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

Mystical Users | LINUX Unplugged 337

21 January 2020

We make an appeal to keep Linux powerful and avoid the Macification of the desktop, and review the latest developer-focused XPS 13.

Linus' Filesystem Fluster | LINUX Unplugged 336

14 January 2020

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Practically Perfect Predictions | LINUX Unplugged 335

7 January 2020

Find out what's happening in 2020 before it happens. Our crew returns from the future with predictions so perfect you could bet some Dogecoin on it.

Particularly Poor Predictions | LINUX Unplugged 334

31 December 2019

We review our predictions and own up to what we got wrong, and what we got right in 2019.

Linux Wayback Machine | LINUX Unplugged 333

24 December 2019

Open source won the last decade, but what if it hadn’t? We look back at some major milestones and reflect on a world where they never existed.

The WSL Secrets | LINUX Unplugged 332

17 December 2019

Big things are coming to Microsoft's WSL so we get the inside scoop on what's just around the corner.

apt install arch-linux | LINUX Unplugged 331

10 December 2019

We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to.

'Tis the SSHession | LINUX Unplugged 330

3 December 2019

Give the gift of remote support with our neat SSH trick. Also, Cassidy from elementary OS joins us to discuss what's great about their new release.

Flat Network Truthers | LINUX Unplugged 329

26 November 2019

Build one flat network across cloud providers, personal networks, with even thousands of nodes. We feature two amazing open source solutions, and the creators behind them.

My Mighty Fine Pine | LINUX Unplugged 328

19 November 2019

The Pinebook Pro gets put through the travel test, while we get an update on Pine64 projects straight from the source.

Distro Disco | LINUX Unplugged 327

12 November 2019

Get to know our Linux Users Group a little better and learn why they love their Linux distros of choice, and the one thing they'd change to make them perfect.

Dell, elementary, Fedora, oh my! | LINUX Unplugged 326

5 November 2019

Dell expands their linux hardware lineup, why elementary OS's Flatpak support sets the bar, and we chat with Christian Schaller of Red Hat about Fedora 31 and what's around the corner.