From the creative geniuses behind Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod, The FOSS Pod is a show about the free and open source software that’s changing the world, and the developers who are making it happen.
Project North Star With Bryan Chris Brown
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. Join us for a discussion about topics like the ins and outs of open hardware design, sourcing parts from unlikely places, printing lenses out of resin, doing architecture work in the Unreal Engine, how standards like OpenXR fit into the picture, and a whole lot more.Check out Project North Star's extensive community documentation, and follow Bryan on Twitter.The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
Open Source 101
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 difference between a branch and a fork, the ways copyright interacts with code, how open source extends beyond just software, or what makes a Linux distro a Linux distro? This episode is for you!NotesIf you want to demystify software licensing, look no further than https://choosealicense.com/ and https://tldrlegal.com/The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google, and learn more about their event detailing Kubernetes' move away from Dockershim here: http://goo.gle/LKL22
The FOSS Pod Manifesto
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 Sparcstations, Will's time in a penguin suit, and our earliest tries at using Linux on the desktop, an examination of some previously corporate tech that's now being democratized in open-source form, and more.Here's Will's old Maximum PC chronicle of using 2005-era Linux (in a penguin suit): https://books.google.com/books?id=rwIAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=falseThe FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
Getting Started With Network Attached Storage
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 Proxmox, plus dishing out some practical tips about why you'd want a NAS in the first place, some advice on hardware requirements, best practices for backups, and more.FOSS projects for running your own NAS that we mentioned in this episode include:OpenMediaVault: https://www.openmediavault.org/TrueNAS: https://www.truenas.com/Proxmox: https://www.proxmox.com/en/And some of the turnkey hardware solutions you might pair with these projects are:Synology: https://www.synology.com/en-usQNAP: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google
OBS With Jim Bailey
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 present and future of OBS, what it’s like maintaining such a critical project, getting your code vetted by NASA, and more.Download OBS at https://obsproject.com/The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google