Jupiter Extras

Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge: Our Reaction

October 5th, 2021  |  24 mins 1 sec

clip, contest, debian, fedora, gaming, gentoo, linus tech tips, linux switch, luke, pop, wan show

Our virtual LUG of experts had a lot to say about the Linus Tech Tips Switch to Linux challenge. We recap what is going on, how it could go wrong, and what we hope happens.

Brunch with Brent: Carl Richell

July 24th, 2020  |  42 mins

be bold, brunch with brent, carl richell, community, emma marshall, extras, hardware, interview podcast, jeremy soller, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux, linuxfest northwest, open firmware, open source, pop!_os, spacex, system76

Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more.

Carl's Community Ask: Be Bold.

Brunch with Brent: Philip Müller

June 19th, 2020  |  39 mins 32 secs

arch, brunch with brent, calamares, chakra, community, developer, extras, flatpak, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kdemod, linux, linux unplugged, manjaro, open source, philip muller, philip müller, pi-hole, pine64, pinebook, pinephone, popey, privacy, snap, snapcraft, tuxedo, ubuntu, wimpy, xfce

Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years.

Brunch with Brent: Kyle Rankin

May 22nd, 2020  |  49 mins 3 secs

art of manliness, brogrammer, brunch with brent, community, core boot, extras, foss, four essential freedoms, free software, freenode, heads, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kyle rankin, librem 15, librem 5, librem key, linux, linux journal, open source, privacy, pureos, purism, safety razor, security, social purpose corporation, surveillance capitalism, wayback machine

Brent sits down with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism and former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. We explore his 10+ years with Linux Journal, as well as Purism's culture, ideals, product design and engineering philosophies, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna

April 21st, 2020  |  34 mins 38 secs

apps community, brunch with brent, chaoss, community, extras, flatpak, gnome, interview podcast, itrenew, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kubernetes, linux, linux app summit, open compute project, open source, snap, sri, sri ramkrishna

Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more.

The Resilience of the Voyagers

April 12th, 2020  |  24 mins 50 secs

aliens, astronomy, astrophysics, carl sagan, coronal mass ejection, discovery, engineering, extraterrestrial, galaxy, generational project teams, golden records, happy science, heather, heliosheath, heliosphere, interstellar space, jupiter, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, nasa, neptune, pale blue dot, planetary grand tour, research, saturn, scibyte, science, solar system, space, space exploration, technology, universal constants, universe, uranus, voyager, voyager 1, voyager 2

Heather, of SciByte fame, joins Chris and Wes to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and amazing resiliency of the Voyager probes.

Pagure a GitLab Alternative: Neal Gompa

April 7th, 2020  |  14 mins 6 secs

fedora, free software, fsf, git, git-centered forge, gitlab, pagure, pygit2, source control, version control

Pagure, the free software GitLab alternative no one is talking about.

Brunch with Brent: Daniel Foré

April 3rd, 2020  |  53 mins 8 secs

app centre, brunch with brent, community, daniel foré, design, desire paths, diversity, elementary os, extras, flatpak, gentoo, gnome, guadec, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, korora, lfnw, linux, linuxfest northwest, open source, software development, ubuntu, user error

Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more.

User Error: What Will Change Post-virus?

March 31st, 2020  |  14 mins 2 secs

a cloud guru, broadband, coronavirus, covid-19, downsize, dsl, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, office, part time, user error, wfh, work from home

Joe, Alan, and Dan speculate about what the world will be like after the situation with Coronavirus is under control and life returns to something resembling normality.

Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol

March 27th, 2020  |  44 mins 11 secs

akademy, aleix pol, barcelona free software, blue systems, brunch with brent, bug tracking, community, developer, extras, gnome, guadec, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde e.v., linux, linux app summit, open source, software development

Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge

March 20th, 2020  |  57 mins 51 secs

8-bit, alexa, amazon, bad voltage, bash, brunch with brent, canonical, chrislas cast, community, crab bucket, echo, email, extras, final mile, gmail, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linux, mycroft, neal stephenson, open source, patrick rothfuss, search engine, snow crash, stuart langridge, superhuman, terminal, terry pratchett, text, unseen academicals, ux, voice assistant

Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.

Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged

March 17th, 2020  |  28 mins 58 secs

behind the scenes, history, jupiter broadcasting, linux action show, linux podcast, linux unplugged, look back, lup, nebula, news, podcasting, tinc, vpn

We share what goes into making LINUX Unplugged special, and have a laugh at some of our bad ideas from show past.

Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph

March 13th, 2020  |  43 mins 16 secs

big endian, brunch with brent, code review, community, container, debian, devops, elizabeth k. joseph, endianness, extras, ibm, ibmz, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kubernetes, linux, linux foundation, linux.conf.au, linuxone, little endian, mainframe, open source, openstack, princess leia, reboot, red hat, rhel, sysadmin, system administrator, ubports, ubuntu, ubuntu touch, xubuntu, z devops, z/os

Brent sits down with Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM Z, former Ubuntu Community Council member, and contributor to Ubuntu, Debian, Xubuntu, and others. We discuss her new passion for mainframes, her early contributions to open source projects, the niche opportunities in Z DevOps on mainframes, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Nuritzi Sanchez

March 6th, 2020  |  48 mins 3 secs

brunch with brent, collaboration, community, cultural sensitivity, desktop, diversity, dogfooding, endless, endless os, extras, gitlab, gnome, gnome foundation, hack, hack computer, inclusion, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, las, libostree, libre application summit, linux, linux app summit, nuritzi sanchez, open organization, open source, ostree, remote work, silicon valley

Brent sits down with Nuritzi Sanchez, Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab, former GNOME Foundation President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Founding Member of Endless, Inc. We explore her current experiences at GitLab, her deep involvement in the growth of GNOME's community, the evolution of the Linux App Summit, her involvement with Endless, and why she is so drawn to the human aspects of technology.

Brunch with Brent: Brandon Bruce

February 28th, 2020  |  47 mins 42 secs

analytics, anthony bourdain, bill buford, brandon bruce, brunch with brent, bsides, bsidesbcs, bsidessatx, career, chef, community, conflict resolution, cook, customer support, extras, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kitchen, kitchen brigade, kitchen confidential, linux, linux academy, linux bible, medium raw, metrics, open source, remote, remote work, scale, skills, support

Brent sits down with Brandon Bruce, Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy. We explore the world of support, how his former role as professional chef informs his "Kitchen Brigade" approach to building a support team, analytics data's ability to reveal surprising user experience patterns, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth

February 21st, 2020  |  48 mins 42 secs

brunch with brent, bug report, canonical, cathedral and the bazaar, cern, cherrytree, coder, community, documentation, engineer, experimental, extras, free as in freedom, free software, free software foundation, fsf, gnome, gnome foundation, heather ellsworth, higg boson, high energy physics, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, libreoffice, linux, open source, open source summit, physics, programmer, purism, research, snap, snapcraft, snapd, software engineer, ubuntu

Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.