LINUX Unplugged

Weekly Linux talk show with no script, no limits, surprise guests and tons of opinion.

About the show

An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

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Episodes

  • 283: The Premiere Shell

    January 8th, 2019  |  1 hr 10 mins
    adobe, apollo, bash, clear linux, creative cloud, dnf, ed, entroware, fedora, fedora 31, fish, fish shell, gaming on linux, gnu, jason evangelho, jupiter broadcasting, linux, linux 5.0, linux kernel, linux podcast, peter ammon, premiere, proton, rover tracker, shell, steam, unplugged, user tracking, windows phone, zsh

    Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

  • 282: Wishing Upon a Kernel

    January 2nd, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins
    chromeos, clear linux, gnome, gpu, hopecasting, ibm, jupiter broadcasting, kde neon, linux podcast, openzfs, proton, redhat, reiserfs, unplugged, wine, wireguard, xfce

    We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

  • 281: 2019 Predictions

    December 26th, 2018  |  59 mins 9 secs
    active directory, antegros, apple, arch, arm, aws, azure, bachefs, chromebook, clear linux, dark mode, dell, digital ocean, fuchsia, gnome, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, microsoft, pipewire, proton, red hat, sap, steam, suse, unplugged, virtual desktops, zfs

    We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.

  • 280: Handmade Desktop Linux

    December 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins
    asus, eglstreams, ethr, go, gpl violation, jupiter broadcasting, keyboardio, kms, linux desktop, linux podcast, microsoft, minidlna, mir, nvidia, pop!_os, protonmail, readymedia, remove.bg, streama, system76, systemd, thelio, udev, unplugged, wayland, wireguard, xrandr, zenfone

    We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.

  • 279: WireGuardians of the Galaxy

    December 11th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins
    19.04, arduino, arm, automation system, behringer, canonical, castablasta, disco dingo, dns, emby, energy aware scheduling, gnome, handbrake, iodine, jellyfin, kaleidoscope, keyboardio, kubernetes, linux podcast, makemkv, microk8s, offline media, plex, reddit, rtv, snapcraft, soundconverter, sshuttle, streama, streaming, systemd, ubuntu, udev, unplugged, wireguard, x32

    We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

  • 278: Shell in a Handbasket

    December 4th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins
    32bit, amazon, android, beowulf cluster, blink, chrome, clear linux, cloud, clr-boot-manager, dell, edge, emulator, external graphics, game streaming, intel, ios, ish, jack, juju, laptop, linux, linux podcast, lxd, maas, microsoft, pulseaudio, raspberry pi, shell, sputnik, steam, steam link, systemd, theodore dubois, thunderbolt, thunderbolt dock, ubuntu, udev, unplugged, webkit, x86, xps13, xubuntu

    We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

  • Episode 277: Skipping Fedora 31

    November 27th, 2018  |  1 hr 2 secs
    backups, base platform, community, dropbox, ext4, fedora, fedora 31, gnome, gpu, iss, kde, lfnw, linux podcast, linuxfest northwest, martin wimpress, matthew miller, mergerfs, nasa, open source, packaging, packaging winter, plasma, red hat, security, silverblue, snapcraft, snapraid, switching to linux, thunderbolt, tooling, trust, unplugged, wimpy, windows, xfs, zfs

    Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

  • Episode 276: Very Long Term Support

    November 20th, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins
    10 year support, 18.04, android, automation system, bolt, deepin, gaming on linux, linux, linux dock, linux kernel, linux podcast, lts, mainline, minitube, nvidia, prime, prime-select, remote desktop, settlers of catan, steam, steam link, thunderbolt, thunderbolt dock, ubuntu lts, ubuntu security podcast, unite-shell, unity, unplugged, valve, very long term support, webtty, x11, xpra, youtube-dl

    Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for Very Long Term Support.

  • Episode 275: Year of the Relevant Desktop

    November 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins
    bitwarden, canonical, canonical ipo, emulation, f.k. schaller, firmware, linux podcast, lvfs, mark shuttleworth, microsoft, open invention network, open source, pcsx, pipewire, playstation, red hat, snes9x, supertuxkart, thunderbolt, ubuntu, unplugged, usb-c, wayland, zune

    Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from them.

  • Episode 274: Open Source by Default

    November 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 13 mins
    android, apple, automation, automation system, fedora, foss, fuse, huginn, hybrid cloud, kde connect, linux academy, linux podcast, open source, open source revolution, procdump, secure boot, show automation, sysinternals, sysinternals for linux, t2, unplugged

    Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

  • Episode 273: International Hat Machines

    October 30th, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins
    bsd, cockpit, dbxfs, dell, dell precision 5530, dropbox, fedora, fedora 29, flathub, flatpak, gaming on linux, ibm, linus, linux, linux podcast, linuxserver.io, meetbsd, modularity, nextcloud, open hardware, proton, protondb, red hat, rhel, samsung, samsung osg, steam, system76, thelio, thunderbolt, unplugged, zfs

    We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

  • Episode 272: Prepare for Pipewire

    October 23rd, 2018  |  58 mins 28 secs
    audio production, dell, getjacked, gstreamer, jack, jupitercode, kxstudio, laptop review, linux audio, linux laptop, linux podcast, low latency, pipewire, precision 5530, unplugged, video production, wim taymans

    The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.

  • Episode 271: Juno Jubilation

    October 16th, 2018  |  1 hr 42 mins
    chrome os, dalton durst, dxvk, elementary os, flatkill, flatpak, gnome, gpd pocket 2, gtk3 themes, juno, kde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, ota5, palm, photopea, plasma, ubports, vulkan

    elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet.

  • Episode 270: Stratis Pulls it All Together

    October 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins
    andy grover, application menus, appmenu, creative selection, device mapper, eazel, gnome, gnome history, google, google plus, hardware acceleration, irl glasses, ken kocienda, linux podcast, nautilus, plasma, project stream, project strobe, red hat, stratis storage, todoist, unplugged, xfs

    Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone.

  • Episode 269: Alternate Desktop Universe

    October 2nd, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins
    beos, fedora, fedora 29, firmware, flicker free boot, game streaming, haiku, halloween documents, kimchi, kvm, laptop stress test, linux gaming, linux podcast, lvfs, microsoft, project stream, s-tui, t480, thelio, thermal throttling, thinkpad, unplugged, virtual machine manager, virtual machines

    What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit.

  • Episode 268: Elementary, My Dear Plasma

    September 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 12 mins
    appcenter, cookies, dell precision 5530, elementary os, feedback, google, google chrome, kde plasma, linux audio, linux podcast, open source funding, pipewire, playonlinux, tidelift, traefik, unplugged, usability, wlinux, wsl, zfs

    We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others.