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

Shrimps have SSHells | LINUX Unplugged 342

25 February 2020

A radical new way to do SSH authentication, special guest Jeremy Stott joins us to discuss Zero Trust SSH.

Long Term Rolling | LINUX Unplugged 341

18 February 2020

We question the very nature of Linux development, and debate if a new approach is needed.

IRC is Dead | LINUX Unplugged 340

11 February 2020

The difficult and fascinating conversations from FOSDEM 2020. Plus how elementary OS does coopertition right.

The Mint Mindset | LINUX Unplugged 339

4 February 2020

We get into the Linux Mint mindset after years away and share our take on Cinnamon's many improvements.

Success Through Vulnerability | LINUX Unplugged 338

28 January 2020

How did we get from shareware to free software? We jump in the Linux powered time machine and revisit software past.

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.