http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/linux/ Don Marti brings you the latest Linux news and interviews with Linux insiders. en Copyright 2008 LinuxWorld.com author Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who recently wrote "Can Open Source replace Microsoft Exchange?" explains the technical and business rationale behind Cisco's entry into the e-mail and groupware market. Postpath promises to be not just easier to license, but less stressful on the hardware budget. (19:59) /podcasts/linux/2008/082808-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/082808-linuxcast.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Don Marti and Jeremy Allison get on the phone with GNOME's new executive director, and seek answers to the hard questions. What's planned for the coming KDE/GNOME combined developer conference? Why do GNOME apps scribble their debug messages on your Mutt session? What is Twitter good for? Who's less interesting to normal people, distributed revision control nerds or software license nerds? What's a Twiddler? What does the SECRET HISTORY OF STAR WARS reveal? And what does an executive director do, anyway? (61:16) /podcasts/linux/2008/082208-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/082208-linuxcast.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Need a feature in Linux, and don't want to face the firehose of information on linux-kernel? Jon Corbet, author of the Linux Foundation's new kernel contribution guide, explains where to go to get started, what the kernel developers are looking for from a new contributor, and how a hardware vendor can develop an open source driver while keeping hardware data confidential. (11:27) /podcasts/linux/2008/081408-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/081408-linuxcast.html Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Don Marti and Jeremy Allison corner Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, about his role as software license gatekeeper, the politics of network neutrality and Thomas the Tank Engine, a couple of annoying bugs, and of course the upcoming Golden Penguin Bowl at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. (49:19) /podcasts/linux/2008/073008-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/073008-linuxcast.html Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 We're splitting the LinuxWorld podcast into two: the existing interview series, plus a new talk show with Jeremy Allison and Don Marti. In the first episode of the new show, we discuss the latest release of Samba, SMB encryption, Linux hatred, why Vista can catch the blame for Samba bugs, Microsoft OOXML, and the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. (49:05) /podcasts/linux/2008/072908-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/072908-linuxcast.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Brian Aker, a principal engineer for MySQL at Sun, explains the Drizzle project: a new, stripped-down derivative of MySQL that relies on best-of-breed internal libraries, eliminates support for obsolete platforms, and has already attracted contributors from outside Sun. /podcasts/linux/2008/071808-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/071808-linuxcast.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:00:00 -0400 This podcast covers an essential skill for the modern developer: scavenging code. Whether it's using open-source components in their entirety, grabbing a line or two, or anywhere in between, the more you can borrow from others the more you can get done. Just how many quiet code-borrowers are there? Can embedded devices borrow from the Linux desktop? And what do the company lawyers think of all this cutting and pasting? (17:28) /podcasts/linux/2008/071708-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/071708-linuxcast.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Virtualization is becoming a feature, not a product, with OS vendors bundling it in new releases. Brian Stein, director of engineering for virtualization at Red Hat, explains the company's new oVirt project, which includes power-saving features and web-based management that lets users request their own virtual systems. (11:16) /podcasts/linux/2008/070908-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/070908-linuxcast.html Tue, 8 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Fragmentation on mobile phones is a fact of life -- one mobile application developer might have to build 200 to 300 SKUs for a single application. But carriers, hardware vendors, and software developers are increasingly cooperating on a common set of open source infrastructure, including Linux, Qt, and gstreamer. Bill Weinberg explains where the mobile phone market is going. /podcasts/linux/2008/061908-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/061908-linuxcast.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Tom Henderson tested Linux vs. Windows power consumption on several modern servers with power-saving hardware and firmware features. Result: A Linux mail server, running sendmail and procmail, beat Microsoft Windows running Exchange. But was the Linux box accepting mail at the same rate as the Windows box? And were both OSs syncing the incoming mail to disk? Linux users had questions about the test on LinuxWorld.com, blogs, and LWN, and Tom answers them. (17:39) /podcasts/linux/2008/061208-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/061208-linuxcast.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400