LINUX Unplugged

Episode 255: Fedora to the Core

June 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 17 mins

auphonic, bittorrent, canonical, codec2, community news, debian 8.11, enigma code, fedora atomic, fedore coreos, firefox, github, gitlab, gnome software, kde neon, linux community podcast, linux user groups, microsoft, new york times, open source project news, peertube, rhel, unplugged

Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like.

Episode 254: Don’t Link to This

June 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

article 13, blender, deepin 15.6, gog galaxy wine, librem 5, linux community podcast, linux unplugged, pclinuxos, puretube, texstar, trackmania nations forever

Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU.

Episode 253: Personalities Happen

June 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins

acer, bsdcan, chromebook linux apps, copperheados, flatpak, foss talk, linux podcast, mars rover runs linux, plasma 5.13, snaps, southeast linux fest, texas linuxfest, winepal

There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years.

Episode 252: Github Hubbub

June 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 3 mins

electron, gitea, linux podcast, overload, pulseaudio-dlna, trackmania nations forever

Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be.

Episode 251: The Qt and the Ugly

May 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 26 mins

best linux laptop, canonical, fedora 26, fedora 29, gnome donation, librem 15, linux podcast, mark shuttleworth, netbsd audit, openstack, red hat, thunderbolt networking, xps 13

After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope.

Episode 250: Only The Best

May 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 13 mins

best linux laptop, evernote, gnome performance, lenovo thinkpad, librem 15, linux podcast, mycroft blockchain, nextcloud, oryx pro, qownnotes, qt, rust, tennibot, tusk, ubuntu core, x270, xps 13

What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week.

Episode 249: Home Grown FUD

May 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 21 mins

archiveos, gs connect, gtk, linux podcast, plasma sprint, purism fsp reverse engineering, qt, snap store malware, swaywm, system76 vs lfvs, ubuntu data collection

The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out.

Episode 248: Contain All The Things

May 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 16 mins

chrome os linux apps, cockpit, containers, docker, glibc, gvisor, linux podcast, nextcloud, red hat summit, wave-share

Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.

Episode 247: Year of the Linux Desktop 😎

May 1st, 2018  |  1 hr 33 mins

bpf, darktable tips, fedora 28, fedora atomic workstation, first impressions, gnome 3.28, iptables vs bpf, kubuntu, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lts, plasma, review, ubuntu 18.04, vortex linux maintainer

Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever.

Episode 246: The Bionic Bet

April 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

bionic beaver, blloc phone, bolt, fedora 28, gnome memory leak, kbackup, kubuntu 18.04 review, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linux users group, lug, pipewire, plasma desktop, wayland

We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat.

Episode 245: Microsoft of Things

April 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 12 mins

azure sphere, clonezilla bittorrent, fontfinder, galen hunt, kdenlive, linux media, linux unplugged, mate, mcu, microsoft linux, podcast, ubuntu highdpi, youtube

Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.

Episode 244: Plasma Predicament

April 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 14 mins

bugs, elementary os, enospc, falkon, latte-dock, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest, native apps, nvidia, plasma desktop, plasma-vault, podcast, steam machines, ubuntu beta, zap to 2, zfs on linux bug

We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

Episode 243: The Stallman Directive

April 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins

a radical proposal to keep your personal data safe, apple hires linux devs, elementary os, freedombox, juno, linux talk show, linux unplugged, podcast, privacy, qubes 4.0, richard stallman, steam machines, valve

Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy.

Episode 242: Debian on the Fly

March 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 2 mins

debian, electron, fluxbox, hyper, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, microsoft open-sources wsl, plasma, red hat, slax 9.4, slax review, wayfire, wayland

A new version of Slax is out this week, and they might just be onto something really unique. We take this Debian powered, Fluxbox running, net bootin distro for a test drive.

Episode 241: Snitching on SCaLE

March 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins

bolt, gnome 3.28, gstreamer, headless spotify, ilan rabinovitch, interview, linux podcast, linux unplugged, little snitch for linux, opensnitch, private internet access, scale16x, spotifyd, thunderbolt 3, webos

We’re playing just one interview from SCaLE this year, tons of community news, and two handy app picks.

Episode 240: Why This Theme Won’t Work | LUP 240

March 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 20 mins

This week Noah fills in for Chris while he's on his return journey from SCaLE! The guys get down deep on a variety of topics from screen sharing in Plasma under Wayland to the status of the GTK 'CommuniTheme' for ubuntu 18.04 and more!