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

Github Hubbub | LINUX Unplugged 252

6 June 2018

Microsoft has purchased GitHub, sending shock-waves through the free software community. We discuss the bidding war that took place, and it leaves us questioning what the future of Electron might be.

The Qt and the Ugly | LINUX Unplugged 251

30 May 2018

After we make ourselves at Gnome, we look at some future open source goodies coming your way, look at how Canonical’s upstream pitch, and get excited about the next great Linux filesystem hope.

Only The Best | LINUX Unplugged 250

23 May 2018

What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018? How about the best Evernote killer, and production setup? We cover the best of the best this week.

Home Grown FUD | LINUX Unplugged 249

15 May 2018

The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out.

Contain All The Things | LINUX Unplugged 248

9 May 2018

Chrome OS is officially getting full-fledged Linux apps, and we ponder if this is truly a win for Linux.

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.