Series 5 Episode 2 – Mark and Wayne settle in to the new season, Mark is testing 32bit distros in response to a listener question, Wayne talks about Solo keys and plays around with Yunohost, some great under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
00:24 Wayne welcomes us to Series 5 Episode 2 from a cloudy cold Bristol while Mark hails us from a cold and foggy Kilkishen. The guys welcome the bug killing cold winter weather, though bug killing is probably the pervue of the bug report podcast
01:46 Mark tells us about some listener feedback and his response to it. Mark tried various distributions on a Dell Dimension 3000 (see the appendix for specs) with a CDROM drive, 256MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive (that had Mandriva 2008 on it before it was wiped) before settling on VectorLinux 7.1 as the best user experience with that kind of hardware. The guys discuss the value of using a machine like that for browsing the web and just how much value you can get out of older hardware.
17:29 Wayne tells us about Solo Keys, a recently crowd funded open source FIDO2 security key.
24:07 Wayne moves the conversation on to self hosting, or hosting your own web services from home. Wayne recommends you have to start somewhere, and in his opinion Yunohost makes self hosting accessible to everyone. Piwigo is a recommended photo sharing application.
32:00 Wayne thanks our listeners for their recent feedback, the Admin Admin podcast for joining our Telegram group and all our patreons and recent donations.
32:35 Mark tells us he’s subscribed to and recommends Wireframe, a magazine “Lifting the lid on video games”. He also tells us that he received the MagPi Magazine and HackSpace as Christmas presents from Raspberry Pi Press and was so impressed with Hackspace that he may well subscribe to that also. Mark goes on to discuss the Looking back article (page 14) and the news that Jay Pinkerton and Erik Wolpaw are working with Valve which must mean Half Life 3 confirmed… Mark also tells us about Gaming as a Service and Improbable’s improbable Spatial OS with it’s thousand player online matches.
37:20 Wayne tells us about OMG! Ubuntu!’s news that Supertuxkart’s online Multilplayer is Ready for Testing!.
38:14 Mark follows this up with news of a failed open source project from Squid’s Open Source Community on Steam that Findx has closed its doors.
39:12 Wayne tells us he’s picked up Karl Pilkington’s An Idiot Abroad while charity shopping and used a Linux Tech Show’s video on Handbrake to properly choose the right settings to rip DVDs.
41:35 Under the Hood! Mark’s Under the Hood is to chat about AT&T’s 10 predictions for the next 25 years. Waynes under the hood is 12 Best VLC Tricks you Might Not Know About! followed on by ncdu, a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. To install just type sudo apt install ncdu with example usage being: sudo du -ah –max-depth=1 / | sort -hr
49:26 Irish saying of the podcast – “Dún an Doras!” or Close the Door
We hope you enjoy this one alot more than we did making it!!! 🙂
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