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Episode: 1659
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Title: HPR1659: OggCamp Interview with Jon Archer
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1659/hpr1659.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 06:29:02
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It's Thursday 11th of December 2014.
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This is HPR Episode 1659 entitled.com interview with John Archer and is part of the series
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interviews.
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It is hosted by Coroneminal and is about 9 minutes long.
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Feedback can be sent to Coroneminal at Coroneminal.org or by leaving a comment on this episode.
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The summary is a short interview with John Archer, Uck Fedora Ambassador.
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Hello everyone, this is Hacker Public Radio and my name is Philip Newbora.
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In today's episode of HPR you can listen to an interview I conducted with John Archer.
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Honesty UK Fedora Linux Ambassador and in the interview we discuss his role as an ambassador
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what's been happening in the land of Fedora and his involvement with the new UK Fedora
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podcast.
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The interview was reported at Ogcam 14 held in Oxford in the UK on the weekend of October
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4, 2014.
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OK, so I'm at Ogcam and with me I have John Archer.
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Hi John.
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Hello.
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So what are you doing here?
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I'm here representing the Fedora project.
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I'm a Fedora ambassador so I've come to spread the word.
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Cool, I see you've got like a Fedora table in front of you.
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You've got lots of Fedora 19, 20 CDs and stickers and what not.
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Did you do a lot of event sites?
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Yeah, I haven't done so many this year because I had a new beer.
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But last event I was at was Linuxcon in Edinburgh last October.
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Previously on Ogcam and various barcamps at Ogcam Manchester in two weeks.
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So get around a bit.
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Sounds good, sounds like you're spreading the word about Fedora.
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What's Fedora 21 coming out soon?
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Yeah.
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Tell me about it.
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So it's now being dubbed as Fedora next.
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It's been split up into several groups.
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We've got a workstation version, we've got a server version, we've got a cloud version.
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And then the reason behind that is because there's a lot of demand for that.
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So running it in the cloud, Fedora, Struck Red Hat, I've got a big thing about the cloud at the minute.
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So that's where they're going with that.
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And people do still use Fedora's server so there's a demand for that.
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But also there's a lot of concentration goes into the workstation.
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Is that like the desktop?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So in the desktop, we've got non-314 coming, which is the new shiny, all animated, all spanking new version of norm.
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Which is really nice.
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There's little bits of Wayland in there.
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There's system D's fully integrated with everything now, including norm.
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And obviously new latest version of the kernel, which will be 316, I think, at time of release.
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Maybe even later.
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Not quite sure.
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Okay, cool.
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I've got a bit of a soft spot for Fedora, because it's one of the first distros I used,
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but when it was Fedora call, I moved on since then.
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But how does Fedora stack up to you reckon to say Ubuntu and Mint?
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Because I hear people say that, I don't know, Ubuntu for example,
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it comes sort of like this really easy to use with codecs and multimedia stuff,
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some out of the box kind of works.
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So how does Fedora stack up against that nowadays?
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Yeah, I mean, there's always been the power user aspect of Fedora.
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It's freedom first, so they don't include things like MP3 player back codecs or video codecs.
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But adding a third party repository, or using a tool like EasyLife,
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makes it really, really simple to get up and running fairly quickly anyway.
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So digging around on Google, you'll find that quickly.
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But yeah, it's not as easy to out the box as Ubuntu,
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but once you've got it working, it's just the same really.
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It's all the same tools under the hood, and it's just as good if not better.
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I reckon it's better.
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Yeah, we're going to go with better.
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Right, so that's probably it.
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How does, what's the state of play with the Fedora community in the UK at the moment?
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It's driving, actually.
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The ambassadors and myself, we've just started a podcast.
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We're starting to talk about reading Fedora-based events around the country.
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We're going to do an ambassadors meet up fairly soon in the Midlands,
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where we're all going to get together and talk about where we want to go with the UK community.
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We're part of EMEA, so we come under those for our ambassadorship.
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But we are kind of splitting off as a separate entity,
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a bit of independence for the Fedora community in the UK,
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so onwards and upwards at this point in time.
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Cool, so you mentioned a podcast, tell me about it.
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Yeah, so we had episode one about three weeks ago,
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where we did a live Google Hangout, and it was just a few guys talking about Fedora,
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Linux, community, and that kind of thing.
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We kind of just want to see where it goes.
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There was no set agenda.
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We'll probably do that in the future,
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but maybe get people on to talk about various projects they're working on and things like that.
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But we're still sort of lining up the bugs on what I've here,
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but it's episode two should be out next week, I think it will be.
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How do people find that?
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It's generally advertised through social networks.
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There's a Fedora UK podcast group on Facebook.
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I don't think there's a Twitter yet,
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but I'm finally setting it up next week.
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You can find me, or Paul Mellers, or Jim Smith on Facebook,
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Twitter, Google Plus, and we're all contributing to that,
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so I'm sure we advertise somewhere near you, Sue.
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Excellent.
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It's been great talking to you.
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Keep up the great work mate, you're doing a fantastic job.
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Thank you.
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Thanks very much.
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