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It's the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.

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FLOSS-866 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 866, recorded Tuesday, March the 17th Breezy Box. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I am your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we have ... more

FLOSS-867 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 867, recorded Tuesday, March the 24th. Pangolin, people can lie. Hey folks, it's Time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and ... more

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do you run your own self-hosted Pa... more

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This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this impressive project? And what direction is it headin... more

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Recent Guests

Milo Schwartz
Co-founder of Fasorial; behind Pangolin; software engineer
Fasorial / Pangolin
Episode: Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie
Valentyn Danylchuk
Creator of BreezyBox, BreezyBox project lead
BreezyBox project
Episode: Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers
Philippe Humeau
Founder/CEO of Crowdsec
Crowdsec
Episode: Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls
William Shotts
Author of The Linux Command Line
No Starch Press
Episode: Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early
Lars Kiesow
Opencast developer since 2009
Episode: Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason
Olaf Schulte
Responsible for video management at ETH Zurich, supporting Opencast since 2007
ETH Zurich
Episode: Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason
Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen
Kernel engineer at Red Hat, specializing in networking and BPF, with a PhD on buffer bloat.
Red Hat
Episode: Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too
Nicholas Adams
OpenRiak developer who previously worked with Riak and has a rich background in database systems.
Episode: Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak
Jose Valim
Creator of the Elixir programming language and chief adoption officer at Dashbit.
Dashbit
Episode: Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story

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Jonathan Bennett
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Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers
Q: What about the premier device to start with for trying this?
The host recommends a Waveshare 7-inch display with ESP32-S3 as the easiest entry point, noting its price and compatibility for quick setup.
Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers
Q: Is this the ability to SSH from a full-size computer into BreezyBox? Can we go from BreezyBox into a full-size computer? Which direction?
The guest clarifies that SSH is intended primarily for logging into the device to aid debugging and remote diagnostics, rather than pushing a full desktop experience from BreezyBox to a PC.
Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers
Q: So what all can you do with this then, the BreezyBox and the C compiler? What's the limit?
Valentyn explains that BreezyBox provides a virtual terminal subsystem on ESP-IDF, with a light-weight C compiler that can run on the device, support for multiple virtual terminals, and basic OS-like functionality without building a full operating system.
Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early
Q: What's your favorite text editor and scripting language?
Bash Shell is my favorite scripting language, and Vim is my favorite text editor.
Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early
Q: What do you find to be the most fundamental of the things you try to teach in the book?
The very first thing I talk about in the book is how to find and launch a terminal emulator, and try typing some gibberish to see what happens.

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This show consistently centers on open-source software, systems, and developer-focused topics, featuring deep-dive conversations with engineers, researchers, and project leaders. Episodes span security tooling, Linux and command-line education, open-source video management, scalable databases, functional programming, containerization for embedded hardware, and cutting-edge networking and kernel topics. A notable pattern is the willingness to explore both foundational technologies (Linux, Erlang/Elixir, databases) and niche OSS projects (video platforms, IoT runtimes, simulators) through guests who are directly shaping those ecosystems. The format often blends historical context, practical deployment anecdotes, and forward-looking discussion... more

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