FLOSS Weekly
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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.
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Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 2min
Episode 763: Fedora Fixes Everything
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch interview Neal Gompa of Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE and more. This part 2 of the conversation is actually about Fedora and KDE, as well as covering Pipewire, Wayland, and the future of the Linux Desktop. Does Wayland really ruin everything? Is Pipewire replacing Jack? All this and more on this week's episode. Did you know you can watch the show live on the Hackaday Discord? Want more? See the rest of the show notes! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Dec 20, 2023 • 1h 9min
Episode 762: Spilling the Tea
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Simon Phipps interview Neal Gompa of Fedora, CentOS, openSUSE and more. The conversation ranges from Open Source as a labor of love, to what happened at Red Hat, and why maybe it was a good thing. Is the age of a company as an indicator as to how they treat Open Source? Is CentOS Stream the best thing to happen to Red Hat Enterprise Linux? What was it like to be at Red Hat during that time? How does a company manage the tension between sales and engineering? We cover this and more! Want more? See the rest of the show notes! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
