Latest Eductional Podcast Episodes

Linux at Work #e: Docker - Chester and Ben review Docker containerization

Linux at Work - April 04, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Docker, a container technology for agile development and application deployment. Docker Docker Hub Ubuntu Studio iSCSI vulnerability details

Linux at Work #6: Did you mean LibreOffice? - Chester and Ben discuss the latest GNU/Linux news as of 13 February 2021

Linux at Work - February 13, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 13 February 2021. Gnome 40 to be released soon Finnix 122 released New versions of Darktable, Flowblade and Shutter released LibreOffice 7.1 released LibreOffice online being ported to Web Assembly ...

Linux at Work #d: Home Assistant - Chester and Ben review Home Assistant home automation system

Linux at Work - February 06, 2021 08:00 - 23 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Home Assistant, a smart home “orchestrator” for managing and automating all of your IoT things. Home Assistant Lutron Caseta Sonoff RF Bridge Tasmota custom firmware

Linux at Work #5: Fanless Not Fanboyless - Chester and Ben discuss the latest GNU/Linux news as of 24 January 2021

Linux at Work - January 24, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 21 January 2021. Kernel 3.11 to be released soon CentOS 8 support to end in 2021 KDE Plasma 5.21 to release 15 February 2021 PHP 8 released for Arch Linux Corellium gets Linux up and running on the M...

Linux at Work #c: Pine Phone reviewed - Chester and Ben review the linux powered Pine Phone after a few months of testing

Linux at Work - January 23, 2021 08:00 - 24 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review the Pine Phone, a linux based smartphone dev platform released in 2020. While not a production ready device, they each purchased one in the fourth quarter of 2020 to play with and present their findings in this podcast. Pine Phone

Linux at Work #b: Hypervisor Hoedown - Chester and Ben assess the current slate of hypervisors and choose which works best for their needs

Linux at Work - October 31, 2020 07:00 - 46 minutes
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester had an opportunity to test and evaluate the primary hypervisors and virtualization platforms currently available for free (beer). Chester did some benchmarks to compare performance, but in the end it really all comes down to features and usability. Microsof...

Linux at Work #4: Ben <3 Microsoft - Linux news roudup for the week ending 26-September-2020

Linux at Work - September 26, 2020 07:00 - 33 minutes
Shownotes and Links KDE Akademy 2020 Lightworks goes employee owned Lenovo laptops available with Linux HP ships laptops with Linux Microsoft Edge for Linux Microsoft Hyper-V Linux root partition support Linux Foundation certifications Todoist Linux snap package Apostrophe markdown edi...

Linux at Work #3: Is WSL2 a gateway drug? - Linux news roudup for the week ending 06-June-2020

Linux at Work - June 06, 2020 07:00 - 24 minutes
Shownotes and Links After a slow restart Ben and Chester are back with the week’s Linux news. Topics include tiling window manager PaperWM for Gnome, virtual conference CFP for KDE Akademy, Nextcloud Hub 19 released, Google kicks off it’s Summer of Code and Microsoft announces the release of W...

Linux at Work #a: Deep Dive on Microsoft Teams Preview - A close look at the preview release of Microsoft Teams for Linux

Linux at Work - April 22, 2020 07:00 - 20 minutes
Shownotes and Links Chester Wisniewski and Ben Verschaeren gave the Microsoft Teams Preview for Linux a spin. If you work for a company that uses Microsoft 365, you probably need Teams. Until late last year, Teams was only available as a handmade Electron app or in the web browser for Linux, n...

Do we really need a classical browser? - News topics include Xfce release, Vivaldi browser, OwnCloud 8, mdp, Virtualbox, Thunderbird, FOSDEM and SCALE

Linux at Work - March 08, 2015 08:00 - 36 minutes
Shownotes and Links This episode has been in production for more than 5 years, but it was found and spliced back together in 2020. This is the last “classic” episode before we get entirely back to fresh content. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feed...

Linux at Work - News topics include Xfce release, Vivaldi browser, OwnCloud 8, mdp, Virtualbox, Thunderbird, FOSDEM and SCALE

Linux at Work - March 08, 2015 08:00 - 36 minutes
Shownotes and Links This episode has been in production for more than 5 years, but it was found and spliced back together in 2020. This is the last “classic” episode before we get entirely back to fresh content. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feed...

Linux @ Work #1 – Linus is an asshole

Linux at Work - January 30, 2015 06:22
Podcast number one kicks off our news series with all you need to know concluding 27 January 2015.

Linux at Work #1: Linus is an asshole - Linux business news roundup up to 27 January, 2015

Linux at Work - January 27, 2015 08:00 - 44 minutes
Shownotes and Links Episode 1 is complete and the format moving forward has been decided. We intend to produce the podcast bi-weekly with a catch-up on the news relevant to professional usage of Linux and occasionally intersperse deep dive episodes focused on a particular topic including revie...

Linux @ Work #0 – What to expect

Linux at Work - November 23, 2014 10:02
In our first podcast we outline our plans for sharing information on using Linux in a professional environment.

Linux at Work #0: What to expect - Kicking things off with Lenovo and mullets

Linux at Work - November 23, 2014 08:00 - 11 minutes
Shownotes and Links Well it’s finally time to get this show on the road as it were. Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast Linux at Work. In this first episode John Shier and I discuss our inspiration for creating the podcast, what we plan to cover in future episodes and how we pl...