This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman talk with benny Vasquez, chair of AlmaLinux, all about the weird road we’ve been on with Enterprise Linux distributions, and how that’s landed us here, where we have AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, and multiple other Red Hat downstream distros. What’s the difference between those projects, and why does it matter?
Projects need more than just developers. How do you keep members doing documentation, bug hunting, outreach, and even graphic design plugged in and feeling like part of the team? How do you walk the narrow line between the different directions a project can drift, setting up your community for long term success? And where’s the most surprising place benny has found AlmaLinux running? And why is benny’s first name never capitalized? Give this week’s show a listen to find out!
Information on AlmaLinux can be found on the website, where you can discover the ELevate migration tool, download images, and more.
Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right in the Hackaday Discord? Next week we’re interviewing Randal Schwartz on Tuesday instead of Wednesday, so synchronize your timepieces!
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Can we has volume control on the player interface?
That would be great, but I don’t think libsyn offers that as a feature.
What’s wrong with your amplifier-speakers volume control? That’s the only place it needs to be. Producers, please use full modulation. Stop weak un-normalized audio from being online. If a mic is not near your face I won’t listen. Uncompressed mic-in-camera audio is unsuitable unless it’s full face in full screen.
I keep my amp at a level for pro content and expect to hear it without having to ever crank it up. Broadcasters always do this though sometimes they want get it to 99.99% or more with everything they throw on the air. In radio it’s the Law that sets max, in digital it’s law too when you go to all ones. There’s is no +3dB on a digital audio meter.
There is an annoying trend where NPR stations are replacing simple streams that can go through VLC in the background with a whole webpage containing a required tiny play arrow and an even more tiny sliver of a volume control set halfway up! Most streams are full level but some major stations have no clue what is going online.
Does FLOSS seem too quiet? I do some pretty heavy compression already to try to get it where it should be. And then run it through Ardour’s loudness tools to hit -18 LUFS. To try for a pleasant balance that is neither amateurishly quiet, or so loud as to push the boundaries of the loudness wars. But feedback is welcome.
Not sure if it is on purpose, but the new podcast series isn’t showing up in at least three of the podcast indexes that Antennapod uses: fyyd, Apple, and the Podcast Index.
The old TWiT ones still do, with a statement that they are an archive, which is nice, but no reference to the new series.
I have added it manually to my subscriptions using the given URL, but it would be nice if it were searchable.
Thanks for all the hard work!
For fyyd and Podcast Index, they just need the RSS feeds submitted. It looks like anyone can actually do this, but I just submitted the feed for FLOSS Weekly to both of them, so presumably it should pick it up shortly.
As for Apple, I believe there’s still some verification step that we need to perform before it will accept the new show. Will have to look into it.
It is showing up now. Thanks!