LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Filesystems”

660: Boots and Breakups

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:30:00 -0700

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

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LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
This Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter Broadcasting
Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security
Streamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community Hub
Mitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | Ubuntu
There's a Hole in the Boot - Eclypsium
Final Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.
ErsatzTV/next
Tunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.
Threadfin
xTeVe
Filler - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.
Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.
awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTV
Tunarr API Reference
LINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.
turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.
Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs
GeneBean's Cage Kiosk
GeneBean's Pi Arm Build Setup
Planify - Task Manager for GNU/Linux
alainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOME
Pick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhost
nixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOS
Pick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.
Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

629: Arch Enemies

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:45:00 -0700

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We’ll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

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nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
Frigate NVR
Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle

545: 3,062 Days Later

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 18:45:00 -0800

Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.

Special Guest: Kent Overstreet.

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bcachefs — bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness and the complete set of features one would expect from a modern filesystem.
bcachefs Erasure coding — Bcachefs takes advantage of the fact that it is already a copy-on-write filesystem. If we're designing our filesystem to avoid update-in-place, why would we do update-in-place in our RAID implementation?
bcachefs Caching — bcachefs can be configured for writethrough, writeback, and writearound caching, as well as other more specialized setups.
bachefs Compression — Unlike other filesystems that typically do compression at the block level, bcachefs does compression at the extent level - variable size chunks, up to (by default) 128k.
bcachefs Encryption — bcachefs uses AEAD style encryption (ChaCha20/Poly1305), where each encrypted block is authenticated with a MAC, with a chain of trust up to root (the superblock), and every encrypted block has a unique nonce.
bcachefs Snapshots — bcachefs provides Btrfs style writeable snapshots, at subvolume granularity.
(2015) [ANNOUNCE] bcachefs - a general purpose COW filesystem — It's taken a long time to get to this point - longer than I would have guessed if you'd asked me back when we first started talking about it - but I'm pretty damn proud of where it's at now.
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451: The NixOS Challenge

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:45:00 -0700

We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.

Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April.

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439: Double Server Jeopardy

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:45:00 -0800

Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it.

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Canonical Careers - Linux Desktop Gaming Product Manager — We are excited to create the role of Desktop Gaming Product Manager, to make Ubuntu the best Linux desktop for gaming.
Arch Wiki - ZFS
Kindle Comic Converter — Kindle Comic Converter is an app that allows you to transform your PNG, JPG, GIF, CBZ, CBR and CB7 files into EPUB or MOBI format e-books. Preparing comics and manga for your E-Ink device was never easier.
Kindle Comic Converter on Flathub
Linux Action Show Season 2 preview… Kindle Oops — Bryan and Chris give you a preview on Season 2's first episode of The Linux Action Show! Watch a take that you won't see in the final episode.

410: Ye Olde Linux Distro

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:30:00 -0700

We revisit the seminal distros that shaped Linux’s past. Find out if these classics still hold up.

Plus the outrageous bounty on a beloved Linux desktop app.

Special Guest: Gary Kramlich.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web’s inventor is selling its original code as an NFT — Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the basis of the languages and protocols underpinning the internet as we know it: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Universal Document Identified (URI).
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Pidgin: the universal chat client — Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel at the same time.
Pidgin contributors: grim — Long time contributor, author of Guifications, and a founding member of the plugin pack.
Zerodium on Twitter — We’re looking for #0day exploits affecting Pidgin on Windows and Linux. Bounty: $100,000.
ZERODIUM — Limited-Time Bug Bounties and Temporarily Increased Payouts
Linux 5.14 Mainline Should Work With The Raspberry Pi 400 — No kernel driver changes were needed since it's basically very close to the Raspberry Pi 4 but the updated DTS configuration is needed for the 1.8GHz clock rate, a different WiFi chip, and power off handling via GPIO.
XFS To Enjoy Big Scalability Boost With Linux 5.14 — The big numbers are seeing the transaction rate go up from around 700k to 1.7M commits per second and a reduction in flush operations by 2~x orders of magnitude less for metadata heavy workloads that don't enforce fsync.
Archive of old versions of Linux — Thanks to Mediactive Network for hosting this website.
Mandrake 10.1 Visual Tour
Xandros 3.0 Desktop Gallery
Red Hat 9’s Classic Look
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS — Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.
Damn Small Linux — Damn Small Linux is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.
BackTrack Linux — BackTrack was a Linux distribution that focused on security, based on the Knoppix Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use.
TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life
auto-cpufreq — Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux based on active monitoring of laptop's battery state, CPU usage, CPU temperature and system load. Ultimately allowing you to improve battery life without making any compromises.
Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free? — But there is a catch – of course: they're both very old and hard to run on a modern computer. I'm here to tell you how to get them and how to install and run them.

389: Harder Butter Faster Stronger

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:45:00 -0800

We showcase a tool that will change your Linux game.

Plus our thoughts on the recent Btrfs FUD, a bunch of feedback, and a handy pick.

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[ANNOUNCE] nano-5.5 is released
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Finally Stop Making New Home Directories World-Readable — Ubuntu 21.04 will do away with the existing practice on Ubuntu Linux systems of making new user home directories world-readable.
Linux 5.10.8 Kernel Released - Finally Fixes That Btrfs Performance Regression — Linux 5.10.8 is out today as the latest stable release for the Linux 5.10 LTS series. Making this point release notable is that it finally addresses the 5.10 Btrfs performance regression.
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Ventoy — An open-source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
Ventoy on GitHub
Feedback: openSUSE and FOSS Adventures
Feedback: Neon Success Story
Feedback: Next Tuesday
Feedback: ThinkPad X12 Detachable
ThinkPad X12 Detachable | Windows Tablet | Lenovo US
Feedback: Google forms?!
Feedback: System76 Prediction
Pick: PGHoard — pghoard is a PostgreSQL backup daemon and restore tooling that stores backup data in cloud object stores.

363: Return of the Terminal Server

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:00:00 -0700

Fedora makes a bold move and Microsoft seems to be working on their ideal "Cloud PC", we ponder what Linux has to offer.

Plus an easy way to remotely watch movies with others, and a bunch of your feedback.

Chapters:
0:00 Pre-Show
0:29 Intro
2:34 RSI Woes
7:21 Jellyfin
13:12 Proxmox Backup Server
16:22 ProcMon for Linux
20:16 Fedora 33 Defaults to Btrfs
24:27 systemd-oomd
26:38 Housekeeping
28:41 Riot Becomes Element
32:36 Mysterious Microsoft Job Posting
39:19 Picks: Polybar
40:57 Picks: ytop
42:43 Feedback
48:50 Outro
50:06 Post-Show

Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, and Neal Gompa.

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361: Buttery Smooth Fedora

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 02:00:00 -0700

Fedora's getting to work and reconsidering some long held-assumptions.

Plus the best tool for getting things done on Linux, we take a look at openSUSE Leap 15.2, and breathe new life into an old Pebble.

Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Drew DeVore, Jeff Fortin Tam, and Neal Gompa.

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355: Chris' Data Crisis

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 26 May 2020 21:30:00 -0700

Chris' tale of woe after a recent data loss, and Wes' adventure after he finds a rogue device on his network.

Special Guest: Drew DeVore.

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336: Linus' Filesystem Fluster

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 19:30:00 -0800

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse!

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

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