Episode Archive
595 episodes of LINUX Unplugged since the first episode, which aired on August 12th, 2013.
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579: Lost & Found
September 8th, 2024 | 57 mins 45 secs
firefox, floppy disk, free deck, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged
Secret moments from the show you've never heard before. We kick off with some hardware hurdles, then dive into the news and share a few surprising stories.
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578: Young and the Rustless
September 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 28 mins
2fa, american maple syrup, appletv no more, bazzite, berlin meetup, beverly by coke, bitcoin well, buy bitcoin in canada, c, c++, chrislas since middle school, davx5, dc stephen, dirk hohndel, fido2 keys, hand-smacking os, hawn dale, ipfs, jupiter broadcasting, keybase.io, kiro, linus torvalds, linux kernel, linux kernel api, linux podcast, linux strorage filesystem summit, linux unplugged, longhorn, maple sats, nixos, nontechnical nonsense, open source summit, pantheon, rust, rust4linux, seaweedfs, soc 2, toronto meetup, totp, vaultwarden, wedson almeida filho
Rust meets Linux in a clash of coding cultures. Why some developers are resisting, and where things go from here.
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577: Summer Kernel Corn Roast
August 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
2fa, alpine, ansible, bcachefs, berlin meetup, canonical, cloudflare, cosmic alpha, cve, cve-2022-2601, dual-boot, efi, gentoo, greg kroah-hartman, grub, hyprland, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, linus torvalds, linux 6.11, linux kernel developer team, linux podcast, linux unplugged, microsoft, nix drinking game, nixos, nixos feedback, nixos image generator, nixos stable or unstable, patch tuesday, pihole, proxmox virtual environment, saunafs, sbat, secure boot, tailscale, toronto meetup, ublue cosmic, ubuntu, ubuntu 24.10, ubuntu kernel
Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.
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576: The Secret Server
August 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 20 mins
2fa, aegis, archcraft hyprland, authy, auto tab discard, berlin meetup, colo server, comcast fail, fido2, firehol, flathub, immich, incus, iptables, js8call, jupiter broadcasting, keepassium, keepassxc, linux mint, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lxd, mesh network, meshtastic, mixer vodka and vernors, newpipe, nftables, nixos, proxmox, sat holiday, sponsorblock, sunos, tailscale, toronto meetup, totp, tree-style tabs, trusted interfaces, tubular, vps proxy, who exactly is wes payne?
We reveal how we turned our humble LAN into a public server farm, all while keeping our IP address under wraps and our ISP blissfully unaware.
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575: Brent's Busted Builds
August 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 26 mins
2fa, android, anker powerconf s330, authy, beelink, beelink ser5, collapse os, cosmic, docker-osx, framework, gentoo challenge, grapheneos, hyprland, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, openziti, sacramento meetup, services.jb.summerbreak, toronto meetup, universal blue, 🦒
Brent's computer pulls an all-nighter at the worst possible moment, and the hits keep coming for open-source Android distributions and our new 2FA tool.
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574: COSMIC Encounter
August 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
aeon, alpha release, app store, appimage, bazzite, bootc, cinnamon, compositor, configuration, cosmic, cpap, desktop environment, fedora, file manager, full disk encryption, garmin, gear lever, gentoo challenge, github actions, gui, iced, immutable operating systems, jupiter broadcasting, kalpa, keyboard shortcuts, kitterman creative, linux, linux podcast, linux unplugged, manjaro, nixos, oscar, performance, pop!_os, portability, rust, screenshot tool, secure boot, smb shares, smithay, steam deck, system76, themes, tpm, tumbleweed, universal blue, wayland
The COSMIC desktop is just around the corner. We get the inside scoop from System76 and go hands-on with an early press build.
