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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.
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655: Speeding Up Mistakes
Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts...
654: Creating Discord in the Matrix
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open sour...
653: The Kernel Always Wins
The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works.<...
652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot
We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade.
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651: Uptime Funk
When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for...
650: This Old Network
We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected...
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649: Burned by AI
The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s ap...
648: I See Live People
We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your...
647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies
We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.
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646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄
The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celeb...
645: COSMIC Christmas
We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC sta...
644: The People's Filesystem
Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.
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643: The Sunday Soapbox
We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.
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642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd,...
641: Something New, Something Old
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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640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.
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639: The Mess Machine
After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.
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638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.
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637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster
The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.
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636: Engineering the Future
We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way, we visit S...
635: The Texas Linux Fest Special
Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.
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634: Config Confessions
From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.
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633: A Kernel in Every Core
Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally...
632: The Nightly Wobble
Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.
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631: Offline By Default
Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.
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630: Google's Garden Lockdown
Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.
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629: Arch Enemies
Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homela...
628: Don't Call it a Christro
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
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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626: The Btrfs Blues
A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.
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625: They're Doing it Wrong!
A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.
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624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems
Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.
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623: 50 Days of Blue
Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh comp...
622: Omarchy Hits Different
Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.
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621: The Sunday Secret Sauce
We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, S...
620: Brent Loves Building Things
Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
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619: The Trouble with TUIs
We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Chall...
618: TUI Challenge Kickoff
Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...
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617: The Disposable Server
Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.
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616: From Boston to bootc
Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise...