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I have been avoiding this task since I made the decision in January.  The team and I have grown and changed over the last 6 years.  So has Linux.  When we started we still felt like we were explaining to people why they wanted to use Linux.  Now we spend more time talking about why we want to use a specific technology on a specific distro.  So last year I tried to re-ignite our passion and focus on the podcast by just focusing on Linux and not just Corporate Linux.  It worked well for a while but each of us has other passions that we just want to spend more time on.  This is how we ended up with no shows for the last few months and only sporadically for the months before then.  So for now we are going to put the podcast on hold.  I will still be posting to the twitter and Google Streams communities when I find interesting articles, but the site itself will more or less just be a place holder for the older content and shows.

My focus for some time has been on the DevOps world.  It's what I love doing so you can check my new podcast over at the DevOps Mastery website/blog/podcast.  I am focused on helping people get started on their DevOps career.  I will be Linux focused of course and talking about DevOps from the Ops perspective.

Joe Leuzzi has for some time been working hard over at What I'm Playing Now where he has a blog, podcast and game streams going.  He has been missing from the show for a while because our production schedules weren't matching up.  Both of us are busy personally and professionally and as you will see if you visit the site his hard work is paying off.

Walt Jevack and his wife welcomed a new member to the family earlier this year.  So he is a bit sleep deprived and wackier than normal.  You can still follow his Tech escapades over at jevack.com.

Not to be left out Greg Martin is also busy with other projects.  He has recently released an Android development environment called Vagabond.  So go check it out at Project Vagabond's website and get your Android hacking on.

So for now we are putting the show on-hold.  It may return, it may not.  Either way we appreciate all of the support and feedback over the years.  While I haven't had the chance to meet a lot of you, the ones I have, almost always have become friends.

Lastly as we do with every show don't forget to:

1) Introduction

Brian - Fiting with Updates breaking my Wifi but nothing else

Walt - Compiling on ARM Architecture

2) What we are up to with Linux?

ShellShock/Bash

Debian Switching to Gnome

Brian is running RDO from RedHat their easy installer for OpenStack

3) Conclusion

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Walt Jevack - jevack.com

Brian Wagner - devsopmastery.com

OhioLinux Fest October 24-25

Brian is presenting at 4-5PM of the day on Sat. in Room 230-231

1) Introduction

Brian - I built a new Firewall

Walt - OpenBSD Power Ports - ZAURUS

3) Conclusion

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Joe Leuzzi - whatimplayingnow.com

OhioLinux Fest October 24-25

Brian is presenting at 4-5PM of the day on Sat. in Room 230-231

1) Introduction

Brian - I Hate developing solutions that MS says can’t be done

Walt - XBMC Build Complete

Joe - MOAR automation and log rotations

elasticSearch

2) What we are up to with Linux?

It's Birthday Week in the Linux World!!!!

Debian turns 21 on Aug. 16th!

Linux turned 23 on Aug. 25th

Lumina Desktop

Security Topics - Securing your applications communications on the internal network

3) Conclusion

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Brian Wagner - devsopmastery.com

Joe Leuzzi - whatimplayingnow.com

OhioLinux Fest October 24-25 (Twitter)

1) Introduction

Brian - OK Maybe Drop Down Terminals do rule...

Walt - Rebuilding Mac Mini’s sucks

Joe - WORK and automation sometimes don’t mix

2) What we are up to with Linux?

ZFS Guru

Cubox-I Pro is on sale!!

3) Conclusion

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Brian Wagner - devsopmastery.com

1) Introduction

Brian - I am death to all smart phones...NO really I have killed every version I have owned.

Walt - Elementary OS Freya Beta

Joe - WORK

2) What we are up to with Linux? ##

Drop Down Terminals?

Guake/Yakuake

Wagners rules on Why and When to use Docker?

Chef vs Docker at RelateIQ

The Revolution Will Be Containerized:Docker

3) Conclusion

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Joe Leuzzi - whatimplayingnow.com

1) Introduction

Brian - Brian played with his latest PogoPlug, got Strep, still feels bad….

Walt - Roku / Media Players, Challenges in getting current information online!

Joe - using autofs for windows mounts

2) What we are up to with Linux?

Linux Mint 17 works fine but still misfires every once in a while

Walt found this cool tool on his search for a flat file blog system, a Markdown Tool called Haroopad via the Linux Action Show

Walt also found us another toy to play with on our search for the perfect Media Server... Media Browser

3) Conclusion

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Check out the podcast over here.

1) Introduction

Brian - Brian played with PogoPlug and LInux Mint 17 Cinnamon

Walt - Got the Pogoplug working off an SD Card

2) What we are up to with Linux?

More Fun with the PogoPlug

Installing Archlinux onto a USB Key is easy

Installing Debian is a medium difficulty

Installing on the SD card is an advanced task

The PogoPlugs aren’t fast but they will work great for simple tasks

Walt is seeing about 35/Mbps file transfers so the throughput does not even max out the USB 2.0 speed

Serving stactic pages works fine but DB’s should probably be avoided due to a lack of memory.

