containerization – Linux OTC

60 – Corporate Shills Return

William Houser — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:41:10 +0000

Just Bill and Majid for this one. We get into all kinds of stuff including the evolution of content creation, distro hopping, and the like. We get into Amazon’s shift to Linux on it’s Fire TV platform. All of this and way more.

29 – Endeavour to Fail

William Houser — Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000

This week we start out on Majid's not so great experience with Endeavour OS. This spirals out of control into a back and forth with Bill dying on the Arch Linux hill. We have discussions about Snaps, Flatpaks, Atomic Desktops, and a whole lot more!

25 – Corporate Shills

William Houser — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Just Bill and Majid this go-around. This week we get into a little bit of what has inevitably brought us back to stable distros. What we make of things like Arch and Manjaro. This all leads to a hypothetical discussion about packaging formats and big business. These things, and a whole lot more!

17 – “He’s a Majid man”

William Houser — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:57:40 +0000

Ok -- Let's try this again; No Norbert again this episode, but we get into all kinds of stuff. We talk about streaming platforms, ads on podcasts. We talk about stuff like super hero shows, dissecting the concept of the multiverse. We go back and forth over the value of using distros like Arch or Gentoo. We get into the time-honored conversation about convergence. All of this and so much more!

17 – “He’s a Majid man”

William Houser — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0000

No Norbert again this episode, but we get into all kinds of stuff. We talk about streaming platforms, ads on podcasts. We talk about stuff like super hero shows, dissecting the concept of the multiverse. We go back and forth over the value of using distros like Arch or Gentoo. We get into the time-honored conversation about convergence. All of this and so much more!

15 – Bloat is Subjective

William Houser — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:45:00 +0000

This week we get into some feedback as well as a discussion about system bloat, getting rid of it; and should we get rid of it. We get into Distrobox a little and discuss why it’s different from other containerized application solutions. All of that and a whole lot more!

12 – “Reddit & Twitter deserve each other”

William Houser — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:45:00 +0000

This week we’re completely “off the cuff.” We get into Lemmy, a federated alternative to Reddit – which leads to a discussion about the fedaverse in general. We talk a little about Docker. We do a call-out to the community for some feedback on possible methods to support the show. We then get into some feedback from previous episodes, and a whole lot more!

11 – Oh Snap!

William Houser — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 03:45:00 +0000

“Off the rails” would be one way to describe this episode. We start off with a discussion about the progression of Wayland, which leads us into Hyprland, and Wlroots. We then evolve back into containerization and immutability – all of that and a whole lot more

10 – Immutable? Well… Sort Of

William Houser — Mon, 22 May 2023 03:45:00 +0000

This week we get into “immutable:” Linux distributions a bit. We talk a little about Fedora’s Silverblue, and Kinoite projects, as well as a community spin that enables some additional functionality. A little feedback, and a whole lot more!