Al, Andrew, Dave and Kevie come together again to find their way through some FOSS pickings sprinkled with creative common tunes. They start as always with a round-up of recent releases found on distrowatch.com.

Dave and Al have taken a look at cluster of tools named after burrowing animals – Pangolin, Gerbil, Badger and Newt – which provides solutions for tunneling, reverse proxies and authentication. The collective noun for such things is, apparently, a fossorial 🙂

Going from the complex to the simple, at least for the end-user, Kevie and Andrew try out Deku SMS which describes itself as “proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications”.

Podcrawl Easter 2025 will be on Saturday 18 April 2025 from 5pm UTC (UK time). All our welcome with details of how to join being available here.

If you have a comment to make or a suggestion of what we might review in the future, please do contact us.

Creative commons tunes played in this episode includes:

Our FOSStering foursome – Kevie, Dave, Andrew and Al – forge forward into 2025 feeling funny. First off, as usual, they review recent OS releases on Distrowatch.

Then the “fun” begins with Kevie and Andrew’s review of FunOS. Is it fun? If so, who will have fun with it? To find out you’ll have to listen.

Next up is fun of a more literal kind with the Miyoo Mini Plus (pronounced Miyoo Mini Plus) which offers up retro gaming in an inexpensive compact handheld device. Al and Dave-the-non-gamer went through the hardship of reviewing it, although the latter has since become Dave-the-Dr-Mario-Maestro. The Reddit post that discusses the Miyoo Mini Plus images can be found here.

We were delighted to have received quite a bit of feedback to review. If you have a comment to make or a suggestion of what we might review in the future, please do contact us.

Podcrawl Late-Winter 2025 (or Late-Summer for antipodeans) will be on Saturday 8 February 2025 from 6pm UTC (UK time). All our welcome with details of how to join being available here.

Creative common and other tunes played with permission in this episode include:

Your FOSSy foursome of Al, Dave, Kevie and Andrew are gearing up for Christmas with an extra-special episode recorded over two sessions and then painstakingly edited together by Kevie.

As usual we kick things off with a round-up of recent OS releases on distrowatch. We then take a look at Bashcrawl created by the venerable klaatu, who was kind enough to do a short interview with Andrew about how and why he created it.

Kevie and Dave then take a look at a minimalist browser-based mastodon client that is ripe for self-hosting called Phanpy.

We end with our usual review of feedback received. And by a Christmas miracle (thanks Santa Kevie) this episode was edited together just in time for us to forewarn you of podcrawl on 21 Dec 18:00 UTC.

Create commons tracks played in this episode include:

It is time for our annual list of things we really want for Christmas things we want geeks throughout the world to receive for Christmas. Partners, friends and relatives of geeks take note! TuxJam will return to its usual format for a December Christmas show.

Stocking Fillers (below £10)

Low price (£10-£25)

Mid range (£25-£100)

High End (over £100)

WOW, you REALLY love them (£silly money)

Festive Creative Commons tracks played on this episode:

This episode may not be live as in TuxJam 115 from Oggcamp but your friendly foursome of Al, Dave (thelovebug), Kevie and Andrew (mcnalu) are very much alive to treats of Free and Open Source Software and Creative Commons tunes.

We start, as always, with our roundup of recent releases from the watch of the distros and then move on to try out two applications.

First up, Andrew and Kevie find out how much duplicated data is clogging up their hard drives using the command line tools fdupes.

Next, at the more visual and non-command-liney end of the software spectrum, Dave and Al try out Immich (say it out loud) which is a self-hosted video and photo management solution.

Following a round of feedback we close out the show. Our next edition which will be our annual Gifts for Geeks, so rein in your reindeer until then Santa! Please do contact us if you have any comments on what we’ve said or indeed any suggested geeky gift ideas.

Come and join us to celebrate the winter solstice at our online podcrawl on Saturday 21 December 2024 at 18:00 UTC.

Creative commons tunes played in this episode are:

With the group meeting up together for the first time in person, it was decided that a live recording would be an appropriate venture. With the quartet squashed around a table and a group of adoring fans crowded into a room at the Pendulum Hotel in Manchester, the discussion turns to TuxJam reviews that become regularly used applications, what we enjoyed about OggCamp 2024 and for the third section the gang put their reputation on the line and allow open questions from the sea of dedicated fans.

Despite this being a live recording, it wouldn’t be the same if TuxJam didn’t have the usual mix of Creative Commons tracks:

The FOSSy foursome of Al, Andrew, Dave and Kevie return for another bout of linuxy software spiced with creative common tunes.

We begin as always with a round-up of recent releases from distrowatch. Next we review Waydroid which allows you to efficiently run an Android environment if you happen to be running Wayland. Then we take a look at Pachli which is an Android client for Mastodon forked from the Tusky/Husky codebase.

We finish up with a round-up of feedback and offer up a couple of dates that you might want to pop into your diary:

Perhaps you would like some TuxJam merch? Thanks to the talents of our very own Kevie we now have designs in our Redbubble shop.

Al, Dave, Andrew and Kevie brave heat and cold and everything in between to bring you free bits and bytes and CC tunes. We start off with our usual roundup of recent releases on distrowatch.

We only have one item for review in this show: the Ultramarine distro based on Fedora. Dave and Al look at the version that runs on regular PCs whereas Kevie and Andrew try out the images provided for 64 bit Raspberry Pis.

We finish up with a brief round-up of feedback and how to contact us.

Music licensed under some kind of Creative Commons license played in this show are:

Don’t dial 112 but deign to digest our dalliance with Dillo and entertain our engagement with Entroware. Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug), Andrew and Al are back with another helping of free and open source software peppered with Creative Commons musical goodness.

As ever, we begin with a nose around recent releases on distrowatch.com with a few having a distinctly ARMy aroma.

Dave and Andrew then discuss there experiences with Proteus laptops from the UK company Entroware. Andrew’s laptop was purchased earlier this year and Daves’ a couple of years ago and so the chipset revisions and specs do differ:

Andrew’s 15″ Proteus £1648.96 including shipping and VAT

Daves’s 15″ Proteus

Al and Kevie then take a look at venerable no-frills, and somewhat retro Dillo web browser which has had a release after almost a decade of inactivity. Note that the official Dillo website is not dillo.org at present but dillo-browser.github.io for reasons explained here.

We finish with a review of the recent Podcrawl and a round-up of feedback since the last episode.

Creative commons tracks played in this episode include:#

Our quadriga of Al, Andrew, Dave and Kevie begin with their usual round-up of recent releases from distrowatch but then go off-piste from our usual format. There’s no distro review in this episode but we split into two teams to look at the Mealie self-hosted service and the unofficial Android client for it called Mealient. We finish up with a round-up of feedback received since the last episode.

Along with the usual mix of Creative Commons music: