LINUX Unplugged

638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy

October 26th, 2025  |  1 hr 4 mins

/boot, anaconda, atomic distro, btrfs, coreos, cosmic desktop, discover, fedora, fedora 43, fedora cosmic, fedora kinoite, fedora spins, fedora wallpaper, fedora workstation, flatpak, gnome, jupiter broadcasting, kde, kinoite, lemurs, linux podcast, linux unplugged, millisecond, open source, plasma 6.5, podman, rdp, rpm-ostree, slitherer, systemd-resolved, wayland, x11

Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

623: 50 Days of Blue

July 13th, 2025  |  1 hr 14 mins

arch linux, atomic, aur, aurora, bazzite, bitchat, bluefin, bluenixfin, bluetooth mesh chat, bootc, brew, briar, chromebook, cloud-native linux, commonarch, community projects, container workflows, determinate systems, dhh, esp32, esp8266, fedora, fedora silverblue, fhs, filesystem hierarchy standard, flatpak, homebrew, immutable, immutable distros, jack dorsey, jakoolit, jupiter broadcasting, las arch challenge, linux desktop, linux gaming, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mesh messaging, nix, nix integration, nix vegas, nixos, obtainium, oci container, omarchy, open source, podman, rpm-ostree, steamos, texas linux fest, ujust, universal blue, user feedback

Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?

616: From Boston to bootc

May 25th, 2025  |  1 hr 30 mins

ai, ai wish machine, ansible, artificial intelligence, atomic updates, bluefin, bootc, carl's pocket meat, crab cakes, fedora, fedora project leader, fips, hugging face, hybrid cloud, image mode, immutable, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, llm-d, matt hicks, mcp, model context protocol, nixos, ollama, open source, open source ai, openshift, openshift virtualization, podcast completionists, podman, post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing, ramalama, red hat, red hat ai, red hat ansible automation platform, red hat enterprise linux, red hat summit, red hat summit 2025, rhel 10, tui challenge, vllm, yazi

Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What’s luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.

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.

562: Red Hat Knows How to Party

May 12th, 2024  |  1 hr 14 mins

ai, announcement links, berlin meetup report, block party, bootc, centos, expo hall, fedora, granite code model, ibm, image mode, instructlab, jupiter broadcasting, keynote, lab, large-scale alignment for chatbots, linux podcast, linux unplugged, lup phone, podman, red hat, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, summit

Three revelations from Red Hat Summit. Our on-the-ground report will separate fact from hype.

561: Folders as a Service

May 5th, 2024  |  43 mins 22 secs

1st linux box, airdrop alternative, ajax, arch server, arch update, audioserve, awesome-webservers, bbq, campus surplus, docker, files, folders as a service, fountain.fm, fun with files, homelab, http static server, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux for windows, linux podcast, linux unplugged, linuxfest northwest, little server that could, live upgrade, localsend, maple syrup pour, neofetch, nix drama, nix flake, nixos, no auth required, photosynth, php, podman, production arch server, rolling distro, rust, self, slackware, southeast linuxfest, spaceballs boost, sputnik, tiny file manager, wes’ janky options, winmodem, yellow dog linux

A few of our go-to tools for one-liner web servers, sharing media directly from folders, and a much needed live Arch server update, and more!

549: Will it Nixcloud?

February 11th, 2024  |  1 hr 34 mins

all-in-one, ansible, app store, arion, autotier, backups, bcachefs, btrfs, carplay, collabora, configuration management, container management, containers, cow, cs go, declarative configuration, docker, docker compose, gaming on linux, gigabyte, grafana, haskell, hercules ci, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux truths, linux unplugged, lxc, lxd, mac trashcan, minecraft, monitoring, nagios, netdata, nextcloud, nextcloud apps, nextcloudpi, nginx, nixos, nvme, php, podman, podverse, postgresql, ram-only distro challenge, redis, reproducibility, s3, self-hosting, snap, snap package, snowflake os, systemd, the nix way, tiered storage, traefik, trunas scale, unraid, vr on linux, will it nix?, windows, yaml, zfs

Deploying Nextcloud the Nix way promises a paradise of reproducibility and simplicity. But is it just a painful trek through configuration hell? We built the dream Nextcloud using Nix and faced reality.

535: Hit the Turbo

November 9th, 2023  |  1 hr 50 mins

agpl, azure, bitcoin-dev mailing list, cachestat, cla, colima, containers, docker, docker desktop, duplicati, element, fedora 39, fedora 40, fedora appreciation week 2023, fedora onyx immutable, fido2, gentoo, gnome 45 features, iss, jupiter broadcasting, kde plasma 6.0 approved, lima, linux 6.5, linux in space, linux podcast, linux unplugged, matrix, midi 2.0, milkdrop, modularity, move_mount_beneath, music visualization, podman, podman desktop, projectm, synapse, syncthing, usb4, virtualization, vyos

A special guest joins us, and we each give Fedora 39 a try. What’s new, what we liked, and what didn’t make the cut!

532: We Like Snaps Now

October 15th, 2023  |  1 hr 15 mins

1l pc, amd ryzen, app center, cad, chocolately, debian, docker desktop, enterprise desktop, enterprise linux, ext4, fde, firefox, flutter, fountain 1.0, full disk encryption, gnome 45, intel arc, jellyfin, jupiter broadcasting, legacy installer, linux 6.5, linux desktop, linux podcast, linux unplugged, log viewer, mantic minotaur, mozilla, nixos, no corporation november, noto fonts, ntfs, one liter pc, pipewire, plex, podman, quick settings, raspberry pi 5, security, snapcraft, snapd, tags, take my brent away, text tagger, tiling, tiling desktop, tpm, translations, ubuntu 23.10, ubuntu budgie, ubuntu core, ubuntu iso, wayland, wifi 7, windows challenge, wsl, wyse terminal, zfs

Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more.