Jason Howell, Ron Richards, Aaron Newcomb, and Michael Fisher talk about Motorola's new Moto G.For the full episode, go to twit.tv/aaa/225Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by Cachefly.

Pokémon Go is taking the country by storm. The Segway folks are here with two new smaller scooters: the miniPRO and the Ninebot One. Aaron Newcomb tells us what it takes to start a Makerspace including equipment and resources. Learn some great options to upgrade your NAS in our Call For Help.

One group wants to keep Arduino as open hardware, others want to keep the designs for themselves. How will this affect Arduino sales? Aaron Newcomb, Guillermo Amaral, and Jonathan Bennett speak about the changes in leadership. For the full episode visit twit.tv/floss.

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb revisit Craig, the open source way to make live multitrack recordings of Discord sessions, with its new and already-seasoned maintainers, @Snazzah and @DJCoolguy. The new maintainers share their experience with transitioning from the previous developers as well as other…

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron NewcombRandal and Aaron are joined by Mounir Idrassi to talk about VeraCrypt. VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX and is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a.Guests: Mounir IdrassiDownload or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/floss.Here's what's…

Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Aaron Newcomb discuss the features found in the new Android N Preview. Jeff Jarvis installs the Operating System live during the show on his Nexus 6 and reveals some of the features.For the full episode visit twit.tv/twig/343

Leo Laporte and Aaron Newcomb talk about and demo the Snowden-endorsed Qubes OS, a security-focused OS that works to protect you from malware and other security breaches, with its community manager, Andrew Wong.For the full episode, go to twit.tv/nss/84

DIY broadcasting with open source is a topic too big and fast-moving for just one show, so this is our second time around with Tim Pozar and Brian David telling Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb about a large assortment of open-source tools and approaches that are ready to go for creators and…

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb chat with Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation about today's approach to IT training and certifications. How does self-taught compare to a classroom environment regarding IT training and certifications?For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/floss/643

Jason Howell, Aaron Newcomb, and Gina Trapani discuss the news of Android Wear coming to China.For the full episode, go to twit.tv/twig/317Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show

On The New Screen Savers, Father Robert Ballecer, SJ and Aaron Newcomb talk with Dr. Richard Marks from Sony Interactive. He shows off the new Aim Controller for the Playstation VR and the game, Farpoint.For the full episode, go to twit.tv/nss/104

Getting started with electronics can be challenging. On FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls, Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett have found that getting into retro computer projects will help you better learn more about general electronic components.For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv…

Silicon Valley technology veteran, Mary Hodder, joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on FLOSS Weekly to talk open source in construction. Home construction is the original open-source field, and nobody knows more about making it work than Hodder. Where does open source fit in the world of…

Are COBOL developers in demand in 2021? John Mertic of the Linux Foundation and Open Mainframe Project discusses with Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb of FLOSS Weekly if COBOL developers are in need today in the world of IT.For this and more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/624

Avery Pennarun was previously on FLOSS Weekly discussing his startup Tailscale as it aims to make creating secure network connections super easy. Since Pennarun's last appearance, Tailscale has received $100 million in funding to push the service into the mainstream further, all while honoring open…

A computer the size of a grain of rice. We'll talk with David Blaauw, from the University of Michigan whose team has developed the world's smallest computer. Todd Weaver, the Founder and CEO of Purism, the makers of the Librem line of computers, shows us his secure Linux computers. How do you stay…

Dr. Andre Kudra, who plays "retro geek jazz" with Aaron Newcomb (himself a retro master) and host Doc Searls in this fact and fun-filled episode about retro computing and Demoscene. Nothing in computing gets more open, real, and truly deep—close to the metal—in a fun way, than retro computing and…

Avery Pennarun of Tailscale and much more, blows the minds of Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb on a can't-miss show that explains how the best development is all "chickens and eggs." Pennarun explains thatfree software and open source is the gifting nature of the former, and how startups succeed and…

OBS Ninja has been an alternative to Zoom and Skype for video conferencing. But can OBS Ninja compete with Zoom on a larger scale? Steve Seguin, creator of OBS Ninja shares insight on OBS Ninja versus Zoom and scaling potential on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb.For more, check out…

