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

  • 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!

  • 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!