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 closing the performance gap. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Clarity in the Desktop | Clear Linux* Project — Clear Linux* recently introduced a series of updates that incorporate a developer-optimized desktop experience. This experience is built upon Xfce 4....
Jan 03, 2019•1 hr 13 min
We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019. Special Guest: Alan Pope. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Predicting 2015 | LUP 73 Ghost of Predictions Past | LAS 453 2015 Linux Predictions | Linux Action Show 345...
Dec 27, 2018•59 min
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. Plus some surprising community news, a few great picks, and more! Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ProtonMail is auctioning a Lifetime Account to support WireGuard Mir 1.1 Released With EGLStreams Support To Work With NVIDIA's Binary Driver ASUS is releasing encrypted kernel sources for the ZenFone Ma...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 9 min
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 commandline. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Fire effect for the Keyboardio Model 01 keyboard Keyboardio: heirloom-grade keyboards for serious typists chrimbus_'s self hosted streaming questions — Yo @ChrisLAS / @ubuntupodcast I'm tired of depending on our internet to play ...
Dec 12, 2018•1 hr 7 min
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 news. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Theodore Dubois. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: One Raspberry Pi 3 not powerful enough? Try this five Pi cluster for computing on the edge Xubuntu Will Stop Producing 32-bit ISOs Beginning With Xubuntu 19.04 — The Xubuntu development team has now ...
Dec 05, 2018•1 hr 4 min
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 final Dropbox XFS hack. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Matthew Miller. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: NASA runs KDE Are people forgetting what open source is? — There is a responsibility for the dev to make sure they vet what is being put into, but also a larger responsibility fo...
Nov 28, 2018•1 hr
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 Very Long Term Support. Plus Chris reviews how his new Thunderbolt 3 GPU docking station works under Linux, and why he’ll never be undocking again. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Pioneers — Pioneers, the wonderfully addicting game based o...
Nov 21, 2018•1 hr 9 min
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 them. Plus a big batch of important community news, Wimpy’s Thunderbolt Dock experiments, and way to run pacman on any Linux distribution. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Christian F.K. Schaller, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Radio Garden PlayStation Classic relies on open source emula...
Nov 14, 2018•1 hr 10 min
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 the perfectly proportioned open source project we’ve recently discovered. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Celebrate Fifteen Years of Fedora — On November 6, 2003, Red Hat announced Fedora Core 1 KDE Connect — Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect A...
Nov 07, 2018•1 hr 14 min
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 inside scope on System76’s Thelio hardware. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: LKML: Greg KH: Linux 4.19 — These past few months has been a tough one for our community, as it is our community that is fighting from within itself, with prodding from others out...
Oct 31, 2018•1 hr 43 min
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 review the professional grade Precision 5530, tour our new studio in a box, and release one of our first production tools as free software! Special Guest: Wim Taymans. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: JACK Audio Connection Kit|Home GetJacked · GitHub — Some simple scripts to build a "Studio in a Box" with J...
Oct 23, 2018•58 min
elementary OS’ latest and greatest released today, and we talk with Dan and Cassidy from the project about their biggest release yet. Then community news, a preview of upcoming Ubuntu 18.10, and we announce our own free software project. Plus a chat with Dalton about the new Ubuntu Touch release and we find a real Photoshop replacement for Linux. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Dalton Durst, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Tiny P...
Oct 17, 2018•1 hr 42 min
Red Hat developer Andy Grover joins us to discuss Stratis Storage, an alternative to ZFS on Linux and its recent milestone. Also Google subtracts Plus, some KDE and GNOME news, and a bit of forgotten Linux history. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Alex Kretzschmar, Andy Grover, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: IRL Glasses Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public — Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social ne...
Oct 10, 2018•1 hr 10 min
What if desktop computing went a very different direction in the late 90s? Deeply multithreaded from the start, fast, intuitive, and extremely stable. This is the world of Haiku, and we go for a visit. Plus the latest community news, true flicker freedom comes to Fedora, and our favorite tools for easy virtual machines on our laptops. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar and Brent Gervais. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: System76 To Release A "New Open-Source Computer" Fedora 29 Succeeds At Flicker-F...
Oct 03, 2018•1 hr 4 min
We chat with Nate Graham who’s pushing to make Plasma the best desktop on the planet. We discuss his contributions to this effort, and others. Plus we get the scope on a new Juno feature from the source, and the creator of WSLinux a distro built specifically for Windows 10’s Windows Subsystem for Linux joins us. Also some community news, some old friends stop by, and more! Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Hayden Barnes, Martin Wimpress, and Nate Graham. Supp...
