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In this episode, we'll share the reasons why tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft love Linux.

Linux is a powerful operating system that's used by a lot of major tech companies. So what is it about Linux that makes it so appealing to these companies? And is it a suitable platform for a tech career?

In this episode, we'll explore these questions and more, and we'll show you why Linux is a great choice for a tech career!

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This episode is another round of interviews from OSS Summit in Bilbao and features interviews with Gab Columbro, the general manager of LF Europe and Dawn Foster of the CHAOSS project. We talk about open source strategy and challenges in Europe and measuring the health of large and small open source projects.

It also features more announcements from Canonical, a round-up of less well-known audio editors, and getting ready for Halloween… Mystical texts.

https://chrischinchilla.com/podcast/oss-summit-linux-foundation-europe-and-open-source-metrics

Amazing interactive 3D content can spring to life across all 3D engines—and in time, the Metaverse—with open source tools that creators are accustomed to using. Integration and shared standards for interoperability across real-time 3D engines bring freedom and flexibility to those creators. Collaborative communities such as the Open 3D Foundation foster incredible innovation and creativity, drawing industry leaders together.

Royal O’Brien talked with Marc Petit, Vice President of the Unreal Engine Ecosystem at Epic Games about their shared passion for the future of 3D technology, covering a lot of ground:

• The evolutionary moments in 3D and the biggest trends that emerged in the transformative years from the 1990s to now, including: 
• The transition from work stations to PCs
• Real-time ray tracing (which brought Marc out of retirement and to Epic Games)
• Content democratization
• The maturity of hardware platforms
• The emergence of AI and ML advancements in helping create good content, allowing humans to do really creative things.
• The role 3D engines play as integrated toolsets, as complex as operating systems.
• The need for real-time 3D to be accessible everywhere, and why open source technology is the key to making that possible.  

Marc and Royal share an excitement for a future creator economy with real-time 3D as a mainstream medium. Together, all players in the industry can create a shared, standardized foundation of content that will catapult us to the next level of creation.

In response to the explosive growth of the content creator community and their desire to create new experiences and bring novel worlds to life, a complexity of tools has emerged. In this episode of Tales from the 3rd Dimension, Austin Robison, Head of Product for Game Engine and Developer Services at Amazon Web Services, and Open 3D Foundation Executive Director Royal O'Brien, talk about how the Open 3D Engine addresses these complexities through its modular, extensible framework. The two explore the evolution of game engines, what it truly means to be modular, how modularity differs from extensibility, and why this matters to content creators. They also explore the integration and combination of complex systems within systems to deliver the functionality needed by 3D artists and developers around the globe.

C++ is the underlying language driving projects in nearly every industry. It can be found in medical devices, oil exploration, financial, gaming, big machine equipment, safety devices, you name it, C++ is a part of it. Until the last few years, there have been very few options that deliver the performance of C++, and it continues to evolve. 

In this episode, Royal O’Brien talks with Jason Turner about C++, its origins and where it’s going. Listen and get their perspectives on: 

• Why tools like optimizing compilers, smart pointers, and standard containers make manual memory management an invalid reason for not choosing to use C++. 
• Some of the best uses cases for C++, such as:
• Soft real-time requirements 
• Performance
• Writing GUI applications
• Compiling onto WebAssembly for faster run time
• The pros and cons of successor languages, such as Rust.
• The momentum of C++ leading it to be the language used in 80% of 3D engines.
• The common misnomer that C# and C++ are equivalents.

Jason literally wrote the book on best practices for C++, and started a C++ best practices organization on GitHub (github.com/cpp-best-practices). Here are just a few of the top best practices he shares in this episode:

• Use C++ 11 threads for portability.
• Rely on existing, well-established, proven libraries, particularly if you're starting from scratch.
• It’s essential to have a continuous integration environment that ensures your application works across compilers and across platforms. 

Enjoy this episode of Tales from the 3rd Dimension, and in the meantime, if you’d like to learn more about Jason and his work, here’s how to find him:

• Twitter @lefticus
• YouTube channel, C++ Weekly, that he updates every week for the past 346 weeks. 
• Website, emptycrate.com. 

Podcast, CppCast. Although no new episodes are being recorded, there are more than 350 episodes covering a large variety of topics. 

Jason Turner, C++ Trainer, Speaker, and Developer

​​Jason is an internationally known, award winning, C++ keynote speaker and trainer. His YouTube channel, C++ Weekly, has a loyal following of over 60 thousand subscribers and more than 3 million views. He has spoken and provided training across the United States, Poland, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom and New Zealand at more than 10 conferences and 15 companies. Jason utilizes his 2 decades of C++ knowledge and unique training style to help organizations write clean, maintainable, and efficient programs. In recognition of his contributions to the C++ community, he has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP since 2015.

In many ways, the seedlings of today’s eye-popping 3D visual effects were planted a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. From its formation in 1975 to fulfill George Lucas’ vision for Star Wars to its wildly successful spinoff, Pixar Animation Studios, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has been at the forefront of digital creation and innovation for decades. 

In this episode of Tales from the 3rd Dimension, ILM Chief Creative Officer Rob Bredow joins Open 3D Foundation Executive Director Royal O’Brien for an in-depth conversation about the parallels between the film and gaming industries, the convergence of modular tools and end-to-end workflows, and the impact of open source innovation. Rob and Royal discuss:

• The open source roots of the film industry and the role of open source software in advancing the state of the industry and spurring cross-company collaboration
• The convergence point that real-time rendering, most commonly associated with games, plays in expanding pre-visualization and on set to aid actors’ performances in advance of final print, fully rendered effects
• How 3D technologies will enable new interactive experiences, user-generated content and the metaverse

“When you can develop software that's close to the artists and engineers who are using it, and they can scratch their own itches, you start to see innovation happen more quickly.”

–Rob Bredow, Chief Creative Officer, ILM

On this episode of The Main Scoop, co-hosts Greg Lotko and Daniel Newman are joined by John Mertic, Director, Open Mainframe Project to discuss how fundamental "open" approaches are to growing business, and innovating with technologies across platform ecosystems. They also provide insights and reveal what's going on with open mainframe projects, how organizations are generating new value, and what the future of open looks like.

Our conversation also covered the following:

• A dive into an “open first” approach and how this strategy is the best to modernize the mainframe
• A look into the business drivers that are changing the platform ecosystem
• An overview of the Linux Foundation and the Open Mainframe project

It was a great conversation and one you don’t want to miss. Like what you’ve heard? Check out Episode One of The Main Scoop and Episode Two of the Main Scoop, and be sure to subscribe to never miss an episode of The Main Scoop series.

Josh and Kurt talk about NPM requiring 2FA for the top 100 packages. We discuss the new Alpha and Omega projects from the OpenSSF and what it could mean for the future of open source security. Then we end on a note about the new Samba critical vulnerability.

Show Notes

• NPM requires 2FA
• OpenSSF Alpha and Omega
• David A. Wheeler episode
• Linux Foundation LFX
• Samba Advisory

There’s a lot going on at the Linux Foundation, including the announcement that we discussed last week that had to do with new features and ecosystem partners joining the open-source software and tools fray with LF Edge. So it seemed appropriate to take a deeper dive into the Foundation, which is what I did with Arpit Joshipura, the General Manager for Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation in this week’s Five Minutes With…discussion.