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The Linux Podcast with Fexingo: Open Source Operating Systems, Distros, and Server Stack

Fexingo

Lucas and Luna examine the Linux ecosystem as it powers everything from cloud servers to embedded devices. They trace the evolution of major distributions — Fedora's upstream-first philosophy, Debian's stability-first governance, and the commercial strategies behind Ubuntu and RHEL — without rehashing release notes. Each episode picks one layer of the stack: the container runtime that changed deployment (Docker, Podman), the systemd debate, or why Wayland still hasn't fully replaced X11 on the desktop. They also cover real-world migrations: a startup moving from CentOS to Rocky Linux, a government agency choosing OpenSUSE Leap for long-term support, and the kernel patching workflow at a FAANG-scale datacenter. Lucas brings the command-line fluency — package managers, filesystem hierarchy, SELinux contexts — while Luna asks the questions that matter to sysadmins and developers: What breaks when you upgrade? How do you audit a distro's supply chain? Can Linux ever win the desktop without OEM deals? No fanboy evangelism, no terminal-porn demos. Listeners come for the technical depth — kernel config options, Wayland protocols, cgroups v2 — but stay for the operational judgment: which distro for a Kubernetes node, which init system for an embedded device. What does it take to run Linux at scale without burning out your ops team? #Linux #OpenSource #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Distro #Kernel #Containerization #Docker #Podman #Systemd #Wayland #RHEL #Ubuntu #Fedora #Debian #Sysadmin #DevOps Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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  • S4 · E155
    August 15 · 8 min

    How Linux Bcache Caches Block Devices for Speed

    Episode 155 of The Linux Podcast dives into Bcache, the Linux kernel block-layer caching that lets you put a fast SSD in front of slow spinning disks. Lucas and Luna walk through how Bcache works at the block level, why it's different from...

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  • S4 · E154
    August 15 · 8 min

    How Linux Control Groups Handle Thousands of Containers

    In this episode of The Linux Podcast with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dig into the inner workings of Linux Control Groups, or cgroups, and how they keep modern containerized systems stable. Using a real-world example of a platform running ten thousand...

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  • S4 · E153
    August 13 · 9 min

    How Linux Control Groups Manage Container Resources

    In this episode, Lucas and Luna dive into cgroups v2, the kernel feature that underpins container resource management. They explain how cgroups limit CPU, memory, and I/O for individual processes, and how systemd integrates with cgroups to manage...

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