LINUX Unplugged

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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

  1. 3 days ago

    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 our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerLongtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes AwayLinux 7.2 Kernel NewbiesCache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUsLinux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions[REGRESSION] drm/sched: FAIR policy causes serious performance degradation at max GPU load on 9070XTreduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating outside the lock — While profiling Meta's caching code, I found pipe->mutex contention on the hot path. anon_pipe_write() currently calls alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex.Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ PatchesSpecially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 DriverThe beginning of the 7.3 merge windowLinux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time PerformanceLinux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & MoreLinux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive WorkloadsSched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x WinsLinux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution EnvironmentsLinux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systemsLinux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMsTwo Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3Syncthing — Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyesSyncthing GitHubRclone — Feature-rich alternative to cloud storage vendors' web storage interfaces.LocalComet — A private, local-first Windows AI assistant built and validated with Codex.A look at the Quickshell desktop-component toolkitMCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol for NixOS — Because your AI shouldn't hallucinate package names.dataiku/kiji-proxy — Privacy proxy for your OpenAI requestsRockbox - Free Music Player FirmwarePick: ssh-clipboard — Peer-to-peer clipboard sync over SSH. Copy anything on one machine, paste on another. Open source, and Written in Rust ackchyually.

  2. 17 Aug

    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 Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTubeTXLF 2026 Full scheduleTXLF 2026SCALE 24x CFP — The CFP closes November 1, 2026.Nix Vegas 2026 TalksOpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery — OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 — Recently the OpenSSH team have received a large number of security bug reports, many of which are findings from AI models or made with AI assistance. While many AI reports are determined not to have security impact when considered in the context of a realistic threat model, we very much welcome these reports, especially when combined with human triage, analysis, test-cases and particularly when accompanied by proposed fixes.OpenAI Talk at Black Hat USA 2026 — The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident - A Technical Reconstruction and Its Implications for AIHexStrike AI MCP AgentsTREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.topgrade — Upgrade all the thingsmagnusoverli/opencode — AI-Powered Configuration Assistant for Home AssistantHome Assistant God Mode — YouTubecbbs_pi — A vintage CBBS-style bulletin board system emulator for macOS, Linux, Docker and Raspberry Pi.Mother Hen Apprust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy - Inside Rust BlogCovered Bridge CookiesCluckwork — Poultry farm management — starting with egg-producing layer operations, with architectural headroom for broilers, pullets, breeders, live bird sales, meat products, and hatchery modules.Slack Dumper — Save or export your private and public Slack messages, threads, files, and users locally without admin privileges.Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunchPick: iDescriptor — Cross-platform, open-source and free idevice management tool written in Rust and Qt.iDescriptor on GitHubiDescriptor on FlathubiDescriptor in Nix PackagesPick: KiwiFS — Searchable, structured, versioned markdown. Plug in an agent in 30 seconds — or self-host with a single binary.

  3. 10 Aug

    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 your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTubePick: LAN-Orangutan — LAN Orangutan is a lightweight network scanner with persistent device labeling, multi-network support, and Tailscale integration. Built by 291 Group.LAN Orangutan — Lightweight Network ScannerPick: LocalSend — An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop.LocalSend on FlathubPick: oxproxion — Android LLM chat interface for OpenRouter models or locally served models using Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX LM or Hermes Agent.Cherokee Scout ReservationHow-To Meshtastic BBS! Off-Grid Email?TC2-BBS-mesh — A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory.herdr — the runtime your coding agents live on

  4. 2 Aug

    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. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTubeLinux 7.2-rc5 announcementLinux 7.2 changelogLinux 7.1 changelog7.2 merge windowBtrfs large folios and DIO fixstrncpy removali486 removalDreamcast fixesCache-aware schedulingFairer GPU schedulerNVIDIA 7.2 driver compatibilityAMD ROCm regressionDreamcast vs i486Btrfs DIO regression reportsTechnical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue | COINKITE BlogBitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research saysFlowchart of the Linux RNGdust — A more intuitive version of du in rustPick: TREK — A self-hosted travel/trip planner with real-time collaboration, interactive maps, PWA support, SSO, budgets, packing lists, and more.Pick: cfait — A fast and powerful, offline-first task manager for your terminal, desktop, and phone.Cfait on FlathubCfait on F-Droid

  5. 27 Jul

    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: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Jupiter Broadcasting Buzz CommunityWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTubeBuzz — Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place. — Chat with teammates and specialized agents in one shared space, then move straight into planning, project management, coding, and PRs. Create agents tailored to your workflows, let them collaborate with your team’s agents, and keep the work that used to be scattered across chat, trackers, and dev tools in one place.buzz on GitHubFeature Request: Support external agent systems (non-ACP) for real-time communication in Buzz communities[Bug] Remote Agent Missing from @ Mention Autocomplete Across MachinesTeknium 🪽 on X: "@jack Hit me up if you want us to submit any PRs or make hermes more compatible with Buzz!"feat(agents): add Hermes ACP and external-agent integration by NYTEMODEONLYfeat(acp): Hermes runtime discovery and durable session load by joelbrilliantdocs(acp): document Buzz host integration by NYTEMODEONLYMeshBBS — Meshbbs revolutionizes communication on mesh networks by bringing the beloved Bulletin Board System experience to Meshtastic devices. Exchange messages, participate in forums, and build communities over long-range, low-power radio networks, all without traditional internet infrastructure.Electroverse Map | EV Charging StationsPick: PipeWire Controller — A native GTK4/libadwaita control center for PipeWire

