Linux Inlaws

As part of the effort of turning the planet's premier Rust marketing podcast into a full-blown NoSQL show, in this episode Chris hosts some of the key people behind a NoSQL database called TerminusDB (Martin couldn't make it as he was firing, um, re-organising the Inlaw's marketing department once again). Luke (the CEO) and Gavin (CTO) of TerminusDB spill the beans on the history of the project, ontologies and why they still matter not only in a mobile-first world and why a website called DB Engines simply doesn't do the trick (putting it very diplomatically). Never mind the road ahead... (including quantum AI and some other fancy stuff - you heard it here first!). And also next week's lotto numbers (perhaps). Links: https://tcd.ie https://terminusdb.com https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb http://seshatdatabank.info https://www.dbpedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts https://www.rdfhdt.org/what-is-hdt http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3569 https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3399 https://terminusdb.com/community https://ai-infrastructure.org https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamín_Labatut#When_We_Cease_to_Understand_the_World https://benn.substack.com https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4594834/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

In this episode Martin and Chris host John Hawley of kernel.org fame. The discussion centers around Python, the royal British family and other FLOSS topics such as some break-away colonies like the US, version control systems, wireless wikis and containers. Never mind Python. Did I mention Python? :-) And perhaps VMware. Ever wondered why early versions of git just gobbled up your main memory? You may or may not find the answer in this episode. Or its outtakes... Links: The Linux kernel: https://kernel.org The wireless subsystem: https://wireless.kernel.org git: https://git-scm.com Linux kernel VCS before git: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/git-origin-story xkcd on git: https://xkcd.com/1597 Guido @ Microsoft: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549 Episode on The Halloween Documents: https://linuxinlaws.eu/archive.html#S01 TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index PhotonOS: https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/Introduction.html BusyBox: https://www.busybox.net Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com trace-cruncher: https://github.com/vmware/trace-cruncher Zero Dark Thirty: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/about

A counter point to this show is available: hpr3648 :: A response to tomorrows show In this episode, Martin and Chris take a closer look at twenty years of Linux Inlaws history. Why, you may ask, given the fact that this podcast has only been in existence for roughly over two years, are we reviewing this history? The answer - of course - is straight forward: by sheer coincidence our two heroes got hold of a future episode which traveled back in time from the future. If you ever wondered about time-travel, the paradoxes associated with this and what the next twenty years have in store not just from a Linux Inlaws perspective, this episode is for you. Links: DeLorean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean#Back_to_the_Future Time-travel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_timelike_curve Timespace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime Altered Carbon: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227 Linux Outlaws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Outlaws The Inlaws @ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1j_uaAbB3magzPs4Z0Y-mg Timetravel with a DeLorean: https://www.backtothefuture.com D-Wave SPAC: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/quantum-computing-firm-d-wave-to-ipo-via-16bn-spac-merger Alphabet's attempt at longer living: https://www.calicolabs.com The Fly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Hello! Magazine: https://www.hellomagazine.com Jeff Bezo's purgatory: https://www.livemint.com/companies/people/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-divorce-with-mackenzie-bezos-final-with-38-billion-settlement-report-1562387250690.html Internet Archive: https://archive.org The GNU World Order: https://gnuworldorder.info

In this episode, Martin and Chris interview Eric Rescorla, the CTO of Firefox at Mozilla. After discussing the weather situation in the Kingdom formerly known as the UK, our two aging heros go right into browsers, programming languages, the Mozilla ecosystem and internet history and future alike. This episode again is not for the faint-hearted as none of the gory details are spared: We learn about Chris' t-shirt situation (and how you can kidnap apparel), why Google is so sucessful, data privacy and Internet monetization. Never mind rendering engines. Plus: more Rust marketing (Rebecca Rumbul: Take note :-). Links: Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers Mozilla Foundation: https://foundation.mozilla.org Mozilla Corporation: https://www.mozilla.org Gecko: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Gecko Blink: https://www.chromium.org/blink Servo: https://servo.org Quantum: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum Webkit: https://webkit.org Trident (MSHTML): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSHTML CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org Ada standard: https://www.iso.org/standard/16028.html Web Monetization: https://foundation.mozilla.org/de/campaigns/web-monetization Mozilla's Vision for the Web: https://webvision.mozilla.org/full Peter Watt's Blindsight: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm Mozilla Manifesto: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details

In this episode our two ageing heroes take a closer at operating system (OS) level virtualisation. The main different legacy virtualisation technologies like virtual machines (VMs) and this new-fangled approach is that the OS kernel remains the same across virtualisation domains, thus giving the hippsters and other followers of fashion a cheaper and potentially much faster solution than virtualising the kernel and surrounding hawrdware and all the rest of it. Plus more details on Martin's real faith. Don't miss out on this episode if you're interested in any of these... Links: Craíc: https://www.irelandlogue.com/irish-slang/irish-slang.html Celts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts Celtic languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_languages#Living_languages [a-zA-Z]+ Virtualisation: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/VMware_paravirtualization.pdf Hypervisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor BSD Jails: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails Solaris Zones: https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/it-infrastructure/o11-092-s11-zones-intro.html Docker: https://docs.docker.com/engine LXC: https://linuxcontainers.org Open Container Iniative: https://opencontainers.org Podman: https://podman.io Double-fork: https://thelinuxjedi.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-use-double-fork-to-daemonize.html CRI-O: https://github.com/cri-o/cri-o CGroups: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html Namespaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces The gory details: https://www.haifux.org/lectures/299/netLec7.pdf Dockerfiles: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder Containerd: https://containerd.io From Dusk Till Dawn (TV series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Dusk_till_Dawn:_The_Series

In this episode, Martin and Chris discuss init systems and Chris outs himself as a systemd fan boy (Devuan followers take note :-). Even Linux and other FLOSS OS geeks not interested in what happens when you flick the power switch on a computer may find this episode (vaguely) interesting as some light is also shed on the philosophy of the different system architectures and their history (Ever wanted to know what an /360 IPL really is? Then stay tuned...). Disclosure: The following text may resort to regular expressions to keep things concise and simple. Some of the PCRE-challenged readers may take offence - you have been warned. Links: Booting a PC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booting#Personal_computers_(PC) GRUB: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub ([A-Z][a-z]+ux) Init systems (general overview): https://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.2748v1.pdf SysV init: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init#SysV-style systemd: https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html OpenRC: https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc Canonical's Upstart: https://upstart.ubuntu.com Switch from upstart to systemd: https://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 Runlevels: https://www.linfo.org/runlevel_def.html Serial console: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/serial-console.html Hello Magazine: https://www.hellomagazine.com Unix philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy And in much more detail: https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html Devuan: https://www.devuan.org