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. MAY 4

    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 BSD Challenge! 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMCopy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — TheoriCopy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — XintLinux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — JorijnArs: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars TechnicaSysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — SysdigCERT-EU AdvisoryUbuntu Security TrackerThe Register: Crypto FlawKernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel CommitBuggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internalsoss-security DisclosurePSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan WildeboerUbuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu EngineeringThe Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon SeagerUbuntu 26.04 Release NotesUbuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNetCanonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, CanonicalUbuntu Weekly Newsletter #942Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Toolsuutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutilsLINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the FutureLiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issuesMonty's “rescue” drive NixOS configMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge ReportPick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.Defuse on Flathub

    1h 21m
  2. 664: Back to Root

    APR 27

    664: Back to Root

    After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and RegretsLFNW2026 - Back to RootLinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTubeLinuxFest Northwest - YouTubeThe New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI MaxBitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply ChainBear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's FamilyPick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.

    59 min

  3. APR 20

    663: The 99.8% Rescue

    We all have data to rescue, you just don't realize it yet. This week we build our own custom live rescue distros, recover real data, and show you how to make your own. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington6 ultimate boot CDs (system rescue) for troubleshooting Windows PCsSystemRescue — A Linux system rescue toolkit available as a bootable medium for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.Finnix — Debian-based, CLI-focused with a comprehensive set of repair tools. Recent updates improved modern hardware support, boot speed, zram compression, and SSH remote access.Changes/ModernizeLiveMedia - Fedora Project Wiki — Modernize the live media by switching to the "new" live environment setup scripts provided by livesys-scripts and leverage new functionality in dracut to enable support for automatically enabling persistent overlays when flashed to USB sticks.Fedora 41: Modernize the live media Overlay Features?aegis-boot — A signed UEFI Secure Boot rescue environment that lets operators pick any ISO from a USB stick's data partition and kexec into it — without leaving the chain of trust.netboot.xyz — A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.Greg's nixos-configSelf-Hosted 129: Forged Alliance — The battle for code forges is heating up. We chat about HexOS' big promises and get excited about Meshtastic.pocket-id — A simple OIDC provider that allows users to authenticate with their passkeys to your services.What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use Itv4call — v4call is a decentralised video, voice and text platform built on the Hive blockchain. Users set their own rates for receiving calls and messages.Pick: Metadata Cleaner — View and clean metadata in filesMetadata Cleaner on FlatHubPick: mat2 — mat2 is a metadata removal tool, supporting a wide range of commonly used file formats, written in python3Pick: Little Snitch for Linux — Every time an application on your computer opens a network connection, it does so quietly, without asking. Little Snitch for Linux makes that activity visible and gives you the option to do something about it.littlesnitch-linux-flake — A Nix Flake for Little Snitch for LinuxPick: PCAPdroid — No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android

    1h 4m

  4. APR 13

    662: The GitHub Diet

    Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonLFNW2026 ScheduleLinux 7.0: Btrfs — A translation layer of logical block addresses that allows changes without moving or rewriting blocks for relocationLinux 7.0: XFS — Autonomous self-healing; delivers live filesystem health events to userspace for automatic repairsLinux 7.0: EXT4 — Improves write performance for concurrent direct I/O writesLinux 7.0: IO-uring — Adds support for BPF filtering to IO_uring for high performance async I/OLinux 7.0: Scheduler — Scheduler updates land with time slice extension, performance and scalability work for high core count systemsLinux 7.0: Rust — Formally concluding the 'Rust experiment'; Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stayLinux 7.1: i486 — Begins phasing out Intel 486 CPU support; no known Linux distributions still ship with i486 supportGive Up GitHub — We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their effective marketing, GitHub has convinced FOSS developers that GitHub is the best (and even the only) place for FOSS development.opengist — Self-hosted pastebin powered by Git, open-source alternative to Github Gist.Forgejo on Codeberg — Beyond coding. We forge.Forgejo — Self-hosted alternative to GitHub; liberate your software from proprietary shackles with a familiar environmentNixOS Wiki: Forgejo — Lightweight software forge; completely free software and a fork of GiteaForgejo Actions — Reusable pieces of code for CI workflows; compatible with GitHub ActionsNixOS Forgejo Actions Runner — NixOS configuration for turnkey deployment of Forgejo Actions runnersForgejo Federation (PR #10453) — Work-in-progress for federated repositories; enabling decentralized software developmentForgejo Snippets (Issue #1069) — Create a shareable piece of text, be it code or plain text, publicly or privatelyGit Novice Guide — Free interactive tutorial; learn version control with Git from scratchPick: sshroute — Network-aware SSH router - routes connections to different IPs/ports/keys/jump hosts based on active VPN or networkPick: rendercv — Resume builder for academics and engineersPick: ESPHome Starter Kit — DIY sensor kit for Home Assistant with ESPHome; build your own smart home devices

