LINUX Unplugged

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684: You Ain't Ready For This Jelly

We rebuild our media stack around Jellyfin 12, survive a major upgrade, and add self-hosted tools that make sharing with family and friends much better. Sponsored By: J

Sep 14
1 h 07 min

683: Website Speedrun

Brent has two hours to build a great website, and the solution he finds feels more like a Linux tool than a modern web framework. Naturally, Wes takes it too far. Sponso

Sep 6
1 h 10 min

682: Oops! All Shells!

Quickshell is rising, and bringing with it a new wave of customizable Linux desktops, community-built plugins, and serious funding. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual M

Aug 30
1 h 08 min

681: Ain’t Nothing But a Syncthing

Syncthing saves the day in an unexpected way, and we dig into what’s new in Linux 7.2. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with

Aug 23
1 h 35 min

680: Go Hack Yourself

We turn HexStrike’s red team agents loose on our systems, as OpenSSH warns that AI-assisted bug hunting is already changing the security race. Sponsored By: Jupiter Par

Aug 17
1 h 19 min

679: The Last Shutdown

An old Linux box powers down for the last time as we unwind its history, and the entire show, back to the beginning. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put

Aug 10
1 h 04 min

678: Entropy Ain't Easy

Seven Linux kernels landed in one day. We sort out which belong in your homelab, and trace Linux’s long, occasionally disastrous quest for truly random numbers. Sponsore

Aug 2
1 h 15 min

677: We Got a Buzz

Block’s Buzz is an open, self-hostable workspace for humans, AI agents, chat, and code; and it may be the most Linux-friendly vision for what comes next. Sponsored By:

Jul 27
1 h 08 min

676: Fork Around and Find Out

Linus delivers a blunt verdict on AI in the Linux kernel, Chris finds the remote Linux desktop that finally works, and Brent gives his notes system a serious rebuild. Sp

Jul 20
1 h 21 min

675: Sloppy Agent Roasting

Wes' brother's PC is toast, making this the perfect moment to switch him to Linux. If our ambitious plan doesn’t scare him away first. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annua

Jul 13
1 h 38 min

674: LAN Before Time

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves. Sponsored By:

Jul 6
1 h 19 min

673: 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details

Eight details most people missed hint at the bigger Linux play behind Valve’s new Steam Machine. Sponsored By: Webroot: Webroot is cloud-based antivirus, engineered to

Jun 29
1 h 30 min

672: The Kernel Is Not a Museum

Your favorite open source projects have been busy. We round up the new releases worth knowing about, plus the big kernel changes headed your way soon. Sponsored By: Web

Jun 22
1 h 24 min

671: Windows Without Windows

We found the best way for a Linux user to manage Windows: keep it remote, keep it contained, and touch the desktop as little as possible. Sponsored By: Webroot: Webroot

Jun 15
55 min

670: There's Chickens in that Nebula

Leave the farm without killing the chickens, or losing remote access? We dig into how we pulled it off: Frigate, local automation, sun-tracking coop doors, and a network

Jun 8
1 h 06 min

669: Harshing rsync's Vibe

rsync's founder came back, patched real security bugs with AI help, and triggered an open source meltdown. Plus, two more projects reject AI-generated code as the communi

Jun 1
1 h 16 min

668: --yolo

Brent's been hacking smart speakers, Wes has a surprise, and Chris gives up on OpenClaw. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic wi

May 25
1 h 17 min

667: The Enterprise Endgame

Fedora Hummingbird, RHEL Forever, and Red Hat's AI play: three big Summit takeaways, and why they matter far beyond Red Hat. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membersh

May 18
59 min

666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution

Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party

May 11
1 h 17 min

665: Patch Me If You Can

We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BS

May 4
1 h 20 min

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Great show focused on Linux and the community. I’ve been listening to LUP and Jupiter Broadcasting since early 2015 and wasn’t really a big fan of the changes made under Linux Academy and A Cloud Guru. It’s refreshing to see JB independent again!

RebornJumpman · Aug 2020

I’ve been listening to some of the Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts for several years now. It’s always been a good companion for me as a Linux User (pun intended, now called “The New Show”) when doing chores or any distracted moments in my day. I like specially to listen to it when commuting in the mornings to my work. I think this is is a great group of Linux advocates that are not far into the most dogmatic open source ideas, but more like talking from a practical perspective of a Linux/Open source enthusiast, something that I really appreciate. I like them, they are like good friends of mine now!

Rod_761 · Aug 2020

This is the podcast for you. Fun, informative, and usually inspiring to get me to try or learn something new.

Justgeig · Aug 2019

I love how Jupiter Broadcasting has shifted this show to cover the community. I can't tell you how many new applications I have come to use thanks to this show.

Erich1527 · Jul 2017

This used to be the premiere Linux podcast but you can’t listen to the show without being hit up for money during the whole show. You can’t contact them without being told to boost in. Half the show is all about sending boosts in. It’s pretty annoying. Some shows on the network will shame the listeners for not boosting in. The listeners are made to feel bad when the show, coder radio for example, doesn’t get boosted enough. I like the non boost content but that’s getting less and less to make room for boosting. I get it, podcasts aren’t money makers anymore, but come on…

LulzSadPanda · Nov 2024

I’ve really tried to watch the JB crew and am a regular Self-Hosted listener until I can find other shows on the subject. Simply put, the show’s becoming more and more insufferable. There’s either constant begging for viewer bitcoin donations, heavily shilling for advertisers, and worst of all: constant attempts to exploit the spirit of the open source and linux communities to do their little projects for them that they come up with and forget about within the span of 3 minutes on the show. There’s very little substantive talk, even in their shows that are meant to be substantive. My opinion is that these guys have been doing this for so long, have their views heightened by a feedback loop of a group of people they call a community, and as a result think a lot of what they do is good content. It’s not. There’s a reason why everyone’s shocked you’ve been doing this since 2011, because it feels like a set of shows only started 4 years ago at most. There are a lot of great smaller shows in and around Linux, at least we know a little better in our computing communities to explore options.

MKULTRA00 · Dec 2022

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