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

Pain the APT | LINUX Unplugged 285

22 January 2019

An embarrassing vulnerability has been found in the apt package manager, we’ll break it all down. Plus Alessandro Castellani tells us about his plans to build a professional design tool for Linux.

Free as in Get Out | LINUX Unplugged 284

15 January 2019

ZFS on Linux is becoming the official upstream project of all major ZFS implementations, even the BSDs. But recent kernel changes prevent ZFS from even building on Linux. Neal Gompa joins us to discuss why it all matters.

The Premiere Shell | LINUX Unplugged 283

8 January 2019

Joe joins Wes to discuss the state of Adobe's Creative Cloud on Linux and why the Fish shell might be your favorite new tool.

Wishing Upon a Kernel | LINUX Unplugged 282

2 January 2019

We start off the new year with our hopes and dreams for Linux and open source in 2019 and beyond.

2019 Predictions | LINUX Unplugged 281

26 December 2018

We get serious and bring in a special referee to help us lock in our Linux predictions for 2019.

Handmade Desktop Linux | LINUX Unplugged 280

17 December 2018

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.

WireGuardians of the Galaxy | LINUX Unplugged 279

11 December 2018

We have a WireGuard success story to share, and it's probably not what you're expecting.

Shell in a Handbasket | LINUX Unplugged 278

4 December 2018

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.

Skipping Fedora 31 | LINUX Unplugged 277

27 November 2018

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.

Very Long Term Support | LINUX Unplugged 276

20 November 2018

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.

Year of the Relevant Desktop | LINUX Unplugged 275

13 November 2018

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.

Open Source by Default | LINUX Unplugged 274

6 November 2018

Have the revolutionaries won the war against proprietary software? That’s the argument being made. And we argue, what else did you expect?