    1h 26m

  5. 18H AGO

    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 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonTexas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TXTexas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer PortalDirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - UbuntuDirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching GuideLINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge RulesMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernelBrent's nixbsd configNomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating Systemgershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchersgershwin-on-freebsd live isogershwin-on-debian live isogershwin-on-arch live isoMaintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD FoundationPick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSDFreshPorts: sysutils/sylve

    1h 17m

  6. APR 6

    661: Sink Your Claws In

    The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonPreferring Local OSS LLMsQwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31BOpen Models have crossed a thresholdGemma 4 — Google DeepMindWelcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on deviceGemma-4-31B-JANG\_4M-CRACK · Hugging Facemesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASPTop 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Projectgoogleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.Tunarr API ReferenceEuro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rivalPick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.

    1h 4m

  7. MAR 29

    660: Boots and Breakups

    Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonThis Week In Bitcoin 97 | Jupiter BroadcastingUbuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better SecurityStreamlining secure boot for 26.10 - Ubuntu Community HubMitigating BootHole – CVE-2020-10713 and related vulnerabilities | UbuntuThere's a Hole in the Boot - EclypsiumFinal Release · ErsatzTV — It is time for me to announce the final release of ErsatzTV in its current form. The existing repositories will be archived following this update.ErsatzTV/nextTunarr · GitHub — Create a classic TV experience using your own media — IPTV backed by Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, or NFO.ThreadfinxTeVeFiller - Tunarr — Filler lists are collections of content used by Flex to pad time between episodes. One reason to use filler is to simulate traditional television by playing advertisements between episode airings.Dispatcharr — Dispatcharr (pronounced like "dispatcher") is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams, EPG data, and VOD content with elegance and control.awesome-iptv — A curated list of resources related to IPTVTunarr API ReferenceLINUX Unplugged 645 — We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex.turnstonelabs/turnstone — Experimental multi-node AI orchestration platform. Deploy tool-using AI agents across a cluster of servers, driven by message queues or interactive interfaces.Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMsGeneBean's Cage KioskGeneBean's Pi Arm Build SetupPlanify - Task Manager for GNU/Linuxalainm23/planify: Task manager with Todoist, Nextcloud & CalDAV support designed for GNOMEPick: bore — bore is a simple CLI tool for making tunnels to localhostnixos-bore-module — Self-hosted bore tunnel server for NixOSPick: kdeconnect-sms-tui — Terminal UI for sending and receiving SMS/MMS via KDE Connect.Pick: Busybridge — Complex calendar free/busy syncing across organizations for consultants who work inside multiple orgs.

    58 min

  8. MAR 23

    659: Truth Trapper Keepers

    The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack. 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: 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonKeeper.sh — Keeper is a simple & open-source calendar syncing tool. It allows you to pull events from remotely hosted iCal or ICS links, and push them to one or many calendars so the time slots can align across them all.Keeper.sh: Calendar Syncing, V2 ReleaseOneCalPiBox Overview - KubeSail DocsPiBox: A Modular Raspberry Pi Storage Server by Dan Pastusek — KickstarterRPi CM4 based local storage server launches on KickstarterKubeSail — So Long, and Thanks for All the Podsipetkov/nixos-pibox — NixOS modules for supporting the hardware present on the PiBoxraspberrypi/usbboot — Raspberry Pi USB device provisioning tool (RPIBOOT)cage-kiosk/cage — A Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application.systemd: BirthDate Field Added to JSON User Records — "Add birthDate field to JSON user records, allowing for standardized age-related logic within the userdb framework."Azuay Province - WikipediaPick: fq — fq is like jq but for binary formats, allowing you to tool, language, and decode complex binary data into human-readable structures.Pick: file-fridge — move files that aren't accessed as often to cold storagePick: sigrok — Portable, cross-platform, Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite: logic analyzers, scopes, multimeters, and more!Pick: PulseView — a Qt-based LA/scope/MSO GUI for sigrok

    53 min
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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
    666
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 Jupiter Broadcasting
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    LINUX Unplugged

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