
FLOSS Weekly
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.
Latest episodes

Feb 14, 2024 • 1h 14min
Episode 770: 10% More Internet
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with David Taht about the Internet. Primarily the IPv4 exhaustion issue, IPv6, and why there's 10%-20% of our current IPv4 addresses sitting unused. It turns out there's a plan to push about half of that address space back into general use, but Amazon might have something to say about it. You don't want to miss this story! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Feb 7, 2024 • 59min
Episode 769: OpenCost -- We Spent How Much?
This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with Matt Ray about OpenCost and all things cloud! What exactly is Cloud Native? Why do we need a project just for tracking expenses? Doesn't the cloud make everything cheaper? Is there a use case for the hobbyist? All this and more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 31, 2024 • 1h 15min
Episode 768: Open Source Radio
Tony Zeoli, founder of NetMix and creator of a radio station WordPress plugin, discusses internet radio, licensing issues, and the future of local radio stations. The podcast also explores the use of creative commons music in podcasts and the challenges faced by underfunded college radio stations.

Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 13min
Episode 767: Owntracks, Are We There Yet?
This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie talk with JP Mens about Owntracks, the collection of programs that lets you take back control of your own location data. It's built around the simple idea of taking position data from a mobile phone or other data source, sending it over MQTT to a central server, and logging that data to a simple data store. From there, you can share it as trips, mark points of interest, play back your movement in a web browser, and more. And because it's just JSON inside MQTT, it's pretty trivial to make a connector to interface with other projects, like Home Assistant. You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 17, 2024 • 1h 6min
Episode 766: WebRTC -- The Hack that Connects Everyone to Everything
Exploring the versatility of WebRTC technology, including integration with Tor, OBS, and security cameras. Discussing challenges of browser compatibility, COVID-19 impact, and applications like remote arcade control. Delving into the creation of WebRTC for the Curious book and its advantages. Exploring real-time video streaming enhancements with WebRTC in OBS. Navigating open source licenses and community engagement. Discussion on text editor, scripting language preference, and Lisp programming. Closure with future plans for the podcast show.

Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 2min
Episode 765: That Ship Sailed.. and Sank
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb talk with Randal Schwartz, the longest running host of FLOSS Weekly, Perl's biggest Cheerleader (well, second to Larry Wall) , and now Dart and Flutter expert. What's new with Randal since his last FLOSS Weekly episode in May 2020? Why should you look at Dart and Flutter? And how do you avoid becoming a security martyr? Learn this and more on this week's FLOSS Weekly! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week. Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 3, 2024 • 1h 1min
Episode 764: You Have to Be Pretty Cynical
Jonathan Bennett and Kathrine Drickman talk to benny Vasquez of AlmaLinux all about the crazy trip we've all been on with enterprise Linux, details about the GPL, and how we've gotten to where we are with AlmaLinux. Along the way, the trio chats about the balancing act every project needs for long-term success, how to encourage everyone in the community, and why you really do need more than just programmers. Catch all this and more at FLOSS Weekly! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, where the show records live each week. 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 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/