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LINUX Unplugged
Jupiter Broadcasting
633 episodes
14 hours ago

We’ve had a wild week, and share the story of Texas LinuxFest.

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LINUX Unplugged
634: Config Confessions

From finely tuned to total config carnage. We review listener homelabs to share what works, and what really doesn't.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
  • Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Meetup.com — Saturday, Oct 4 - 12:00 AM to 01:30 PM CDT
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
  • Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
  • Dawarich — Automatically track your daily life with Dawarich. Never forget where you went or what you did. Relive your memories with precise location data.
  • LINUX Unplugged 614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking
  • Dawarich API Docs
  • AlbinLind/dawarich-api — A python wrapper for Dawarich
  • Texas Tracker — Real-time distance tracking and movement visualization
  • JupiterBroadcasting/texastracker: — A static website that tracks our trip to Texas Linux Festival 2025.
  • bitchat
  • A Guide To bitchat version 1.2-1.3 : r/bitchat
  • Geohash Converter - Find and visualize your Geohash
  • Overland GPS Tracker on the App Store
  • gpslogger: :satellite: Lightweight GPS Logging Application For Android.
  • Zakk's (2kOS) nix config
  • NotAShelf/nvf: Modular, extensible and distro-agnostic Neovim configuration framework for Nix/NixOS
  • suderman's nixos — system configurations & dotfiles
  • NixOS impermanence — Lets you choose what files and directories you want to keep between reboots - the rest are thrown away.
  • numtide/blueprint: Standard folder structure for Nix projects — blueprint is an opinionated library that maps a standard folder structure to flake outputs, allowing you to divide up your flake into individual files across these folders. This allows you to modularize and isolate these files so that they can be maintained individually and even shared across multiple projects.
  • gmodena/nix-flatpak — Install flatpaks declaratively
  • Adam's (A Manzer) nix-config
  • Prowlarr
  • nzbhydra2: Usenet meta search
  • Kieran dots
  • Fortyduex's nix config
  • Fortydeux's Firewire
  • Brad's nix config
  • Brad's SMB
  • Monty's Ansible
  • Monty's Nix
  • Monty's NXC
  • ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
  • Namespace nixosModules options under "hyprvibe" to avoid potential collisions - hyprvibe Issue #10
  • Pick: vtunnel — vTunnel is a tool that proxies IP traffic between guest and host networks by using the VSOCK protocol.
  • Pick: Tab-Session-Manager — WebExtensions for restoring and saving window / tab states
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1 week ago
1 hour 30 minutes 28 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
633: A Kernel in Every Core

Can't get enough Linux? How about multiple kernels running simultaneously, side by side, not in a VM, all on the same hardware; this week it's finally looking real.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • nebula-tower — A user-friendly server to manage your Slack Nebula mesh network.
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
  • Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
  • bitchat
  • Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale — Through the end of the month (30 September), you can enjoy premium at the Oktoberfest rate. The normal Phoronix Premium rate is $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription but for this year's Oktoberfest deal, you can go premium for just $30 per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription.
  • GNOME 49 Release Notes — We code named the release “Brescia”, after a beautiful Italian city that hosted this year’s GUADEC.
  • GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing — Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October.
  • Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings — Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils.
  • base64 implementation almost 8x slower than GNU for some large files
  • sort does not finish for large one line file
  • Fedora 43 Beta ISOs Released For Testing — Fedora 43 Beta ISOs are now available for those wanting to help in testing.
  • Omarchy 3.0 — Omarchy 3.0 is here — faster installs, big MacBook support, and lots of polish.
  • systemd 258 Released With systemd-factory-reset & Other New Tools — Systemd 258 brings systemd-factory-reset to request a factory reset on the next reboot, systemd-pty-forward to allocate a pseudo TTY/PTY, UEFI firmware images can now be embedded in a UKI, and many other new features.
  • systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
  • Kernel RFC: Introduce multikernel architecture support — This patch series introduces multikernel architecture support, enabling multiple independent kernel instances to coexist and communicate on a single physical machine. Each kernel instance can run on dedicated CPU cores while sharing the underlying hardware resources.
  • The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems [PDF]
  • mirdaki/computer-config — Config for server and personal deployments
  • My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup — Matthew shares their ultimate self-hosting setup built on NixOS, ZFS, and Tailscale, balancing privacy, data control, and usability for family and friends.
  • basecamp/once-campfire — Campfire is a web-based chat application.
  • Pick: savr: Read it later. Keep it local. No server needed. — Savr is an app for saving online content to read later. It is file-centric, offline first, future proof, and favors decentralization.
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 28 minutes 36 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
632: The Nightly Wobble

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

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  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
  • Nebula - Apps on Google Play
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin, TX
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party, Sat Oct 4 - Meetup.com
  • JB Meetup: Austin Unplugged Birthday Lunch Party - Colony Events
  • Turnstile Coffee Beer Cocktails and Burgers - Austin, TX
  • bitchat — bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks.
  • Texas Linux Festival Trip Support (Fake boost)
  • Jupiter Broadcasting Garage - New swag available!
  • KDE Linux
  • KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
  • Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux
  • GitHub - ChrisLAS/hyprvibe: A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
  • Hyprland 0.51 dropped! — The gesture system has been reworked and is now way more flexible.
  • Nixtcloud: Self-Hosted Cloud in One Command — Nextcloud with NixOS in the backend and P2P connectivity enabled
  • holesail-nix: Holesail package for the Nix package manager — A comprehensive Nix package and NixOS module collection for Holesail - the peer-to-peer tunnel that lets you create instant, secure connections between devices without port forwarding or exposing ports.
  • Pick: lazyssh — A terminal-based SSH manager inspired by lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.
  • Pick: term.everything — Run every GUI app in the terminal!
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3 weeks ago
1 hour 12 minutes 40 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
631: Offline By Default

