FOSSCast guest suggestions

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Some of you already know this from the newsletters. We are starting a podcast named “FOSScast”. No episodes have been released yet.

So far we have had Danielle Foré (lead dev of elementary OS) and Jacque (lead dev of Makulu Linux).

Who else would you like to see/listen to on the podcast? Torvalds is out of bound as he is always guarded by Linux Foundation :wink:

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Someone from
Linux mint ideally Clement Lefebvre
Ubuntu Mark Richard Shuttleworth

Steve Wozniak, although I suspect no chance ! Ok he is not foss but deeply involved in technology

I dont know any of these and just how good they would be, perhaps they would iffer another from the organisation more used to presentation or public speaking.

If possible
Debian
Puppy
Red hat
Any linux system in the top 20 of distrowatch

Not sure developers are interesting to hear from such as nemo, gnome, xfce or similar this list is extensive

Software app development such as gimp, libreoffice, chromium again long list

Great idea, bit like TED talks

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I’ll try reaching out to Celemnt. Shuttleworth could be a little out of reach as he is Enterprise CEO.

I’ll take your other suggestions into consideration.

Thank you

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Guido van Rossum creator of Python.

I like the sound of that.

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About “listen”. Experience by:

  • Sys Admins
  • Developers/maintainers of Linux itself

It all about for: Debian, Fedora, ubuntu and Peppermint

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I dont use podcasts, but I would vote for Daniel Robbins… creator of the Gentoo and Funtoo projects.

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How about interviewing maintainers of some of the more obscure user facing applications, to give them some exposure?

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We could do that.

Any specific suggestions?

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I have one more…

Interviews about the flow process of security being applied in “each part” … kernel, apps, repositories etc

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Perhaps something around the design and development of a linux version, why use debian or not, why gnome, why a set screen layout,

Testing of software before going into a repository

Or someone from codeweavers who do Wine,
Not for me, but a games designer developer.

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Testing of software before going into a repository

Good point … wondered how is their CI

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Containers are big these days. Maybe someone that works on Podman could be interviewed.

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NovelWriter → Novel writing software.
FocusWriter → Writing software.
AVLinux. → Linux distribution catering to multi-media CREATION.
CherryTree → Note taking application.
HaikuOS → Operating System (something different than Linux) aiming for the desktop.

All of these had, as far as I’m aware, little exposure. At least three of these are maintained by a single developer.

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Can I add

  • Keenwrite
  • Distrobox
  • Firejail
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Explain why we should (or releases like Mint) stay away from snap updates.

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I second FocusWriter & CherryTree.

Sheila

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Upvote Distrobox & Firejail

Sheila

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I would love to hear the pros & cons of snap as well as flatpak, whoever we could get to do a podcast on those topics.

Sheila

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Here is a nice comparison of Snap vs Flatpack vs AppImage.

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@xahodo
I looked at your link and found this

" Snaps can only use the libraries included in the package. "

There was no comment on this for flatpak or appimage, so I assume they can.
Does that mean snap has a stronger sandbox?

and
Can you answer this question?
What do snap and flatpak and appimage do that cant be done with a static binary?

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