LINUX Unplugged

We reveal all and look at the mess that is our home directories. How we keep them clean, back them up, and organize our most important files.

Plus Gnome lands a long awaited feature, Firefox gets a…

We head to the Raspberry Pi corner and pick the very best open source home automation system.

Plus some great news for Gnome users, OBS studio has a new funding model, and a nostalgic chat with our…

Will there ever be another "big" Linux distro, or has that time passed?

Plus two popular Linux desktop apps see a big upgrade, and Wes explains to Chris why he should care a lot more about cgroups.

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The hype around a new security flaw hits new levels. Fedora has a bunch of news, and we discover what's new in the latest Plasma release.

Plus we fall down the openSUSE rabbit hole when Ell updates …

Why FOSDEM might be the quintessential community event, and our thoughts after playing with Pi-Hole.

Plus community news for everyone’s favorite video player, GNOME Shell gets a major speed boost, a…

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

Plus some hard details on the Librem 5, we visit the Canonical Corner, and a big batch of grea…

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

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ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discu…

Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

Plus community news, a reality check on Linux gaming, and some shiny new…

We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

Plus Clear Linux aims to build the ultimate Linux desktop based on Xfce, and it looks like GNOME is …

We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.

Special Guest: Alan Pope.

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We’re just back from touring System76’s new factory, and getting the inside scoop on how they build their Thelio desktop. This is our story about walking in as skeptics, and walking out as believers.…

We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Plus we check in on Ubuntu 19.04, start the search for an Emby replacement, and how to use Reddit on the comm…

We chat with a developer who's gotten Linux running on iOS devices, do a deep dive into Clear Linux, and discuss Xubuntu ending 32bit support.

Plus why Android in the cloud, and a bunch of community…

Fedora might take a year off, to focus on it self. Project Lead and Council Chair Matthew Miller joins us to explain this major proposal.

Plus Wimpy shares his open source Drobo alternative, and our…

Android and Ubuntu are working exceptionally hard to create longer support cycles. We’ll highlight the work that makes this possible, and what’s motivating these two different projects to strive for …

Christian F.K. Schaller from Red Hat joins us to discuss seamless Linux upgrades, replacing PulseAudio, some of the recent desktop Projects Red Hat’s been working on... And the value they get from th…

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?

Plus some performance improvements inbound to Linux, and th…

We speculate about a future where IBM owns Red Hat, and review the latest Fedora 29 release that promises a new game changing feature.

Plus Chris returns from MeetBSD with his review, and we get the…

The lead developer of PipeWire Wim Taymans joins us to discuss Linux’s multimedia past, and its exciting future. They promise to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.

Plus we revi…