Linux & Open-source Ecosystems Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#29

The Tragedy of systemd

linux.conf.au

“is an interesting talk on this topic from the view of someone (Benno Rice) in BSD land. Highly recommended.”

16 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#134

The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

Mladen Mijatov

“incredibly funny and educational talk[1] from 2013”

13 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

talk#153

LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

USENIX

“If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill”

9 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

talk#154

Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git

Google

“This talk by Linus is iconic, if you haven't watched it you should.”

9 HN recommenders · 2007–2023

interview#305

DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds

Adnan Hodzic

“Highly recommend watching Linus's answer ~6 minutes in”

7 HN recommenders · 2014–2021

talk#473

Gtk to Qt - a strange journey [linux.conf.au 2014]

Konstantin Bläsi

“One of the best discussions on the subject, made by old hackers, but new guys to GUI programming, who tried both”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#556

User-level threads....... with threads. - Paul Turner - Google

Linux Plumbers Conference

“Paul Turner explained this really well at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. The whole talk is fantastic”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

demo#616

Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal

CuriousMarc

“It's one of the best things on the Internet, IMO.”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer#655

How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6)

Tantacrul

“He does a good job at making the topic of music notation come to life”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#794

NSA operation ORCHESTRA: Annual Status Report

HUP

“The entire talk is an eye opener.”

9 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

talk#886

The real story behind Wayland and X

Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia

“It is quite fun and eye opening, he clearly knows his subject better than most of the comments.”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#908

Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks

gentooman

“Linus Torvalds explains it perfectly”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

talk#948

Replace Your Exploit-Ridden Firmware with Linux - Ronald Minnich, Google

The Linux Foundation

“Absolutely fantastic video from a google engineer”

6 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

tutorial#950

i3wm: Jump Start (1/3)

Alex Booker

“I highly recommend this 3-part video series from Code Cast”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

demo#993

introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

tripflag

“The launch video is well worth a quick watch”

7 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#1067

Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist

The Linux Foundation

“A great talk on software licensing made by the creator of the 0BSD license”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1121

"A Political History of X" - Keith Packard (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“I invite anyone interested by the subject to watch Keith Packard's amazing presentation on this at LCA 2020”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#1213

Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd -- BSDCan 2018

BSDCan

“One of the better videos on this subject”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#1222

"What UNIX Cost Us" - Benno Rice (LCA 2020)

linux.conf.au

“Benno Rice is an insightful, energetic, witty, and just plain enjoyable tech speaker.”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#1336

Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

InfoQ

“This is the video that I keep recommending to new people who want to know how it works on a technical level.”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2016

interview#1389

Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

Jupiter Broadcasting

“There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#1399

Writing a Wayland Compositor in Zig - Isaac Freund

Zig SHOWTIME

“I loved his Zig+Wayland screencast [1], where he explained very engagingly how Zig is able to embrace and extend a pretty hairy C library”

4 HN recommenders · 2021

talk#1423

Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

Docker

“I watched this talk couple of years ago that made docker/containers finally click for me.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

commentary#1675

Getting GPLv2 Compliance From A Chinese Company- In Person!

Naomi Wu

“I wish more people had the nerve to do that instead of letting it slide.”

3 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#1727

A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick

bsdconferences

“but the whole thing is excellent.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2017

documentary#1773

Revolution OS

Von Hash

“For those that haven't seen Revolution OS I would highly recommend it for much of the Linux backstory.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2016

talk#1854

Linux Kernel Development, Greg Kroah-Hartman - Git Merge 2016

GitHub

“Just dropping this gem of a talk[1], for the uninitiated.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#1957

Free software, free society: Richard Stallman at TEDxGeneva 2014

TEDx Talks

“I'd recommend this[1] talk by Richard Stallman, it's pretty basic, but it gets the idea across well.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2025

interview#2043

Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds [Full-length]

aaltouniversityace

“the whole talk by itself is very recommendable”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

talk#2076

Console Hacking 2016 (33c3)

media.ccc.de

“This is a good watch, it goes into detail on the architecture of the PS4”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

tutorial#2179

A walk through of installing Synapse+Riot+Jitsi from scratch on Debian

Matrixdotorg

“I found this video to be super helpful”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2196

Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

southeastlinuxfest

“If the author of SQLite advances some arguments around the proper way of doing version management, I would advise to error on the side of caution and listen at least a second time.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2251

LibreSSL: The first 30 days, and what the Future Holds

Andrea Ross

“There is a fascinating and funny talk by Bob Beck from OpenBSD on the first 30 days after forking OpenSSL.”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#2435

Hackfest 2015: Theo de Raadt presented "Pledge: A new security technology in openbsd"

Hackfest Communication

“I thoroughly enjoyed Theo de Raadt recent talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

talk#2520

Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users

iX

“Their technology stack (FreeBSD/Erlang) is pretty interesting, more info here: 2014 talks by Rick Reed”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

talk#2521

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

illumos

“I really enjoyed this talk[1] by Bryan Cantrill”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

talk#2537

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

Computer History Museum

“There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2014

talk#2930

XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

“Please check this talk from Dave Chinner, where he explains how XFS was developed and ported to Linux”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

talk#3046

Bloat: How and Why UNIX Grew Up (and Out) - Rusty Russell,Matt Evans

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

“Well worth a viewing.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

interview#3075

Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for

TFiR

“Here is an excellent video of Linus talking about why he specifically chose the GPLv2”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#3135

EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

“A thoroughly entertaining and informative talk on issues including secure boot, but also other issues with UEFI.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2017

talk#3183

27c3 - Desktop on the Linux... (and BSD, of course) - Wolfgang Draxinger (+ Lennart Poettering)

SirPumpkin

“well worth to watch to see the two different approaches to clash.”

2 HN recommenders · 2011–2023

talk#3241

[Linux.conf.au 2013] - The real story behind Wayland and X

HackersOnBoard

“a great presentation by one of the guys behind wayland, who worked on X a lot before”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#3265

Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!

Matrixdotorg

“we revealed the end result at FOSDEM a few weeks ago, and it literally improves performance to be better than Telegram/Discord/Slack”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

talk#3277

Qubes OS: The Operating System That Can Protect You Even If You Get Hacked

Micah Lee

“This talk(ii) from Micah Lee when 4.0 launched is a great overview/preview.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

talk#3359

The new Windows subsystem for Linux architecture: a deep dive - BRK3068

Microsoft Developer

“the Build talk where WSL2 was introduced is pretty in-depth and does a great job of talking about the motivation”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#3402

2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley

Zig SHOWTIME

“Here's good video about this problem space btw”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

talk#3518

June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion

FreeBSD

“For those that like videos more than text, there is a youtube video from last year [1] that explain the feature”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023