LINUX Unplugged

Episode 206: Beardy McBeardface | LUP 206

July 18th, 2017  |  1 hr 43 mins

Wes, in true TechSNAP style, highlights a few complicated ideas explained well, then it's on to updates from a few of our favorite projects, including some exciting news for WireGuard & a great collection of new stuff from around the internet & more!

Episode 205: A Fitting Fedora | LUP 205

July 11th, 2017  |  1 hr 4 mins

Fedora 26 is here & so is Matthew Miller to chat about the new release, big future projects, important changes to Rawhide & openSUSE’s openQA.

Plus our hands on experience with the new release, the ultimate upgrade test results & more!

Episode 204: Awkward Distro Puberty | LUP 204

July 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 42 mins

TUXEDO Computers & System76 have announced their own Linux distros, plus OutlawCountry, BFQ scheduler, XDA Forum is going to give Phoronix competition & more!

Episode 203: MATEs Wayland MIR-acle | LUP 203

June 27th, 2017  |  1 hr 13 mins

Ubuntu’s skunkworks project, Mir, might be back with a vengeance to save the Linux desktop. Or at least prove quite useful for MATE.

Plus one of the most well built Linux PC’s ever tested, the Dell Precision 5720 with Ubuntu gets tested in the lab.

Episode 202: Halls of Endless Linux | LUP 202

June 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 18 mins

Michael Hall from Endless joins us to discuss his new role, Endless’ involvement with Gnome & the unique approach of EndlessOS. Plus Fedora shares some future plans & we try to grok casync, Lennart Poettering’s project for distributing file system images.

Episode 201: Turbo Mode Ikey | LUP 201

June 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 27 mins

Desktop Linux is about to get a lot more competitive, one of its recent biggest disruptors is going full time.

Plus A dive into Fedora 26 beta, the security of Cockpit, Ubuntu Gnome survey results & opening some Windows gaming tech to all of us.

Episode 200: Gnome in the Shell | LUP 200

June 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 10 mins

Alook at the next release of Gnome 3, special features we’re looking forward to & new extensions that make Gnome even better.

Then Google’s solution to old Linux kernel’s in Android, differences between Chrome & Chromium, a Plasma desktop feature & more!

Episode 199: No Samba No Cry | LUP 199

May 30th, 2017  |  1 hr 28 mins

Why the big Samba vulnerability is no WannaCry, Wimpy gives us his take on e-gpus under Linux, our first take on Plasma 5.10 & a tool that will finally get you to use Docker!

Episode 198: Magic Device Cloud | LUP 198

May 23rd, 2017  |  1 hr 9 mins

NextCloud 12 is out & Jos joins us to chat about the highlights, Marius Quabeck joins us to discuss Magic Device Tool’s secrets. Plus we cover a bunch of project updates & more!

Episode 197: That New User Smell | LUP 197

May 16th, 2017  |  1 hr 19 mins

We review System76’s Galago Pro, have a crisis of faith about the future of desktop Linux, get completely blown away by our community, help you BASH better & more!

Episode 196: Orange is the new Red (Hat) | LUP 196

May 9th, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins

Canonical is going for the IPO & that means some big changes. In a recent interview Mark Shuttleworth gives us a hint at the new purpose of the Ubuntu desktop.

Plus Thunderbird’s future is uncertain, we get our hands on System76’s Galago Pro & more!

Episode 195: Rub a Dub Grub | LUP 195

May 3rd, 2017  |  1 hr 16 mins

Big improvements are coming to a grub near you, Wes has a batch of really useful new open source projects & we consider the “threat” posed by Windows 10 S.

Plus the dirty secret about Linux’s battery life, some of our LinuxFest Northwest plans & more!

Episode 194: Internet of Troubles | LUP 194

April 25th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins

Linux Foundation thinks they have the solution to the Internet of Terrible & they might actually be right. We’ll share the exclusive interview that has us excited for the future.

Plus the bad, horrible, no good week that Docker had & more!

Episode 193: Ubuntu's Bare Gnome | LUP 193

April 18th, 2017  |  1 hr 26 mins

Community efforts to port Unity 8 or recreate the Unity 7 desktop are popping up all over. Plus why Ubuntu Gnome left us feeling underwhelmed.

Then, Ikey stops by to tell us about Solus Gnome edition, other new things coming from the project & more!

Episode 192: Home Sweet Gnome | LUP 192

April 12th, 2017  |  1 hr 42 mins

OpenELEC’s latest release, Snaps on Fedora, plus Wes’ Picks, Pinterest’s support for Open Source & the use of Slack for OSS projects.

Then we have a wide-ranging discussion about Ubuntu’s big desktop change, what it means for the Desktop, Vendors & you!

Episode 191: What’s a Distro? | LUP 191

April 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 11 mins

Joe Ressington of Late Night Linux joins Wes to discuss just what makes a “Proper” distribution, the latest news about Libreboot & the FSF Plus containers explained in pictures, Fedora has the desktop for Hacker News & Android is king of the internet.