Syscast Podcast by Mattias Geniar Mattias Geniar

In this episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan-Piet Mens to discuss the differences between Linux and BSD systems.

If you have any feedback, as always, reach out via e-mail at m@ttias.be or on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar.

Show topics
We discuss:


The differences between Linux & BSD in user-land
Why did Linux become more popular than BSD?
How systemd drove Jan-Piet to BSD 😉
The differences of distributions vs. operating systems
FreeBSD vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD
Package managers in BSD
Creating packages for BSD
“pkg” vs “ports” in BSD
Filesystem differences between Linux & BSD
Managing Linux vs BSD with Ansible

Additional shownotes

Jan-Piet’s site: jpmens.net
Jan-Piet on Twitter: @jpmens

Sponsors
This shows is sponsored by my own 2 products (wink, wink):


DNS Spy: get notified when your DNS records changed, wanted or unwanted!
Oh Dear: website monitoring with added features like broken links checking, mixed content detection & so much more

Thanks for tuning in!

In this new episode of Syscast, I talk to Jan Somers for a deep-dive into CPUs. We discuss Intel vs. AMD and what the role and future of ARM might be.

If you have any feedback, as always, reach out via e-mail at m@ttias.be or on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar.

Show topics
In this episode, we discuss:


The inception of Intel & AMD
The x86 instructionset
Production sizes (nm) and sockets
Hyperthreading in Intel and AMD
Pipelines: core count vs. clockspeeds
Introducing ARM CPU’s
The ARM CPU doesn’t exist (😱)
Jan’s hardware rabbit holes
The future of CPU’s

Additional shownotes

Hardware info, news & reviews: anandtech.com
Jan’s favorite hardware reviewers: @iancutress
Jan on Twitter is @j_somers

Sponsors
This shows is sponsored by my own 2 products (wink, wink):


DNS Spy: get notified when your DNS records changed, wanted or unwanted!
Oh Dear: website monitoring with added features like broken links checking, mixed content detection & so much more

Thanks for tuning in!

I’m back! Sort of.

This is a mono-episode where it’s just me talking about Config Management Camp, a conference held in Gent in February 2017. I recap a few interesting talks and projects I saw.

This is an episode that I recorded in the car. So there might be audio quality concerns and I’m very much looking for feedback on this format: is it hearable? Does it bother you? Should I do more of these recaps?

Please let me know via e-mail at m@ttias.be or on Twitter at @mattiasgeniar.

Shownotes

Config Management Camp
Kubernetes
Next gen config management: mgmt
Digging into Kubernetes with Sysdig

I wish I didn’t have to bring this message, but I’m fairly certain you already noticed it: there hasn’t been a new SysCast podcast in a while.

I’m taking a bit of a break to organise things, prepare better and overall bring a better show. But that takes time, and time is something I don’t have at the moment.

The plan is to bring SysCast back in a few months. In the meantime, don’t unsubscribe just yet, keep the RSS feed going. In a few months, I hope to be back – full force.

Meanwhile, if you’re craving more open source or linux news, have a look at the weekly newsletter called cron.weekly!

For the 6th episode of SysCast I’m joined by Scott Arciszewski.

We talk about PHP, cryptography, securing online applications, cache timing attacks, his CMS called Airship and so much more.

If you like security and crypto, you’ll like this episode!

Shownotes

Scott is @CiPHPerCoder on Twitter as well as @ParagonIE
Scott works at Paragon Initiative Enterprises
CMS Airship
Secure Coding Rules
OWASP Top 10
grsecurity
You Wouldn’t Base64 a Password – Cryptography Decoded
The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges
Timing Attacks
htshells (Self contained htaccess shells and attacks)
SysCast episode on the Caddy Webserver (episode #1)
libsodium (A modern and easy-to-use crypto library)
All the crypto code you’ve ever written is probably broken
“This JPEG is also a webpage” (view source of this site!)

Feedback? Let me know via syscast@ttias.be or at @mattiasgeniar on Twitter.

Special thanks to Jeroen Flamman (@jflamman) and HPCDude (@bengui122) for cleaning up the audio and removing most of the clicks and background noise!

In this episode I talk to James Cammarata, head of Ansible core engineering to discuss the Ansible project.

We discuss how it’s used as a config management tool in both a push/pull scenario, how Ansible can be used as a deployment tool and an orchestrator. We touch on the terminology, Red Hat’s acquisition, ideal use cases, how to get started with Ansible, Ansible vs. Puppet and so much more.

If I can borrow 2 minutes of your time, leave a rating on iTunes please!

Shownotes

You can find James as @thejimic on Twitter
Ansible mailing lists: ansible-project (general) and ansible-devel (for, you know, devs)
Ansible IRC channels
Official Ansible website: Ansible.com
Red Hat acquires Ansible: press release
Ansible Playbooks
YAML syntax
Getting started with Ansible: 30 minute introduction video
Development Modules in Ansible
How to deploy an application with Ansible
Ansible 2.0 release
The Cobbler project
cron.weekly newsletter

Feedback? Let me know via syscast@ttias.be or at @mattiasgeniar on Twitter.

A special thanks for Serge van Ginderachter (@svg on Twitter) for helping prepare this show.