Distrohoppers serves up something very different in the form of desktop BSD, and we reveal how important freedom is to us all.

Links:

• GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
• Share wireless Internet connection through ethernet

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.

Plus some community news that's getting missed, picks, and more.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais.

Links:

• PinePhone started shipping January 17th

Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire.

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

Links:

• Jim Salter - Ars Technica
• TechSNAP — Systems, Network, and Administration Podcast
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia — "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
• Martin Luther King, Jr. on Justice and the Four Steps to Successful Nonviolent Resistance - Brain Pickings
• Social gadfly - Wikipedia — "to sting people and whip them into a fury, all in the service of truth."
• Stoicism - Wikipedia
• 'No Man is an Island' by John Donne
• Nebula - GitHub — A scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
• Ars Technica - Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently, by Jim Salter
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - YouTube — "Be Excellent To Eachother"
• Jim's JRS-S.net - JRS Systems: the blog — technomancy made simple
• Jim Salter - @jrssnet on Twitter
• Brent Gervais - @brentgervais on Twitter

Nextcloud's new release is so big it gets a rebrand, why Mozilla had a round of lay-offs, and the real possibility of Steam coming to Chrome OS.

Plus, the sad loss of a community member, and more.

Links:

• Peppermint project lead Mark Greaves has passed away. — His contributions to both Peppermint and to the desktop Linux world as a whole are incalculable and he will be sorely missed.
• Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue — Mozilla has a strong line of sight to future revenue generation, but we are taking a more conservative approach to our finances.
• Readying for the Future at Mozilla
• DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
• Nextcloud Hub Announced — New generation of leading content collaboration platform integrates office document editing and collaboration apps, introduces workflows, rich work spaces, file locking and more
• Nextcloud 18 Changelog
• Huawei pitches its alternative to Google Play Store — Huawei Mobile Services wants to make a big splash in Europe, with thousands of apps already signed up
• Huawei Quick Apps is Huawei's alternative to Google Instant Apps
• Exclusive: Google is working to bring official Steam support to Chrome OS — The Chrome team is working—very possibly in cooperation with Valve—to bring Steam to Chromebooks.

Ell and Wes are joined by Infrastructure Engineer Seth McCombs for a chat about how he got started in tech, the hard transition from legacy data centers to the cloud, and why being honest about both success and failure can lead to a better open source community.

Special Guest: Seth McCombs.

Links:

• Fine-Grained Permissions in K8s: What’s Missing, and How to Fix That - Vallery Lancey & Seth McCombs — In this talk, we will walk through a number of common scenarios where Kubernetes lacks sufficient access control tools, or where access control is often not properly applied.
• Kubernetes Blog Posts by Seth - Tigera
• Seth on Twitter
• Secure DevOps Platform for Cloud-Native | Sysdig
• Minimalist Techie (Seth's Blog)

Context switching, improving Linux conferences, a positive approach to life, what makes us cringe, and more.

#ErrorAsk: What's the dumbest idea for an app that you can come up with?

00:03:24 Have you ever met your own doppelganger?

Links:

• The Art of Slide Design - Melinda Seckington