What do we wish had happened in the Linux and open source world? Successful mobile Linux, convergence, Snaps winning, and Amigas still being around.

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Two years after we talked about the lowest-end hardware we’d be willing to daily drive, the Web has bogged machines down to the point where our thresholds have gone up significantly. We channel our inner Linux Luddites, but don’t really come up with any solutions.

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We look at postmarketOS on various devices old and new, Arm and x86, and are impressed.

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A dreadful backup box mistake was made but then rectified, whether to take on the technical debt of an older Ubuntu LTS, and why there are more important battles to fight than advocating for FOSS.

2.5 Admins episode where Joe talks about his ZFS setup

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It’s the alternative open source OS challenge! May got OpenIndiana, Joe got ReactOS, Gary got GhostBSD, and Chris got Haiku.

Haiku Package Management

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The search for the ideal cheap and small off-site backup machine, and our advice on learning the ins and outs of desktop Linux.

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When a certain task has both options, what do we only do with the command line and what do we only do with a GUI? Plus May’s Linux win that wasn’t quite enough to avoid going back to the Windows desktop.

Boomstick

Vesktop

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We share the stories of our various tech wins and fails over the holiday period including updating Ubuntu, getting mad at Docker, trying to recover Microsoft passwords, building a PC over a video call, wireless access points that mostly just work, and more.

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We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2024, and talk about what we want to happen in 2025.

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Gary observes that non-FOSS people don’t understand or care about licences. Chris admits that he too is somewhat clueless in this area so we try to explain the basics, and then get to the bottom of why “normal” people aren’t interested.

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