656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual Membership
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.
Why KDE Linux Surprised Us
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual Membership
655: Speeding Up Mistakes
Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our trip starts here! Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual
654: Creating Discord in the Matrix
We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment? Sponsored By: • Jupiter
653: The Kernel Always Wins
The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actually works. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual
652: Have Your Bot Call My Bot
We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual Membership
651: Uptime Funk
When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups. Sponsored
650: This Old Network
We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected... Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula
649: Burned by AI
The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage. Sponsored By: •
648: I See Live People
We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula
647: Plausibly Postulated Prophecies
We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula (https://defined.net/unplugged): Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A
646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄
The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt
645: COSMIC Christmas
We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO. Sponsored By: •
644: The People's Filesystem
Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula
643: The Sunday Soapbox
We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula (https://defined.net/unplugged): Meet Managed Nebula
642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays
Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective. Sponsored By: •
641: Something New, Something Old
We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula (https://defined.net/unplugged): Meet Managed Nebula from Defined
640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo
We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula (https://defined.net/unplugged): Meet Managed Nebula from Defined
639: The Mess Machine
After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula (https://defined.net/unplugged): Meet Managed Nebula from Defined
638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy
Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to. Sponsored By: • Managed Nebula