Special Guest: Aaron Seigo.

Sponsored By:

• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• Incogni: They can't harm you if they can't find you! Take back control of your personal data today. Go to incogni.com/unplugged and use code UNPLUGGED for 60% off an annual plan. It's completely risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• Jupiter Uplink
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• ConnecTen Internet: promo Jupiter35
• MP3: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?
• YouTube: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building?
• Bootleg: Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? | Members Stream
• KDE at 30 - KDE Community
• Plasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.
• KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
• KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th
• KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008
• Aaron Seigo - GitHub
• ArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.
• Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week's episode!
• Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.
• KDE Connect — Enabling all your devices to communicate with each other.
• Local-First Software — Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
• jellyProxyKiosk — LCARS Jellyfin info front-end
• Pick: RememberWindowPositions — Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
• Pick: Konveyor — Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.

Sponsored By:

• Jupiter Signal Network Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD
• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Jupiter Garage SWAG
• Going All-In on a Wayland Future
• KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
• Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
• KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
• What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
• What Even is Ocean?
• Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
• StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
• Framework Laptop 12
• KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you
• QA infrastructure in KDE
• KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
• KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
• What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
• This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
• This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
• This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
• KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
• Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
• systemd 262
• A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions
• Linux Live Update documentation
• LUO userspace API
• memfd_create(2)
• FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
• fluxcast-flake
• Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
• Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
• garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
• Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
• Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
• Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
• Cliparr: export settings
• Cliparr: subtitles
• Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
• KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
• Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
• space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 🎉 Alby — Boost into the show, first grab Alby, top it off, and then head over to the Podcast Index.
• ⚡️ LINUX Unplugged on the Podcastindex.org — You can boost from the web. Once Alby is topped off, visit our page on the Podcast Index.
• Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android — Amazon’s new operating system is also based on a flavor of Linux, and is using a more web-forward application model. App developers are being told to use React Native as an application framework, which allows them to build native apps with Javascript-powered interfaces,
• webOS Open Source Edition — The open-source software platform built for smart and connected devices of tomorrow.
• Unplugged Tuxies 2023 — Vote in the 2023 Tuxies
• ⚠️ DID WE MISS SOMETHING IN THE 2023 TUXIES?
• 2023 Tuxies Sticker by TheGoldenDragon
• GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure — The GNOME Foundation is thrilled to announce the GNOME project is receiving €1M from the Sovereign Tech Fund to modernize the platform, improve tooling and accessibility, and support features that are in the public interest.
• GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund
• Sovereign Tech Fund — The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Our goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem. We focus on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
• Recession-hit Germany is facing a flurry of global headwinds: Goldman Sachs
• KDE’s 6th Megarelease - Alpha — It has been nearly 10 years since the last big release of our flagship Plasma desktop environment, and the time has come again. KDE is making available today the Alpha version of all the software we will include in a megarelease scheduled for the end of February 2024.
• KDE Timeline of major releases - Wikipedia
• Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
• Plasma 5.27.80 complete changelog
• This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording – Adventures in Linux and KDE — Yep you read that right, we’ve decided to throw the lever and go Wayland by default! The three remaining showstoppers are in the process of being fixed and we expect them to be done soon–certainly before the final release of Plasma 6.
• KDE neon Plasma 6 ISOs
• KDE neon Unstable downloads
• KDE Plasma 6.0 Alpha Released, Plus KDE Frameworks & KDE Gear
• nix-bitcoin — nix-bitcoin is a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security.
• Jonas Nick — Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others.
• Jonas Nick talk on nix-bitcoin - YouTube
• nevoyu's Nix Config
• International Space Station Abandons Windows In Favour Of Debian — “We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could,” explained Keith Chuvala of United Space Alliance, a NASA contractor involved in ISS operations.
• Ground command to major tom, please do a push up - YouTube
• KDE Activities: How To - Nicco/YouTube

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• BunsenLabs Linux
• Puppy Linux Home
• The FreeBSD Project
• SparkyLinux
• KolibriOS official site
• antiX Linux