Leo Laporte and Iain Thomson talk with the Co-Founder of OpenROV, Eric Stackpole, about their newest open-source underwater drone, the Trident. See another edition of our popular 'Game of Geeks' segment. Father Robert Ballecer, SJ takes you to rLoop as they build a Hyperloop vehicle. In 'Call for…

Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb chat with Ralph S (Coolguy) and Snazzah of Craig. They're the new maintainers of the open-source Discord bot used to record audio. The two are asked about their career paths with the Craig project and their advice to anyone looking to make a potential career in open…

Doc Searls, Jonathan Bennett and Aaron Newcomb are together on FLOSS Weekly taking a look at the challenges of switching to Linux, even though Linux runs on many things used in everyday life. System76 has decided to build a non-Gnome desktop for its distro. Why? Bennett addresses the allegations of…

Clyde Seepersad of the Linux Foundation joins FLOSS Weekly to discuss trends in hiring, training, diversity, the massive demand, as well as the need for both old and new school approaches across every open source code base. Remember when open source was a new thing no company cared about? Now it's…

John Mertic of the Linux Foundation joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb of FLOSS Weekly. The Linux Foundation only gets bigger, more interesting and more important for the FLOSS world. There's nobody better to talk to about all of it than Mertic, Director of Program Management for this "foundation…

Without Dale Dougherty, our guest for this show, we might never have had the maker movement with Maker Faire, Make Magazine, Maker Camp, and the influence it has had on education, hardware, and software creation. In a deeply engaging hour, Dale brings Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb up to date on the…

What never stops and what's barely started are the topics debated by our panel of co-hosts: Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Aaron Newcomb and Simon Phipps. We start with the SCO vs. IBM (and before that, many others) lawsuit, which was reportedly settled. What really happened with the GoDaddy…

Steve Seguin & open-source video conferencing.Steve Seguin of OBS.Ninja joins Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb to discuss his exciting open source project. OBS Ninja gives you a peer-to-peer way to do video conferencing and much more via your browser as it features super-low latency and other tools…

Open source business model.How is open source utilized in the workplace? On this episode of FLOSS Weekly, veteran co-hosts Aaron Newcomb and Jonathan Bennett join Doc Searls in a lively discussion of open source news in workplaces—both professional and personal. Topics include: open source business…

Dr. Andre Kudra of esatus.com discusses SSI, or Self-Sovereign Identity. It's a hot and fast-moving topic with a growing base of hackers, companies, nonprofits, and whole states, provinces and countries. Aaron Newcomb and Doc Searls probe Andre for lots of great intelligence about how SSI puts…

Encouraging open-source computing.Reflecting on the 20-year anniversary of Linux on IBM Z mainframes. Hosts Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb talk with Boaz Betzler, one of the original team members from the IBM Böblingen Lab in Germany responsible for porting Linux onto the IBM Z mainframes. They…

More Chess with Leo Laporte, Jeffrey Needles, Mike Elgan, Karsten Bondy, and Rene Ritchie, Open Source in the Maker Movement with Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb, Captain Midnight radio drama, and we ring in the new year for Russia.TWiT supports UNICEF--and we'd like you to join us in helping to…

Global certification for open-source.In this episode, we discuss open source certification as well as career support offered through LPI. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb interview Jon "Maddog" Hall, who is a committed educator and a community developer. He is the board chair at LPI as well as the Co…

Open source language, package installer, programming Python.PIP is the package installer for Python. You can use pip to install packages from the Python Package Index and other indexes. It is the most downloaded package on the Python Package Index. Doc Searls and Aaron Newcomb talk with the project…

Please join Tom Merritt, Gina Trapani, Jason Howell, Aaron Newcomb, and Rachel Metz on Wednesday (September 4th) at 10AM for our live coverage of Samsung’s IFA keynote address from Berlin.Samsung is expected to unveil its Galaxy Note 3 phablet and Galaxy Gear smartwatch.You can watch and listen at…