Chris managed to turn low bandwidth into a lifestyle, and curated a batch of self-hosted apps that make near-offline living possible.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025
  • Support our Texas Linux Fest Trip with PayPal, Venmo, On-Chain, or Lightning
  • Pinchflat — Your next YouTube media manager
  • ErsatzTV — ErsatzTV lets you transform your media library into a personalized, live TV experience—complete with EPG, channel scheduling, and seamless streaming to all your devices.
  • Wes' ErsatzTV Flake — A Nix package and NixOS module for ErsatzTV
  • Karakeep — Quickly save links, notes, and images and karakeep will automatically tag them for you using AI for faster retrieval. Built for the data hoarders out there!
  • lup-0631 NixOS Config
  • Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
  • Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solution
  • Jellyfin — The Free Software Media System
  • audiobookshelf — Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server
  • Paperless-ngx — Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
  • Paperless
  • Paperless-ng
  • Brother ADS-1800W
  • Genius Scan
  • QuickScan iOS scanner with OCR
  • swift-paperless
  • paperless-ai — An automated document analyzer for Paperless-ngx using OpenAI API, Ollama, Deepseek-r1, Azure and all OpenAI API compatible Services to automatically analyze and tag your documents.
  • iPod parts from Elite Obsolete Electronics
  • Pick: Rustnet — A high-performance, cross-platform network monitoring tool built with Rust. RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with enhanced state display, intelligent connection lifecycle management, deep packet inspection capabilities, and a responsive terminal user interface.
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4 weeks ago
1 hour 6 minutes 27 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
630: Google's Garden Lockdown

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • DECbot/nebula-cert-maker: Simple yaml and python script to create certificates for your Nebula Mesh VPN — The Nebula Cert Maker will create a new Nebula CA certificates and then generate and sign certificates for all hosts in the host list.
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025
  • JB TXLF Matrix Room
  • Jupiter Broadcasting Garage
  • Linus Torvalds Marks Bcachefs As Now "Externally Maintained" — Linus Torvalds updated the maintainers file for Bcachefs and now reflects its upstream state as "externally maintained" rather than "supported".
  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year — Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
  • Android Developers Blog: A new layer of security for certified Android devices
  • Android developer verification
  • nixos-avf: NixOS for Android Terminal — This profile contains the necesarry services and kernel configs to get it running under the Terminal app
  • nixos-avf-image-app releases
  • NixOS VM on my phone lol (Android Virtualization Framework) - NixOS Discourse
  • Setup SSH and Tailscale on Android 15 Linux Terminal App
  • droid-nixos — NixOS VM on the Android "Terminal" app
  • ttyd: Share your terminal over the web
  • Introduction - Book of crosvm
  • crosvm: The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor
  • Android 16 New Feature Terminal (Debian 12) Actual Test: Network Configuration and Software Installation
  • 💻 How to Install Android 16 Linux Terminal with GUI Mode on Your Android Phone Step-by-Step Guide
  • Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!
  • Android 16 Terminal Debian GUI Access Tool — This script is specifically designed for terminal environments on Android 16 systems, enabling quick configuration of graphical interface access for Debian 12. After configuration, you can access the native Debian 12 GUI environment within the Android terminal from your PC through the following steps
  • wansview 2K Security Cameras Wireless — Outdoor-2.4G WiFi Home Security Cameras via Remote Control with Phone APP for 360º View, Color Night Vision, 24/7 SD Card Storage.
  • Thingino — Open-source Firmware for Ingenic SoC IP Cameras.
  • themactep/thingino-firmware: Open-source firmware for Ingenic SoC IP cameras
  • paperless-upload-thunderbird — Add-On for Thunderbird to upload PDF directly to paperless-ngx
  • distrostu's nix config
  • Flameshot — Open source screenshot software
  • Hyprshot — A utility to easily take screenshots in Hyprland
  • blendOS — Arch Linux made declarative, immutable and atomic
  • Frigate NVR — Frigate is an open source NVR built around real-time AI object detection. All processing is performed locally on your own hardware, and your camera feeds never leave your home.
  • Pick: Kvaesitso — A search-focused, free and open source launcher for Android
  • Jonas Hietala: I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS — I use the Kvaesitso launcher.
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1 month ago
1 hour 16 minutes 59 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
629: Arch Enemies

