Linux at Work
Linux at Work
Chester Wisniewski
The Linux at Work podcast provides info and tips for people interested in using Linux in a professional environment. Featuring @chetwisniewski, @john_shier and @0xbennyv
Linux at Work #e: Docker - Chester and Ben review Docker containerization
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Docker, a container technology for agile development and application deployment. Docker Docker Hub Ubuntu Studio iSCSI vulnerability details
Apr 4, 2021
32 min
Linux at Work #6: Did you mean LibreOffice? - Chester and Ben discuss the latest GNU/Linux news as of 13 February 2021
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 13 February 2021. Gnome 40 to be released soon Finnix 122 released New versions of Darktable, Flowblade and Shutter released LibreOffice 7.1 released LibreOffice online being ported to Web Assembly LibreOffice versus OpenOffice Kernel 5.12 to have new USB4 security controls 10 year old sudo bug will haunt us for many years Raspberry Pi OS phones home to Micro$oft
Feb 13, 2021
32 min
Linux at Work #d: Home Assistant - Chester and Ben review Home Assistant home automation system
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review Home Assistant, a smart home “orchestrator” for managing and automating all of your IoT things. Home Assistant Lutron Caseta Sonoff RF Bridge Tasmota custom firmware
Feb 6, 2021
23 min
Linux at Work #5: Fanless Not Fanboyless - Chester and Ben discuss the latest GNU/Linux news as of 24 January 2021
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester address the recent Linux news as of recording time on 21 January 2021. Kernel 3.11 to be released soon CentOS 8 support to end in 2021 KDE Plasma 5.21 to release 15 February 2021 PHP 8 released for Arch Linux Corellium gets Linux up and running on the M1 Google decides to decimate Chromium in open source charade Beagle board launches Risc-V board Ubuntu default has home directories read all?
Jan 24, 2021
33 min
Linux at Work #c: Pine Phone reviewed - Chester and Ben review the linux powered Pine Phone after a few months of testing
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester review the Pine Phone, a linux based smartphone dev platform released in 2020. While not a production ready device, they each purchased one in the fourth quarter of 2020 to play with and present their findings in this podcast. Pine Phone
Jan 23, 2021
24 min
Linux at Work #b: Hypervisor Hoedown - Chester and Ben assess the current slate of hypervisors and choose which works best for their needs
Shownotes and Links Ben and Chester had an opportunity to test and evaluate the primary hypervisors and virtualization platforms currently available for free (beer). Chester did some benchmarks to compare performance, but in the end it really all comes down to features and usability. Microsoft Hyper-V ProxMox Xen oVirt Amazon AWS Microsoft Azure DigitalOcean VMWare ESXi
Oct 31, 2020
46 min
Linux at Work #4: Ben <3 Microsoft - Linux news roudup for the week ending 26-September-2020
Shownotes and Links KDE Akademy 2020 Lightworks goes employee owned Lenovo laptops available with Linux HP ships laptops with Linux Microsoft Edge for Linux Microsoft Hyper-V Linux root partition support Linux Foundation certifications Todoist Linux snap package Apostrophe markdown editor Ben’s closing recommendation - Honeypot’s YouTube channel
Sep 26, 2020
33 min
Linux at Work #3: Is WSL2 a gateway drug? - Linux news roudup for the week ending 06-June-2020
Shownotes and Links After a slow restart Ben and Chester are back with the week’s Linux news. Topics include tiling window manager PaperWM for Gnome, virtual conference CFP for KDE Akademy, Nextcloud Hub 19 released, Google kicks off it’s Summer of Code and Microsoft announces the release of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feedback with us on Twitter or on our subreddit PaperWM KDE Akademy CFP Nextcloud Hub 19 released Google Summer of Code Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
Jun 6, 2020
24 min
Linux at Work #a: Deep Dive on Microsoft Teams Preview - A close look at the preview release of Microsoft Teams for Linux
Shownotes and Links Chester Wisniewski and Ben Verschaeren gave the Microsoft Teams Preview for Linux a spin. If you work for a company that uses Microsoft 365, you probably need Teams. Until late last year, Teams was only available as a handmade Electron app or in the web browser for Linux, neither being an optimal solution. Microsoft introduced the “Preview” in October 2019 and it has been updated frequently since. Official Microsoft Site Arch Linux AUR Package
Apr 22, 2020
20 min
Linux at Work - News topics include Xfce release, Vivaldi browser, OwnCloud 8, mdp, Virtualbox, Thunderbird, FOSDEM and SCALE
Shownotes and Links This episode has been in production for more than 5 years, but it was found and spliced back together in 2020. This is the last “classic” episode before we get entirely back to fresh content. You can find the links for the topics we covered below. As always, share your feedback with us on Twitter or on our subreddit Xfce 4.12 release Vivaldi browser ownCloud 8 launch mdp Virtualbox Thunderbird FOSDEM 2015 SCaLE 13x Linux Malware Presentation
Mar 8, 2015
36 min
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