PickVidsBest Linux & open-source ecosystems Videos
The 94 Linux & open-source ecosystems videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 38 intermediate, 35 for a general viewer, and 17 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include linux.conf.au, The Linux Foundation, iX.
Why I deleted GrapheneOS
Louis Rossmann explains why he stopped using GrapheneOS, describing his interactions with its lead developer Daniel Micay.
"Write a single library to handle all input devices, it'll be easy" they said...
Peter Hutterer's linux.conf.au 2020 talk on creating libinput, the unified userspace input library, and the difficulties of handling the many quirks of input devices.
Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
Bryan Cantrill's OSCON 2015 talk on moving a proprietary product to open source, drawing on Sun's history with Solaris and illumos, licensing choices and the relicensing after Oracle's acquisition.
Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds
Linus Tech Tips builds a Linux PC together with Linus Torvalds, who talks through parts selection, kernel development and some of his side projects.
Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops
Joanna Rutkowska's 32C3 talk asks whether trustworthy client systems can be built on x86 hardware, and what realistically can be done about the challenges, such as Intel ME.
Talk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons
Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Conservancy speaks at the 2009 Law of the Commons Conference about free and open software as a model for a new intellectual commons.
Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS
A clip in which Eben Moglen tells how he grew up when software was freer and how his path crossed Richard Stallman's.
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer formerly at Apple and Google, argues that the 'UX/UI' split pits programmers against designers and narrows ambition in open source.
Kirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD
Kirk McKusick gives a narrative history of the Berkeley Software Distributions at MeetBSD California.
Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.
A short TFiR clip in which Linus Torvalds explains his view that respect should be earned rather than given, in defense of his blunt and insulting style.
Safespaces: An open source 3D / Virtual Reality Desktop
A one-minute demo of Safespaces, an open source 3D and VR desktop built on the Arcan project.
Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)
Ryan Gordon (Icculus) gives a high-level overview of SDL 2.0 at Steam Dev Days 2014.
Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years
Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD co-founder, discusses where FreeBSD might go over the next decade at MeetBSD California 2014.
Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)
A roughly 14-minute interview with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt at ruBSD 2013.
The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117
An episode of the BSD Now podcast in which Bryan Cantrill joins the hosts to rant about Linux interfaces, alongside the week's BSD headlines.
The State of Kernel Self Protection Project by Kees Cook, Google
Kees Cook of Google gives a Linux Foundation talk on the Kernel Self Protection Project, which aims to harden Linux against attackers.
The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew
Veritasium tells the story of the XZ backdoor, how a patient attacker became maintainer and nearly compromised SSH on Linux systems.
XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020
Day one of the X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 stream, including talks on the Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan driver, the WSL graphics architecture, X11 and Wayland apps in WSL, and Mesa for D3D12.
Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones
A short demo of Inferno, the Plan 9 descendant operating system, running on an Android phone as Hellaphone.
NixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account
A long personal account by a former NixOS contributor of his experience in the community, his ban and the governance events.
Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)
A Google I/O 2019 talk explaining the architecture of Linux on Chromebooks (Crostini), a sandboxed Linux development environment built on containers inside a VM, with demos and design rationale.
I installed Linux (so should you)
PewDiePie describes switching to Linux and encourages viewers to do the same.
Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin
Netflix engineer Drew Gallatin explains why the company runs FreeBSD-current on its CDN.
Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds
GitHub interviews Linus Torvalds on twenty years of Git, from its creation in about ten days as a Linux kernel tool to its role in modern software development.