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Episode 100 - The Final Episode

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2008


In this, the last Linux Reality episode: I bring back some old audio clips, fire up one last listener tip, play a bunch of audio comments, and then take a few minutes to say thanks. I mentioned the reasons for ending the show in Episode 96 but now I would like to say thank you, everybody, for a great ride. It's been a great two years. This site, the podcast feed and files, the forums, and the IRC channel will remain up and active for the forseeable future, and I'll still be around. In the meantime, keep on hackin'.

Episode 099 - Slackware Revisited

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2008


In this episode: I take a few minutes to revisit The Slackware Linux Project, and discuss some of the great resources available to Slackware users, such as the LinuxQuestions.org Slackware official support forum, Slackwiki.org, Slackbook.org, and Slackbasics.org. I also talk about Slackware package management, how to use SlackBuild scripts such as those from SlackBuilds.org, and some of the new features that will appear in the next release.

Episode 098 - Super Basic Shell Scripting

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2008


In this episode: a generalized discussion of shell scripts with some basic examples of how they can be useful. Here are some additional resources: online slide presentation; Shell Scripting Tutorial; Quick Guide to Writing Scripts; UNIX Shell Scripting.

Episode 097 - A Few Linux Games

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2008


In this episode: an overview of a few games for adults and kids alike that work great in Linux: Quake 2, Quake 3, OpenArena, Unreal Tournament, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, FreeCiv, LinCity, LinCity-NG, Micropolis, OpenTTD, Frozen-Bubble, Enigma, Fillets-NG, Pingus, Neverball, Neverputt, Supertux, Abe's Amazing Adventure, Secret Maryo Chronicles, Barbie's Seahorse Adventures, Trip on the Funnyboat, Moonlander, TuxKart, SuperTuxKart, Armagetron, GLTron, Tuxracer, PlanetPenguin Racer, Extreme Tux Racer, Battle for Wesnoth.

Episode 096 - Two Years Later

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2008


In this episode: I take a few minutes to talk about the last two years of Linux Reality, and also announce the upcoming end of the show. There will be a few more episodes of good Linuxy topics and then the podcast will end at episode 100.

Episode 095 - Listener Feedback

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2008


In this episode: three Listener Tips, three audio feedbacks, and tons and tons of email. Extra notes are located here.

Episode 094 - Linux for Writers

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2008


In this guest episode: Charles Olsen discusses various applications and tools for writers that are available in Linux.

Episode 093 - Interview with Nathan Lowell

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2008


In this episode: an interview with author Nathan Lowell, in which we discuss his four science fiction novels, Quarter Share, Half Share, Full Share, and South Coast, technology, artists and authors releasing their works for free, and his use of Linux. All of Nathan Lowell's books are available on Podiobooks.com.

Episode 092 - Ardour

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2008


In this guest episode: Klaatu, from The Bad Apples podcast, returns and provides a great overview and explanation of the digital audio workstation application, Ardour.

Episode 091 - Happy New Year

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2008


In this episode: welcome to 2008; great audiobooks by Nathan Lowell, including Quarter Share, Half Share, Full Share, and South Coast, all available at Podiobooks.com; Hacker Public Radio; the KDE Release Event at the Google Campus in Mountain View, CA; a review of Absolute FreeBSD by Michael W. Lucas.

Episode 090 - Year End Wrap-Up

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2007


In this episode: a recap of the past year and my thanks to you for a great 2007; two audio Listener Tips; audio and email listener feedback; a special treat at the end.

Episode 089 - Interview with Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2007


In this episode: an interview with Paul Asadoorian and Larry Pesce of the Pauldotcom Security Weekly Podcast in which we discuss a variety of issues related to Linux and security; some of the topics and sites highlighted include: the podcast wiki; Paul and Larry's book Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking; SANS Institute; Web-based iptables script generator (probably outdated); Firestarter and Guarddog, two GUI front-ends for iptables; m0n0wall, pfSense, IPCop, SmoothWall, and ClarkConnect; Nmap, Nessus, Tripwire, and Wireshark; SANS Reading Room, SANS Internet Storm Center, and SecurityFocus.

Episode 088 - 2007 Project Donations

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2007


In this mini-episode: a short discussion of the 2007 Project Donation Page and a request that, in the spirit of the holidays, Linux Reality listeners consider making a small donation to any free or open source project of their choosing.

Episode 087 - Interview with Cory Jaeger

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2007


In this episode: an interview with Cory Jaeger, Network Manager at D.C. Everest School District about Linux and open source software in education; three audio Listener Tips, one on Gutsy Gibbon tweaks, one on changing hypertext links in OpenOffice.org, and another on recording with command line tools such as sox. Extra notes are located here.

Episode 086 - Listener Feedback

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2007


In this episode: the Cowon D2; 2007 Project Donations; a Listener Tip on finding your public ip address; lots of listener email feedback.

Episode 085 - Command Line Fun

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2007


In this episode: a new Linux podcast called Linux Basement; a discussion of various fun command line topics, including how to use a different interactive shell, such as Zsh (more information here and here), a look at the great mail user agent, Mutt, and combining Irssi with Bip for text-based IRC (great article here); a Listener Tip on creating desktop launchers.

Episode 084 - Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2007


In this shortened episode: a brief discussion of my upgrades and installs of the newest release of Ubuntu Linux, 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon; Listener Tip on the bash shell's double-exclamation point history operator; email feedback.

