Linux Inlaws

We have made it! Six years in the making and still going strong. With a steadily increasing audience of - wait for it - at least ten listeners. When they can't get to sleep or have nothing else to do. Or - gosh - want to learn something. Like what's Usenet. And why Linux has been so important (yes, it all will be revealed in this episode!). Including a crash course on operating system design (including the operating system war) and CPU design history. Never mind how humorous works. So wars or not, you have an hour to spare, can't get to sleep or want to learn something, never mind want to know why our beloved operating system conquered the world and how humor works and much, much more, you certainly don't want to miss this episode! (Ok, marketing made us do it - before Martin fired them once again).
Links

Minix: https://www.minix3.org

The OS war: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI?pli=1

The Usenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

GNU Hurd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

IBM's RISC history: https://web.archive.org/web/20060503190348/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/documents/pdf/rs6000.pdf

Car Talk: https://www.cartalk.com

Martin's ancient server: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProLiant

Krentenbollen: https://www.toineskitchen.com/recipes/krentenbollen

Christmas pudding recipe (not for faint-hearted): https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/classic-christmas-pudding

Chromebooks: https://www.google.com/chromebook

Arch on Chromebooks (Chris' talk): https://web.archive.org/web/20211025175723/https://frab.openrheinruhr.de/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/020/original/Arch_Chromebook.pdf?1541482424

This episode features Thunderbird, one of the (if not the most) popular mail clients in the FLOSS ecosystem. Heather Ellsworth, a buddying physicist turned DevRel (better late than never) from the project spills the beans on the history of the project not only in a Mozilla context, explains that TB's hiatus is just another urban myth and what's ahead for the project. In terms of future roadmap, monetisation and world domination. If that sounds familiar, it should! As the Inlaws have been pondering these last few topics for more than six years now. Although in contrast to Thunderbird with limited success (until now, if you want to know more on these topics and more, don't miss the next episode!).
Links

Higgs Boson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson

Altas @ CERN: https://atlas.cern

Thunderbird: https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central

Waldorf: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-pope-uk

Statler (or the other way around): https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinwimpress

Thunderbird's history (starting at the very beginning): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Application_Suite

Seamonkey: https://www.seamonkey-project.org

Rust in Production Thunderbird episode: https://corrode.dev/podcast/s02e03-thunderbird/

Thunderbird on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thunderbird.android

OpenPGP episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E22_OpenPGP__7525

Thunderbird PRO: https://tb.pro

Thunderbird's Call For Action: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/participate

Mozilla's Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home

umu launcher: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

Open Printing: https://openprinting.github.io

Bugonia: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12300742/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_accord_1_cdt_t_2

This episode - recorded in an ultra-secret location near a border (any border will do - almost :-) - is witness to our two ageing heroes being in the same location for a change and gives away some giveaways. For the first time in the Inlaws' history, this episode features a glimpse into the future of the show: an overview of what's to come in 2026! Plus the usual banter about Trump, some FLOSS topics and why red wine for breakfast is almost always the better option. And some beans are spilled - for example, Martin's first programming language (hint: in contrast to popular belief, this wasn't IBM mainframe assembler which was all the rage in the sixties). Plus more from Martin's distant past - if he can remember it.
Links

VIC-20: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20

Commodore Basic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_BASIC

ALGOL 68: https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/ALGOL/report/Algol68_revised_report-AB.pdf

PDP 11 assembler: https://programmer209.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-pdp-11-assembly-language

Smalltalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk

XBox system software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software

Xkcd & Nebraska: https://xkcd.com/2347

Excel-managed company: https://xkcd.com/1906

OpenCL: https://www.khronos.org/opencl

Jever: https://www.jever-beer.com

Lucifer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052886

As 'tis the season, we have a combined Xmas and New Year's episode for you. And what a blast this is! The usual suspects will make an appearance - all those characters which you have known for years and probably already taken a shine to. Yes, this does include the Grumpies (the Grumpy Old Coders) for the uninitiated, our beloved countess Vladessa and of course our two hosts Martin and Chris. This time (as it has been a tradition for the last two year by now) impersonated by two lovely large language models (LLMs). Which goes to show that - in contrast to popular belief - LLMs DO have humour and CAN make jokes. If so forced into this...
For a laughter or two and a bit of fun, don't miss this episode. Plus bonus content: The real truth behind the Redis / Valkey split, how to pack a swimming pool, sauna and much more all into one motorcycle and what this has to do with FLOSS. Or not.
Links

This year's Halloween episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S02E49_Halloween_2025__A6B0

Grumpy Old Coders: https://grumpy-old-coders.org

Honda Goldwing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Gold_Wing

The Bottlerocket episode: https://archive.org/details/LI_S01E80_Bottlerocket__605D

Redis' license change: https://redis.io/blog/agplv3

Salvatore's post on the Redis license change: https://antirez.com/news/151

Atlas comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc4A8va8NRU

Avi Loeb's take on this: https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-inspiration-delivered-by-3i-atlas-to-our-doorstep-c7bc08115d0f

Armageddon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/?ref_=fn_t_1

Push: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_push

Playdate: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31425731/?ref_=fn_t_1

The Substance: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17526714/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_the%2520substance

Pluribus: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22202452/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_plurib

The Witcher: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5180504/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_6_nm_1_in_0_q_the%2520wit

Altered Carbon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/?ref_=fn_t_1

In this episode Martin and Chris talk to Klaus Knopper of Knoppix fame. For the few listeners who do not know what Knoppix is: Just listen to the episode (hint: it's one of the oldest life distros on the planet). Plus more on Linux for handicapped users. And the challenges of maintaining a distro and how to overcome them (watch out for the magic contained in this segment!). And an abbreviated history of Linux (esp. in Germany). Never mind Microsoft's dirty secrets involving Unix, Linux and some other things swept under the rug of history.
Links

Linux Tag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxTag

Knoppix: http://www.knoppix.org

Damn small Linux: https://www.damnsmalllinux.org

Knoppix for Windows: https://runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm

Yocto: https://www.yoctoproject.org

linbo: https://github.com/linuxmuster/linuxmuster-linbo

Screenreader for Blind Linux Users (SLB): https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/sbl

espeak-ng: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng

Adriane: https://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html

Guy Fawkes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes

Led Zeppelin untitled album (aka IV): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin_IV