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

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.

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.