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis.Details of Google's Mobile Network coming in the next few months, Android pay is real, Huawei watch unveiled, and more. Guest: Aaron NewcombDownload or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twig.We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Also, check out…

Hosts: Aaron Newcomb and Guillermo Amaral.Guests: Kai Kreuzer.(From openHAB.org): OpenHAB is a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home.Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/floss.We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes.Here's what's…

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb Guest: Will Gorman.Will Gorman has been a lead developer on Pentaho's open source projects for almost 8 years. Pentaho is a comprehensive platform for data integration and business analytics.Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/floss.We invite you…

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb.Crate Data is a distributed SQL data store that runs on one machine or a cluster of machines. Jodok Batlogg is founder and CEO of Crate.Guests: Jodok BatloggDownload or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/floss.We invite you to read, add to, and amend our…

Hosts: Aaron Newcomb and Gareth Greenaway Guest: Slava Akhmechet.RethinkDB is an open-source distributed database built to function on the web in real-time. Slava Akhmechet is the CEO and one of the founders at RethinkDB. Slava is interested in web technologies, distributed systems, and building…

Hosts: Aaron Newcomb and Guillermo Amaral.Sqitch is a database change management application. Sqitch is not integrated with any framework, ORM, or platform. Rather, it is a standalone change management system with no opinions about your database engine, application framework, or development…

Hosts: Randal Schwartz and Aaron Newcomb.Bro is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.As one of the lead engineers, Seth Hall works on the design, development and implementation of the Bro Programming Language and the Bro Platform.As the…

We are thrilled to have Doc Searls join FLOSS Weekly as our permanent host starting Wednesday, May 13, 2020. If you’ve been anywhere near the Open Source movement, you’ve heard of David "Doc" Searls. He’s known as a respected tech writer who advocates for free and open software. Doc takes…

Leo Laporte: It's time for TWiG, This Week in Google. Aaron Newcomb joins Jeff Jarvis and me. We're going to talk about the GDC, the Game Developer Conference, some big announcements there, the Mobile World Conference, all the latest Android devices, the future of Google. We welcome back…

Man made leaf, how to use Microsoft Remote Desktop, and part two of getting to know Linux Mint with Aaron Newcomb.The Man-Made Leaf that could change the way we live... IN SPACE!Microsoft Remote Desktop * Microsoft Remote Desktop allows you to get GUI access to a Remote Desktop Server Equipped…

Show Tease: On this episode of Before You Buy we’ll be reviewing some very interesting and nice looking Bluetooth speakers. Plus a chrome box, a new raspberry pie, and much, much more. All next on Before You Buy. Netcasts you love, from people you trust. This is TWiT. Bandwidth for Before You…

Chad Johnson: On this episode of Before You Buy we have a transforming tablet, a monitor for your camcorder and a gaming laptop. All before you buy. Netcasts you love from people you trust. This is TWIT! Bandwidth for Before You Buy is brought to you by CacheFly. At c-a-c-h-e-f-l-y.com. …

Show Tease: Coming up! We’ve got a gaming keyboard, a video intercom system for your door, a network attached storage device, and I’m about to get Pono’d. It’s all next! Time to watch Before You Buy. Netcasts you love, from people you trust. This is TWiT. Bandwidth for Before You Buy is brought…

Father Robert Ballecer: Coming up, it's a high-res audio player, a brand new venue from Dell, a first look at an Acer convertible tablet. Raspberry Pi 2, a smartphone for people who hate big screens. That's right, we're mixing it up. That's why you've got to watch, Before You Buy. Announcers:…

Show Tease: Coming up! Kyocera Hydro Vibe, sounds like a toothbrush, but it’s not! Plus, can you connect a monitor VIA USB? Aaron Newcomb will tell us. And then Mike Elgan with some fitness bands, and I’ve got the latest laptop from HP. It’s all ahead! Time to watch Before You Buy. Netcasts you…

Show Tease: It’s time for TWiG, This Week in Google. Gina Trapani is here. Yes, the Changelog is back! Aaron Newcomb is with us. We’ll talk about HeartBleed; what you should do about this horrible internet disaster. And, whether you need an antivirus on Android. Turns out, the answer is not what…