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Alternageek Episode 46: Open Source For The Win

techmonkey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:40:12 +0000

In this episode we talk about the videos we took at the LinuxWorld Expo conference, the recent VMWare 3.5 Update 2 issue, Vista security, a landmark legal decision for Open Source Licenses, Ohio suing Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions) over faulty voting machines, the 10 worst web glitches of 2008 (so far), EFF’s Switzerland ISP packet monitoring tool and T-Mobile offering the first Google Android phone.

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Alternageek.com Podcast, Episode 46 for the week of August 18th, 2008 – Featuring Linuxchic and TechMonkey.

Abdullah Bakhach – FOSSFactory – LinuxWorld 2008

techmonkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:13:50 +0000

Abdullah Bakhach, Director of Business Development for FOSS Factory, talks with us about their mission to help accelerate the advancement of free/open source software by providing the only website where the community collaborates on every aspect of free/open source software production, including design, funding and development.

Urias McCullough – Haiku Project – LinuxWorld 2008

techmonkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:51:09 +0000

Urias McCullough, of the Haiku project, talks with us at LinuxWorld. Haiku is an open-source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku aims to provide users of all levels with a personal computing experience that is simple yet powerful, and free of any unnecessary complexities

Andrew Fife, Untangle – LinuxWorld 2008

techmonkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:44:50 +0000

Andrew Fife, Marketing Manager for Untangle takes a few minutes to explain to the Alternageek Tech Show about their Open Source Network Gateway. The best open source projects, integrated and made easier for spam blocking, web filtering, remote access and more.

James Peel, Altinity/OpsView – LinuxWorld 2008

techmonkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:37:53 +0000

James Peel of Altinity, takes a few minutes to explain to the Alternageek Tech Show the main features of their Opsview monitoring application. Opsview is a fully integrated monitoring tool that incorporates popular Open Source software including Nagios, Net-SNMP and RRDtool.

Fabian Rodriguez, Ubuntu – LinuxWorld 2008

techmonkey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:29:37 +0000

Fabian Rodriguez from the Ubuntu Global Support Center in Montreal, took a few minutes to talk to the Alternageek Tech Show and explain the benefits of choosing Ubuntu as a Linux distro.

Brett Turner, Open Voting Consortium – LinuxWorld 2008

linuxchic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:19:42 +0000

Brett Turner of the San Francisco Election Integrity League and the Open Voting Consortium spoke to Alternageek Tech Show while at LinuxWorld 2008 to share the passion driving those supporting the project and what you can do to help out.

Art Yerkes, ReactOS – LinuxWorld 2008

linuxchic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:09:36 +0000

Art Yerkes shares information on his project, ReactOS with the Alternageek Tech Show. ReactOS, while not a Linux operating system, is a free operating system based on the design of Windows®. Check out this Windows alternative at http://www.reactos.org/

Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, openSUSE – LinuxWorld 2008

linuxchic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:07:03 +0000

Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, the Community Manager for the openSUSE Project, took a minute to explain to the Alternageek Tech Show why you should choose openSUSE as your Linux distro. This is the second video in our video series on Linux distributions.

Karston Wade of the Red Hat/Fedora Project – LinuxWorld 2008

linuxchic — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:02:22 +0000

Karston Wade from the Red Hat and the Fedora Project took a few minutes to talk to the Alternageek Tech Show and explain the benefits of choosing Fedora as a Linux distro. This is the first in our series of Linux distribution videos.