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
470: Let's Call It an Upgrade
We present a buffet of budget Linux boxes. From $40 to $400 you'll be surprised by what we found. Then we attempt to find the perfect distro for them.
Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
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469: Tough Linux Love
Is the Linux desktop hard to love? A long-time user experience developer argues it is, and we respond to his criticisms.
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468: The Read Only Scenario
A fundamental change is coming to desktop Linux, and Silverblue might be our hint at where things are going.
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467: All Hands on Deck
We try and bust a common Linux distro myth. Then what surprised Chris about his new Steam Deck.
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466: The Night of a Thousand Errors
We were fixing servers all night, but at least we have a great story. A special guest joins us to help make a big show announcement.
Special Guest: Tim Canham.
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465: Too Nixy for My Shirt
The one shared secret behind some of the world's most powerful open-source projects.
Brent's Node : 03cf7e9b79a3230749db642ad690889065ec35b9ded184266d4fce424ab75470fc
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464: Git Happens
We're going back in time to witness the early days of a critical tool to build Linux, then jump forward 15 years and join our buddy Brent on his journey to learn that very tooling.
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463: Humble Beginnings
One of the pioneers of the web, VNC, Webcams, and more joins us; plus we'll update you on a few projects we love.
Special Guest: Quentin Stafford-Fraser.
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462: One Cosmic Collaboration
From skeptic to buyer, why the HP Dev One is the best Linux laptop yet. This is the one review you don't want to miss.
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461: Deep in the Tumbleweeds
Three tails of tech tribulations, and how Brent saved his openSUSE Tumbleweed box from the brink.
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460: CPU as a Service
A new Linux update allows Intel to control features in your CPU using hardware-level DRM.
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459: Better than Butter
We take a sneak peek at some future tech coming to Linux, and share details on HP's new laptop that runs POP!
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458: NVIDIA's New View
NVIDIA is open-sourcing their GPU drivers, but there are a few things you need to know. Plus, we get some exclusive insights into Tailscale from one of its co-founders.
Special Guests: Avery Pennarun …
457: Automated Chaos
Each of us brings a secret topic to the show, and we discover a common theme about using the wrong tool for the right job.
Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
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456: Our Linux Regrets
If we could change just one mistake in our Linux journey, what would it be?
- Open a channel to our node: 037d284d2d7e6cec7623
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455: I run NixOS BTW
We've hit a bump in the road with the NixOS challenge, and share what it might not be great at. Plus, what we didn't cover in our Ubuntu 22.04 review.
The one where we don't talk about Ubuntu 22.04…
454: Double Distro Details
Has Fedora pulled ahead of Ubuntu? We take a look at the new Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 releases.
Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
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453: Raleigh Action Show
We just wrapped up our East Coast meetup and have a bunch of great stories to share. Plus some Nix ups and downs, and more.
Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
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452: Synapse Collapse
How we nearly crashed our Matrix server; what we did wrong and how we're fixing it.
Plus an update on elementary OS, GNOME's next chapter, and we kick off the NixOS Challenge.