Linux Inlaws

LI_S02E59_Coreboot

This episode is all about getting computers up and running. The software that kicks in after you flick the power switch until the operating system kernel starts up to be more precise. And to be more precise, today's episode is about Coreboot, a FLOSS project aimed at replacing BIOS (rarely these days), UEFI (more often these days) and friends. Plus quite a few primers on CPUs, RAM chips and other esoteric aspects that you always wanted to know about but were too afraid to ask :-). Links IPL/booting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#History BIOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS Floppy disk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk UEFI: https://uefi.org Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org Canonical's UEFI shim: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot Device Tree spec: https://www.devicetree.org Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot Linus about C++ and the Linux kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/1/20/20 HP Moonshot: https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/the-miracle-of-moonshot Das U-Boot: https://u-boot.org Gummiboot (now systemd-boot): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-boot.html Libreboot: https://libreboot.org Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org Software Freedom Podcast: https://fsfe.org/news/podcast.en.html

LI_S02E58_Continuous_whatever

This episode is all about the CI/CD of software, standing for chaotic implementation and complete disaster of course :-). Much more seriously, our two ageing heroes take a look at what's out there for the support of continuous integration and continuous deployment of software (you guessed this right? :-). Plus lots of bonus content: Hipster methodologies for developing software, a crash course on two of our most beloved subjects when it comes down to developing the stuf (agile/Scrum), how to really master software quality assurance (hint: no, it's not avoiding it completely! :-) and much much more. So don't miss this episode! If you can't get to sleep. Or otherwise... Links V-Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-model Waterfall model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model Git hooks: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks Scrum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(project_management) Agile topics: https://agilealliance.org Jenkins: https://www.jenkins.io Selenium: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium Argo: https://argoproj.github.io Prebake: https://github.com/vgteam/vg_ci_prebake Jenkins-X: https://jenkins-x.io Github Actions: https://github.com/features/actions Tekton: https://github.com/tektoncd SonarQube: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube Bottlerocket episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket__605D Snow @ Britian: https://www.netweather.tv/weather-forecasts/uk/winter/winter-history

LI_S02E57_Codeberg

Like Github but don't like the company behind it? Then look no further! This episode has Otto Richter and Michael Jerger never mind our lovely elder two hosts discussing Codeberg, an FLOSS alternative to Github, Gitlab and corporate friends. Using a federated technology based on our beloved git, invented by Linus and friends all those years ago. Sounds fascinating? Then don't miss the episode! Plus bonus content: Chris gets philosophical about plants, the sun and mornings. Links Codeberg: https://codeberg.org Forgejo: https://codeberg.org/forgejo Episode on Meissa GmbH (S02E44): https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E44_FLOSS_in_a_small_shop__DEF0 History of Forgejo: http://web.archive.org/web/20251015192936/https://codeberg.org/fnetX/flock_to_fedora_timeline/graph?page=2 Federated Forgejo (in German): https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3275-foderiertes_forgejo ZenDiS: https://www.zendis.de/en Sovereign Tech Agency: https://www.sovereign.tech NLNETLABS: https://nlnetlabs.nl Comaps: https://www.comaps.app Bose screw-up: https://www.bose.com/soundtouch-end-of-life Kalanchoe pinnata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalanchoe_pinnata The particle @ the end of universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Particle_at_the_End_of_the_Universe Higgs boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

LI_S02E56_Six_Years

We have made it! Six years in the making and still going strong. With a steadily increasing audience of - wait for it - at least ten listeners. When they can't get to sleep or have nothing else to do. Or - gosh - want to learn something. Like what's Usenet. And why Linux has been so important (yes, it all will be revealed in this episode!). Including a crash course on operating system design (including the operating system war) and CPU design history. Never mind how humorous works. So wars or not, you have an hour to spare, can't get to sleep or want to learn something, never mind want to know why our beloved operating system conquered the world and how humor works and much, much more, you certainly don't want to miss this episode! (Ok, marketing made us do it - before Martin fired them once again). Links Minix: https://www.minix3.org The OS war: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI?pli=1 The Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet GNU Hurd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd IBM's RISC history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060503190348/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/rs6000.pdf Car Talk: https://www.cartalk.com Martin's ancient server: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant Krentenbollen: https://www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/krentenbollen Christmas pudding recipe (not for faint-hearted): https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-christmas-pudding Chromebooks: https://www.google.com/chromebook Arch on Chromebooks (Chris' talk): https://web.archive.org/web/20211025175723/https://frab.openrheinruhr.de/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/020/original/Arch_Chromebook.pdf?1541482424

LI_S02E55_Thunderbird_Reloaded

This episode features Thunderbird, one of the (if not the most) popular mail clients in the FLOSS ecosystem. Heather Ellsworth, a buddying physicist turned DevRel (better late than never) from the project spills the beans on the history of the project not only in a Mozilla context, explains that TB's hiatus is just another urban myth and what's ahead for the project. In terms of future roadmap, monetisation and world domination. If that sounds familiar, it should! As the Inlaws have been pondering these last few topics for more than six years now. Although in contrast to Thunderbird with limited success (until now, if you want to know more on these topics and more, don't miss the next episode!). Links Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson Altas @ CERN: https://atlas.cern Thunderbird: https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central Waldorf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-pope-uk Statler (or the other way around): https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinwimpress Thunderbird's history (starting at the very beginning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite Seamonkey: https://www.seamonkey-project.org Rust in Production Thunderbird episode: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s02e03-thunderbird/ Thunderbird on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thunderbird.android OpenPGP episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E22_OpenPGP__7525 Thunderbird PRO: https://tb.pro Thunderbird's Call For Action: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/participate Mozilla's Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home umu launcher: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher Open Printing: https://openprinting.github.io Bugonia: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12300742/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_2