This week Jonathan Bennett chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts.
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 799: Still Open Source At Percona”
FLOSS Weekly38 Articles
FLOSS Weekly Episode 798: Building The Rust Desktop With COSMIC
This week Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell chat with Carl Richell about System 76, COSMIC, Wayland, Rust and more! What was the “last straw” that convinced System 76 to write their own desktop environment (DE)? What’s the story with smithay, and why did that jump start the whole process? Listen to find out!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 798: Building The Rust Desktop With COSMIC”
FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t Rm -r Up The Tree
This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Pádraig Brady about Coreutils! It’s been around since the 90s, and is still a healthy project under active development. You’ve almost certainly used these tools whether you realize it or not! What’s the relationship with the other coreutils implementations? And why is GNU Coreutils the most cautious of them all?
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 797: Coreutils — Don’t Rm -r Up The Tree”
FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More Of A Whopper Guy
This week Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with John Britton and Mike McQuaid about Homebrew! That’s the missing package manager for macOS; and Workbrew, the commercial offering built on top of it. We cover lots of territory, like why the naming scheme sounds like it was conceived during a pub visit, how Workbrew helps businesses actually use Homebrew, and why you might even want to run Homebrew on a Linux machine!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 796: Homebrew, I’m More Of A Whopper Guy”
FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals
This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls chat with Olaf Kock and Dave Nebinger about Liferay! That’s a Java project that started as an implementation of a web portal, and has turned into a very flexible platform for any sort of web application. How has this Open Source project turned into a very successful business? And how is it connected to most iconic children’s educational show of all time? Listen to find out!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 795: Liferay, Now We’re Thinking With Portals”
FLOSS Weekly Episode 794: Release Them All With JReleaser
This week Jonathan Bennett and Katherine Druckman chat with Andres Almiray about JReleaser, the Java release automation tool that’s for more than just Java, and more than just releases. What was the original inspiration for the tool? And how does JReleaser help avoid a string of commits trying to fix GitHub Actions? Listen to find out!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 794: Release Them All With JReleaser”
FLOSS Weekly Episode 793: Keeping An Eye On Things With Hilight.io
This week Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb chat with Jay Khatri, the co-founder of Highlight.io. That’s a web application monitoring tool that can help you troubleshoot performance problems, find bugs, and improve experiences for anything that runs in a browser or browser-like environment. Why did they opt to make this tool Open Source? What’s the funding model? And what’s the surprising challenge we tried to help Jay solve, live on the show? Listen to find out!
Continue reading “FLOSS Weekly Episode 793: Keeping An Eye On Things With Hilight.io”
