Linux Reality Podcast (mp3 Feed)

In this guest episode: Klaatu from The Bad Apples podcast gives a great introduction to The GNU Image Manipulation Program, also known as The GIMP. You can view and download the source files mentioned in the podcast at http://www.thebadapples.info/linuxreality.

In this episode: a recap of the Ohio Linux Fest; a Listener Tip; audio and email feedback, including a mention of the fiction of James Viscosi. [Note: For some reason, the audio levels got a bit messed up for this one. Sorry!]

In this episode: Ohio Linux Fest update; a discussion of various RSS readers including Liferea, RSSOwl, Straw, Blam, Akregator, Sage, Evolution-RSS plugin, Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes, My Yahoo, Feed on Feeds, and RNews.

In this episode: a great sci-fi/horror podiobook, "Crescent"; two great short-story podcasts, "Escape Pod" with independent fiction mostly in the sci-fi and fantasy genres, and "Pseudopod" which focuses on horror; a discussion of fonts and font configuration in Linux, with helpful resources available here, here, and here.

In this episode: contest and guest podcasts; a discussion about certain considerations to take into account when partitioning a hard drive for a Linux install, and then a talk about various Linux filesystems, including Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Ext4, Reiser4, and ZFS; audio and email listener feedback.

In this episode: OReilly discount code for Linux Reality listeners available on the LR website; a new Linux Reality contest where one can win a listener-donated book, LPI Certification in a Nutshell, for the best audio Listener Tip sent in between now and the end of November; a new podcast client I am developing in Python; petition to open source the Main Actor video editing software; a call for guest podcasts; a brief wrap-up discussion of my adventures with the BSD's; audio and email listener feedback.

In this episode: an interview with the host of the BSDTalk Podcast, Will Backman, in which we talk about the history of the BSD's, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, PC-BSD, and DesktopBSD, and discuss some of the goals and features of these projects.

In this episode: a brief talk about some desktop software, including Openbox, Conky, and the ttm Tint Task Manager; audio Listener Tip; lots and lots of listener feedback.

In this episode: an interview with Keith Watson, a blind systems administrator, in which we talk about accessibility issues in computer operating systems and about accessibility technologies in Linux, including Speakup and Orca.

In this episode: no episode next week; an interview with John Rundag, technology coordinator for an Ohio school district; Listener Tip on static ip addresses using DHCP; audio and email listener feedback, including one on using Twitter for software updates.

In this episode: a discussion of an advanced Linux distribution, Arch Linux, including some hints and tips on getting Arch Linux installed and how to update and configure the system; Listener Tip; audio and email feedback.

In this episode: a new sponsor for Linux Reality, O'Reilly Media -- please be sure to use the coupon code "LREL40" for 40% off your purchases on the O'Reilly website; a new release of Slackware 12.0; a pretty high-level discussion of Vim to introduce folks to the basic movement and editing commands; email listener feedback.

In this episode: an interview with attorney Jonas Kron, who practices in the area of corporate social and environmental responsibility, in which we discuss bringing open source software into a small business; audio question on open source groupware (see Citadel, phpGroupWare, and Zimbra); and audio and email feedback.

In this episode: a discussion of the history and background of the Fedora Project and a review of its newest release, Fedora 7, including a talk about some of its cool new technologies like Xen and Revisor; a mention of some great Fedora sites, such as the Fedora Forum, the Fedora FAQ, and third party repositories such as DAG, FreshRPMS, and Livna, and some reviews of Fedora such this; audio Listener Tip on gnome-open; audio and email listener feedback.

In this episode: an interview with recent Seneca School of Computer Studies graduate, Andrew Smith, in which we discuss various projects he has worked on including the Freedom Toaster, ISO Master, and a 2006 Google Summer of Code project sponsored by Mozilla that has been incorporated into the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client, as well as Seneca's annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium; an email Listener Tip; audio and email listener feedback.

In this episode: a discussion about running Linux on the Linksys NSLU2 ("Slug") network storage device, including a talk about installing Debian Etch; a Listener Tip on calling the Linux Reality Gizmo SIP number; several audio listener comments and some emails as well.

In this episode: Gizmo and audio feedback; new Linux Reality IRC channel on irc.freenode.net; Brad at anytimegeek.com provides remote support for Linux; a wrap-up discussion of home servers and server-based distributions; listener audio comments on their home servers; audio and email listener feedback.

In this episode: new voice mail number and Gizmo account (username: linuxreality); call for audio comments on server setups; call for interview ideas; a discussion of Linux backup solutions, starting with a brief mention of SBackup and Bacula, and focusing on the use of tar and rsync, including rsync over ssh to backup files and directories locally or to a remote server; listener tip on gtkpod; audio and email listener feedback. Extra notes are located here.

In this episode: Happy Mother's Day and congratulations to Pat Davila of The Linux Link Tech Show; US VOIP providers; a discussion of various ways to serve music files, from Samba, to SSHFS, GNUMP3d, Firefly Media Server (formerly known as mt-daapd), and a brief mention of Icecast; listener feedback. Additional links: GNUMP3d - UbuntuGeek, Ubuntu Forums, Ubuntu Guide Firefly Media Server (mt-daapd) - Linux.com, Gentoo Wiki Icecast - HowToForge, Gentoo Wiki

In this episode: a discussion of how to set up a simple local imap email server using Getmail and Dovecot (additional information here, here, here, here, here, and here); audio and email feedback.