
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 M...
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After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual M...

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 sho...

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: Jupite...

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support o...

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practic...

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...

We each spent the week on our own projects, breaking then fixing things. Now we're back to compare progress, and a few lessons learned. Spon...

After experiencing Planet Nix and SCaLE, we come back convinced the next phase of Linux is already taking shape. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party...

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander. Sponsore...

Planet Nix and SCaLE are just days away, and we're getting a head start with two guests, the tech, and the trends shaping open source. Our t...

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can...

The news this week highlights shifts in Linux from multiple angles. What's evolving, why it matters, and that moment where the future actual...

We stress tested open source AI agents this week. What actually held up, and where it falls apart. Plus Brent's $20 Wi-Fi upgrade. Sponsored...

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won't ignore, a...

We rebuild a small office network around Linux, with an Unplugged twist and real-world constraints. Things don't go quite as expected... Spo...

The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetica...

We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT,...

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from...

The Great Holiday Homelab Special! Where our community brought their absolute best, from budget busters to beautiful disasters. Plus, a boos...

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...

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 kern...

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

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...

We dig into the biggest Linux hardware news of the year, then fire up our new-to-us 1L PC server. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Manage...

We dive into your configs, the genius moves, the glorious blunders, and everything in between. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Managed N...

After all the AI hype is over, one change for Linux will be sticking around; we put it to the test. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Mana...

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

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. Spon...

We're back from Texas just in time to chat with Jon Seager, Canonical's VP of Engineering, and their new era with Ubuntu 25.10. On the way,...

Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Managed...

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

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...

Our first look at KDE Linux, then Chris shares the latest on Hyprvibe, while Wes braves his first install. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Me...

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

Google's sideloading lockdown has us pushing Wes' Pixel further than Google ever dreamed. Sponsored By: Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula...

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...

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

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 :...

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...

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. Sponsore...

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

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...

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

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

Off-the-shelf didn't cut it, so we built what we needed using open hardware and open source. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a progra...

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

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

Spin up, share, nuke. We each build a throwaway server, and then rate each others' setups. Sponsored By: Tailscale : Tailscale is a programm...

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...

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 eas...