Arch is under fire, two weeks and counting. We'll break down the mess, and share a quick fix. Plus, the killer new apps we've just added to our homelabs.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • nebula-manager — Unified CLI tool to manage and maintain multiple Nebula VPN servers with ease.
  • Frigate NVR
  • Coral USB Accelerator: ML Accelerator, USB 3.0 Type-C
  • Arch Linux - News: Recent service outages
  • Arch Linux takes a pounding as DDoS attack enters week two — For now, the Arch team is working to mitigate the attack's impact, which highlights a bootstrapping issue. Tools designed to shift traffic to mirrors in the event the main infrastructure is unavailable rely on a mirror list obtained from that same main infrastructure.
  • DHH on X — "Omarchy 2.0 release might have to wait a little longer. The AUR DDoS attack has picked back up, but the upside is that we're building in all sorts of resilience for the installer to deal with the assault! And meanwhile, we'll build a complete Omarchy package mirror for all.
  • DHH on X — "We're pulling AUR out of the Omarchy install hotpath. It's an incredible resource, but we actually only need a handful of packages for the initial setup, and we can just host those ourselves. AUR really needs a new mirror strategy to avoid this predicament."
  • Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service
  • Arch Linux Status Page
  • Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces
  • aurpublish — PKGBUILD management framework for the Arch User Repository
  • salvador — salvador is a bash script that will help you maintain your AUR packages.
  • archlinux/aurweb — Hosting platform for the Arch User Repository (AUR), a collection of packaging scripts created by the Arch Linux community
  • TaskTrove — Self-hostable task managment that respect your privacy.
  • shuthost — A neat little helper that manages the standby state of unix hosts with Wake-On-Lan configured, with Web-GUI.
  • Closing the Digital Divide: Q&A with Local Computer Upcycler Mike Kelly
  • mkellyxp/nixbook — Convert your old computer (even chromebook) to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
  • CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
  • MOES Wireless Smart Scene Switch Button
  • Minoston 800 Series Z-Wave Scene Controller, 4 ZWave Button
  • Brent hates ricing PCs • Clip by @genebean
  • add master branch nixpkgs overlay · nikolarobottesla/infra-nix-config
  • Pick: WakeMyPotato — Restart a Linux server made of a potato laptop after power outages
  • Pick: spectacle-ocr-screenshot — A simple utility to automatically extract text from spectacle on plasma desktops
  • Pick: spectacle-ocr — Add OCR functionality to Spectacle
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1 month ago
1 hour 18 minutes 19 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
628: Don't Call it a Christro

When personalities clash, the users come last. Meanwhile, Chris' hyper-tuned setup stops being a toy and starts looking like a daily driver.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • Toronto Meetup - JB Colony Events
  • Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash — A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway.
  • Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs changes for 6.17 - Josef Bacik
  • Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept — Ubuntu is testing "Dangerous" Desktop Images, daily builds with all Snaps pulled from the edge channel.
  • Ubuntu 25.10 Will Ship With Linux 6.17 Even If It Means An Unstable "-rc" Kernel
  • syncthing 2.0 Released! — This is the first release of the new 2.0 series. Expect some rough edges and keep a sense of adventure! 🙏
  • Z-Wave is not dead - Home Assistant — TL;DR: Z-Wave is alive and well, partly due to a strong community that is building new open-source resources.
  • Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 — The ultimate way to connect Z-Wave devices to Home Assistant.
  • Z-Wave reborn - Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2
  • Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2 Reveal Promo - YouTube
  • Hyprvibe — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS
  • Keybinds Reverting to older config? · Hyprvibe Issue #2
  • Errors at the top of the screen · Hyprvibe Issue #3
  • Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Formatter
  • Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Home
  • Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Shared
  • Quinn's NixOS Setup: The Hosts
  • LibreNMS — A fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support. LibreNMS is a fork of Observium.
  • Observium — Observium is a network monitoring and management platform that provides real-time insight into network health and performance.
  • Shift Systems / ShiftMon · GitLab — An open source monitoring and logging tool based on Ansible, Telegraf, Grafana, and a bunch of other tools
  • sst/opencode — AI coding agent, built for the terminal.
  • Lightning Grows Up | This Week In Bitcoin 68
  • flatpak/xdg-native-messaging-proxy
  • NativeMessaging portal for sandboxed browsers · flatpak Issue #655
  • Pick: papra — The minimalistic document archiving platform.
  • Papra - Demo
  • Pick: lue — Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech
  • Pick: wlgblock — This project replaces the usual password screen with a Gameboy emulator running a patched Pokémon game!
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1 month ago
1 hour 31 minutes 28 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
627: The 2 a.m. Rescue

Wes performs a 2 a.m. rescue at DEFCON, and Chris attempts to build a Linux desktop using nothing but vibes.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

Support LINUX Unplugged

Links:

  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • Podverse — A FOSS podcast manager for iOS, Android, F-Droid, and web.
  • Podverse - GitHub
  • Texas Linux Festival 2025 - CFP extended to August 18!
  • Nix Pipe Operator by piegamesde [RFC 0148]
  • libexpr: experimental pipe operators by rhendric
  • Nix Vegas on GitHub
  • NixVegas/badge — Rebuild the world at DEF CON with the Nix Badge
  • AND!XOR 5n4ck3y
  • ANDnXOR/ANDnXOR_DC33_Badge
  • NixOS Search - Packages - ztool
  • ChrisLAS/hyprvibe — Chris' vibed-only, riced-up Hyprland desktop running atop NixOS.
  • crush — The glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal 💘
  • Cursor - The AI Code Editor
  • Void: an open source Cursor alternative
  • gerbrent/storenix — NixOS configs for a store, containing two locations and multiple hosts. Please help me!
  • Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - Instagram
  • Listener Javier @hacker.bikepacker - YouTube
  • HomeBox — A simple home inventory management software
  • sysadminsmedia/homebox — A continuation of HomeBox the inventory and organization system built for the Home User
  • Forester Notes
  • Designing tools for scientific thought
  • jimsalterjrs/sanoid: — policy-driven snapshot management and replication tools which use OpenZFS for underlying next-gen storage.
  • btrbk — Tool for creating snapshots and remote backups of btrfs subvolumes
  • Breez - Bitcoin in Every App
  • gPodder - Music Assistant
  • GeneBean's Linux-specific NixOS aliases — GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
  • GeneBean's MacOS-specific NixOS aliases
  • Alby Hub — Alby Hub is a self-custodial, open source lightning wallet that connects to apps
  • Pick: ffshare — An android app to compress image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them
  • Pick: Actual Budget — Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
  • SimpleFIN
  • Connect to your bank - SimpleFIN Bridge
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1 month ago
1 hour 24 minutes 38 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
626: The Btrfs Blues

