Linux OTC
Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric · Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric, and Charlie
Show overview
Linux OTC has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 86 episodes. That works out to roughly 85 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 56 min and 1h 8m — 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-US-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 20 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Bill, Leo, Majid, Eric, and Charlie.
From the publisher
Linux “Off The Cuff”
Latest Episodes
View all 86 episodes79 – In The Bath With Claude
79 – In The Bath With Claude
78 – What is a Criminal?
78 – What is a Criminal?
77 – Benevolent Dictators for Life?
77 – Benevolent Dictators for Life?
76 – Take A Picture, I Won’t Remember
76 – Take A Picture, I Won’t Remember
75 – We are all Marjorie
74 – Is the AUR Only For Muppets?
73 – Nerds²
72 – We Finally Got It Right!
71 – Compound Stupidity
70 – Make Linux Great Again
69 – Welcome Back Charlie
This week we welcome a new voice to the fold. Charlie, AKA Immutable Charlie joins us to talk Linux
68 – Streaming Drivers
We’re all over the place on this episode. We start off with the abysmal state of media streaming. Majid and Eric get into a conversation about watches. We get into it about our experiences with Amazon as well as other online commerce offerings. Bill talks a bit about the sad state of affairs within his industry. Eric talks about a recent challenge trying to find a tech solution to a friend’s photography storage problem. All this, and way more!
67 – “Needs No Introduction”
Yes friends, that time is finally here; episode “67.” Much of the conversation is about the relevance of older technology in a time when up-to-date RAM and other parts are expensive, and scarce. We get into a conversation about compiling software that is not available in your repos verses using a containerized solution like Distrobox. We get into encryption and how to get the benefits of encryption on any cloud storage solution. Quantum computing is also covered a bit. All this and way more!
66 – The Mountain Of Source
Server rebuilds, Memory shortages, Energy prices, Compiling software, and the AUR. all that and way more!
65 – “Wine-ers Of The World Unite!”
Bill and Eric wax philosophical about technology and it’s users. They get into Ad blocking, anti-virus, and the like. The nature of “free” software comes up. Gaming on Linux, Wine, virtualization, etc. They get into the concept of a software repository, and the associated package manager. The layers of effort that goes into every distribution. All of this and more!
Ep 6464 – The Eric Strikes Back
Eric makes his triumphant return where we start off talking about some recent pc builds Bill had been working on during his time off. We get into some of the vagaries of hardware issues and what we’ve done in the past to deal with them. Majid talks about recent laptop purchases. Eric gets into some issues he experienced while using multiple versions of Handbrake. These topics and more!