LINUX Unplugged

651: Uptime Funk

January 25th, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

acme for nebula pki, actual budget, ad-blocking, automatic hostname resolution, dns, docker, enterprise-grade monitoring stack, flox, furilabs, grafana, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, linux phone, linux podcast, linux unplugged, local dns, magicdns, meetup, mesh network, mesh vpn, metrics, monitoring, nacme, nebula, nixos-router, ntfy, open source, pi-hole, pinephone, planet nix, prometheus, purism, richarch hyprvibe spin, scale, self-hosted, switchyard, tailscale, technitium, uptime-kuma, van automation, vpn, vps, wifiman, ynab

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

650: This Old Network

January 18th, 2026  |  1 hr 3 mins

1l pc, actual, actualbudget, bluevault, computer upcycle project, coral tpu, coral usb accelerator, frigate, geekom, home assistant, hp prodesk 600 g5 mini, ikea, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh network, mini pc, nas, nebula, network makeover, nixbook, nixos, nixos router, oidc, open source, open source ai coding agent, open source budgeting, opencode, openwrt, openwrt one, planet nix, pocket tts, pocket-id, printing issues, scale, sff pc, sonoff, sonos, swag, symfonisk, text-to-speech, tts, unplugged pivot, vpn, webview-kiosk, wifi, wifi speaker, ynab, z-wave, zbt-2, zigbee

We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...

606: Nix's Magic Cookbook

March 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 38 mins

aneesh agrawal, anthropic, apple tv, atv-desktop-remote, bang boost, bang bus, chromebook, deep dive, ebpf, eelco dolstra, firefox, flakes, flox, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, kelsey hightower, laser tag champions, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mike kelly, mozilla, nix in the wild, nixbook, nixos, olympia mike, planet nix, producer jeff, pyatv, ron efroni, ross turk, rust, scale, system76, the launch, thunderbird, tui challenge, year of the terminal, 🚐

We have stories to share, guests joining us, insights from our week at Planet Nix, and Brent's big bombshell.

604: One Week Left

March 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 1 min

alby hub, android auto, audiobookshelf, chromebook, dendrite, element, flox, fountain, graphene os, jb meetup, jupiter broadcasting, karousel, kelsey hightower, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, niri, nixbook, nixos, openaudible, openaudible-to-audiblebookshelf, paperwm, planet nix, robert hernandez, ron efroni, scale, synapse, 🤟❄️⚖️, 🦒

We're pre-gaming two of the biggest Linux events of the year. Engineers, organizers, and surprise guests are dropping by to give us the scoop before it all begins.

603: All Your Kernels Belong to Rust

February 23rd, 2025  |  1 hr 30 secs

amazon, asahi linux, bhyve, christoph hellwig, dma, freebsd challenge, gentoo challenge, greg kroah-hartman, hector martin, jupiter broadcasting, kernel, kernel maintainer, kindle, linus torvalds, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux unplugged, miguel ojeda, nping, planet nix, rust, rust kernel policy, scale, texas linux fest, txlf

There have been major Rust developments in the Linux Kernel; we discuss what's new and how it will impact the future. Plus, we're joined by a special guest.

602: The BSD Humbling

February 16th, 2025  |  1 hr 7 mins

add water, ardour, audible, audiobookshelf, bhyve, dj khaled, doas, flox, framework, freebsd, freebsd challenge, ghostbsd, hedgedoc, jails, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, launch, libation, libluksde, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxulator-steam-utils, mate, mizutamari, music assistant, nes, netbsd, planet nix, podman, retro gaming, scale, snes, syncthing, tailscale, zfs, 👻, 🚀

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

601: Taming the Demons

February 9th, 2025  |  1 hr 8 mins

bsd battlestation, flox, freebsd, freebsd challenge, garmindb, ghostbsd, jupiter broadcasting, kexec, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos analogy, planet nix, podman, prime episode, raspberry pi 400, rc.conf, shower thoughts pen, showtoshi, zach mitchell, zfs

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close!

Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

598: Not Your Distrohopper's Distro

January 19th, 2025  |  1 hr 23 mins

ansible, declaritive, desktop linux, docker, immutable, isd, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, lup 600, nextcloud, nix, nixos, notepad next, passkey, planet nix, planify, scale, super productivity, todoist, tuxies, ubuntu declarative donkey, zen kernel, zfs, 🫏

With more criticisms of NixOS than ever—do they have a point? We'll dig into the tough critiques and give our perspective.

588: Clearing out the Tumbleweeds

November 10th, 2024  |  1 hr 21 mins

arch, beelink, bees, boosties, btrfs, dedupe, devenv, distrosea, fedora, fountain, framework, gnome, gpu dock, hp devone, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kexec, leap, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 600 meetups, lustrate, minisforum, nixos, nixos-images, open-webui, opensuse, owncloud, planet nix, reiserfs, scale, suse, suse linux 9.1, tmate, tumbleweed, vscode

We go back in time to revisit our favorite classic SUSE release and then fix Brent's broken box the hard way.

587: Triple Fedora Taste-Test

November 3rd, 2024  |  1 hr 28 mins

apple m1, arctic circle zip code, asahi linux, asahi-audio, atomic, audiobookshelf, bootc, bootupd, cosmic atomic, dnf, dnf 5, fedora, fedora 41, fedora media writer, flock, folluoost, gdm settings, gnome 47, holesail, i3, jupiter broadcasting, kinoite, kinoite mobile, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup 600 meetups, matthew kosarek, meshtastic, mir, miracle-wm, mircale, nixos, nvidia, nwg-shell, opensuse, planet nix, plasma 6.2, ptyxis, rpm-ostree, seagl, silverblue, spins, sway, tiling, tumbleweed, universal blue, wayland, web apps

Fedora 41 is here! We break down the best new features, then branch out for a three-way spin showdown. Which flavor will come out on top?