Wes Payne
Co-Host of LINUX Unplugged
Inquisitive nonsense and other such things.
Wes Payne has hosted 582 Episodes.
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Episode 264: Proton, Electron for Games!
August 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
codeweavers, fedora, gaming on linux, intel microcode, kde itinerary, libre application summit, linux podcast, lvfs, plasma, proton, realtek, steam, ubuntu touch, vulkan, wine
Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating.
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Episode 263: Updates from the Source
August 21st, 2018 | 47 mins 49 secs
akademy, docker, firmware, flathub, flatpak, fosscon, intel, kde, licensing, linux podcast, man pages, oggcamp, plasma, pulseeffects, sandboxing, snapcraft, um
Docker controversy is brewing, but it's probably not what you think. We get around of community updates directly from the source, and why Debian an Intel are playing the game of he said, she said.
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Episode 262: Tribes of Init
August 14th, 2018 | 1 hr 17 mins
18, blender benchmark, dropbox, filesystem, freebsd, fstransform, kde neon, libre application summit, linux 4, linux podcast, loopback, meetbsd, mir, openbenchmark, sparse image, systemd, the tragedy of systemd, xdg shell, xfs
The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.
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Episode 261: GNOME, GNOME on the Range
August 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
cassidy james blaede, denial of service, elementary os, extensions, firmware, gnome, gpg sync, gtk+, javascript extensions, linux podcast, lvfs lenovo, peertube, plasma, powershell, removing themes, transitions dj
GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux.
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Episode 260: Thinkpad as a Service
July 31st, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
barton, chromebooks, dell, full time, george, kde neon, kirta, linux podcast, microsoft store, odio, s-tui, sputnik, stress test, windows as a service, xps 13
We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost.
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Episode 259: Proprietary Action News
July 25th, 2018 | 1 hr 21 mins
chromebook gpu acceleration, commercial software on linux, crostini, elementary os, gpu, hiri, linux podcast, making profit on linux, reactos, reaper, selling software on linux, snap, steamos, ubuntu, unplugged
Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done.
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Episode 258: The Future of Retro
July 18th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
atari vcs, atarios, blockchain phone, fedora, gtk4, htc exodus, linux podcast, linux users group, lug, mir, python, ssh, ubuntu, unplugged, wayland, yum
Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical.
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Episode 257: Security Amateur Hour
July 11th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
arm, aur malware, best practices, dolphin share, firefox for android, gentoo, github, kdenlive, linux podcast, lockbox, minimal ubuntu, plasma desktop, unplugged, wine, wineconf
We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.