A practical GitHub diet discussion grounded in real self-hosting habits.
Linux Unplugged 662 starts by circling favorite features in Linux 7.0, then moves into a more practical question about a GitHub diet and the tools that could make that easier.

Linux talk with hands-on scars.
LINUX Unplugged treats Linux like something people actually run, break, fix, and argue about. The panel moves from Mumble Room banter into GitHub alternatives, KDE Linux, NixOS, Nebula, GRUB changes, agents, boosts, and picks.
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LINUX Unplugged is a long-running Linux panel show built around practical experience, community feedback, and the weekly churn of open source life. It does not treat Linux as a sterile product category. It treats it as a set of systems people run at home, at work, on the road, and sometimes in a hurry. The recurring voices, including Chris, Wes, and Brent, keep the room casual while still digging into real technical consequences. A topic like leaving GitHub becomes a conversation about privacy, misplaced secrets, self-hosted options, and whether the maintenance burden is worth it. An episode about open source agents turns into a frank report on actual gains, actual friction, and the gap between demos and daily use. KDE Linux, NixOS, GRUB changes, Nebula, mobile servers, backup setups, and self-hosted control panels all show up as things to test, not merely admire. Short jokes and corrections sit beside longer explanations. That is part of the texture. The Mumble Room matters too, because the show keeps a live community presence close to the center rather than treating listeners as an abstract audience. There are boosts, picks, meetups, road-trip notes, and occasional production housekeeping. Sometimes the sponsor and event material is prominent. Underneath it, the show’s steady habit is to ask whether a tool is reliable, understandable, resilient, and useful after the first burst of excitement fades. Guests expand that frame, from Mr. Bearded Tech discussing Nebula Commander to Kelsey Hightower talking before Planet Nix. The result is neither a polished news bulletin nor a tutorial feed. It is more like a technically fluent shop conversation with enough history to remember why old tradeoffs still matter. The pace is brisk. The opinions are lived-in. The best moments happen when the panel connects command-line decisions to trust, maintenance, community, and the small annoyances that shape what people actually keep using.
Made for: For Linux users, self-hosters, open source builders, and technically curious listeners who care how tools behave after setup. It especially suits people who enjoy community banter alongside serious systems judgment.
What sets it apart: The show blends live community energy with practical Linux evaluation, so news and tools are judged through setup friction, maintenance, privacy, resilience, and daily use. It feels less like coverage and more like experienced users comparing notes in public.
An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Hands-on experiments, infrastructure detail and candid troubleshooting make Linux's practical tradeoffs easier to understand.
LINUX Unplugged turns Linux into a working conversation among Chris, Wes and Brent, with the Mumble Room adding a live community presence. The discussion moves between hands-on trials and infrastructure detail, from testing KDE Linux and terminal interfaces to examining…
A Nano setting derails an email challenge; your own terminal mishaps may feel less lonely.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical GitHub diet discussion grounded in real self-hosting habits.
Linux Unplugged 662 starts by circling favorite features in Linux 7.0, then moves into a more practical question about a GitHub diet and the tools that could make that easier.
A Pasadena live show on Nix, agents, and practical deployment tooling.
Linux Unplugged turns its Pasadena stop at Planet Nix and Scale 2026 into a clear snapshot of where Nix and agent tooling are meeting. The opening stays playful, but the episode quickly settles on a steady point: Nix suits a moment when computers can do more, and agents are…
KDE Linux and Nebula Commander anchor a practical, community-heavy hour that stays useful even when it wanders.
The episode moves between a recent look at KDE Linux and a guest segment on Nebula Commander, a self-hosted control panel for Nebula. It works best when it stays close to the tools themselves.
A road-trip-minded Linux episode where Planet Nix logistics build toward a Kelsey Hightower conversation.
Linux Unplugged treats its road-trip warmup as a snapshot of Linux community life, folding Planet Nix, workshop tables, talks, stickers, giveaways, trivia, and the push toward California into one busy pre-event frame.
A Matrix server rethink leads into Mumble, container startup, and filesystem plumbing.
LINUX Unplugged opens by revisiting a Matrix server that seemed close to being retired, then makes the case for keeping it alive and leaning in further.
A live TUI scorecard that turns email pain into practical Linux workarounds.
Linux Unplugged 619 frames the TUI challenge as a practical scorecard, with Chris, Wes, and Brent tracing where shell work lands cleanly and where it pushes back.


Kubernetes changes, explained by the people who made them.

Ruby talk with the edges left on.



This episode is a Linux talk show discussing first impressions of KDE Linux, updates to the Hypervibe distro, and a shout-out to the Managed Nebula decentralized VPN.
This episode discusses a new proposal for multi-kernel support in Linux, upcoming Texas Linux Fest, and includes shout-outs and picks, with a sponsorship segment for Nebula VPN.
Chris, Wes, and Brent wrap up the TUI challenge on air.
When a TV stream failed, Chris's AI agent SSH'd into a server, reorganized files, and fixed it while he stayed on the couch.
This episode discusses recent developments in the Linux kernel regarding Rust integration, insights from Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, an interview with Hannah about the Scale conference, and a promotion for TailScale's networking solution.
This episode discusses self-hosted applications for Linux users to enhance offline living and internet connectivity, featuring tools like Mumble and Nebula.
Linux Unplugged hosts Chris, Wes and Brent cover KDE's AI-contribution fight, which began with Nate Graham's blog post "KDE and AI, you and me" and ended with the proposal rejected and no policy in place.
RustFS 1.0 let the hosts pool spare LAN disks into one S3-backed store, and Chris streamed 4K Jellyfin media through it.
Jellyfin 12 turns playlist and collection data into relational tables with foreign keys, reducing extra database lookups and stale entries.
Chris, Wes, and Brent open with a greeting to the virtual lug in Mumble Room.
The hosts introduce their weekly Linux talk show, discussing their three-month journey building open source agent platforms and promoting their sponsor Defined Networking's Nebula VPN.
This episode discusses Ubuntu's changes to GRUB, the end of a favorite open-source app, and features network recommendations and community interactions.
This episode of a Linux talk show discusses self-hosted apps for family time management, a mobile server discovery, and features sponsor segments for Asana and Defined Networking's VPN services.
The hosts of a Linux talk show return from a trip to discuss their individual projects and promote a decentralized VPN service called Nebula.
Linux Unplugged opens live from Pasadena.
The hosts open with a hello to the Mumble Room and a ready-to-head-out kind of energy.
Linux Unplugged 655, "Speeding Up Mistakes," connects Planet Nix travel plans in Pasadena with two interviews about Nix, AI, and Docker.
Chris, Wes, and Brent open by checking back in on the Matrix server.
The hosts conclude their TUI Challenge by scoring their performance, reading listener reports, and discussing Linux-related topics with sponsor Tailscale.