The FOSS Pod
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Pine64 With Lukasz Erecinski
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects around, delivering a wide range of low-cost and modifiable products including smart phones ...
Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of single-board computers, and it's a...
Debian Linux With Jonathan Carter
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We couldn't do a podcast about open source without exploring a major Linux distribution, and there's hardly a more influential or enduring distro out ...
Inkscape With Martin Owens
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Owens joins us on this episode to talk about the popular open source vector graphics package Inkscape, where he serves as both a developer and ...
MiSTer FPGA With José Tejada Gómez
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The MiSTer project is the most exciting thing going in classic video game emulation, and José Tejada Gómez--better known as jotego--is one of the de...
Audacity With Martin Keary
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The classic open source audio editor Audacity has been around for over two decades, but the Muse Group and product head Martin Keary only came onto th...
Samba With Jeremy Allison
23 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Allison has been working in open source almost as long as "open source" has existed, largely on the Samba project that facilitates filesharing ...
OctoPrint With Gina Häußge
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
3D printing has come a long way in a short time, and the open-source web interface OctoPrint has been easing and extending the 3D printing experience ...
Blender With Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We briefly covered Blender in our sixth episode, and now it's time to delve deep into the past, present and future of this sprawling 3D animation pack...
VLC With Jean-Baptiste Kempf
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you're reading this, odds are good you've used VLC before. The most capable video player out there got its start in surprising ways, and on this ep...
curl With Daniel Stenberg
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devic...
Home Assistant With Paulus Schoutsen
11 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Home Assistant is the one-stop shop to control every single smart home and IoT device you own. It's also one of the biggest open source projects aroun...
3D Movie Maker With Foone Turing
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Foone Turing regularly performs feats of retro-computing resurrection on Twitter, but convincing Microsoft to release the source code for its classic ...
Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more p...
Open-Source Alternatives
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we chec...
Project North Star With Bryan Chris Brown
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've often said that open source is for more than just software, and on this episode Project North Star's Bryan Chris Brown is here to prove it with ...
Open Source 101
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By popular request, we're getting as fundamental as we can in this episode with a back-to-basics primer on as many open source concepts as we could co...
The FOSS Pod Manifesto
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Three episodes in, we figured it was about time that we talk over our own origins with open source software, and then ponder the present and (attempt ...
Getting Started With Network Attached Storage
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the...
OBS With Jim Bailey
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Bailey wanted a way to stream StarCraft – so he wrote his own software to do it. From humble origins, the Open Broadcaster Software has become t...