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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.

LINUX Unplugged

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boosties celebration! Grab an eggnog and join us as we attempt to choose this year's winners.

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646: The Great Holiday Homelab Special 🎄

We cut the streaming cord the Linux way with free, legal internet TV you can curate, DVR, and self-host via Jellyfin or Plex. Then, we talk COSMIC stable with System76's CEO.

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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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Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMPop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released • — This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers. For seven years we’ve built the Pop!_OS Linux distribution. Three years ago it became clear we had reached the limit of our current potential and had to create something new. Today, we break through that limit with the release of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment.
Dispatcharr • — Dispatcharr is an open-source powerhouse for managing IPTV streams and EPG data with elegance and control.
IPTV Link Search • — Public IPTV live channels, m3u8 links are updated daily.
Streamtest.inptv-org/iptv • — Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world
iptv/PLAYLISTS.mdbepg • — Utilities for downloading the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) for thousands of TV channels from hundreds of sources.
iptv-epg.orgTiviMate IPTV Player • — Easy to use for beginners and deeply customizable for power users, TiviMate blends speed, clarity, and control into a seamless viewing experience.
M3U IPTV • — Stream your IPTV channels on the go or on Android TV.
DangoPlayer • — A fast video player and IPTV client for Android and TV
iPlayTV - IPTV/M3U Player App • — IPTV/M3U player for Apple TV. The one Chris has used the longest
Chillio IPTV Smart Player App • — New app, paid if you want quad box
Open TV • — IPTV player with many features.
html-iptv-player • — HTML IPTV Player with EPG viewer for M3U8 playlist
hypnotix • — An M3U IPTV Player
IPTVnatorVidGrid • — watch multiple news channels in your browser
M3U Magic • Free Private IPTV PlayerErsatzTV • — Your Personal IPTV Server
kptv-fast • — A high-performance streaming service aggregator that combines multiple free streaming platforms into a single M3U playlist and EPG. Perfect for use with Channels DVR, Plex, or any IPTV client.
Pick: Jellify-Music • — A cross-platform, free and open source music player for Jellyfin, powered by React Native
Pick: DockerComposeMaker • — DockerComposeMaker (DCM) is a self-hostable website to help you pick and create a docker-compose.yml file for your home server. Discover new containers, discover and share a config in a couple of clicks!
Demo Docker Compose GeneratorPick: Leantime • — Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.

645: COSMIC Christmas

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What's new, what's next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.

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Managed Nebula • : 
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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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Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)bcachefs 1.33.0Bcachefs Ready With Its Reconcile Feature As Biggest Change In Two Years • — "Biggest new feature in the past ~2 years, I believe. The user facing stuff may be short and sweet - but so much going on under the hood to make all this smooth and polished."
Kent Overstreet - Patreonbcachefs • — A copy-on-write (COW) file system for Linux first announced by Kent Overstreet in 2015. It is intended to compete with the modern features of ZFS or Btrfs.
LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later • — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.
Git or not a Git man page?proxmox-nixos: The Proxmox Hypervisor, on NixOSPick: Dotfiles Installer • — Install dotfiles easy, fast and secure. Or provide an installation application for your dotfiles.
ML4W Dotfiles Installer Wikidotfiles-installer: GitHubPick: SSH-Studio • — Easy, GUI SSH config editor and validator built with Python, GTK 4 and libadwaita.
LubeLogger, Vehicle Maintenance and Fuel Mileage Tracker, slips into December with some banging new features

644: The People's Filesystem

We pull on a few loose threads from recent episodes, and some of them unravel into way more than we expected.

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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. 
1Password Extended Access Management • : 
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Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormLUP's Great Holiday Homelab Old Fart Form (markdown)Jellyswarrm • — Bring all your Jellyfin servers together
LiveTV support · Issue #9 · LLukas22/Jellyswarrmpangolin • — Identity-Aware Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Dashboard UI.
Pangolin | Secure Access PlatformNixOS Search - Options - PangolinYoutarr • — Self-hosted web app that automates downloading, organizing, and scheduling YouTube channel content with support for Plex, Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin
Add ability to set subfolder for manual downloads · Issue #287 · DialmasterOrg/YoutarrDawarich • — Your favorite self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline (Google Location History)
dawarich CHANGELOG.mdCVE-2025-40090 | Ubuntu • — Since commit 305853cce3794 ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock. This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe.
SMB3 & KSMBD See Performance Improvements With Linux 6.18 • — KSMBD also now adds a max IP connections parameter to optionally limit the maximum number of connections permitted per IP address.
ksmbd vulnerability research · Doyensec's Blogksmbd - Fuzzing Improvements and Vulnerability Discovery (2/3)ksmbd - Exploiting CVE-2025-37947 (3/3)doyensec's KSMBD-CVE-2025-37947 PoCGrapheneOS bails on OVHcloud over France's privacy stanceGrapheneOS exits France — what it means for encryptionFrance's Encryption War Escalates: GrapheneOS Exodus Signals Dangerous Precedent for Open Source Privacy TechSeems like the GrapheneOS phone collab may be with Motorolla.Rust For Linux Kernel Co-Maintainer Formally Steps DownBcachefs Ousted from Mainline Kernel: The Move to DKMS and What It MeansRed Hat Introduces Project Hummingbird for “Zero-CVE” StrategiesRichard Hipp - Git: Just Say No - YouTube2011 SouthEast LinuxFest - Richard Hipp - Fossilize Your Code - YouTubePick: Gopher64 • — Highly compatible N64 emulator.
Gopher64 — simple64's official and spiritual successor - Libretro • — It’s made by the same developer(s). Unlike simple64 however, it’s not based entirely on Mupen64Plus. And it’s aiming for a more LowSpec hardware overhang.
Install Gopher64 on Linux | Flathub

