Tag: Tim Canham

The Best of Both Worlds | LINUX Unplugged 478

2 October 2022

We go hands-on at NASA's JPL and learn why Linux is the best OS for Earth and Mars.

Git Happens | LINUX Unplugged 464

26 June 2022

We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling.

Desktop Burnout | LINUX Unplugged 435

7 December 2021

This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux.

Mars Goes to Shell | LINUX Unplugged 406

18 May 2021

Tim Canham, Mars Helicopter Operations Lead at NASA’s JPL joins us again to share technical details you've never heard about the Ingenuity Linux Copter on Mars. And the challenges they had to work around to achieve their five successful flights.

Our Worst Idea Yet | LINUX Unplugged 402

20 April 2021

You should never host your own email, so we’ve gone and done just that. What we learned trying to build an email server in 2021.

How Linux Got to Mars | LINUX Unplugged 396

9 March 2021

Tim Canham, the Mars Helicopter Operations Lead, shares Linux’s origins at JPL and how it ended up running on multiple boxes on Mars.