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LI_S02E33_Telecomms_and_FLOSS

Linux Inlaws · The Linux Inlaws

March 20, 2025

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This episode is witness to a riveting discussion about the usage of FLOSS in the telecoms industry. Which goes back approximately fifty years with Ericsson (a large Swedish telco equipment manufacturer) coming up with Erlang, a programming language still prominently used in projects such as RabbitMQ. Listen to our two heroes apply their semi-existent knowledge about FLOSS in general and telecommunications in particular in this mind-boggling episode. Plus bonus content in the shape of a crash course on the history of the telecom industry, a peek behind the scenes of iOS (or to put it another way: the gory details of this mobile operating system that you have always wanted to know but were afraid to ask) and outlook to a future episode of your beloved podcast (gasp!). Consider yourself warned (to some extent anyway :-). <p>Links</p> <ul><li>First iPhone: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)" target=_blank>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)</a></li> <li>Erlang (/OTP): <a href="https://www.erlang.org" target=_blank>https://www.erlang.org</a></li> <li>Elixir: <a href="https://elixir-lang.org" target=_blank>https://elixir-lang.org</a></li> <li>Android Open Source Project (AOSP): <a href="https://source.android.com/" target=_blank>https://source.android.com/</a></li> <li>iOS: <a href="https://developer.apple.com/ios" target=_blank>https://developer.apple.com/ios</a></li> <li>Mach: <a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html" target=_blank>https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html</a></li> <li>Asterisk: <a href="https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk" target=_blank>https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk</a></li> <li>OpenStack: <a href="https://www.openstack.org" target=_blank>https://www.openstack.org</a></li> <li>Verizon hack: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy" target=_blank>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy</a></li> <li>Linux Foundation network projects: <a href="https://lfnetworking.org/projects" target=_blank>https://lfnetworking.org/projects</a></li> <li>Camara: <a href="https://github.com/camaraproject" target=_blank>https://github.com/camaraproject</a></li> <li>What we do in the shadows: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1" target=_blank>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1</a></li> </ul>