Well hello there 👋 I’m Venn. Thanks for stopping by. Right, you’re here to learn about the site, so we might as well get into that.
Back in 2010, I started a video podcast with some fellow Linux loving miscreants and spent the next fifteen years building out systems to record, stream, edit, and publish, all using Linux with a zero-budget difficulty multiplier. Over the next decade+, I made a handful of guides to help others do the same, but Interfacing Linux didn’t get going until 2020. That’s when I picked up a FireWire audio interface and spent a solid week sifting through archived mailing lists just to track down all the bits needed to get it up and running. That sucked, so I began making guides specifically for setting up audio interfaces on Linux and called the series, you guessed it, Interfacing Linux.
Then, around late 2023, I had the misfortune of trying to search a project’s Discord after they shuttered their forums. That’s when it clicked just how much technical know-how was getting dumped into an unsearchable void. Just for funsies, around that same time, Reddit decided to implode.
So, I did the highly illogical thing and built a website, complete with a forum… in 2024 🙂
Since then, I have been hammering out guides on audio and video production, single-board computers, mini-PCs, and anything else you can get Linux up and running on. No AI slop, no guesswork, just old-fashioned, tested guides with matching receipts.
That’s pretty much that. I don’t really have a sales pitch, but I do hope you’ve noticed the site isn’t riddled with ads, trackers, and wooshy popover nonsense.
So if you can swing by the support page, it would be much appreciated. It helps fund future projects and keeps the site ad-free.
Thank you,
–VENN STONE
