Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects around, delivering a wide range of low-cost and modifiable products including smart phones and watches, laptops, earbuds, soldering irons, and plenty more, all based on ARM and RISC-V.

Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton

Apr 9th, 2023 1h 9m

With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of single-board computers, and it's also a great gateway into the world of open source. For this ep, we spoke to none other than co

Debian Linux With Jonathan Carter

Feb 3rd, 2023 1h 12m

We couldn't do a podcast about open source without exploring a major Linux distribution, and there's hardly a more influential or enduring distro out there than Debian. So we're delighted to be joined on this episode by the current Debian Proje

Inkscape With Martin Owens

Dec 10th, 2022 49m 13s

Martin Owens joins us on this episode to talk about the popular open source vector graphics package Inkscape, where he serves as both a developer and a member of the project's leadership committee. Martin shares his perspective on everything fr

MiSTer FPGA With José Tejada Gómez

Nov 4th, 2022 1h 22m

The MiSTer project is the most exciting thing going in classic video game emulation, and José Tejada Gómez--better known as jotego--is one of the developers at the forefront of this open-source effort to revive dozens of old game consoles and c

Audacity With Martin Keary

Oct 14th, 2022 1h 5m

The classic open source audio editor Audacity has been around for over two decades, but the Muse Group and product head Martin Keary only came onto the project within the last two years. In this ep we talked to Martin about his extensive backgr

Samba With Jeremy Allison

Sep 23rd, 2022 1h 8m

Jeremy Allison has been working in open source almost as long as "open source" has existed, largely on the Samba project that facilitates filesharing between Windows and the Unix world. In this ep we chatted with Jeremy not just about where Sam

OctoPrint With Gina Häußge

Sep 8th, 2022 1h 13m

3D printing has come a long way in a short time, and the open-source web interface OctoPrint has been easing and extending the 3D printing experience for a decade now. On this ep we had a fascinating chat with creator and maintainer Gina Häußge

Blender With Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez

Jul 29th, 2022 1h 25m

We briefly covered Blender in our sixth episode, and now it's time to delve deep into the past, present and future of this sprawling 3D animation package with team members Pablo Vazquez and Dalai Felinto, who walk us through Blender's closed-so

VLC With Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Jul 8th, 2022 1h

If you're reading this, odds are good you've used VLC before. The most capable video player out there got its start in surprising ways, and on this ep we're joined by project founder Jean-Baptiste Kempf to talk about both VLC's origins and ever

curl With Daniel Stenberg

Jun 24th, 2022 1h 11m

The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devices around the world. For this ep we had a wide ranging conversation with Daniel Stenberg, curl

Home Assistant With Paulus Schoutsen

Jun 11th, 2022 1h 7m

Home Assistant is the one-stop shop to control every single smart home and IoT device you own. It's also one of the biggest open source projects around, and for this ep we sat down with its founder Paulus Schoutsen to talk about where the proje

3D Movie Maker With Foone Turing

May 27th, 2022 50m 14s

Foone Turing regularly performs feats of retro-computing resurrection on Twitter, but convincing Microsoft to release the source code for its classic '90s animation program 3D Movie Maker may be their greatest achievement to date. We sat down w

Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra

May 13th, 2022 1h 2m

Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more people than at the Wikimedia Foundation. On this ep Abbey joins us to talk about what human-cen

Open-Source Alternatives

Apr 29th, 2022 52m 35s

Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we check in with what's new in some of the biggest open-source creative applications like Blender, Au

Project North Star With Bryan Chris Brown

Apr 9th, 2022 55m 49s

We've often said that open source is for more than just software, and on this episode Project North Star's Bryan Chris Brown is here to prove it with a freely available, modifiable design for an augmented reality headset you can build yourself.

Open Source 101

Mar 19th, 2022 1h 11m

By popular request, we're getting as fundamental as we can in this episode with a back-to-basics primer on as many open source concepts as we could come up with, which we hope will lay the groundwork for future episodes. Ever wonder about the d

The FOSS Pod Manifesto

Mar 3rd, 2022 43m 58s

Three episodes in, we figured it was about time that we talk over our own origins with open source software, and then ponder the present and (attempt to) predict the future of FOSS for everyday people. Listen on for some reminiscing about Sparc

Getting Started With Network Attached Storage

Feb 18th, 2022 57m 4s

Building a NAS served as the gateway into free and open source software for both of us, so in this ep we're looping back around and checking in on the current state of FOSS-y network attached storage options like OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, and Pr

OBS With Jim Bailey

Feb 4th, 2022 58m 23s

Jim Bailey wanted a way to stream StarCraft – so he wrote his own software to do it. From humble origins, the Open Broadcaster Software has become the de facto standard for streaming video online, and we sat down with Jim to talk about the pres

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