Episodes 110
Avg. Duration 1h 8m
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Since Dec 2023
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.

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S4E870 Open Source Gardening

Jun 10, 2026 1h 12m

This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what's…

S4E869 Episode 869 - Linux on Your Toaster

Apr 29, 2026 34m

This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support for Sitara…

S4E868 Episode 868 - Remove the Noodles

Apr 22, 2026 1h 6m

This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super Productivity…

S4E867 Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie

Mar 25, 2026 1h 3m

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most…

S4E866 Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers

Mar 18, 2026 47m

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this…

S4E865 Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls

Mar 04, 2026 55m

This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that…

S4E864 Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early

Feb 11, 2026 1h 3m

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That's Bill's book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had…

S4E863 Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason

Feb 04, 2026 1h 17m

This week Jonathan chats with Olaf Andreas Schulte and Lars Kiesow about Opencast, the video management system for education. What does Opencast let a school or university accomplish, how has that…

S4E862 Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

Jan 28, 2026 1h 7m

This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelizable? When can we expect it…

S4E861 Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak

Jan 21, 2026 1h 4m

This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some…

S4E860 Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story

Jan 14, 2026 1h 5m

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? Listen to…

S4E859 Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast

Dec 17, 2025 1h 9m

This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for…

S4E858 Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers

Dec 10, 2025 1h 4m

This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it…

S4E857 Episode 857: SOCification

Dec 03, 2025 1h 13m

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with…

S4E856 FLOSS 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling

Nov 26, 2025 1h 4m

This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And…

S4E855 FLOSS 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!

Nov 19, 2025 1h 7m

This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It's a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really…

S4E854 FLOSS 854: The Big Daddy Core

Nov 12, 2025 1h

This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That's the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host of embedded platforms, on…

S4E853 FLOSS 853: Hardware Addiction; Don't Send Help

Oct 29, 2025 1h 7m

This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Cody Zuschlag about the Xen project! It's the hypervisor that runs almost everywhere. Why is it showing up in IoT devices and automotive? And what's coming next…

S4E852 FLOSS 852: Sir, This is a Wendy's

Oct 22, 2025 1h 12m

This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities and working with…

S4E851 FLOSS 851: Buckets of Money

Oct 15, 2025 1h 2m

This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James' own itch, but brings a great visualization and management tools for your personal…

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