Episodes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!