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.

Your Hosts

Brent Gervais

Chris Fisher

Wes Payne

Linux by Proxy | LINUX Unplugged 687

4 October 2026

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.

Stop Desktop Slop | LINUX Unplugged 686

27 September 2026

KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.

Pool Party | LINUX Unplugged 685

20 September 2026

We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.

You Ain't Ready For This Jelly | LINUX Unplugged 684

13 September 2026

We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better.

Website Speedrun | LINUX Unplugged 683

6 September 2026

Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far.

Oops! All Shells! | LINUX Unplugged 682

30 August 2026

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding.

Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing | LINUX Unplugged 681

23 August 2026

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2.

Go Hack Yourself | LINUX Unplugged 680

16 August 2026

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race.

The Last Shutdown | LINUX Unplugged 679

9 August 2026

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning.

Entropy Ain't Easy | LINUX Unplugged 678

2 August 2026

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers.

We Got a Buzz | LINUX Unplugged 677

26 July 2026

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next.

Fork Around and Find Out | LINUX Unplugged 676

19 July 2026

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild.