The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

[Posted January 23, 2023 by corbet]

After a brief break of ... a dozen years or so ... Jon Masters has announced the return of his kernel podcast:

This time around, I’m not committing to any specific cadence – let’s call it “periodic” (every few weeks). In each episode, I will aim to broadly summarize the latest happenings in the “plumbing” of the Linux kernel, and occasionally related bits of userspace “plumbing” (glibc, systemd, etc.), as well as impactful toolchain changes that enable new features or rebaseline requirements.

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 23, 2023 15:51 UTC (Mon) by lobachevsky (subscriber, #121871) [Link] (3 responses)

The break wasn't that long, the last episodes before that were only in 2017, so barely half a dozen. :)

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 24, 2023 4:08 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link] (2 responses)

Let’s hope I can actually stick to it this time. Help keep me honest folks - feedback encouraged. Let me know what works and what doesn’t. New gear arrives this week so the sound should be much better soon.

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 24, 2023 9:28 UTC (Tue) by wkudla (subscriber, #116550) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm really looking forward to this, Jon. Pretty sure I can get my bank to support the podcast if this becomes something like the LWN.
Good luck!

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 24, 2023 10:21 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Note: the goal has always been to explicitly NOT “compete” with LWN. There is only one LWN and they do the in depth stuff. I prefer to mention “see LWN for an in depth story” if I’m aware they have one on a topic. And I plan to keep the podcast entirely non-commercial. I did allow Red Hat to kindly buy me a microphone last time but this time I won’t even allow that :)

Subscribed!

Posted Jan 24, 2023 7:30 UTC (Tue) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link]

If there's one complaint I have about LWN, it's "no audio version."

This'll be great… looking forward to hearing it :)

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 24, 2023 15:31 UTC (Tue) by sgruszka (guest, #71482) [Link] (4 responses)

Summary of lkml is a too much technical to listen as podcast for me. I think inviting some kernel developer and discuss about different topics with the guest would be more interesting. That's how the most popular podcasts are done and seems such convention is key for their success.

The return of the Linux Kernel Podcast

Posted Jan 24, 2023 17:43 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] (3 responses)

Yeah. That feels like it would be easy enough to arrange. Announce the next interview in advance and get people to send in questions. It would be fun to listen to.

Developer interviews

Posted Jan 24, 2023 17:56 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (2 responses)

FLOSS Weekly does such interviews on occasion. They talked with Greg Kroah-Hartman in November, with me in September, and with Dave Täht in August, for example.

Developer interviews

Posted Jan 24, 2023 19:01 UTC (Tue) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

Well there’s a reason I just got some hardware to make remote interviews easier :) But that’s for phase 2 :)

Developer interviews

Posted Jan 24, 2023 21:39 UTC (Tue) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]

It turns out in my increasingly crunchy years, I enjoy doing two to three of these a year... and discussing other stuff than FLOSS!! Doc's show is always a lot of fun, I catch maybe one in 3. One of the more unusual ones was how different "open source intelligence" was, from how I'd conceived it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ajdw4xXeEU

Then there's the "packet pushers" podcast and the "Brothers Wisp".

My space obsessions are met by thespaceshow, for example, and I have been really enjoying podcasts from scott manley, the Accidental Astronaut, and others. Not having to "read" or pay attention while one of these is going on is the PBS special of our generation.