Linux

Diane Greene at Startup School 2013

Y Combinator

An open-source operating system that was a key platform for VMware's initial product.

David Patterson: Computer Architecture and Data Storage | Lex Fridman Podcast #104

Lex Fridman

An open-source operating system, whose C++ code is available on the web and serves as an example for open-source hardware.

Dave Plummer: Programming, Autism, and Old-School Microsoft Stories | Lex Fridman Podcast #479

Lex Fridman

Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel

Y Combinator

An operating system Paul Buchheit preferred to run on his desktop, influencing his decision not to use Outlook on Windows.

Hurricane fallout, AlphaFold, Google breakup, Trump surge, VC giveback, TikTok survey

All-In Podcast

Mentioned in the context of server operating systems.

Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes

Latent Space

The operating system environment provided by E2B sandboxes, with possibilities for expanding to Windows.

SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute

Latent Space

The operating system expertise that SF Compute is looking for in systems engineers.

Coinbase Founder: The Crazy Journey Of Building A $100 Billion Company: Brian Armstrong

The Diary Of A CEO

An open-source operating system that Brian Armstrong enjoyed learning about and tinkering with during his free time in high school, further igniting his passion for computers.

The AI Architect: Bret Taylor

Latent Space

An open-source operating system, whose system calls are an implicit standard that developers code against.

Sheryl Sandberg, plus open-source AI gene editing explained

All-In Podcast

An open-source operating system, used as an analogy for the impact of open-source tools like Profluent Bio's.

Inside OpenAI DevDay: Superhuman Computer Use, Decisions API, and the AI Cloud — Ari & Nikunj

Latent Space

The operating system accessible within the virtual private cloud computer provided by each 'Dot', enabling the running of full desktop applications and web browsers.

Daniel Ek: Life After Spotify, Broken Healthcare Incentives, Catching Disease Early & AI's Potential

All-In Podcast

An operating system, mentioned in the context of the historical dichotomy between open and closed technology.

AI Safety Whistleblower: 10,000 AI Agents Worked Together To Do The Impossible! | Jeffrey Ladish

The Diary Of A CEO

An open-source operating system mentioned as a tool used by a friend to fix Jeffrey Ladish's computer issues, inspiring him to learn about hacking.

Why Anthropic Thinks AI Should Have Its Own Computer — Felix Rieseberg of Claude Cowork/Code

Latent Space

The operating system on which the virtual machine for Cloud Co-work runs, allowing for flexible installation of tools.

$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)

My First Million

An operating system that DHH has embraced and built a custom distribution for, finding it a liberating alternative to Apple's ecosystem.

Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal

Latent Space

An operating system for which Modal's sandboxes now offer full compatibility.

High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA

GoogleTalksArchive

The operating system used on the SGI Altix systems and the Columbia machine.

How to Learn So Fast People Assume You’re Naturally Gifted (with AI)

Ali Abdaal

An open-source operating system that the speaker installs and learns about through a home security project. It's presented as a way to understand computers at a deeper level.

⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes

Latent Space

An operating system for which Warp is available.

E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more

All-In Podcast

Not mentioned in transcript.

Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #333

Lex Fridman

Operating system used by Karpathy for deep learning tasks, primarily by SSHing into remote clusters.

Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224

Lex Fridman

An open-source operating system that inspired Travis in sharing code and was his development environment for SciPy and NumPy.

Connexions - Building Communities and Sharing Knowledge

GoogleTalksArchive

An open-source operating system around which an entire industry has developed, serving as an analogy for the potential industry around open educational content.

How Generosity Built Tech Giants

Y Combinator

Mentioned as a key example of free software, powering foundational technologies like Android, Google, and YouTube, illustrating the impact of giving value freely.