Today I decided to write an overview of different Linux Podcasts I Like to listen to. I think it’s important for listeners like me to get the word out. At first I thought I should rate these podcasts from one to ten, but then again it would be useless, because in the end almost every podcast in the lst would get ten out of ten. That just shows how much I appreciate the work that these wonderful people do. So, if you have some driving or walking time in your day, podcasts are great way to fill that time.

Linux Reality

Chess Griffin, the host of this podcast is a nice and soft person. The show is aimed to new Linux user and walks them through different topics step by step. I don’t think myself as a new Linux user, but I still find something useful in every episode. Linux Reality was actually first podcast I ever listened to and thanks to Chess and his references I started listening to other shows. He has covered a wide range of topics in his podcast: from different distributions to whole series of episodes about home servers. So anyone who’s interested in Linux, doesn’t matter are you newcomer or advanced user, you’ll still find something useful and interesting from Linux Reality.

But every good thing have to come to an end at one point. On episode 96 Chess announced that he will pull the plug after episode 100 due to his day job and family taking the free time away, which is totally understandable. I wish him best luck with his future doings. And like I said before, even though the show ends soon, it’s still worth to listen the older episodes, because their full of good information.

To find out more about Linux Reality, head over to linuxreality.com.

Linux Action Show

Linux Action Show is one of the goofiest podcast on the market. Bryan and Chris are two hosts of this show. They can make listening to technology podcast an fun event you wait for. This that sort of show you download immediately after new episode is published, because it just is so great. You have to listen it yourself to get the idea. There’s only one negative aspect with the show - it’s quite weird if you driving in a bus with your headphones on and start laughing suddenly…

To find more information about this awesome podcast, type linuxactionshow.com to your browser address bar.

The Linux Link Tech Show

The Linux Link Tech Show is on… Dann, Allan, Pat and Linc - link it up and take it away. TLLTS is the oldest surviving Linux podcast out there. And that talks for itself. During the years they had almost every big name in open source community on the show (Mark Shuttleworth, Richard Stallman, Miguel de Icaza and Patrick Volkerding to say the least) and it’s funny how they manage to often piss of their importand quests (Linc and RMS, Dann and Mark Shuttleworth…). Their intro says it all: free software - free speech, open technology - open mind.
If you want to know, what’s happening on the Linux world, TLLTS is the place to be.

LUGradio

LUGradio is four fat bastards from England talking about Linux. Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter and Adam Sweet form this boyband from Brittan. Seriously, LUGradio is something different, I would say it’s the real Linux show. Tech mixed with a lot of swearing and laughing. You can just say that they’re enjoying themselves on the air and that’s how it should be. They are also famous for their LUGradio Live events, which this year are taking place both in England an US. So if you have chance, you should go to get the feel of tech conference mixed with rock concert atmosphere. To get the impression, listen to this.

So if you haven’t listen to LUGradio yet, you have no idea what you’re missing.

Lotta Linux Links Linux User Podcast

Podcasting at 75 miles per hour, here’s your host - Dave Yates. Yes, that’s right, Dave records this show while driving on the highway 75 miles per hour with his Honda Civic. So it’s understandable that it not might be as high quality as show recorded in studios, but he still manages to produce a good quality show. He lately has a lot of interviews with members of the Linux community, but I prefer his solo episodes. One thing that might bother a bit is that he is always apologizing for his mistakes or rambling. Come on Dave, you’re recording podcasting in your car. Man, you’re doing a great job, so don’t worry about some mismatches and ramblings. This sort of stuff makes this show different and great.

So if you’re interested in podcast covering news and different topics in Linux, head over to lottalinuxlinks.com/podcast.

Other Shows

I also listen to some other shows, which I’ll mention here, but I don’t have time right now to write about each show.

So Linux Basement is a great Linux podcast hosted by Chad Wollenberg, who’s a great guy to listen to. He also plays his own intro music and ending song, which is just one reason to listen this great show.

Another one is LinuxQuestions.org podcast by Jeremy Garcia. He often covers different lawsuits and software patent issues that other podcasters usually don’t like to talk about. He also has deep information about topics he covers so it’s really interesting to listen to him. If you want to know what’s going on on LinuxQuestions.org on in software word, listen to LQ radio.

Linux on the Desktop was one of my favorite podcast from Marland Dunn, really passionate guy about open source. His show was really inspiring and he himself is still the person who other podcasters mention often. He discontinued the show, because his book didn’t sell well, but I (and I think I’m not alone on this one) hope that he’ll be back someday.

Open News Show was short news show with impressive quality and finish to it. But again, Aaron Newcomb decided to discontinue the show in January (as for now) due to the time limit (he also has a videocast called the_source). And that’s really unfortunate, because he managed to produce high quality professional show about Linux news.

Damn, I really hope we’re not seeing a new trend developing here: First Marland Dunn, then Aaron Newcomb and now Chess Griffin. Here’s my message to podcasters: if you can, keep it up. You’re listeners will appreciate it.

Conclusion

So that was my somewhat short overview of different Linux podcast out there. I might left some out due to the time limit at the time of writing, so I just might add some podcasts in the future. I also would like to mention, that there’s a great podcast network out there called TWiT which stands for This Week in Tech. Leo Laporte and his co-hosts produce daily shows about different topics in the technology world, so if you’re interested, go and check it out. I didn’t want to put TWiT into the main post, because I wanted to concentrate on pure Linux shows only.

So that was my two cents about Linux podcasts out there. If you have any comments or remarks, feel free to leave me a comment.
Thanks for reading and until next time, keep it between the ditches.