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573: Universal Blue Man Group
July 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
anacaonda, aurora, bazzite, bcachefs, bitlocker, bluebuild, bluefin, bootc, brentley's gentoo fund, brew, clevis, cloud-native, container fatigue, containerfile, disk encryption, fedora atomic desktop, fedora coreos, flatpak, floppy disk, garmin, gearlever, gentoo, glue balloons, gnome, immutable linux, jorge castro, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, luks, mooltipass, nixos, omakub, opensuse tumbleweed, ostree. fedora, plasma 6, ptyxis, rpm-ostree, silverblue, steam, ucore, universal blue, yast
Think Silverblue, but with cloud-native tooling used to build it. From Aurora to Bazzite, our impressions of the ambitious Universal Blue project.
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572: Data Security Only a Maniac Could Love
July 21st, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
apple watch killer, automated decryption, autossh, barix, bazzite, bcachefs, bcachefs encryption, bcachefs on rootfs, blue bubbles, bluefin, boot chain, bustle, celeste, clevis, coinbase, contactless payment, crowdsec, disk encryption, encryption, fedora, flakes tutorial, fosdem, framework 13, futo, futo keyboard, garmin, gentoo challenge, gigawatt boost, github rate limiting, grapheneos, grayjay, guix, iotas, jupiter broadcasting, libreoffice, linux podcast, linux unplugged, luks, measured boot, morse code, nextcloud, nixos, obtainium, open-and-shut, opensuse aeon, pcr, pcr 7, rclone, rolling release, rust, slam your laptop lid, sleephq, smartwatch, systemd-cryptenroll, tang, that hash lifestyle, tpm, windows outage, 🦒
Wes' self-decrypting bcachefs disk and a GrapheneOS twist that'll make you ditch your iPhone.
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571: Multi-Machine Lifestyle
July 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 19 mins
0xchat, 1.21 gigawatts!, autopatchelf, beelink ser5, circle of trust, decentralized identity, dotenvx, fear of updates, freeoffice, gathio, great scott!, headscale, jack, jupiter broadcasting, kate, kate sudo saves, learn nix the fun way, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 100, minisforum um690 pro, minisforum um790 pro, nip-05 verified, nix, nix shell, nixos, nostr, openbsd desktop challenge, opensuse, oxchat, patchelf, pipewire, plasma 6, postgres, psycopg2, pw-jack, pyenv, python, rcs, reaper, rolling distro, skunkworks, termscp, tumbleweed, vercel, wps office
Wes reports from the Skunkworks lab, and Brent tells us about his new computing lifestyle.
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570: RegreSSHion Strikes
July 7th, 2024 | 47 mins 5 secs
32-bit, ars, atomic clock, autossh, cve, dan goodin, denial-of-service, exploit, fail2ban, firewall, firewall knock operator, fried onion, fwknop, jb time, jupiter broadcasting, kaspersky, kdeconnect, krunner, letmein, linux podcast, linux unplugged, malicious payloads, nixos, openssh, port knocking, qualys, rce, regresshion, regression, security advisory, server hardening, spa, spokane meetup, stan kaminsky, stu, tailscale, tui, vulnerability
We dig into the RegreSSHion bug, debate it's real threat and explore clever tools to build a tasty fried onion around your system.
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569: Our Plasma Panacea
June 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
crossover, flatpak, freerdp, futo keyboard, gathio, gnome, grapheneos, headscale, house-to-house lasers, intel integrated graphics, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kde plasma, krdp, kwin, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mastadon, nixos, no-li brewhouse, nostr, not-michigan, openbsd, packagekit, plasma 6.1, plasma 6.1.1, rdp, shake-that-cursor, spokane meetup, tailscale, tlp, triple buffering, wayland, 🦒
Why we think Plasma 6.1 is the desktop for people who like to mess with computers.