A Btrfs bug that bites is in the wild, and we discover whole home audio that works like a charm.

Sponsored By:

  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.

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  • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
  • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
  • How to recover from BTRFS errors | Support | SUSE
  • btrfs-zero-log(8) — btrfs-progs — Debian Manpages — This command will clear the filesystem log tree. This may fix a specific set of problem when the filesystem mount fails due to the log replay.
  • 2018 Patch
  • Git: Btrfs: fix warning when replaying log after fsync of a tmpfile
  • Git: btrfs: fix fsync of files with no hard links not persisting deletion
  • problematic patch pulled into 6.16 on May 26th
  • problematic patch pulled into 6.15.3 on June 19th
  • Increased reports since 6.15.3 of corruption within the log tree - Peter Jung
  • Null deref during attempted replay of corrupt TREE_LOG in newer kernel - Russell Haley
  • System failed to boot – Btrfs log tree error / System Administration / Arch Linux Forums
  • PATCH: btrfs: fix log tree replay failure due to file with 0 links and extents — When attempting to mount the fs, the log replay will fail
  • patch on for-next branch of btrfs tree
  • generic: test fsync of file with 0 links and extents
  • Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
  • Music Assistant Installation Instructions
  • Installation Instructions
  • Music Assistant Music Providers
  • Music Assistant Player Providers
  • Home Assistant Plugin
  • Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
  • SYMFONISK Sonos WiFi bookshelf speaker, black smart/gen 2 - IKEA US
  • HomePod - Apple
  • Belkin SoundForm Connect AirPlay 2 Adapter & Airplay 2 Receiver
  • WiiM Mini AirPlay 2 Wireless Audio Streamer
  • Google Chromecast - Streaming Device with HDMI Cable
  • Google Chromecast Audio Media Streamer - *** 2 PACK *** | eBay
  • droans/mass_queue — Actions to control player queues for Music Assistant
  • punxaphil/maxi-media-player — Media card for Home Assistant UI with a focus on managing multiple media players, but not excluding single player setups.
  • NinDTendo/homeassistant_gradual_volume_control — Home Assistant integration providing a service to gradually change the volume of media_players over a given timespan.
  • Chawan: TUI web browser — A text-mode web browser and pager for Unix-like systems, with a focus on implementing modern web standards while remaining self-contained, easy to understand and extensible.
  • SilverBullet — SilverBullet is a tool to develop, organize, and structure your personal knowledge and to make it universally accessible across all your devices.
  • HeliumOS — An atomic desktop operating system for your devices.
  • LINUX Unplugged 620 - Brent Loves Building Things — Off-the-shelf didn’t cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.
  • rust-motd — Beautiful, useful, configurable MOTD generation with zero runtime dependencies
  • rustdress — Self hosted Lightning Address Server
  • rustdress: init at 0.5.2 by jordan-bravo
  • rustdress in nixpkgs
  • Plausible Slop: Generative AI and Open Source Cybersecurity
  • Plausible Slop Timecode Link
  • Death by a thousand slops | daniel.haxx.se
  • Pick: PlexRipper — A cross-platform Plex media downloader that seamlessly adds media from other Plex servers to your own!
  • PlexRipper Docs
  • Pick: kde-control-station — A modern configuration center for KDE plasma based on the awesome kde_controlcentre by Prayag2
  • Pick: kAirPods — Native AirPods integration for KDE Plasma 6 with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget
  • AmilieCoding/gnomePods — Native AirPods integration for GNOME with real-time battery monitoring, noise control, and panel widget. Built off of kAirPods
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2 months ago
1 hour 9 minutes 30 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
625: They're Doing it Wrong!

A radical rethink of what a Linux distro should do, and what it should stop doing. Plus, we dig into what's great about Linux 6.16.