643: The Sunday Soapbox

Chris cooked up a wild remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One tiny toggle spins up a secure tunnel on demand. Simple, absurd, and shockingly effective.

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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. 
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. 
CrowdHealth • : 
Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLUP's Great Holiday Homelab FormOld Fart Form (markdown)ngrok • — Go from code to global in just minutes with a developer-friendly, idiomatic solution for managing traffic to your APIs.
Jellyswarrm • — Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy that lets you combine multiple Jellyfin servers into one place.
Sveske-Juice/declarative-jellyfin • — This repository provides a Nix flake that allows for declarative configuration of Users, Libraries, Plugins, Settings, etc. Jellyfin 10.11 is NOT SUPPORTED.
declarative-jellyfin full exampleZigl3ur/jellyhub • — JellyHub is a web app that allow you to fetch media from all of your jellyfin servers and regroup it in one place, so there is one place to search for specific media and tells you on wich server the desired media is located.
Smiley-McSmiles/jellyman • — Jellyman is a lightweight BASH CLI tool for installing and managing Jellyfin. As well as create a full backup (automatically or manually) so you can move or import all your metadata and user information to another machine.
LSchallot/JellyRoller • — JellyRoller is an open source CLI Jellyfin Controller written in Rust that works on Windows and Linux. Its primary purpose is to allow administration of a Jellyfin application from the command line.
kjtsune/embyToLocalPlayer • — etlp (embyToLocalPlayer) is a tool that lets Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex play videos using your local media players (like mpv or VLC) instead of the built-in web player, while optionally sending playback progress back to the server.
Pick: subgen • — Autogenerate subtitles using OpenAI Whisper Model via Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, Tautulli, or Bazarr.

642: Tunneling Home for the Holidays

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server.

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1Password Extended Access Management • : 
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CrowdHealth • : 
Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMDownload DNClient Desktop from Defined NetworkingOLF Conference - Free and Open Software Conference and ExpoRegistration - OLF ConferenceValve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOSSteam Controller • — Steam Controller shares DNA with Steam Deck, with all the inputs to play all the games on Steam, wherever Steam is.
Steam Machine • — Made for powerful, versatile PC gaming on a big screen; quiet and small enough to fit under your TV, on your desk, or anywhere else you want to game. (It's a roughly 6-inch (160mm) cube!)
Steam Frame • — Comfortable, wireless, lightweight VR designed to give you a new way to experience your entire Steam library
“The Steam machine is equal or better than 70% of what people have at home.”Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam MachineFEX-Emu/FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for Arm64 LinuxFEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64Commits · FEX-Emu/FEX · GitHubPLF10 Smart Plug – Kaufman Home AutomationHome Assistant Connect ZBT-1About Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 • — Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1 is the new name for Home Assistant SkyConnect. Despite the new name and look, they have the exact same hardware, capability, and support.
libvirt: The virtualization APIlibvirt - ArchWiki • — Libvirt is a collection of software that provides a convenient way to manage virtual machines and other virtualization functionality, such as storage and network interface management. These software pieces include a long term stable C API, a daemon (libvirtd), and a command line utility (virsh).
Category:Virtualization - NixOS WikiVirt-manager - NixOS WikiLibvirt - NixOS WikiPick: easyeffects • — Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
EasyEffects 8.0 Released In Porting From GTK4 To Qt / QML / KirigamiEasy Effects on FlathubMarcel Repo Email

641: Something New, Something Old

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between.

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Managed Nebula • : 
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CrowdHealth • : 
Discover a Better Way to Pay for Healthcare with Crowdfunded Memberships. Join CrowdHealth to get started today for $99 for your first three months using UNPLUGGED.Unraid • : 
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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLINUX Unplugged 634: Config Confessionsyechielw/dots • — Nixos and home-manager config
Shayne's budget FlakeShayne's Budget PackagesShayne's Budget Configuration.nixChris' Budget Flake FixMillak/guix-config: mirror of my guix configsMillak/my-guix: local guix packagesefraim-home: Add mpv-sponsorblock-minimal-conf.dDistrostu's configsDistrostu's M Series ConfigOly Mike's NixbookwriteShellApplication - Nix function referencewriteShellApplication - Nixpkgs Manual • — writeShellApplication is similar to writeShellScriptBin and writeScriptBin but supports runtime dependencies with runtimeInputs.
rwiankowski/homeserver-nixos • — My Home Server Setup using a single NixOS node
Brandon's HomelabBrandon's MacBrandon's brew defined by NixBrandon's Mac Apps installed via NixBeardedTek/nixos-router: NixOS Router Configuration • — A declarative NixOS configuration that transforms a standard PC into a full-featured network router with integrated secrets management.
blocky: DNS proxy and ad-blockerDeidrael/nix-config: My NixOS ConfigFuzzyMistborn/infra • — 100% chance of id10t errors....and a slight chance of a credential leak
william/nix-config: All my nix stuff, in a single flakePick: SoltrOS • — Immutable Linux designed for gaming & development
Pick: Parabolic • — A powerful yt-dlp frontend.
Pick: Youtarr • — Youtarr is a self-hosted YouTube DVR that lets you subscribe to channels, browse their videos in a web UI, and automatically download and archive the ones you care about to your own storage.

