Linux and open source tips, tricks and discussion. Free software, hardware and modern culture. The Binary Times audiocast is created by Mark and Wayne, two chaps who just like using linux and open source software and want to spread the word. Linux is free and open source and it is an excellent choice of operating system for our ever changing times. This audiocast is released fortnightly.
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The Binary Times - Series 6 Episode 6
Series 6 Episode 6 - We welcome back Mark from a short break, the Binary Times Audiocast has joined the Other Side Podcast Network. In this episode Mark has been distro hopping like crazy, Wayne is having issues with KVM on the desktop, we speak about apt vs apt-get, more under the hood tips and another epic Irish saying. Enjoy.
01:29 Mark welcomes us to Series 6 Episode 6 of the Binary Times and dedicates the show to Jimmy Beacons. The weather looks like it's going to be nice in both Kilkishen and Bristol. Wayne thinks they're getting good enough to be weather reporters, Mark is not so sure.
02:58 The guys announce that they are now part of the Other Side Podcast Network. They've joined other such august free and creative commons shows such as CCJam, Crivins, the Duffercast, Tea, Earl Grey, Hot!, The Bugcast, TuxJam and Twine Radio.
05:41 Wayne tells us what he's been up to. Wayne's a fan of KVM for running Virtual Machines. He used to use Virtual Box and found some of the setting up involved easier with that. He's been having problems with bridging between KVM and Ubuntu MATE. If anyone listening has any ideas as to how to fix these problems he'd be more than happy to hear from them. Wayne feels limited knowledge about things like the Linux networking stack and the Linux Audio subsystem are holding him back. Mark agrees and says that is why he relies on specialist distributions like AVLinux to have Pulse Audio and JACK set up properly. This leads to a discussion around to distro hop or not. Wayne also tells us that he's starting up an IT support business and trying to help a customer choose the right laptop is proving tricky.
16:07 Mark tells us about his adventures in distro hopping. Mark has an old Core 2 Duo that he's been trying a bunch of different distros on, namely Clear Linux, Devuan, Haiku, Lubuntu 19.04, KDE neon and OpnSUSE Tumbleweed.
Clear Linux wouldn't install, as it complained that the hardware wasn't 64 bit. Users in the Dublin Linux Telegram group suggested that it could be due to using an EFI ISO, Mark didn't investigate that further though. He also mentions that the Dublin Linux Community are holding a Clear Linux event in November.
Mark thinks Devuan is quite cool. He also found out that Devuan is part of the Dyne foundation.
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