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  • F43 Change Proposal: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops — With this change, we want to make the availability of a Fedora Flatpak an explicit decision for the Fedora Atomic Desktops.
  • Fedora Flatpaks creates more work
  • Fedora Must (Carefully) Embrace Flathub
  • Strategy 2028 Update – Fedora Community Blog
  • Initiatives/Fedora bootc - Fedora Project Wiki — Silverblue & Kinoite are ready to be our desktop Editions, with bootc (Jason)
  • Proposal: Enable Flathub by Default - Fedora Discussion
  • The Case for Fedora Flatpaks
  • bazaar: New App Store for GNOME
  • Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance
  • EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
  • Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
  • Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
  • Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX
  • The first half of the 6.16 merge window
  • The second half of the 6.16 merge window
  • Enforcement (or not) for module-specific exported symbols
  • Toward the unification of kselftests and KUnit
  • Bcachefs may be headed out of the kernel
  • Supporting kernel development with large language models
  • Fending off unwanted file descriptors
  • Linux 6.16 - Linux Kernel Newbies
  • Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
  • Zoned Loop Block Device — The Linux Kernel documentation
  • DJM-V10 Creative style 6-channel professional DJ mixer (black) - Pioneer DJ
  • LLM generated git-resolve.sh
  • Aidan's NixOS Flake
  • Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
  • SONOFF Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus
  • Pick: Toney — Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer.
  • Pick: Etesync-Knotes — A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
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2 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 42 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems

Everything wrong with our homelabs, and how we're finally fixing them. Plus: two self-hosted apps you didn't know you needed.

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  • Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.
  • Unraid: A powerful, easy operating system for servers and storage. Maximize your hardware with unmatched flexibility.
  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
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  • Home Assistant — Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
  • ODROID-H4 – ODROID — A powerful and versatile board that supports Intel's latest Alder Lake processors with AVX2 extensions. It features DDR5 memory, 4 SATA ports, dual BIOS, and up to 3 display outputs.
  • Home Assistant Yellow
  • UGREEN NASync DXP2800 2-Bay Desktop NAS
  • MINISFORUM S100 Mini PC Stick
  • GEEKOM Air12 Mini PC
  • Nebula Quick Start
  • Debugging with Nebula SSH commands
  • Using Experimental Lighthouse DNS with Nebula
  • Upgrading a Nebula network to IPv6 overlay addresses
  • Using Dedicated Relays for Total Connectivity
  • nebula NixOS Module
  • norohind.nebula: — Ansible role to manage nebula vpn hosts
  • dracut-nebula — dracut-nebula integrates the Nebula overlay networking tool (VPN, tunnel) into the initramfs
  • nebula-gen: — Simple script to initialize a CA and quickly sign host keys and certificates for the Nebula VPN
  • AndrewPaglusch/Nebula-Ansible-Role — Nebula VPN Overlay Network Installer With Ansible
  • nebula-lighthouse-service — This server is a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Service. You can use it in case you don’t have a publicly accessible server to run your own Nebula Lighthouse.
  • nebula-vpn-helm — Helm chart for managing Nebula VPN
  • vpn-dashboard-react-nebula — This project demonstrates a secure, lightweight, peer-to-peer VPN architecture using the Nebula overlay network integrated with a React-based front-end dashboard.
  • ChrisLAS/bluenix — Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
  • Linkwarden — ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
  • Announcing Linkwarden 2.11
  • Linkwarden Browser Extension
  • neko — A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.
  • Soltros-OS — My personal RPM-OStree based OS.
  • Miniflux — Minimalist and Opinionated Feed Reader
  • miniflux/v2 — Minimalist and opinionated feed reader
  • [Bug]: "External link" should point to the audio file
  • feat(rss): fallback to enclosure URL when entry URL is missing
  • 5 Best Reference Management Tools for Linux in 2024
  • Zotero — Your personal research assistant
  • Aeon — The Linux Desktop for people who want to "get stuff done"
  • winapps — Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
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2 months ago
1 hour 22 minutes 32 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
623: 50 Days of Blue

Chris fled a declarative-first world for the promised land of Bluefin's atomic simplicity. Fifty days in, did he find desktop bliss or just fresh compromises?

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  • Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview
  • Nix Vegas CFP
  • Bluefin | The Next Generation Linux Workstation
  • Four Years of Universal Blue
  • chad-russell/nix-blue: uBlue derivative with nix compatibility
  • karypid/bluenix: Bluefin with /nix
  • thrix/nix-toolbox: Fedora toolbox with nix.
  • add nix using either the determine systems nix installer or the vanilla installer · Issue #2371 · ublue-os/bluefin
  • Include smallest pieces necessary to make installing Nix easier · Issue #765 · ublue-os/main
  • Recommend homebrew as the default · Issue #576 · ublue-os/bluefin
  • feat: homebrew on image by m2Giles · Pull Request #1293 · ublue-os/bluefin
  • Add support for ostree-based Linux distributions by Hofer-Julian · Pull Request #586 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
  • Ostree installation breaks with composefs changes in Fedora 42 · Issue #1445 · DeterminateSystems/nix-installer
  • Arbitrary top level mount points and composefs (#26) · Issue · fedora/bootc/tracker
  • composefs: The reliability of disk images, the flexibility of files
  • ublue-os/bluefin: The next generation Linux workstation, designed for reliability, performance, and sustainability.
  • ublue-os/image-template: Build your own custom Universal Blue Image!
  • amyos
  • veneos: Bootc images based on Fedora Atomic & Fedora CoreOS
  • m2os
  • bos: Customized OS images based on Universal Blue
  • Building Locally | Bluefin
  • ublue-os/cayo: A bootc server image for your self-hosting needs
  • Zach: Easy Omarchy update and install.
  • CommonArch
  • JaKooLit's Hyprland setups
  • Pick: bitchat — A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers. It's the side-groupchat.
  • Bitchat: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
  • bitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
  • bitchat privacy
  • Jack Dorsey says his 'secure' new Bitchat app has not been tested for security | TechCrunch
  • LINUX Unplugged 459: Better than Butter
  • Briar — Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.
  • Obtainium: Get Android app updates straight from the source.
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2 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 51 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
622: Omarchy Hits Different

Developers are abandoning their Macs for a new frontier: Arch Linux with Hyprland. We dive into Omarchy, and the broader trend fueling it.