640: Duece Configalo: Desktop Gigolo

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMSeaGL 2025 • — November 7-8, 2025 in Seattle, WA
LinuxFest NorthwestLinuxFest Northwest 2026: Call for SpeakersSCALE 23x - Southern California Linux Expo • — North America's largest community-run open source conference. Pasadena, CA - March 5-8, 2026
SCALE - Call for PresentationsPlanet Nix '26 • — March 5th-6th, 2026 @ Pasadena, CA
Planet Nix 2026: Call for ProposalsLINUX Unplugged 481: Just a Prompt Away • — The Internet is going crazy with AI-generated media. What's the open-source story, and is Linux being left out?
Red Hat eyes developer workflow efficiency, app modernization gains with new AI tools • — An AI assistant specifically designed for application migration and modernization looks to reduce developer toil
SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" • — SUSE's announcement today for SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 proclaims SLES 16 to be "the industry's first enterprise Linux that integrates agenetic AI" and "reduces operational costs and complexity through AI readiness."
openSUSE on Hugging FaceChrisLAS/hyprvibe • — A riced up Hyprland desktop running ontop of NixOS.
Pull requests - ChrisLAS/hyprvibefeat: add comprehensive sops-nix integration by shift · PR #15 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeAdd options for username, group, home directory by samh · PR #8 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeCreate variables for user and home dir by F-bit818 · PR #5 · ChrisLAS/hyprvibeLM Studio - Local AI on your computerZed — The editor for what's nextCursor: The best way to code with AINixbook • — Convert your old computer to a user friendly, lightweight, durable, and auto updating operating system build on top of NixOS.
nixbook/base.nix • — Roast my Nix: Not-a-flake edition!
Jupiter Broadcasting's Colony EventsPick: duf • — Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
Pick: cheat.sh • — the only cheat sheet you need.

639: The Mess Machine

Fedora 43 arrives with polish, new spins, and a smarter installer; and one decision the rest of the Linux world should pay attention to.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMnebula-lighthouse-servicenebula-lighthouse-service: init at 2.0.0 by bloominstrong · Pull Request #454855 · NixOS/nixpkgs • — nebula-lighthouse-service is aimed to be run a a public nebula lighthouse for those who cannot host their own, or who want extra lighthouses without the burden of maintaining another lighthouse.
Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week • — While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
Velocity Limitless / Projects / Slitherer · GitLabFedora 43 Wallpaper Wrap-Up – Fedora Community BlogFedora COSMIC SpinPlasma 6.5 - Reaching the Inflection Point[Fedora KDE] Early Plasma 6.5.0 - Fedora Discussion • — With Fedora 43 being a go, we will be doing an update on repos towards the middle to end of next week that will bring Qt 6.10 and Plasma 6.5.1 to F43, and Plasma 6.5.1 (Most likely, plans are not 100% final in that regard) to F42. That will bring the update to the usual architectures, such as aarch64.
Pick: Millisecond • — Optimize your Linux system for low latency audio
Millisecond on Flathubnoblepayne/millisecond-flakertcqs • — rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio
How do I get an out-of-the-box working Linux audio workstation? - LinuxAudio.orgPick: lemurs 🐒 • — A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust

638: The Distro Everyone Should Copy

The biggest failure in seven years, right before a trip. What broke, how Chris pulled it back together, and how Wes would fix it right.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMHome Assistant Community Add-on: SSH & Web TerminalHomeAssistent Yellow: EmberZNet Zigbee: failed to flash firmware · Issue #146293HA Yellow/Zigbee Issue - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant Yellow Radio firmware - Home Assistant CommunityHome Assistant on X: "⚠️ WE'RE ENDING PRODUCTION OF THE HOME ASSISTANT YELLOW ⚠️Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q 10T7 Tiny DesktopDell OptiPlex 3070 Desktop ComputerBeelink Mini S13 Pro Mini PC,13 Generation Intel N150Minisforum MS-01 Work StationHome Assistant Connect ZWA-2Home Assistant - NixOS Wikihome-assistant/component-packages.nix at nixos-25.05Pick: Hexecute 🪄 • — Launch apps by casting spells!
Pick: LenspectLenspect on Flathub • — A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.

637: Chris' Smart Home Disaster

Has Canonical finally nailed snaps? Why it looks like Ubuntu has turned a new corner; our thoughts on the latest release. Plus, a special guest and more.

532: We Like Snaps Now

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