From the team that brought you 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.
Latest episodes
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60 min
Pine64 With Lukasz Erecinski
Pine64 is one of the most ambitious open hardware projects around, delivering a wide range of low-cost and modifiable products including smart phones and watches, laptops, earbuds,…
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1 h 09
Raspberry Pi With Eben Upton
With tens of millions of units sold, it's no surprise the Raspberry Pi has become synonymous with the phenomenon of single-board computers, and it's also a great gateway into the w…
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1 h 12
Debian Linux With Jonathan Carter
We couldn't do a podcast about open source without exploring a major Linux distribution, and there's hardly a more influential or enduring distro out there than Debian. So we're de…
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49 min
Inkscape With Martin Owens
Martin Owens joins us on this episode to talk about the popular open source vector graphics package Inkscape, where he serves as both a developer and a member of the project's lead…
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1 h 22
MiSTer FPGA With José Tejada Gómez
The MiSTer project is the most exciting thing going in classic video game emulation, and José Tejada Gómez--better known as jotego--is one of the developers at the forefront of thi…
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1 h 05
Audacity With Martin Keary
The classic open source audio editor Audacity has been around for over two decades, but the Muse Group and product head Martin Keary only came onto the project within the last two…
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1 h 08
Samba With Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison has been working in open source almost as long as "open source" has existed, largely on the Samba project that facilitates filesharing between Windows and the Unix w…
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1 h 13
OctoPrint With Gina Häußge
3D printing has come a long way in a short time, and the open-source web interface OctoPrint has been easing and extending the 3D printing experience for a decade now. On this ep w…
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1 h 25
Blender With Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez
We briefly covered Blender in our sixth episode, and now it's time to delve deep into the past, present and future of this sprawling 3D animation package with team members Pablo Va…
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1 h 00
VLC With Jean-Baptiste Kempf
If you're reading this, odds are good you've used VLC before. The most capable video player out there got its start in surprising ways, and on this ep we're joined by project found…
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1 h 11
curl With Daniel Stenberg
The simple data transfer tool curl, and its associated library, are estimated to be installed on roughly 10 billion computers, VMs, and embedded devices around the world. For this…
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1 h 07
Home Assistant With Paulus Schoutsen
Home Assistant is the one-stop shop to control every single smart home and IoT device you own. It's also one of the biggest open source projects around, and for this ep we sat down…
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50 min
3D Movie Maker With Foone Turing
Foone Turing regularly performs feats of retro-computing resurrection on Twitter, but convincing Microsoft to release the source code for its classic '90s animation program 3D Movi…
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1 h 02
Human-Centered Design With Abbey Ripstra
Design researcher Abbey Ripstra has spent her career making technology more approachable, and nowhere has her work and expertise connected with more people than at the Wikimedia Fo…
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53 min
Open-Source Alternatives
Creative software is getting more expensive all the time, but by the same token FOSS alternatives are getting more and more robust. On this ep we check in with what's new in some o…
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56 min
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…
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1 h 11
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…
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44 min
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…
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57 min
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 netwo…
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58 min
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 streami…