postmarketOS Podcast

Natanael Copa joins us to talk about Alpine's story. From being dead scared to fork the initial version off from Gentoo to Alpine becoming bigger than himself and making sure it stays around with a good bus factor. If you ever wondered how exactly apk is so incredibly fast, that is also covered - and what plans there are to make it even faster in the future. Also what would be necessary to get reproducible builds in Alpine and more...

We are happy to announce that Pablo joined the Trusted Contributors! He has been a driving force in getting GNOME Software working properly on Alpine and postmarketOS, and since he is joining us today, guess what we talk about in this episode! Besides that we get into getting your patches merged and the new postmarketOS splash screen that just landed in edge.

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff (in order of appearance)...

Between the Saturday closing of FOSDEM 2023 and going to a restaurant, we managed to squeeze around a table outside the cafeteria to record the very first ever in-person postmarketOS podcast episode! Fresh in the moment we share our experiences from the FOSS on mobile devroom, meeting great people at the Linux on Mobile stand (and everywhere else at FOSDEM/in Brussels) and random other cool things that were going down...

Chromebooks! We talked about them in the past, but this time we have our newest Trusted Contributor Anton aka @jenneron on to tell us more about the ~40 ports we now have in postmarketOS. Besides that we get excited about FOSDEM and talk about more cool things cool people did.

Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @jenneron (in order of appearance)...

Like every other podcast in your feed we give our two cents on what's been happening in the Fediverse, like why it's really great to see so many free software related projects and people moving over from that bird site. And that one should seriously consider supporting the admins of the instance they are using with a monthly donation or something. Besides that, we share some news on soon-to-be-released v22.12 such as call audio support for OP6 and other cool stuff that has been happening...

What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who is at the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot of interesting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure!

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance)...

It seems Akademy 2022 had it all. Amazing talks, great people, nice weather, a tour through Barcelona as well as a nearby supercomputer, climbing in a mountain and for some, pizza on the beach. Or as Bart puts it, Akademy was kind of dope to be honest.

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Akademy 2022 Homepage with talk schedule etc...

In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing. Again. Because Martijn has been continuously working on it. But that's just one of the segments, we cover quite a lot of different topics this time actually.

Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance)...

In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing. Have a follow up on the SourceHut consideration and do a deep dive into both Phosh debugging and Bluetooth features. Also there are t-shirts now! Have we mentioned the t-shirts?

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Ardour

• Automated Phone Testing pt...

Even though time is precious when participating in Game Jams, Sebastian does not simply generate sound effects like everybody else - instead he records himself playing them on real instruments. That's what we talked about when we were done with recording this episode anyway...