Episode 083 - Inkscape Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2007


In this guest episode: Part 2 of Richard Querin's discussion of Inkscape; a Listener Tip on dmidecode; audio and email listener feedback.

Episode 082 - Inkscape Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2007


In this guest episode: a new old toy in my household; rootbsd.net, a provider of FreeBSD-based Virtual Private Servers; then, Richard Querin, who co-maintains the Screencasters site with video tutorials, presents the first part of a two part series on the vector graphics editor, Inkscape; a Listener Tip on lspci by Verbal; lots of listener email and feedback.

Episode 081 - Audio in Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2007


In this guest episode: Duncan Macneil discusses a variety of issues regarding audio in Linux, including device drivers, recording applications, and cleaning up audio files in Audacity; Listener Tip on a list of free shell accounts; email feedback.

Episode 080 - The GIMP

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2007


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.

Episode 079 - Ohio Linux Fest

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2007


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!]

Episode 078 - RSS Readers

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2007


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.

Episode 077 - Fonts and Font Configuration

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2007


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.

Episode 076 - Partitioning and Filesystems

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2007


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.

Episode 075 - BSD Wrap-Up

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2007


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.

Episode 074 - Interview with Will Backman

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2007


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.

Episode 073 - Listener Feedback

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2007


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.

Episode 072 - Interview with Keith Watson

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2007


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.

Episode 071 - Interview with John Rundag

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2007


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.

Episode 070 - Arch Linux

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2007


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.

Episode 069 - Vim Basics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2007


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.

Episode 068 - Interview with Jonas Kron

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2007


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.

Episode 067 - Fedora 7

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2007


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.

Episode 066 - Interview with Andrew Smith

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2007


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.

Episode 065 - Linksys NSLU2

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2007


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.

Episode 064 - Home Servers Part 10: Conclusion

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2007


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.

Episode 063 - Home Servers Part 9: Backup Servers

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2007


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.

Episode 062 - Home Servers Part 8: Music Servers

Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2007


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

Episode 061 - Home Servers Part 7: Simple Email Server

Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2007


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.

Episode 060 - Home Servers Part 6: DNS and DHCP

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2007


In this episode: a discussion of Dnsmasq, a very easy to configure DNS and DHCP server; audio and email listener feedback.

Episode 059 - Home Servers Part 5: File and Print Servers

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2007


In this episode: a mention of some excellent free audio books from Podiobooks.com, including ones from Scott Sigler, as well as the novels The Immortals, Singularity, How to Succeed in Evil Volume One, Brave Men Run, and Shadowmagic; a discussion of print servers on Debian Etch using CUPS and file servers using Samba; audio and email feedback.

Episode 058 - Home Servers Part 4: WebCalendar

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2007


In this episode: we bring all the LAMP pieces together and install a php-mysql application, WebCalendar; audio tip on Linux From Scratch; audio and email Listener Feedback.

Episode 057 - Home Servers Part 3: PHP and MySQL

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2007


In this episode: Debian Etch is released; a discussion of the "MP" in "LAMP": PHP and MySQL; audio Listener Tip; audio and email feedback. Extra notes are located here.

Episode 056 - Home Servers Part 2: The Apache Web Server

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2007


In this episode: VTC course on Ubuntu Linux; an overview of the Apache Web Server (additional documentation here, here, and here); audio and email listener feedback.

Episode 055 - Home Servers Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2007


In this episode: the first part of a multi-episode series on home servers; audio Listener Tip on Win4Lin server edition; audio and email listener feedback. Note: there will not be an episode next week, but LR will return the following week.

Episode 054 - Xorg.conf

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2007


In this episode: Dann Washko's discussion of Linux in schools in Episode 182 of The Linux Link Tech Show; the Ohio Linux Fest; a discussion of the X Window System and its configuration file, xorg.conf; several listener emails, including a mention of the Intel drivers and firmware for the 3945 wireless cards, Ralink wireless cards, and Puppy Linux.

Episode 053 - Listener Feedback

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2007


In this episode: LR fliers at LUGRadio Live; the Ohio Linux Fest; a Listener Tip on the Slax Live CD; a ton of audio and written listener comments and feedback, including one on the book "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell".

Episode 052 - Wireless Networking Basics

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2007


In this episode: a basic, general overview of wireless networking in Linux, with mentions of the Intel wireless firmware, MadWifi, WPA Supplicant, NdisWrapper, and more; several audio Listener Tips, one on using an iPod with Amarok, and two regarding ssh and vnc; audio feedback.

Episode 051 - VNC

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2007


In this episode: a discussion of how to use VNC to connect to a graphical desktop on a Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X machine using an encrypted SSH tunnel for security; a Listener Tip on modifying the GRUB menu.lst; three audio feedbacks on Linux in schools. Additional links: some original documentation from AT&T, Linux Planet article, VNC Linux-Windows document, Ubuntu documentation, more Ubuntu documentation, Gentoo Wiki article on VNC, Gentoo Wiki article on X11VNC, and other documentation regarding VNC on Windows and Linux. Extra notes are located here.

Episode 050 - One Year Later

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2007


Linux Reality is one year old! It has been one great year and in this episode I take some time to say thanks -- to you, the LR listener, for your support by way of listening to the show, participating in the forums, sending in donations, and providing your email and audio feedback. I pack in lots of listener feedback and questions.

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