Wes Payne

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!

Episode 239: Selling Out for Open Source | LUP 239

March 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 13 mins

We chip away at a larger meta topic this week, but before we get there we share a batch of community news, live technical feats & a random post show.

Episode 238: It's All Wimpy's Fault | LUP 238

February 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 30 secs

Linux apps are coming to ChromeOS via containers, Fedora is going for better battery life & what is going on with Xfce?

Plus Ubuntu MATE’s cool new tick & we take a look at crankshaft: raspberry pi + android auto + free software + love.

Episode 237: One Ping Only | LUP 237

February 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 37 mins

Canonical’s Ubuntu desktop head and their VP of Product Development join us to chat about the new data collection system they want in Ubuntu 18.04 & Cassidy from System76 and Elementary OS join us to talk about efforts to turn drive encryption on & more!

Episode 236: Microsoft’s Big Secret | LUP 236

February 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 35 mins

Chris goes to Microsoft & gets the inside scoop on the situation Microsoft finds themselves in with Windows & why they’ve been releasing more code as open source.

Plus we wrap up the Plasma Desktop challenge, Daniel Foré joins to talk Elemetary & more!

Episode 235: Atomic Neon Kool-Aid | LUP 235

February 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins

We’re joined by two Project Atomic members from Red Hat to learn what it’s all about, how Fedora Atomic Workstation works & the problems it solves.

Plus we launch the biggest Linux challenge in the history of this show & it’s going to have ramifications.

Episode 234: Behind Canonical’s Curtain | LUP 234

January 31st, 2018  |  1 hr 35 mins

How does a SNAP really get created & why would companies like Microsoft, JetBrains & Plex want to be involved? Plus the major concerns about the future of Gnome, the Client Side Decoration debate & how Wayland is putting pressure on all the things.

Episode 233: Living Inside the Shell | LUP 233

January 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 34 mins

Everyone’s Linux desktop is getting better this week, well… Almost everyone.

Plus why Linux users should be using Firefox, some Gnome and MATE news, communIty, why the Linux desktop isn't seeing as many native apps these days & more!

Episode 232: The Secret to Future Linux Success | LUP 232

January 16th, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins

A big week of community updates, events & news, including great news for Plasma Desktop users, MATE users & Wayland fans. Then Barton George from Dell joins us to discuss the new XPS 13’s shipping Ubuntu, where Linux could see its next big success & more!

Episode 231: Most Expensive Linux Distro Ever | LUP 231

January 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 38 mins

We slay the Gentoo challenge monster & give you our first take of the most expensive Linux distro we’ve ever tried. What does nearly $100 of Linux get you? We find out!

Plus tons of community news, the perfect Linux workstation coming soon & more!