Special Guest: Carl Richell.

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• 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.
• ConfigCat Feature Flags: ConfigCat is a cross-platform LaunchDarkly alternative that's easy to learn and quick to set up. Manage feature flags without redeploying code. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED25

Support LINUX Unplugged

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
• LFNW2025 - LinuxFest Norhtwest Homepage — 25 Years of Community Excellence.
• See how far COSMIC has come this year by Carl Richell - LinuxFest Northwest 2025
• COSMIC Desktop
• COSMIC Alpha 7 — ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!
• pop-os/cosmic-epoch: Next generation Cosmic desktop environment
• COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7 Brings More New Features
• The best-looking Linux desktop I've seen so far in 2025 — The creators of one of the coolest Linux distros just released a new version - and it puts the old one to shame.
• Blind Penguin - Software Development with José Ibañez
• Accessibility Talk: Blind Penguin at LFNW 2025
• Beyond ARIA Labels: What a Blind Film Enthusiast Can Teach Us About Open Source
• Trimui Smart Pro 128G Handheld Game Console with Pre Loaded Games
• Sausage — sausage is a terminal word forming game, written in Bash.
• James Sundquist's Linux Prepper Podcast

Special Guest: Producer Jeff.

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.
• ConfigCat Feature Flags: ConfigCat is a cross-platform LaunchDarkly alternative that's easy to learn and quick to set up. Manage feature flags without redeploying code. Promo Code: UNPLUGGED25

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Schedule
• POLL: Would You Tune Into a Saturday LFNW Live Stream?
• LINUX Unplugged LIVE@LFNW Sunday — Sunday 10:00 AM · 1h · HC 108
• Linux-Powered Payments: Running a Lightning Node with nix-bitcoin — Sunday 1:30 PM · 45 min · HC 204
• Lutris - Open Gaming Platform for Linux — video game preservation platform aiming to keep your video game collection up and running for the years to come.
• GitHub - ValveSoftware/Proton: Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
• R36MAX Retro Handheld Game Console with 64G Built-in 18000+ Classic Games — The R36Max is a budget device that puts the common RK3326 chip into a vertical handheld. It has the same specs as the R36Pro, but with a larger, 1:1 screen.
• R36 Max Handheld Game Console with 4" Screen Linux System
• Kooha: Elegantly record your screen — Kooha is a simple screen recorder with a minimal interface. You can simply click the record button without having to configure a bunch of settings.
• vtt-summarizer: Summarize .vtt files into meeting notes — It uses open source LLMs to handle the data extraction and summarization, ensuring everything can be run locally and without the need to share with third parties.

Sponsored By:

• 1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device.
• Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!
• 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
• Planet Nix
• Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere
• The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed
• The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge
• libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes
• linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD
• bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
• Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility
• doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
• doas mastery
• Chapter 33. Firewalls
• ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
• jellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
• Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
• FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
• Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
• Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
• Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
• Games - GhostBSD Wiki
• What’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.
• Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
• Gene's Portable Screen
• NetBSD Root on ZFS
• Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
• Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
• Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

Plus our review of the ODROID-Go Super an Ubuntu-powered handheld, and our tools for laptop battery health.

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• A Cloud Guru: By the end of this course, you will feel comfortable working with a large variety of networking tools and configurations to manage complex Linux networking implementations.
• Linode Cloud Hosting: A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account.
• MailRoute: Try out MailRoute today and get 10% off the lifetime of your account and start with a 30-day free trial, no credit card required.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

• Sensory’s custom voice assistant debuts on a Linux-based microwave — Sensory announced that its 100 percent locally processed TrulyHandsfree technology can be used to create custom voice assistants without sacrificing privacy, as demonstrated in a new Linux-based Farberware FM11VABK microwave.
• Ask LUP Anything - AskLUP.COM
• ODROID-GO Super
• ODROID-GO Super Dim Gray
• EmulationStation — A graphical and themeable emulator front-end that allows you to access all your favorite games in one place, even without a keyboard!
• ODROID Image for ES
• SegaCD missing BIOS (linked) - ODROID
• JB Telegram
• Jupiter Broadcasting Garage Sale
• Open Letter: DistroWatch and Nitrux — For the better part of three years, we have remained silent about your ongoing efforts to affect people’s perception of our Linux distribution continuously. We have tried our best not to engage with your evident hostility and disregard to inform your viewers and visitors about correct facts of the Linux distributions you display on your website, especially ours. However, we have decided to take a stance. It is today, the 6th of May, that we gallantly demand you to stop.
• Uri's Blog: Unpopular Opinion Penguin #3: The Empire Strikes Back — I’m here to take a look at the newest “review” that our lovely haters (let’s call them for what they are) at DistroWatch published on their website some weeks ago.
• DistroWatch.com: Nitrux
• Nitrux — Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution directly based on Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop and NX Firewall on top of the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and MauiKit Applications.
• Meet Nitrux: The Most Beautiful Linux Distribution Ever?
• Nitrux on Twitter
• MauiKit — A free and modular front-end framework for developing fast and compelling user experiences.
• Kirigami UI Framework — Build beautiful, convergent apps that run on phones, TVs and everything in between.
• Changelog: Nitrux 1.4.0
• NX Desktop — NX Desktop is a customization layer for Plasma 5.
• AppImageHub — Here are 1200 apps (and counting) that you can run on Linux without installation.
• Installing other DEs in Nitrux — During last month’s release of Nitrux, we made available a minimal ISO to let users install Nitrux and also install a different desktop environment and a selection of applications than the ones we include by default.
• NX Software Center — A GUI to install and manage AppImages.
• Nitrux: pnx — pnx (lowercase; originally Pacman for Nitrux) allows users to install software from Linux distributions that use the Pacman package manager on other Linux distributions that don’t use it without interfering with the distributions default package manager.
• What’s Nitrux? The future. - with Uri Herrera
• Linux Spotlight - Uri Herrera of NitruxOS
• Feedback: PrivateBin — A minimalist, open-source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data. Data is encrypted/decrypted in the browser using 256 bits AES.
• PrivateBin Docker Setup
• Feedback: PIE Bin — Pre-Internet Encryption for Text.
• Feedback: CryptPad — CryptPad is the Zero-Knowledge real-time collaborative editor.
• CryptPad Installation Guide — This guide is about installing a public CryptPad instance available on the internet.
• Pick: TLP — Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life.
• Pick: TLPUI — A GTK user interface for TLP written in Python.
• Fedora — TLP 1.3.1 documentation