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  • Omarchy — Opinionated Arch/Hyprland Setup By DHH
  • The Omarchy Manual
  • Omacom: Opinionated Linux
  • DHH on X — "Omarchy is ready! Hyprland + Arch have never been so easy. Everything comes preconfigured, preinstalled, and with six beautiful themes in the box. This is the smoothest, most pleasant operating system I've ever had under my fingers.
  • DHH on X — "Huge kudos to @vaxryy for making Hyprland! I've been so impressed with his creation that I've committed to a €1,000/month support level for at least a year as a token of my appreciation. Consider chipping in if you end up digging it too.
  • Good Linux Hardware · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
  • DHH on X — "Next step for Omarchy is clearly to level up to become a full distro. Then convince @FrameworkPuter and @Beelinkofficial to offer it preloaded. Going to will The Year of Linux into existence!"
  • thalys on X — @dhh I'm a designer using macs for work in the past 14y. no linux experience. decided to jump straight into omarchy and i'm lovin it. already made a small theme for myself, some binds using grim/slurppy/satty to emulate cleanshot, replaced dropbox with owncloud on waybar, etc.
  • Elvinas Predkelis on X — "All right, Omarchy is quite something. It's been a while back since I've last used Linux as a daily driver. But Omarchy is a breeze - snappy, intuitive and a joy to use. Some personal tweaks here and there, adding Ghostty and it's a dream machine. Thank you @dhh 🙏
  • DHH on X — "Mainstream Linux distros have been focused for too long on being as similar to Windows and Mac as possible to ease adoption. I've come to believe this isn't the way. Linux needs to embrace its own aesthetic, its own ethos, unapologetically. Lean into rice and TUIs!"
  • DHH discusses Linux and Omarchy @ Typecraft - YouTube
  • DHH - Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!
  • Good Linux Hardware · Omacom · DHH
  • ODROID-H4+ – ODROID
  • H4 Mini-ITX Kit – ODROID — a kit that adapts the form factor so that the H4 board can be mounted on a Mini-ITX case for a desktop PC or a DIY-NAS.
  • ODROID and Chill - Self-Hosted 138 — Brent joins to share part two of his NAS build adventure, and things take a tiny turn. Plus, picking the right encrypted chat app and Chris stacks a few Jellyfin wins.
  • Hotkeys · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
  • The Omarchy Manual
  • Neovim · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
  • TUIs · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
  • Dotfiles · The Omarchy Manual · DHH
  • Mise — lets you install and run multiple versions of a programming language on the same machine. It's like rbenv or rvm for Ruby or virtualenv for Python, but it works for a bunch of different environments
  • mise-plugins/mise-nix: Mise Nix Flake Plugin
  • PewDiePie - I installed Linux (so should you) - YouTube
  • PewDiePie - I'm DONE with Google - YouTube
  • You'd Better Run - GitHub
  • Eurobot Germany 2025 Finals First Round - DDoS vs M.A.M.U.T - YouTube
  • GitHub - OpenTollGate/tollgate — TollGate enables WiFi routers to accept Bitcoin payments for internet access.
  • Pick: gemini-cli — An open-source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal.
  • Pick: sniffnet — Comfortably monitor your Internet traffic 🕵️‍♂️
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3 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 23 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
621: The Sunday Secret Sauce

We're highlighting several stories and reviews that never made it into the show. From GrapheneOS trouble, Asahi updates, Framework's desktop reveal, Starlink's Linux magic, and more.

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3 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 48 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
620: Brent Loves Building Things

Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source.

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  • 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps.
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  • Castamatic
  • Castamatic 11 - with live shows and Podping — With this release, you can now listen to live podcast episodes directly in the app and get instant notifications as soon as a new episode—live or recorded—is available.
  • ESP8266 NodeMCU
  • DHT22/AM2302 Digital Temperature and Humidity Sensor Module
  • 5V One Channel Relay Module Relay Switch with OPTO Isolation High Low Level Trigger
  • Marine Boat 3" in-Line Bilge Air Blower DC 12V 130 CFM
  • Wolfwhoop PW-D Control Buck Converter 6-24V to 5V 1.5A Step-Down Regulator Module Power Inverter Volt Stabilizer
  • TICONN Waterproof Electrical Junction Box
  • BOJACK 3 Values 130 Pcs Solderless Breadboard
  • ESPHome Web - web.esphome.io — Allows you to prepare your device for first use, install new versions and check the device logs directly from your browser.
  • PlatformIO - Your Gateway to Embedded Software Development Excellence
  • buildFHSEnv - nixpkgs — Provides a way to build and run FHS-compatible lightweight sandboxes.
  • ESPHome NixOS module: Failure to compile firmware because of DynamicUsers
  • Pick: High Tide — Third party unofficial TIDAL music client. Listen to your favorite music from your desktop or mobile Linux device at the highest quality.
  • Pick: Junction — Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link in another app.
  • Junction on Flathub
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3 months ago
57 minutes 20 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
619: The Trouble with TUIs

We spent the week learning keybindings, installing dependencies, and cramming for bonus points. Today, we score up and see how we did in the TUI Challenge.