Check out TiddlyWiki as a cool wiki without the need of a DB and most of the processing is done in the browser as it’s all written in JavaScript.

3) Conclusion

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1) Introduction

Brian - Walt sucks cause I now have 3 Pogo Plugs on the way because they only cost me $30 with 2 day shipping.  Walt - Has been running a ton of Cable.

2) What we are up to with Linux? ##

Hacking the Pogo Plug and other Pogo devices…. Pogo Plug Sale

Walt wants to try this one out Jinzora 3

VMWare Management Stuff: MonitorIQ

3) Conclusion

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CHECK OUT OUR OTHER WORK:

Walt Jevack - jevack.com

1) Introduction

Brian - Walt sucks cause I now have 3 Pogo Plugs on the way because they only cost me $30 with 2 day shipping.  Walt - Has been running a ton of Cable.

2) What we are up to with Linux? ##

Hacking the Pogo Plug and other Pogo devices…. Pogo Plug Sale

Walt wants to try this one out Jinzora 3

VMWare Management Stuff: MonitorIQ

3) Conclusion

Follow us on Twitter @linuxinstall

Google + Community

CHECK OUT OUR OTHER WORK:

Walt Jevack - jevack.com

1) Introduction

Brian - Walt sucks cause I now have 3 Pogo Plugs on the way because they only cost me $30 with 2 day shipping.  Walt - Has been running a ton of Cable.

2) What we are up to with Linux? ##

Hacking the Pogo Plug and other Pogo devices…. Pogo Plug Sale

Walt wants to try this one out Jinzora 3

VMWare Management Stuff: MonitorIQ

3) Conclusion

Follow us on Twitter @linuxinstall

Google + Community

CHECK OUT OUR OTHER WORK:

Walt Jevack - jevack.com

1) Introduction

Brian - Ansible is pretty neat Joe - Too much work not enough fun Walt - Migrating the workloads on a Dell 2650 to a Pogo Plug

2) What we are up to with Linux? ##

What services are you running on your home network? (DNS, DHCP,File Servers,etc)

3) Conclusion

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Joe Leuzzi - whatimplayingnow.com

Walt Jevack - jevack.com

1) Introduction

Brian - ArchLinux isn’t that bad Joe - wanting to download centos 7 Walt - The Return of CHUMBY!

2) What we are up to with Linux?

OMG a lot of people think that init 6 is the right way to reboot linux machines!!! TIP: It’s not use either sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r now Linux Magizine Group on Linked in Post

3) Conclusion

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1) Introduction

Brian - Joe -

2) What we are up to with Linux?

Google I/O - Chrome Box/Books, Android TV/Auto/Gear, and other things we think about what Google said

3) Conclusion

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You can find the podcast by clicking this line.

1) Introduction

Walt - WD Live Box, and upgrades of BSD Joe - Chromecast

2) What we are up to with Linux?

http://www.maximumpc.com/steamospower_handheld

3) Conclusion

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So Joe and I were talking last Friday and I realized that my first post on Linuxinstall.net was on June 12th.  We thought we should re-post it just to remind you where we started.  Hopefully you like where we have ended up.

 Thanks for all the comments and support!!!!!!

 WOW!!!! We finally got this moving.  I am Brian "Wags" Wagner.  I am the founder of LinuxInstall.Net.  So why does the Internet need yet another Linux focused WebSite?  Because a lot of great sites about Linux seem to be slowing.  I am not saying all of the great sites are going anywhere.  As an example of a site that is still going strong check out DistroWatch which is one of the best locations for finding information about what else but distrobutions.

So what are we going to do?

I have several of my friends out searching the Web for Interesting Stories about Linux.  We are then going to turn the posts into a Podcast for people like myself who prefer to listen.  We are going to broadcast our recording sessions and make the full/behind the scenes stuff available on Youtube and others.  We are finally going to create a set of screencasts and articles that will show the processes we go through to do things in Linux.  The topics will start off with what a new user would do.  For instance, we will install a distro(or 2 or 10).  After that we will continue to build on the server to create an entire network of servers.  We have plans to add much much more but this seems like a great way to start.

What should we expect out of the editorial staff?

Everyone on my team lives in the real world.  We have real jobs in real companies.  We are not acedemics though we are all educated.  We are not trained journalists, which you will see with our writing.  We work hard to either Manage Technology based on Linux and/or the people who Manage the technology.  Our goal is both to help the newest of newbies understand and the most seasoned of Linux Experts understand how to explain the when and where to use Linux.  We don't believe Linux is the best choice for all situations.  We do believe there are only a limited number of issues that need to be addressed to for Linux to hit the tipping point in the area of acceptance. 

We believe that your feedback is our most valuable resource....