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568: All Your Silos are Broken
June 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 21 mins
amethyst, awesome-nostr, blogstack, btc prague, commercial identity, cryptography, decentralized web, distrobox, distrobox-assemble, ditto, gathio, gnupg, highlighter, hivetalk, id, jia tan, jupiter broadcasting, ladybird, lightning, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nips, nix drinking game, nixos, nosta, nostr, nostr nook, notes and other stuff transmitted by relays, open source zealot, openpgp, ostrgit, pgp, piper, primal, relays, relevance glue, satlantis, squid, starship, stirling-pdf, sudo flame war, systemd, systemd run0, text to speech, tts, web of trust, wikifreedia, world coin, xz, xz backdoor, xz utils, yana, zap.stream, zsh, ⚡
Online identity is a ticking time bomb. Are trustworthy, open-source solutions ready to disarm it? Or will we be stuck with lackluster, proprietary systems?
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567: So Long sudo
June 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 31 mins
256, arm, beelink, berlin meetup, berlin with brent, bitfocus companion, cgroups, doas, father's day, homed-managed, importctl, iotas, ipod, jupiter broadcasting, lenovo thinkpad x13s, liblzma, linux arm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nextcloud conference, nextcloud notes, nix drinking game, nix-darwin, nix-direnv, norwich meetup, ntp challenge, omakub, portable service, qualcomm, rockbox os, run0, snapdragon, spokane meetup, squid, ssh, sudo, suid, system v, systemd, systemd sleep, systemd-nspawn, systemd-run0, systemd-vmspawn, systemd-vpick, the tragedy of systemd, ubuntu, v2⁸, xscreensaver for android, xz
Your Linux box is a-changin'. systemd has a huge new release; we'll get into the most impressive features, including the new sudo replacement. Plus, our thoughts on the new Linux Arm laptops that are just around the corner.
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566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu
June 9th, 2024 | 1 hr 32 mins
.net, 37signals, alacritty, apple, babylon 5, backups, backwoods setup, bash, chef's choice, configuration, customizability, david heinemeier hansson, deb packages, desktop stability, desktop themes, dev workstation, developer environment, developer setup, devenv, dhh, docker, dotfiles, extensibility, flameshot, flatpak, fully kiosk browser, gnome, jellyfin media player, jupiter broadcasting, keyboard-first workflow, kopia, kthresher, lazydocker, lazyvim, linux mistakes, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linux workstation bootstrapping, linux's slow burn, lts, macos, mate, mise, multiplex, neovim, nix, nix drinking game, nixos, notch, omakase, omakase spirit, omakub, opinionated setup, overlay network, pop!_os, ppa, setup script, shareplay, squid proxy, syncplay, tactile extension, tokyo night, torrents, ubuntu, ubuntu 24.04, ulauncher, vscode, watch party, watch together, webrtc, weron, window tiling, windows, wsl, xournal++, zellij
We try Omakub, a new opinionated Ubuntu desktop for power users and macOS expats.
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565: Mistakes That Made Us Love Linux
June 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 23 mins
ai clippy, ai strategy tax, beelink, beginner mistakes, dd, debian, delfin, dependency hell, distrohopping, dotfiles, everyone makes mistakes, frank karlitschek, gnome 3, gobolinux, grub, jupiter broadcasting, kate, linux don'ts, linux install mistakes, linux mistakes, linux podcast, linux refuge, linux unplugged, live-usb, microsoft, nextcloud, nine-fives, nixos, nvidia, oom killer, podverse, ssh updates, sudo rm -rf, ubuntu, windows 8 moment, zram, 🤦
The facepalm moments that make us question our sanity—and swear off sudo for a week.
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564: The Goldilocks Build
May 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
beelink, beelink amd ryzen 7 5700u, declarative pc, example nix config, fedora atomic, gridplayer, jupiter broadcasting, kate, kde, krunner, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mac studio, musnix, nh, nix, nix helper, nixcon, nixos, one simple rule, pinky's, plasma, polkit, reactionary, real-time audio, real-time kernel, realplayer, ryzen, scipy, self meetup, strategy tax, systemd devuan challenge, thinkpad, ublue aurora, vscode, wayland, windows copilot, windows xp
We're following one simple rule to build a Linux desktop so stable it could outlive us.