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.

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Brent Gervais

Chris Fisher

Wes Payne

Year of the Linux Desktop 😎 | LINUX Unplugged 247

1 May 2018

Ubuntu and Fedora have new releases, and our early impressions are great. We’ll share the features that we think make these distros some of the best Linux desktop releases ever.

The Bionic Bet | LINUX Unplugged 246

24 April 2018

We get the inside scope from the Ubuntu flavors prepping for the 18.04 release, and then we finally make good on a long running threat.

Microsoft of Things | LINUX Unplugged 245

17 April 2018

Azure Sphere is Microsoft making silicon as a service with Linux at its core. We’ve chatted with the folks behind Azure Sphere and breakdown this huge announcement.

Plasma Predicament | LINUX Unplugged 244

10 April 2018

We have some Plasma problems this week, but we’re still putting it into production in our most ambitious event yet.

The Stallman Directive | LINUX Unplugged 243

3 April 2018

Richard Stallman has some practical steps society could take to roll back the rampant and expanding invasion of our privacy.

Debian on the Fly | LINUX Unplugged 242

27 March 2018

A new version of Slax is out this week, and they might just be onto something really unique. We take this Debian powered, Fluxbox running, net bootin distro for a test drive.

Snitching on SCaLE | LINUX Unplugged 241

20 March 2018

We’re playing just one interview from SCaLE this year, tons of community news, and two handy app picks.

Why This Theme Won’t Work | LINUX Unplugged 240

14 March 2018

This week Noah fills in for Chris while he's on his return journey from SCaLE! The guys get down deep on a variety of topics from screen sharing in Plasma under Wayland to the status of the GTK 'CommuniTheme' for ubuntu 18.04 and more!

Selling Out for Open Source | LINUX Unplugged 239

6 March 2018

We chip away at a larger meta topic this week, but before we get there we share a batch of community news, live technical feats & a random post show.

It's All Wimpy's Fault | LINUX Unplugged 238

27 February 2018

Linux apps are coming to ChromeOS via containers, Fedora is going for better battery life & what is going on with Xfce? Plus Ubuntu MATE’s cool new tick & we take a look at crankshaft: raspberry pi + android auto + free software + love.

One Ping Only | LINUX Unplugged 237

20 February 2018

Canonical’s Ubuntu desktop head and their VP of Product Development join us to chat about the new data collection system they want in Ubuntu 18.04 & Cassidy from System76 and Elementary OS join us to talk about efforts to turn drive encryption on & more!

Microsoft’s Big Secret | LINUX Unplugged 236

13 February 2018

Chris goes to Microsoft & gets the inside scoop on the situation Microsoft finds themselves in with Windows & why they’ve been releasing more code as open source. Plus we wrap up the Plasma Desktop challenge, Daniel Foré joins to talk Elemetary & more!