LINUX Unplugged

651: Uptime Funk

January 25th, 2026  |  1 hr 2 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Prometheus, Purism, acme for nebula pki, actual budget, ad-blocking, automatic hostname resolution, dns, docker, enterprise-grade monitoring stack, flox, furilabs, grafana, home assistant, 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, 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.

423: What Makes a Linux User?

September 14th, 2021  |  40 mins 10 secs

Flatpak, Halo, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Microsoft, Phil Spencer, Purism, USB, WSL, Xbox, age of empires, android, apple, apps, arm, baseband, codeweavers, easy anti-cheat, exploit, facepunch, firmware, firmware updates, flathub, flatseal, foss, free software, gamingonlinux, garry newman, google, ios, iphone 13, libre, linux gaming, linux on mobile, linux phones, linux podcast, linux unplugged, m1, mac, mobile, modem, open-source, osi, permissions, pinephone, proton, re-logic, rust, sandboxing, security, snap, solaris, steam deck, terraria, ubuntu podcast, valve, what makes a linux user

Why it might be time to re-think who is and who is not a Linux user, plus we do a reality check on the state of Linux phones.

399: No PRs Please

March 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 10 mins

68k.news, Canonical, Centos, Cockpit, Jupiter Broadcasting, Linux Action News, Microsoft, Purism, RDP, Red Hat, SDK, almalinux os, apple, bare metal, burnout, c, centos stream, cloud shell, cloudlinux, common goal, community, covid, electron, elementary OS, fedora, flutter, gnome foundation, gtk, gtk4, gui, late night linux, linux desktop, linux gaming, linux podcast, lutris, mac os, matrix, mutter, native development, neil mcgovern, open source, pia, private internet access, proton, python, qt, remote workstation, rms, security, server, shells.com, software development, solo dev, spice, steam, sysadmin, ubuntu 21.04, unplugged, vala, vnc, windows, zlatan todoric

Lutris developer Mathieu Comandon joins us to share his perspective on the uncomfortable issues facing Linux desktop developers.

358: Our Fragmented Favorite

June 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

Btrfs, Falcon 9, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, a cloud guru, accesibility, apple, checksums, containers, copy on write, cow, crew dragon, data integrity, disk layout, disk partitioning, disk space, docker, ext4, facebook, fedora, fedora workstation, filesystem, gimp, github, linux podcast, lvm, macos, master, matt ahrens, media production, mobile, nvme, phone, phosh, pine64, pinephone, pinetab, pipewire, postmarketos, preempt, proprietary software, python, redis, rich bowen, ruby, snapshots, spacex, ssd, starlink, unplugged, welcoming nomenclature, windows, xfs, zfs

It's time to challenge some long-held assumptions.

Today's Btrfs is not yesterday's hot mess, but a modern battle-tested filesystem, and we'll prove it.

Plus our thoughts on GitHub dropping the term "master", and the changes Linux should make NOW to compete with commercial desktops.

330: 'Tis the SSHession

December 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 3 mins

5.1, 6tunnel, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, adguard, backuppc, cassidy james blaede, elementary OS, freedombox, gift giving, gifts, hass.io, hera, holiday gifts, homeassistant, ipv6, jellyfin, juno, kodi, lakka, linux gifts, linux podcast, odroid go, open media vault, openssh, orange pi, osmc, pihole, pinephone, raspberry pi, retroarch, sbc, self-hosted, snapcast, ssh, strobe audio, unplugged, veeam, vpn

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.

325: DNF or Die

October 29th, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins

32-bit, AMD, Flatpak, Gnome, Jay Little, Jupiter Broadcasting, Librem 5, Purism, balena, cgroups, cgroupsv2, containers, docker, egpu, etcher, fedora, fedora 31, fedora toolbox, flathub, gnome software, i686, linux desktop, linux graphics, linux podcast, mantiz, nvidia, podman, proton, python, python 2, raspberry pi, silverblue, ssh, steam, terminal sharing, tmate, tmux, ubucon, ubucon europe, unplugged

Fedora 31 strikes the right balance, we get the latest on the Librem 5 situation, and an easy graphics boost for laptops.

299: Shame as a Service

April 30th, 2019  |  1 hr 13 mins

DockerCon, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, LFNW, Privacy, Purism, Red Hat, android, containers, distrohoppers, docker, fedora, fedora 30, flicker free boot, free software, geary, gnome 3.32, home automation, librem one, linux, linux audio, linux conference, linux lite, linuxfest norhtwest, mastodon, mattermost, open source, saas, silverblue, software as a service, ubuntu 19.04, unplugged, vpn

Fresh back from LinuxFest Northwest we share a few of our favorite stories and memories.

298: Blame Joe

April 23rd, 2019  |  1 hr 5 mins

Centos, Gnome, Jupiter Broadcasting, Purism, XFCE, arandr, arc-theme, atari vcs, cubesat, darkmode, debian elections, dpl, dunst, fermilab, fractal, linux, linux podcast, manajro, matrix, openaudible, pepsi, rhel, sam hartman, scientific linux, subspace wireguard, thunar, ulauncher, unplugged, xfce performance, xubuntu

This week we discover the good word of Xfce and admit Joe was right all along. And share our tips for making Xfce more modern.

292: Cheese on the SCaLE

March 12th, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins

Jupiter Broadcasting, Purism, System76, Wayland, azure sphere, bug reports, containers, debian, debian elections, developer tooling, ebpf, f5, firefox send, home automation, linux podcast, mozilla, nginx, node-red, open source governance, openpower, project leadership, scale, scale 17x, snapcraft, sway, unplugged, web anniversary, window managers, wlroots, world wide web

A new voice joins the show, and we share stories from our recent adventures at SCaLE 17x.

286: Ell is for Linux

January 29th, 2019  |  1 hr 8 mins

18.04, 19.04, Canonical, Flatpak, Jupiter Broadcasting, LFNW, Librem 5, Mate, Purism, Ubuntu, Wayland, chromecast, containers, cool-retro-term, debian, disco dingo, docker, ell, firefox, firefox 65, fractional scaling, free content, fx_cast, gradio, kernel patch, kodi, kodi 18, linux podcast, lts, mozilla, open source home theater, ppa, pureos, scale, scale 17x, shortwave, study group, unplugged, x11, yaml

We're playing Robin Hood with the content, and a new member of our team joins to tell you all about it.