  6. 13 Jul

    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 Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerClanker Therapy Session 1 - Member's Stream — We’re taking the hype out of agents and showing the workflows that actually help. Join us for a hands-on walk-through of our Hermes multi-agent setup, how we let agents manage systems safely, and how we introduce them to a new Home Assistant instance without letting them run wild.Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTubeStoryboarder — Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie.MCP-NixOS — Model Context Protocol for NixOSSpud Router — An open-source router-on-a-stick that you can manage from a browser, a terminal CLI, or directly from your AI agentsLe Potato AML-S905X-CCMacSurf — A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS — built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.Karpathy's llm-wikiHermes llm-wiki SKILL.mdcamply - the campsite finder ⛺️ — a tool to find campsites at sold out campgrounds through sites like recreation.govPick: OpenTogetherTube — Enjoy YouTube together. Real-time synchronized playback. Optional voting system. Dark theme. No sign up required. All Open Source. It's never been easier to watch videos together.opentogethertube on GitHubPick: TypeType — Privacy-respecting video platform to watch Youtube.TypeType on GitHubPick: metube — Self-hosted web UI for yt-dlp, for downloading media from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

  7. 6 Jul

    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: Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerJupiter Garage SWAGSorry, I only open regular files StickerWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMNix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles)Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak previewLinux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol SupportJune 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing.linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and high bug countNetatalk — Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server that uses the AFP protocol.Basilisk II — Basilisk II is an Open Source 68k Macintosh emulator.MacOS 8: Internet ArchiveApple, Inc.. Macintosh Classic Desktop Computer. 1989 - MoMAChrisLAS/chooser — chooser is the AirTalk AppleTalk service browser for LINUX Unplugged. It uses TailTalk's userspace AppleTalk stack to run NBP lookups and displays discovered services in a terminal UI inspired by the classic Mac OS Chooser.jrouter — Home-grown alternative implementation of Apple Internet Router 3.0marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html — GlobalTalk is the nickname we’ve given to the practice of using an ancient Apple Internet Router software package to bridge your local AppleTalk network (of vintage computers and printers) to the global network of the internet and other people’s vintage computers and printers. While nothing is stopping you from using this all year, usage primarily spikes in March for #MARCHintosh.bramble — A password manager that keeps your secrets on your own devices. No account, no server holding your vault, no company to get breached and leak everything. You hold the vault, you hold the password, and that's it.MeatPi WiCAN Pro: Connect Any Car to Home Assistant! Probably... - YouTubeLa Gendarmerie sous Linux depuis 17 ans : les leçons à en tirer - Supersonique Studio SARLQu'est-ce que NixOS, la distribution Linux que l'État pourrait utiliser ?adelolmo/hd-idle — Hard Disk Idle Spin-Down UtilityGentleman-Programming/engram — Persistent memory system for AI coding agents. Agent-agnostic Go binary with SQLite + FTS5, MCP server, HTTP API, CLI, and TUI.distributed-llama: Distributed LLM inference. — Connect home devices into a powerful cluster to accelerate LLM inference. More devices means faster inference.MacPick: Morph — Morph, from Gryphon Software was the first commercial morphing program for PCs. With this program you specify related points between two images and the software will morph the two images together at different levels. The program can export the results to a movie file.WinWorld: Gryphon Morph 1.00MacPick: LegacyAI from Manticore Software — ChatGPT for vintage 68k, PowerPC, and Intel MacsMacPick: Dark Castle — Dark Castle is a platform game where a young hero named Duncan tries to make his way to the evil Black Knight, dodging objects as well as solving occasional puzzles.MacPick: CrystalQuest — The first color game for the Macintosh, in which the player controls a small, circular spaceship which must travel around the screen collecting crystals.Pick: mcp-beam — mcp-beam is a MCP server (stdio transport) for casting local files and media URLs to Chromecast and DLNA/UPnP devices on your LAN.Pick: Go2TV — Media Casting Made Easy

  8. 29 Jun

    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 stay out of your way. For a limited time, you can save sixty percent.Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX Unplugged Links: Webroot — Save sixty percent when you go to webroot.com/unplugged.💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMWeb Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USDJupiter Garage SWAGAppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial StickerSorry, I only open regular files StickerTexas Linux Fest 2026 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-01 23:59 (US/Central)SeaGL 2026 CFPCarolinaCon 2026 - CFP Open!carolinacon/infra: Infrastructure used to run parts of carolina conValve Steam Machine Review - GamersNexusSteamOS 3.8 - Steam NewsValve confirms it’s working with Intel and Nvidia on SteamOS for more GPUsSteam Machines will only come with one 16GB stick of RAM - Tom's HardwareSteam Controller developer interview — Valve talks design, the learning curve, and the lack of kernel drivers | Tom's HardwareValve Developer Hardware Talk PDF2015 Steam Machine - Wikipediameshcore-ha — Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks.Re-Pick: sone — Native TIDAL desktop client for Linux. Modern UI, custom themes, and bit-perfect lossless audio up to 24-bit/192kHz via exclusive ALSA.SONE on FlathubRe-Pick: high-tide — Libadwaita TIDAL client for LinuxPick: coppwr — coppwr displays and provides control over many aspects of PipeWire as directly as possible in an organized and visual way. It can help with debugging and diagnosing a PipeWire setup or with developing software that interacts with PipeWire.coppwr on FlathubPick: dn-tool — dn-tool is a control-plane CLI that enrolls and unenrolls Linux hosts in a defined.net Managed Nebula network. It calls the defined.net REST API to create and delete host records and obtain single-use enrollment codes, then orchestrates the proprietary dnclient daemon — which it downloads and verifies at runtime. It is strictly control plane: it never reimplements Nebula and never replaces dnclient.

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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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  • Creator
    Jupiter Broadcasting
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    681
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Jupiter Broadcasting
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    LINUX Unplugged

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