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  • darnir's TUI Report
  • zee — A modern text editor for the terminal written in Rust
  • Helix Editor
  • Browsh — fully-modern text-based browser
  • ddgr — 🦆 DuckDuckGo from the terminal
  • Ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console — Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
  • Joshuto — Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
  • tenere — 🤖 TUI interface for LLMs written in Rust
  • elia — A snappy, keyboard-centric terminal user interface for interacting with large language models. Chat with ChatGPT, Claude, Llama 3, Phi 3, Mistral, Gemma and more.
  • kpxhs — Interactive Keepass database TUI viewer
  • keepass-mode — Emacs mode to open KeePass DB
  • gocheat — A beautiful customizable TUI Cheatsheet for keybindings,hotkeys and more in the terminal
  • castero: — TUI podcast client for the terminal
  • textual-web — Run TUIs and terminals in your browser
  • todoist: Todoist CLI Client. — Todoist is a cool TODO list web application. This program will let you use the Todoist in CLI.
  • gomuks/gomuks: A TUI Matrix client — A Matrix client written in Go using mautrix.
  • orf/gping: Ping, but with a graph
  • impala — 🛜 TUI for managing wifi on Linux
  • cmus - C\* Music Player — cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.
  • systemctl-tui — A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.
  • tdf — A tui-based PDF viewer
  • rainfrog — 🐸A database management TUI
  • jqp — A TUI playground to experiment with jq
  • andcli — A 2FA TUI for your shell
  • iamb — A Matrix client for Vim addicts
  • parllama — TUI for ollama and other LLM providers.
  • russ — A TUI RSS reader with vim-like controls and a local-first, offline-first focus
  • ytui-music — Youtube client in terminal for music (lightweight youtube client)
  • wiki-tui — A simple and easy to use Wikipedia Text User Interface
  • tuifeed — 📰 A terminal feed reader with a fancy ui
  • yazi — 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
  • vault-tasks — TUI Markdown Task Manager
  • Don's TUI Challenge blog — #TUIChallenge
  • Shyfox's TUI Challenge results
  • Himalaya — CLI to manage emails, based on email-lib
  • jellyfin-tui — Jellyfin music streaming client for the terminal.
  • Alacritty — A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
  • apple/containerization — Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS. Containerization is written in Swift and uses Virtualization.framework on Apple silicon.
  • Pick: somo — A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux.
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3 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes 56 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
618: TUI Challenge Kickoff

Our terminal apps are loaded, the goals are set, but we're already hitting a few snags. The TUI Challenge begins...

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  • Seattle GNU/Linux Conference - November 7-8, 2025
  • SeaGL 2025 CFP
  • Phoronix: Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware
  • Phoronix.com
  • LINUX Unplugged - TUI Challenge Rules!
  • Terminal Apps — A collection of awesome TUI apps from around the web.
  • Terminal Trove — Find your next Terminal love.
  • awesome-tuis — List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces.
  • Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
  • Ranger: A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console
  • joshuto: Ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust
  • neomutt: ✉ Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
  • meli: Rusty terminal mail client
  • slack-term — Slack client for your terminal
  • GitHub - tramhao/termusic: Music Player TUI written in Rust
  • zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
  • MyNav: Go-based workspace and session management TUI — A powerful terminal-based workspace navigator and session manager built in Go. MyNav helps developers organize and manage multiple projects through an intuitive interface, seamlessly integrating with tmux sessions.
  • aerc - A pretty good email client — aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
  • aerc - A pretty good email client that runs in your terminal - GitHub
  • ulyssa/iamb: A Matrix client for Vim addicts — a Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings
  • magiblot/tvterm: A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision. — tvterm is an experimental terminal emulator widget and application based on the Turbo Vision framework. It was created for the purpose of demonstrating new features in Turbo Vision such as 24-bit color support.
  • sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. — Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.
  • meli MUA — meli is a configurable and extensible e-mail client with sane defaults.
  • The Mutt E-Mail Client — "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -circa 1995
  • glow: Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
  • gomuks — A Matrix client written in Go
  • NCSA Mosaic - Wikipedia — Mosaic is a discontinued web browser. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet during the 1990s by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics.
  • carbonyl — Chromium running inside your terminal
  • After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More
  • PipeWire
  • bhh32's tui_player: A video player for the terminal
  • How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
  • tempy — A simple, visually pleasing weather report in your terminal.
  • arabcoders/ytptube: A WebUI for yt-dlp with concurrent downloads support, presets and scheduled tasks and many more. — YTPTube is a web-based GUI for yt-dlp, designed to make downloading videos from YouTube and other video platforms easier and more user-friendly. It supports downloading playlists, channels, and live streams, and includes features like scheduling downloads, sending notifications, and a built-in video player.
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3 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 23 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
617: The Disposable Server

Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups.

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  • Self-Hosted 150: The Last One — Before hitting the road, we test the limits of local-first file sharing, debate what self-hosting really is, and share our all-time favorite apps.
  • Pick: ws4kp — A web-based WeatherStar 4000
  • Pick: ytdl-sub — Lightweight tool to automate downloading and metadata generation with yt-dlp.
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4 months ago
48 minutes 52 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
616: From Boston to bootc

Fresh off Red Hat Summit, Chris is eyeing an exit from NixOS. What's luring him back to the mainstream? Our highlights, and the signal from the noise from open source's biggest event of the year.

