Podcast Season 4 Episode 13

Graham Morrison | September 1, 2016 | Podcasts | 5 Comments

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Title: Happy Birthday Linux!

In this episode: Kernel development, mailing list arguments over GPL and the SFC, PowerShell and lots of awesome Finds. Plus – Voice of the Masses!

What’s in the show:

  • News:
  • Finds of the Fortnight:
    • From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
      • <Ioangogo-pi> https://home-assistant.io an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3.
      • <Korruptor> Football scores from the command-line with https://github.com/architv/soccer-cli, also a gui for Twitch which I’ve been using: https://github.com/bastimeyer/livestreamer-twitch-gui
      • <mcphail> If your SSH session disconnects, you can be left with an unresponsive terminal which doesn’t respond to ctrl-C. You can close the session by pressing ‘[Enter]~’.
      • <saltee> I found Cacti recently (well a few months ago). Network graphing using RRDTool via lovely web based interface. Tons of plug-ins available for those that want to explore.
      • <silentboatman> There’s also Guacamole (https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org) – found this quite a while ago but have been test driving. It’s a “clientless remote desktop gateway” – remote desktops through html5. Works really well.
      • <Ioangogo> Configure Valve’s Steam Controllers with sc-controller.
    • Graham:
      • Google’s Translate app for Android will translate and replace text in realtime video.
    • Andrew:
      • Jeremy Corbyn’s new digital manifesto was announced at Newspeak House.
    • Ben:
    • Mike:
  • Vocalise your Neurons:
      If you want Mike to read out your neurons next time, email your thoughts to mike@linuxvoice.com.
  • Voice of the Masses:

Presenters: Ben Everard, Andrew Gregory, Graham Morrison and Mike Saunders.

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Duration: 58:37

Theme Music by Brad Sucks.

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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.

5 Comments
  1. pixelatedpete

    While I don’t approve of such things, but I suspect running PowerShell on Linux is fairly important to folks running SQLServer on Linux.

    Thanks for another excellent episode!

  2. Duncan Murray

    Another great episode – gave me several chuckles. Particular liked the Orwell for youngsters guide. I will write you a neuron Mike…

  3. Jeffrey Snover

    I enjoyed your podcast and thought I would fill you in on the backstory.

    We are making PowerShell available on Linux for lots of reasons including:
    1) It is a CLI framework for a lot of products that want to have Linux support (e.g. VMWare, SQL, Azure & others)
    2) It provides a uniform cross platform management infrastructure for management products like System Center and Operations Management Suite.
    3) It allows Windows Admins the ability to more easily manage their heterogeneous estate.
    4) For Linux users – it’s just another tool in the toolchest. The benefits of PowerShell are when you are dealing with structured data and APIs. Increasingly, more and more of the Linux world is being exposed as APIs (REST) returned structured data (JSON).

    Cheers!
    Jeffrey Snover
    MSFT Technical Fellow

  4. Jeffrey Snover

    I should have added that our new leader, Satya, told us to get out of our offices and talk to customers. He told us to not worry about the money – figure out what it takes to make our customers successful and give it to them. If we make customers successful, we have smart people that can figure out how to monetize that.

    When we did that, customers were super clear about wanting choice at every level but that bringing that world together into a coherent management system was very difficult. Thus our motivation.

    PowerShell is now emerging as the technology to manage the hybrid cloud.
    any CLIENT managing
    any SERVER running on
    any CLOUD or on prem using
    any HYPERVISOR and
    any STORAGE system

    The goal is to make it simple and easy for customers to consume as much computing as makes sense for their business. We believe that this level if far above current consumption and that we’ll benefit from people consuming more.

    If anyone wants to learn more. There is about 5 hours of free video training focused on introducing PowerShell to Linux/Mac users available here:

    https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/play-by-play-microsoft-open-source-powershell-linux-mac

    Cheers!
    Jeffrey Snover
    MSFT Technical Fellow

  5. Fatha Ted

    Just wanted to let Graham know he’s not the only KDE advocate out there. I’ve been using it happily for years. Been looking to upgrade my desktop & considered Cinnamon, but I feel more comfortable going for KDE 5.