Displaying all 4 Episode of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “lwn”.
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625: They're Doing it Wrong!
July 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 15 mins
a-a-ron, app packaging, atomic write support, bcachefs, bluefin, bootc, btrfs, distro packaging, etesync-knotes, ext4, fedora, fedora flatpaks, fedora workstation, flathub, flatpak, flatpak-centric desktop, greg kroah-hartman, home assistant, homelab, immutable, io_uring, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, kinoite, linkwarden, linux 6.16, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lwn, macintosh ii, managing nixos configs, michael catanzaro, nebula, netbird, nixos, open source, phoronix, rhel, rust, self-hosted, silverblue, snapdragon x1 elite, toney, ubuntu concept iso, wireguard, xfs, zigbee, zigbee dongle
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.
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422: The Fun Distro
September 7th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
arch, arizona, btrfs, e ink, firewall, firewalld, gaming on linux, garuda, ingenuity, iptables, jonathan corbet, jpl, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma 5.23, lady jupes, light phone, linux for fun, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lwn, mars 2020, nasa, nate graham, nftables, nvidia, oom, perseverance, rv, social media, sumo spring, sweet theme, timeshift, tornado, wayland, xwayland, youtube-dl, yt-dlp, ytmdl, zen kernel, zram, zstd
We try out what might be the most fun Linux distribution around. It started as a laugh, but now we’re in love.
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403: Hidden Features of Fedora 34
April 27th, 2021 | 1 hr 8 mins
acrn, amazon, broadcom vk, btrfs, bubblewrap, centos, django, earlyoom, email, facebook, fedora 34, flatpak 1.11.1, gnome 40, greg kroah-hartman, grub2, gtk4, humble bundle, hyper-v, irb, jack, jupiter broadcasting, kde, linux 5.12, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux servers, lwn, mail server, memory pressure, modoboa, nintendo 64, pipewire, plasma 5.21, playstation 5 dualsense, pressure vessel, psi, pulseaudio, python, red hat, research ethics, rhel, risc-v, self-hosted, selinux, sifive hifive, steam, steam runtime, sub-sandboxes, swap, systemd-oomd, transparent compression, uefi, umn, university of minnesota, unplugged, wayland, wslg, xwayland standalone, zellij, zstd
The new release of Fedora has more under the hood than you might know. It's a technology-packed release, and nearly all of it is coming to a distro near you.
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390: Eating the License Cake
January 26th, 2021 | 44 mins
apache license, aws, chrome, chromium, du, dust, elastic, elasticsearch, fedora, free software, google, hacs, home assistant, i3, jellyfin, jonathan corbet, jupiter broadcasting, kernel maintainer, kibana, linux 5.12, linux podcast, lucene, lwn, ncdu, nintendo 64, open source, polybar, rust, search, security, server side public license, solr, tom callaway, unplugged, waybar, wayland
Successful open-source projects all seem to struggle with one major gorilla. Who it is, and what their options are now.