We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.

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The most significant advances we’ve seen over the years in public and private cloud including mesh networking, serverless, microservices, event-driven architecture and design, message queuing, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.

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The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.

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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD

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FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts

US senators propose mandated MFA, encryption in healthcare

QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes

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The most surprising thing about ourselves, alternative computing form factors that we’d like, and whether we can be truly free. With popey from Linux Matters, Will and Graham from Late Night Linux, Andy and Amolith from Linux Dev Time, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

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Whether you dual boot and why in Voice of the Masses, some of your feedback, Graham plays with an open source synth, and Danielle Foré tells us about the recent release of elementary OS 8.

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Our FOSS frustrations, and our satisfying open source wins.

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Intel’s CEO departs but replacing him won’t magically solve its serious problems, Zipcar wasn’t prepared for an outage and handled it really badly, moving to an email provider that supports DMARC, and picking a NAS distribution.

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ZFS Ask Me Anything – December 12th

Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC

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Intel CEO takes his leave as ambition meets reality

What happened to Intel?

Zipcar Outage Strands Customers in Random Places

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We are characteristically cynical about GitHub’s token effort to improve FOSS security, more positive about FreeCAD 1.0 and elementary OS 8, somewhat ambivalent about the new OpenWrt router, understanding about Linux sanctioning the Bcachefs dev, and surprised that Félim is slowly starting to warm up to the idea of atomic distros (because KDE, obvs).

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FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released

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Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama

Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

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More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard.

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