Special Guests: Kelsey Hightower and Michael Stahnke.

Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• stahnma (Michael Stahnke)
• Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily
• Pro OpenSSH (Expert's Voice in Open Source): Stahnke, Michael
• Nix and AI, are we there yet? | SCALE
• stahnma/mandatoryFun
• Post by @kelseyhightower.com — Bluesky — I don't care about LLMs or AI. I care about people. AI is just a tool to me. Tools enable people to help or harm at a scale beyond their natural abilities. I care about how people treat each other using these tools.
• distrostru's gatus config
• Status Page On Demand | Gatus
• MimiClaw — MimiClaw turns a tiny ESP32-S3 board into a personal AI assistant.
• hrwtech/openclaw-esp32: OpenClaw on your Arduino ESP32 devices
• Pick: WebsocketCAM — Access Android camera via WebSocket client API and run AI / computer vision tasks with ease on live camera stream
• Pick: ChrisLAS/openclaw-mcp-bridge — OpenClaw plugin that bridges any MCP HTTP server as native tools. The missing piece between OpenClaw + Ollama and the MCP ecosystem.
• Pick: ChrisLAS/freshrss-mcp — A simple MCP server to stand in front of your FreshRSS Server
• Pick: wechsel — A Cli Utility to replace home folders with symlinks to project folders
• wechsel-extension: A Gnome Extension for Project Switching

Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party Meetup
• Discord to roll out age verification next month
• Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
• Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel
• NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0
• OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security and Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
• All about initramfs
• pivot_root implementation and constraints
• TrueNAS Scale
• ZimaOS — A Simplified, Focused and Open NAS OS Supports all X86-64 hardware.
• Github: ZimaOS
• Clan — opinionated NixOS peer-to-peer computer management framework
• What is Clan? - Documentation
• clan-lol/clan-core: Build your own clan
• ConnecTen internet
• Case Study: Fortress Outdoor Router
• Pick: booklog — B{ook}log is a self-hosted, multi-user book tracking platform for avid readers. Each user maintains a personal library and wishlist, with per-user readings, stats, and timeline.
• Pick: whosthere — Local Area Network discovery tool with an interactive Terminal User Interface (TUI) written in Go. Discover, explore, and understand your LAN in an intuitive way. Knock Knock.. who's there? 🚪
• Pick: Weylus — Use your tablet as graphic tablet/touch screen on your computer.

Sponsored By:

• Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
• Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
• JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
• Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
• Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.
• GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
• GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
• Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
• Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
• base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
• sort does not finish for large one line file
• Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
• Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
• systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
• systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
• Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
• The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
• mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
• My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
• basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
• Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.

Special Guests: Aneesh Agrawal, Eelco Dolstra, Kelsey Hightower, Mike Kelly, Ron Efroni, and Ross Turk.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• River - Buy Bitcoin. Easy & Secure.: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• Flox - Nix for Simplicity & Scale — Flox is all about simplifying your development workflow—think reproducible, portable dev environments powered by Nix, but without the steep learning curve. Whether you’re a solo coder or part of a big team, Flox lets you manage and share environments effortlessly, so you can focus on building great software instead of wrestling with setup headaches.
• Planet Nix
• Talk - Kelsey Hightower's Perspective on Nix
• Talk - Aneesh from Anthropic - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It
• Talk - Eelco Dolstra Intros Configurable Flakes
• Talk - Mike Kelly - Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Eelco Dolstra - Configurable Flakes
• Aneesh Agrawal - Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production
• Fireside Chat with Kelsey Hightower: An Outsider’s Look at Nix
• Building a Chromebook replacement with NixOS
• Why do people love NixOS so much? | Mike Kelly
• How to convert an old ChromeBook into a NixBook | Mike Kelly
• Olympia Mike's Nixbook | GitHub
• Flox | Nix in the Wild
• The NixOS Foundation Board Announced
• Guilty Pleasures | The Launch 🚀 13
• Pick: pyatv: A client library for Apple TV and AirPlay devices — This is an asyncio python library for interacting with Apple TV and AirPlay devices. It mainly targets Apple TVs (all generations, including tvOS 15 and later), but also supports audio streaming via AirPlay to receivers like the HomePod, AirPort Express and third-party speakers. It can act as remote control to the Music app/iTunes in macOS.
• Pick: atv-desktop-remote: A simple app to allow you to control an Apple TV from your desktop — The latest version works with tvOS 15 and up. It requires Python 3 to be installed on the system to work properly.

Special Guests: Kelsey Hightower, Rob Hernandez, and Ron Efroni.

Sponsored By:

• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• River - Buy Bitcoin. Easy & Secure.: River is the most trusted place in the U.S. for individuals and businesses to buy, sell, send, and receive Bitcoin.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCALE 2025 Meetup — El Cholo Cafe Pasadena - Saturday, Mar 8, 2025, 7:00 PM
• Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA at the Southern California Linux Expo.
• Flox - Your dev environment, everywhere — Flox help teams focus on building fast by providing reproducible environments that span the entire software lifecycle. With Flox, developers can create environments that contain all of the tools and frameworks they need, binding them with the software they ship into the world.
• Kelsey Hightower on X
• kelseyhightower on GitHub
• Kelsey Hightower on LinkedIn
• Robert Hernandez SCaLE Profile
• Fireside Chat: An Outsider’s Look at Nix - Ron Efroni, Kelsey Hightower
• Learn Nix the Fun Way - Farid Zakaria
• Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production -
• Planet Nix FAQ
• nix.conf - Adding GitHub Access Tokens — Access tokens used to access protected GitHub, GitLab, or other locations requiring token-based authentication.
• Olympia Mike's nixbook
• peterfajdiga/karousel: Scrollable tiling Kwin script
• YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
• paperwm/PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for GNOME Shell
• Libro.fm — Your Independent Bookstore for Digital Audiobooks
• Pick: OpenAudible-To-AudibleBookShelf — This script automates the process of moving audiobook files from OpenAudible or Libation to an organized folder structure and updates AudioBookShelf accordingly. It handles file organization, metadata mapping, and interaction with the AudioBookShelf API.