HPR4095: Twenty seven years of Linux

Hosted by Deltaray on 2024-04-12 00:00:00

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The programs and software I mentioned in this episode:

• XFCE
• Monad
• Gnome
• Firefox

• XFCE Terminal
• KiTTY
• Cool Retro Term

• GIMP
• Gnumeric
• Thunar
• Hypnotix
• Flameshot
• Mousepad
• Inkscape
• pavucontrol (Pulse Audio)
• pipewire
• keepassxc
• Blender
• FreeCAD
• SimpleScreenRecorder
• VirtualBox
• KVM
• Rhythmbox
• Gramps
• qv4l2 (Webcam control)
• Godot
• Krita
• Arduino IDE
• nerd-dictation

• Yoshimi
• Carla
• Audacity
• Rosegarden
• Hydrogen
• VCV Rack 2

• Stardew Valley
• Steam
• Minecraft
• SimCity 2000
• SimCity 3000
• Warzone 2100
• BeamNG
• Oni
• Supertux 2
• SuperTuxKart
• Nexuiz
• FlightGear
• Terraria
• Diablo 2 and 3
• World of Warcraft

Comments

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Deltaray says: Re: Correction

RE: hpr4095::2024-04-12 Twenty seven years of Linux by Deltaray
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You're right Nick. Thanks. What I failed to mention during the podcast is that while it is indeed free for personal use, I'm not able to make the personal use claim anymore because I need to use it at work, and Oracle detects this and sends a nastygram to the organization asking them to pay.

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Henrik Hemrin says: Interesting review of your Linux softwares

RE: hpr4095::2024-04-12 Twenty seven years of Linux by Deltaray
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I liked this show!

Your review of your softwares included several I use, some I have not heard of but of interest and some I know but have not started to use (and some not in my current need). One of those I have installed and started to look at is Gramps and I was happy to hear your positive comment about it which gives me more confidence to use it.

When you talked about your early Linux days, it was when I used Sun workstation with their Unix as my daily job driver. I believe I started with Sun in the 1990's and had it for probably more than a decade at job. I liked the Unix environment and I remember a colleague talked about Linux when it was very new and I became interested in Linux but it was much later I actually started to use Linux. I could relate to several details in your story to my Unix background.

Finally, you mentioned the freedom to put the operating system and other software I want to on my device. One big device many have is a car, and I believe modern cars lack software freedom. Anyone with knowledge in modern cars softwares, please enlighten us in a pod show!

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Nick says: Correction

RE: hpr4095::2024-04-12 Twenty seven years of Linux by Deltaray
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Hi, great podcast, thank you.

A small correction: the Oracle Virtualbox Extensions are not FOSS but they are free for personal use.