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Linux & open-source ecosystems Videos Recommended on Hacker News (94)

Linux & open-source ecosystems is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 94 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2007 and 2026 — 228 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Linux and open-source systems: Linux kernel development, Linus Torvalds, distributions, desktop Linux, packaging, FreeBSD, GNU, Qubes, free software philosophy, Git origins.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Tragedy of systemd: “is an interesting talk on this topic from the view of someone (Benno Rice) in BSD land. Highly recommended.” — an HN commenter, 2024.

2 mo on HN

The Origins of Linux—Linus Torvalds

Computer History Museum
2 HN recommender · 2008–2014
2 mo on HN

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

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2023
2 mo on HN

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

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2014–2015
2 mo on HN

Linus Torvalds says GPL v3 violates everything that GPLv2 stood for

TFiR
2 HN recommender · 2015–2025
2 mo on HN

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

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia
2 HN recommender · 2012–2017
2 mo on HN

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

SirPumpkin
2 HN recommender · 2011–2023
2 mo on HN

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

HackersOnBoard
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HN

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

Matrixdotorg
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

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

Micah Lee
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HN

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

Microsoft Developer
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HN

2021: Year of the Linux Gaming Desktop - Andrew Kelley

Zig SHOWTIME
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion

FreeBSD
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Why I deleted GrapheneOS

Louis Rossmann
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

"Write a single library to handle all input devices, it'll be easy" they said...

linux.conf.au
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

Bryan Cantrill
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

Linus Tech Tips
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Joanna Rutkowska: Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops

media.ccc.de
2 HN recommender · 2016–2019
1 mo on HN

Talk - Eben Moglen - Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons

talkingsticktv
1 HN recommend · 2013–2023
1 mo on HN

Eben Moglen: How I discovered Free Software and met RMS

roblimo
1 HN recommend · 2017–2021
1 mo on HN

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

Canonical Ubuntu
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Kirk McKusick - A Narrative History of BSD

iX
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

Linus Torvalds on his insults: respect should be earned.

TFiR
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HN

Safespaces: An open source 3D / Virtual Reality Desktop

arcanfrontend
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)

Steamworks Development
1 HN recommend · 2015–2020
1 mo on HN

Jordan Hubbard - FreeBSD: The Next 10 Years

iX
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HN

Theo de Raadt (ruBSD 2013)

fuckyoustupidzombie
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HN

The Cantrill Strikes Back | BSD Now 117

Jupiter Broadcasting
1 HN recommend · 2015–2018
1 mo on HN

The State of Kernel Self Protection Project by Kees Cook, Google

The Linux Foundation
1 HN recommend · 2016–2019
1 mo on HN

The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster And No One Knew

Veritasium
1 HN recommend · 2026–2026
1 mo on HN

XDC 2020 - Day 1 - September 16, 2020

X.Org Foundation
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones

slawmasta
1 HN recommend · 2011–2022
1 mo on HN

NixOS Drama Explained, a Personal Account

Jon Ringer
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026
1 mo on HN

Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)

Chrome for Developers
1 HN recommend · 2019–2024
1 mo on HN

I installed Linux (so should you)

PewDiePie
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HN

Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin

OpenFest Bulgaria
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HN

Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds

GitHub
1 HN recommend · 2025–2026