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An open show powered by community LINUX Unplugged takes the best attributes of open collaboration and turns it into a weekly show about Linux.

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626: The Btrfs Blues Aug 03, 2025

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

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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

625: They're Doing it Wrong! Jul 27, 2025

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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.

624: Tiny PC, Huge Problems Jul 20, 2025

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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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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.

623: 50 Days of Blue Jul 13, 2025

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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.

622: Omarchy Hits Different Jul 06, 2025

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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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LINUX Unplugged 566: Chef's Choice Ubuntu
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 🕵️‍♂️

621: The Sunday Secret Sauce Jun 29, 2025

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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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620: Brent Loves Building Things Jun 22, 2025

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

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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

619: The Trouble with TUIs Jun 15, 2025

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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.

618: TUI Challenge Kickoff Jun 08, 2025

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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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Texas Linux Festival 2025 - Austin TX, Oct 3-4, 2025
Texas Linux Festival 2025 CFP
NixCon 2025 - Switzerland, September 5-7, 2025
NixCon 2025 CFP
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.

617: The Disposable Server Jun 01, 2025

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

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TUI Challenge
TUI Challenge Scorecard
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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