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  • TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
  • Red Hat Summit 2025 Homepage — May 19-22 2025 in Boston, MA
  • Red Hat Summit 2025: Execs Tout Opportunities In Open Source AI, Virtualization Migration — OpenShift Virtualization has seen almost triple the number of customers, with the number of clusters deployed in production more than doubling and the number of virtual machines managed by the offer more than tripling.
  • Agentic AI, LLMs and standards big focus of Red Hat Summit
  • Red Hat Summit: Key Innovations for IT Channel Partners
  • Unlock what’s next: Microsoft at Red Hat Summit 2025 — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is now available for use with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
  • Red Hat Launches the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale — Red Hat’s vision: Any model, any accelerator, any cloud.
  • Red Hat Introduces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with Supercharged Intelligence and Security Across Hybrid Environments — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 delivers a paradigm shift in enterprise operating systems with image mode.
  • 10.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 10 | Red Hat Documentation
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Officially Released, Here's What's New — Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.
  • RHEL 10: Leading the future with AI, security and hybrid cloud
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
  • SiFive Collaborates with Red Hat to Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux for RISC-V — The developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 is initially available for use on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 platform.
  • Red Hat AI on Hugging Face
  • FIPS 203/204/205 — These standards specify key establishment and digital signature schemes that are designed to resist future attacks by quantum computers, which threaten the security of current standards.
  • Virtualization success stories: Join Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization's momentum in 2025
  • llm-d — llm-d is a Kubernetes-native high-performance distributed LLM inference framework
  • What is vLLM? — vLLM is an inference server that speeds up the output of generative AI applications by making better use of the GPU memory.
  • Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux — Image mode leverages the bootc tool to build and deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Bootc stands for bootable container, and the image will include the kernel, bootloader, and other items typically excluded from application containers.
  • Image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Overview
  • Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
  • Bluefin — Featuring automatic image-based updates and a simple graphical application store, Bluefin is designed to get out of your way. Get what you want without sacrificing system stability.
  • KongrooParadox's nixfiles — This was my second nixos release since getting into Nix last year (February I think), and this strategy made it really painless. No surprises about deprecated options since I saw these cases slowly when these changes hit unstable.
  • yazi: Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O
  • jira-cli - Feature-rich interactive Jira command line
  • browser-use — Make websites accessible for AI agents
  • Thomato's TUI Resources
  • Pick: RamaLama — Make working with AI boring through the use of OCI containers.
  • ramalama on GitHub — RamaLama is an open-source developer tool that simplifies the local serving of AI models from any source and facilitates their use for inference in production, all through the familiar language of containers.
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4 months ago
1 hour 30 minutes 37 seconds

LINUX Unplugged
615: 25.05 Reasons to NixOS

With NixOS 25.05 around the corner, we sit down with a release manager to unpack what's new, what's changing, and what's finally getting easier. Spoiler: it's not just the tooling.

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  • LINUX Unplugged TUI Challenge Rules — Help shape the challenge - what did we miss?
  • TUI Challenge Rules Discussion Thread
  • The Launch 🚀 21: Bigfoot As a Service — We rescued Brent's van that should've stayed retired, dodged cops and fuel leaks, and learned why outsourcing navigation to ChatGPT was a terrible idea.
  • Tristan Ross
  • Release Managers - NixOS Release Wiki
  • NixOS 25.05 – Release schedule
  • release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
  • Nixos-rebuild-ng: a nixos-rebuild rewrite
  • marytts/marytts: MARY TTS -- an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java — This is the source code repository for the multilingual open-source MARY text-to-speech platform (MaryTTS). MaryTTS is a client-server system written in pure Java, so it runs on many platforms.
  • PostgREST — A standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. Available as services.postgrest.
  • asciimoo/omnom: A webpage bookmarking and snapshotting service — Access & share previously visited pages without worrying about modifications or availability.
  • uMurmur by umurmur — uMurmur is a minimalistic Mumble server primarily targeted to run on embedded computers, like routers, with an open OS like e.g. OpenWRT.
  • Actual Budget — a local-first personal finance app.
  • gokapi — Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative without public upload. AWS S3 supported
  • Cursor — a vscode-based editor that uses AI to help you write code faster.
  • Pinchflat — a selfhosted YouTube media manager used to track channels and download videos on release.
  • Traccar — a modern GPS Tracking Platform.
  • crab-hole — a cross platform Pi-hole clone written in Rust using hickory-dns/trust-dns.
  • nostr-rs-relay — a nostr relay, written in Rust.
  • haven — a high availability vault for events on nostr.
  • immich-public-proxy — a proxy for sharing Immich albums without exposing the Immich API.
  • strfry — a relay for the nostr protocol.
  • TSDProxy — Very simple proxy for virtual services in Tailscale
  • Pick: Switcheroo — Convert between different image filetypes and resize them easily.
  • Switcheroo on Flathub
  • Switcheroo is packaged in nixpkgs
  • Pick: mazanoke — MAZANOKE is a simple image optimizer that runs in your browser, works offline, and keeps your images private without ever leaving your device.
  • jolheiser/mazanoke-nix: Nix derivation/flake for mazanoke
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4 months ago
1 hour 5 minutes 4 seconds

LINUX Unplugged

We’ve had a wild week, and share the story of Texas LinuxFest.