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FLOSS Weekly

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Show overview

FLOSS Weekly has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 109 episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 814th season.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 3m and 1h 13m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, with 10 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 51 episodes published. Published by Hackaday.

Episodes
109
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
1h 7m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.

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Episode 869 - Linux on Your Toaster

Apr 29, 202634 min

Episode 868 - Remove the Noodles

Apr 22, 20261h 6m

S4 Ep 867Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do you run your own self-hosted Pangolin install? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Mar 25, 20261h 3m

S4 Ep 866Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this impressive project? And what direction is it heading? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Mar 18, 202647 min

S4 Ep 865Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls

This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that mean, and how has it worked out as a business concept? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Mar 4, 202655 min

S4 Ep 864Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That's Bill's book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had quite a career doing Unix administration, and has thoughts on the current state of technology. Listen to find out more! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Feb 11, 20261h 3m

S4 Ep 863Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason

This week Jonathan chats with Olaf Andreas Schulte and Lars Kiesow about Opencast, the video management system for education. What does Opencast let a school or university accomplish, how has that changed over the last decade, and what exciting new things are coming? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Feb 4, 20261h 17m

S4 Ep 862Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelizable? When can we expect it in the wild? And what's new in the rest of the kernel world? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 28, 20261h 7m

S4 Ep 861Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak

This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some operations? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 21, 20261h 4m

S4 Ep 860Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Jan 14, 20261h 5m

S4 Ep 859Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and can confirm it gets the job done. What led to the creation of this project, and what's the direction it's going? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Dec 17, 20251h 9m

S4 Ep 858Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers

This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it licensed AGPL, and how does that work with commercial deployments? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Dec 10, 20251h 4m

S4 Ep 857Episode 857: SOCification

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos' connection to ARM's SIMD approach? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Dec 3, 20251h 13m

S4 Ep 856FLOSS 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling

This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 26, 20251h 4m

S4 Ep 855FLOSS 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It's a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really want to! Part of the story is a Kickstarter that resulted in a graphics tile-set. And then there's the mods! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 19, 20251h 7m

S4 Ep 854FLOSS 854: The Big Daddy Core

This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That's the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host of embedded platforms, on top of the Zephyr embedded OS. What was the spark that led to this project's creation, what does Atym.io bring to the equation, and what are people actually doing with it? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nov 12, 20251h 0m

S4 Ep 853FLOSS 853: Hardware Addiction; Don't Send Help

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Cody Zuschlag about the Xen project! It's the hypervisor that runs almost everywhere. Why is it showing up in IoT devices and automotive? And what's coming next for the project? Watch to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 29, 20251h 7m

S4 Ep 852FLOSS 852: Sir, This is a Wendy's

This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities and working with others? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 22, 20251h 12m

S4 Ep 851FLOSS 851: Buckets of Money

This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James' own itch, but brings a great visualization and management tools for your personal finances! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 15, 20251h 2m

S4 Ep 850FLOSS 850: One Rom To Rule Them All

This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into the original ROM footprint? And what's next for the project? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Oct 8, 20251h 15m