd, but he’s willing to hear technical criticisms — more on that in our forthcoming interview with the man 🙂
Hey, thanks for quoting me:-)
There was a short episode about your podcast over in #devuan. Nothing noteworthy to report about that though.
Mmmmm…hops. I love hoppy beers. Especially the skunky ones. I’m not kidding, The smellier it is the better it tastes to me. Apparently hops react with light, which is why skunky beers typically are in clear or green bottles. e.g. Corona, Heineken.
When I upgraded to Firefox 34 via Ubuntu repository, it did not have Hello in it, but I read that it is being rolled out gradually, which is a bit annoying as I would like to use it but have to wait.
Same for me on Debian and Fedora. I have been looking but can’t find it. :/
The hello thing is a bit hidden as of yet, probably cause Firefox don’t want to get blasted for a beta.
In about:config find the ‘loop.throttled” setting and change it to false.
You’ll then find the icon in the customise option.