We come up with our FOSS extremes. The funniest, the coolest, the cleverest, the most useful, the dullest, the most exciting, the most dangerous and problematic, the [something]est open source software.

Projects we mentioned:

alsamixer

Glow

Apache

nginx

HAProxy

Redis

VLC

Kodi

Nextcloud

Coreutils

Audacity

Asahi

Immich

antennapod

UniversalBlue

Kolide

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How do we decide which devices and which software we trust?

Kolide

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We look back at what we wanted to happen in the Linux and FOSS world in 2023, and talk about what we want to happen in 2024.

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The child’s toy that Chris hacked makes us remember the various other proprietary hardware and software that we’ve taken control of using free and open source software. Plus our mixed feelings about doing an accessibility challenge.

Lunii

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When the Raspberry Pi 5 was announced, we all said that most people would probably be better off repurposing an x86 thin client so we bought some dirt cheap new in box Dell Wyse 5070 machines to see if we were right. Spoiler: we were.

Dalton’s post about trying to break Synology RAID

Parky Towers

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Our memories of early positive experiences show us how communities have changed over the years, and the best ways to keep the experience positive these days.

Late Night Linux Family communities

Practical ZFS

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Half of us constantly change our hardware and software setups, and the other half like to keep things as constant as possible. Are we changing things to avoid personal technical debt, or are we just bored? Plus more on locking down phones.

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It’s the spinning rust challenge! We try installing and running our operating systems on mechanical hard drives and learn that Linux is much less painful than Windows on a spinning disk.

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The vast majority of desktop computer users in the world use a Windows-like interface, so why do all the major distros ship GNOME which is totally different? It can’t just be because of accessibility and inertia, can it? Plus more on government attacks on end to end encryption.

HelloFresh

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Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.

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