Displaying all 6 Episode of LINUX Unplugged with the tag “zen kernel”.
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641: Something New, Something Old
November 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
1l pc, bcachefs, fex, gabe newell, homelab, jupiter broadcasting, kauf smart plug plf10, linux podcast, linux unplugged, nixos, ohio linux fest, olf conference, open source, opengl, proton, steam, steam controller, steam deck, steam frame, steam machine, steamos, thinkcentre m920q, valve, ventoy, vr headset, vulkan, zen kernel
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.
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628: Don't Call it a Christro
August 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 31 mins
alby hub, bcachefs, bitchat, bluefin, bpf, brunchos, btrfs, canonical, canonical spikes, dangerous desktop images, document archiving, ebook reader, epub, ffshare, filesystem drama, flatpak, gameboy locker, home assistant, home assistant connect zwa-2, hyprland, hyprland nixos, hyprvibe, jb events, jupiter broadcasting, kent overstreet, kernel, librenms, linux 6.17, linux kernel, linux podcast, linux politics, linux unplugged, lue, matter, nixos, nixos configs, omarchy, open source, opencode, papra, performance tuning, register, snap, snap testing, soltrosos, steam, syncthing, syncthing 2.0, syncthing update, terminal ebook reader, texas meetup, text-to-speech, toronto meetup, tts, txlf, ubuntu, ubuntu 25.10, ubuntu dangerous, waybar, wayland gameboy locker, wlgblock, z-wave, z-wave alliance, z-wave revival, zen kernel
When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris’ hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.
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627: The 2 a.m. Rescue
August 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 24 mins
aaron asks, actual budget, ai coding, alby hub, bpftune, breez, btrbk, btrfs, conference, crush, cursor, ffmpeg, ffshare, flake system, forester, gpodder, gpt5, homebox, hyprland desktop, hyprvibe, ikea speakers, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, llm, music assistant, nix, nix optimizations, nix rescue, nixos, notes, open source, podverse, reproducible badge, rice, simplefin, sonos, system tweaks, texas linux festival, txlf, v4v, vegas, vibe coding, void, waybar rice, yolo, zen kernel, zfs, zram
Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.
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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.
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593: Zen and the Art of Kernel Preempting
December 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
alby hub, centos, centos stream, centos stream 10, chatgippity, colony events, cosmic, epel 10, fedora, fedora 42, fountain, gathio, gentoo, gnome 47, gnome terminal, grapheneos, ham radio, immutabity deniers, immutable, jupiter broadcasting, kb6nu, libro.fm, linux podcast, linux unplugged, liquorix, lup 600, matthew miller, mayo, muqss, ports-info, preept_rt, ptyxis, red hat enterprise linux, rhel, rt kernel, shelter, sig, special interest groups, tuxies, ubuntu, xfce, zen kernel, 🦒
A special guest joins us for the news, then we dive headfirst into our RT Linux kernel adventures—where speed seduced, but stability ghosted us.
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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.