Episodes
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606: Nix's Magic Cookbook
March 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 38 mins
aneesh agrawal, anthropic, apple tv, atv-desktop-remote, bang boost, bang bus, chromebook, deep dive, ebpf, eelco dolstra, firefox, flakes, flox, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, laser tag champions, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mike kelly, mozilla, nix in the wild, nixbook, nixos, olympia mike, planet nix, producer jeff, pyatv, ron efroni, ross turk, rust, scale, system76, the launch, thunderbird, tui challenge, year of the terminal, 🚐
We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.
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605: Goodbye World
March 9th, 2025 | 53 mins 43 secs
bcachefs, bcc, berkeley packet filter, bpf, bpftrace, bpftune, dtrace, ebpf, execsnoop, ext4slower, jupiter broadcasting, kernel tracepoints, kprobes, linux podcast, linux unplugged, multi-monitor, netop, nixos, oci images, opensnoop, python, tailscale, wes' cryptominer, xdp, xfsslower
We are digging into a superpower inside your Linux Kernel. How eBPF works, and how anyone can take advantage of it.
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604: One Week Left
March 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
alby hub, android auto, audiobookshelf, chromebook, dendrite, element, flox, fountain, graphene os, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, karousel, kelsey hightower, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, niri, nixbook, nixos, openaudible, openaudible-to-audiblebookshelf, paperwm, planet nix, robert hernandez, ron efroni, scale, synapse, 🤟❄️⚖️, 🦒
We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.
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603: All Your Kernels Belong to Rust
February 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 30 secs
amazon, asahi linux, bhyve, christoph hellwig, dma, freebsd challenge, gentoo challenge, greg kroah-hartman, hector martin, jupiter broadcasting, kernel, kernel maintainer, kindle, linus torvalds, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, miguel ojeda, nping, planet nix, rust, rust kernel policy, scale, texas linux fest, txlf
There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.
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602: The BSD Humbling
February 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
add water, ardour, audible, audiobookshelf, bhyve, dj khaled, doas, flox, framework, freebsd, freebsd challenge, ghostbsd, hedgedoc, jails, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libation, libluksde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxulator-steam-utils, mate, mizutamari, music assistant, nes, netbsd, planet nix, podman, retro gaming, scale, snes, syncthing, tailscale, zfs, 👻, 🚀
Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.
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601: Taming the Demons
February 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
bsd battlestation, flox, freebsd, freebsd challenge, garmindb, ghostbsd, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos analogy, planet nix, podman, prime episode, raspberry pi 400, rc.conf, shower thoughts pen, showtoshi, zach mitchell, zfs
It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close!
Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.
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600: Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once
February 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
announcements, app configuration, audio setup, bsd systems, community support, firewall setup, freebsd challenge, freebsd challenge rules, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux podcasts, linux unplugged, meetups, mumble room, network security, network services, podcast history, podcast shift, tailscale integration, transcripts, video strategy, youtube dominance
We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.
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599: Psycho Shower Linux Power
January 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
aconfmgr, bazzite, birthday boost, chromium, debian, declarative, decman, ersatztv, freebsd challenge, iptv, jupiter broadcasting, liberux, liberux nexx, liberuxos, linux handheld, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 600, mecha comet, metapac, nixos, olivetin, open-tv, oscars, phosh, pinephone, replit, server monitoring, showerthoughts, steamos, supporters of chromium-based browsers, tuxies, wine
On the eve of episode 600, we introduce our next challenge and explore the new wave of Linux phones.
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598: Not Your Distrohopper's Distro
January 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 23 mins
ansible, declaritive, desktop linux, docker, immutable, isd, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, lup 600, nextcloud, nix, nixos, notepad next, passkey, planet nix, planify, scale, super productivity, todoist, tuxies, ubuntu declarative donkey, zen kernel, zfs, 🫏
With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.
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597: Cache My OS
January 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
arch, bore, btrfs assistant, burstiness, cachyos, chatgippity, flatpak, jupiter broadcasting, kernel developers, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, regressions, rt kernel, rusticl, sched-ext, scheduler, zram
We're taking on some of the toughest critiques of the Linux desktop, then taking a look at CachyOS and what makes it feel like a million bucks.
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596: Perilously Pontificated Predictions
January 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 15 mins
32-bit, ai os, automotive linux, bcachefs, cosmic desktop, debian, deepin, enclosed, fountain, ingenuity, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, magi os, makululinux, nixos, nvk, risc-v, rocky linux, steamos, ubuntu core desktop, zfs
We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024.
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595: Network 'n Burning Bonanza
December 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
alby hub, audio cd tools, banana pi, cd burning, cd ripping, cd-r, cdrdao, descent, dxx-rebirth, fre:ac, immich, jupiter broadcasting, k3b, kitty, lact, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, los machucambos, mifi setup, minisforum um790, nixos, one, openwrt, openwrt one, producer carl, qobuz, raspberrypi, streaming, tailscale, tidal
We tested out the OpenWRT One and tried it in a unique use case. Then, Wes goes back to 1999 to solve a problem.
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594: 2024 Tuxies
December 22nd, 2024 | 55 mins 56 secs
boosties, cli tools, community platforms, desktop distros, desktop environments, free apps, jupiter broadcasting, linux hardware, linux podcast, linux unplugged, newcomer projects, open source, self-hosting, server distros, shells, text editors, tuxies
It’s the fifth annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, and desktops of 2024. Join us for the final Tuxies, and the second annual Boosties!
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593: Zen and the Art of Kernel Preempting
December 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
alby hub, centos, centos stream, centos stream 10, chatgippity, colony events, cosmic, epel 10, fedora, fedora 42, fountain, gathio, gentoo, gnome 47, gnome terminal, grapheneos, ham radio, immutabity deniers, immutable, jupiter broadcasting, kb6nu, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, liquorix, lup 600, matthew miller, mayo, muqss, ports-info, preept_rt, ptyxis, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, rt kernel, shelter, sig, special interest groups, tuxies, ubuntu, xfce, zen kernel, 🦒
A special guest joins us for the news, then we dive headfirst into our RT Linux kernel adventures—where speed seduced, but stability ghosted us.
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592: Chris' Netboot Nonsense
December 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
alby hub, click'n'run, clonezilla, colony events, flathub, flatpak, gathio, gnome foundation, ipxe, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde e.v., lindows, linspire, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxserver.io, lup 600, netboot, netboot.xyz, nixos, pi-hole, proxmox, pxe, tuxies, veeam, windows pe, year of the immutable desktops
USB thumb drives are old and busted. No hard drive? No problem. Need a quick system rescue or work in another distro for the day? Easy.
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591: KDE Goes Banana
December 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
adrian vovk, akademy 2024, alby hub, atomic, carbonos, dns, errands, flatpak, gnome, gnome os, harald sitter, immutable, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde linux, kde neon, lennart poettering, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nextcloud, obtainium, openwrt, openwrt one, pi-hole, planetnix, project banana, steamdeck, steamos, tailscale, technitium, tuxies, 🍌
The KDE and GNOME projects are working on official Linux distributions, but do we need more distros? We dig into their special sauce.