Sep 26, 2018•1 hr 13 min
Linus takes a break and the Linux kernel adopts a new Code of Conduct. We work through these major watershed moments, and discuss what it means for the community. Plus our review of our brand new ThinkPad T480’s running Linux, the bug you need to know about, and why this might be one of the greatest Linux laptops of all time. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Danielle Foré, and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary Linux 4.19-rc4 released, a...
Sep 19, 2018•1 hr 19 min
We announce our big news, Jupiter Broadcasting is joining Linux Academy and what we have planned for the future is huge! Plus a new NextCloud lands, concerns are brewing for the Solus project, and a report from the recent Libre Application Summit. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Anthony James, Brent Gervais, and Martin Wimpress. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Joins Linux Academy — Jupiter Broadcasting has been creating the world’s favorite podcasts on Linux, open source, and free...
Sep 12, 2018•55 min
Intel has disappointed the kernel community with its latest security disclosures but there’s still hope for a better future. That’s more than can be said for the state of privacy on Android, so we discuss some alternatives. Plus the latest community updates, a new timeline for the Librem 5, tempting new Chromebooks, and some top picks. Special Guests: Alan Pope and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Airplane Mode: A box designed to seduce you into digital disconnection LMDE 3 “Cindy”...
Sep 05, 2018•50 min
Steam Play rocks the Linux world as it promises new levels of compatibility with AAA Windows games. But the story of how Valve is doing it might be just as fascinating. Plus community news, our thoughts on building a market for Linux apps, the latest from UBPorts, and more good news from LVFS! Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Marius Gripsgard, and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create y...
Aug 29, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Docker controversy is brewing, but it's probably not what you think. We get around of community updates directly from the source, and why Debian an Intel are playing the game of he said, she said. Special Guests: Brent Gervais, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day...
Aug 22, 2018•48 min
The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event. Plus our work-arounds for Dropbox dropping support for anything but vanilla ext4, the return of an old friend, and a ton of community news and updates. Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support ...
Aug 15, 2018•1 hr 18 min
GNOME is discussing big changes, Elementary OS has big news, and a big bug has been found in Linux. Plus an update on our PeerTube efforts, our take Android P, and Lenovo’s big commitment to ThinkPad’s running Linux. Special Guests: Alan Pope, Cassidy James Blaede, Danielle Foré, and Eric Hendricks. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: July ended with 3.97M startups of #PowerShell Core 6!. ~82% of it on #Linux! Linux Kernel TCP implementation vulnerable to Denial of Service Common Fedora Workstation C...
Aug 08, 2018•1 hr 7 min
We get an update from Dell’s Barton George on their Linux initiative Sputnik, cover some important community news, and the uncomfortable questions raised by Krita’s new financial boost. And some simple tips to improve your security at the edge. Special Guests: Alex Kretzschmar, Barton George, Brent Gervais, and Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged ...
Aug 01, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Another potential desktop Linux app is scared away by an aggressive free software community, and we struggle to find the balance between our moral ideals, and getting work done. Plus some community news, old friends return, and much more. Special Guest: Martin Wimpress. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. Di...
Jul 25, 2018•1 hr 21 min
Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical. Plus how SSH got its port, Mir goes to the farm, and what happens when Linus retires? Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time spec...
Jul 18, 2018•1 hr 28 min
We reflect on recent FOSS security screw ups and ponder a solution powered by community. Plus get you caught up on community news, Firefox changes, and poke the new minimal Ubuntu. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged ...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 17 min
A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week. Plus SUSE is sold again, Linux on the Nintendo Switch just got way better, Mint has a new release, we look at elementary OS Juno's first beta, and we cover a ton of community news. Special Guest: Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in ser...
Jul 04, 2018•1 hr 44 min
Big changes are coming to Fedora with the merger of CoreOS. We chat with a couple project members to get the inside scope about what the future of Fedora looks like. Plus the big feature of the new GitLab release, how Pocket might be Firefox's secret sauce, and why Chris is really excited by PeerTube. Special Guests: Dusty Mabe and Eric Hendricks. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxa...
Jun 27, 2018•1 hr 18 min
Free Software projects concerned about Article 13 are claiming it could destroy free software as we know it. We debate this controversial copyright law about to be voted on in the EU. Plus a big batch of community news, some exciting hardware updates, and a bit of retro gaming. Plus Chris shares what got done at Linux Academy, and more! Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/...
Jun 20, 2018•1 hr 26 min
There is trouble at CopperheadOS, Plasma has a shiny new release, and we share the story of how Linux has powered the curiosity rover for 17 years. Plus our stories from a weekend of Linux parties, Texas LinuxFest, SouthEast LinuxFest, and FOSS Talk Live. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Vi...
Jun 13, 2018•1 hr 9 min
