LINUX Unplugged
An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 631
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
451: The NixOS Challenge
We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.
Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April.
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450: It Went Real Bad
Why GNOME 42 is the release we’ve all been waiting for.
Plus, we attempt to install Linux on an M1 MacBook live on the show.
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449: Bugfix and Chill
How each of us asks for features and help from free software projects, and one of our most prescient soapboxes in a while.
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448: A Mystery in Plain Sight
We surprise each other with three different topics, hidden away by encryption in our show notes - we literally have no idea what we're talking about this week.
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447: An Umbrel for Everything
We look at two new options that enable ANYONE to run a personal server at home or a small business.
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446: Kudu Cores and Cloud Wars
We put the sports car of Linux laptops to the test. Is it the multi-tasking machine it claims to be?
And an essential update on the show.
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445: Brent's Betrayal
Linux is the master of small computers, and this week it’s going to the next level. We chat with the creator of the $15 Linux box and share some significant updates for the Raspberry Pi.
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444: Much Ado About Ubuntu
There's just something off about Ubuntu these days, this week we put it all together.
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443: Linux Did This First
We all take it for granted, but it is one of the best things about Linux. We share the history of the live CD, how it all got started, and the times it saved our bacon.
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442: Liberty Leaks and Lies
SUSE had an awkward week; we breakdown the very mixed launch of SUSE Liberty Linux.
Plus, we've cracked what's driving Linux Distribution adoption these days.
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441: Planet Incinerating Technology
We make some last-minute changes to our server setup and catch up on a bunch of thought-provoking feedback.
Special Guests: Martin Wimpress and Neal Gompa.
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440: Saving Podcasting from Centralization
A new initiative uses open source to keep podcasting decentralized and add new features.
We chatted with Dave Jones behind the Podcast Index.
Special Guest: Dave Jones.
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439: Double Server Jeopardy
Our new server setup is bonkers, but we love it.
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438: Million-Dollar Predictions
We do our best to predict what will happen in 2022, and own up to what we thought might happen in 2021.
Special Guests: Alan Pope, Drew DeVore, and Joe Ressington.
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437: The 2021 Tuxies
It's the second annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2021.
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436: Hop on Pop
We each try out the new Pop_OS! and Carl Richell from System76 joins us to get into the details.
Plus why we feel Pop might be the new Ubuntu.
Special Guest: Carl Richell.
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435: Desktop Burnout
This was not the year of the Linux Desktop. We’ve been slacking on the mailbag, so we go on a feedback frenzy and answer some hard questions about desktop Linux.
Special Guests: Carl George and Martin…
434: Endlessly Flat
The Director of EndlessOS joins us to respond to recent Flatpak criticism.
We take the opportunity to expand on the overall effort to solve Linux fragmentation.
Special Guests: Martin Wimpress, Neal …
433: The Lessons of Jellyfin
We revisit some old assumptions about the open-source Plex-alternative, Jellyfin. We each try it out, and along the way, gain a few insights about open source.
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432: Three Tumbleweed Temptations
Can we live with openSUSE Tumbleweed?
We try three different builds and prepare ourselves for our journey into SUSE land. Our setups, what we liked, and what we still need to figure out.