Jupiter Extras

Brunch with Brent: Philip Müller

June 19th, 2020  |  39 mins 32 secs

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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: Daniel Foré

April 3rd, 2020  |  53 mins 8 secs

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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.

Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph

March 13th, 2020  |  43 mins 16 secs

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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: Heather Ellsworth

February 21st, 2020  |  48 mins 42 secs

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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.

Brunch with Brent: Joe Ressington

January 7th, 2020  |  45 mins 40 secs

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Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2

December 20th, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

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Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself through meditation, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope

December 10th, 2019  |  59 mins 15 secs

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Brent sits down with Alan Pope (popey), who shares his knack for fuzzy-testing, the beginnings of Ubuntu Podcast, insights into Ubuntu Touch and Unity, the joys and perils of being "Internet Famous", and how to contribute meaningfully to your favorite Linux distributions.

Brunch with Brent: Rocco

December 3rd, 2019  |  49 mins 15 secs

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Brent sits down with Rocco of Big Daddy Linux for a conversation about the origins of Linux Spotlight, some shared behind-the-scenes podcasting perspectives, and just how great we feel about our Linux community.

Brunch with Brent: Jacob Roecker

November 26th, 2019  |  1 hr 13 mins

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Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and its community was integral throughout.

popey on ThinkPads

November 22nd, 2019  |  39 mins 40 secs

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Chz sits down with Alan Pope (popey) to discuss his thoughts about ThinkPads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.

Find out what those model numbers really mean, plus our tips for picking which one is right for you.