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Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

We dig into the Copy Fail vulnerability and test a proof-of-concept against our own box. Plus, Jon Seager, VP of Engineering at Canonical joins us, and we kick off the BSD Challenge!

After 26 years, we return to our roots and reflect on why LinuxFest Northwest is still a special event.

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 show you how to make your own.

Is it time to replace GitHub in our workflow? We git into it. Plus, our favorite features in the new Linux 7.0 release.

The expensive, challenging, and humbling journey with open source agents.

Ubuntu wants a leaner, stricter GRUB, and your favorite setup may not survive the cut. We break down what’s really changing, and the practical ways to adapt. Plus, Chris moves on from one of his favorite open source apps.

The self-hosted app that turned Chris into a family Time Lord, then we iterate on a long-desired hardware hack.

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.

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

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.

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 trip starts here!

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 open source seize this moment?

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

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.

When your self-hosted services become infrastructure, breakage matters. We tackle monitoring that actually helps, alerts you won’t ignore, and DNS for local, and multi-mesh network setups.

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

The storage apocalypse has arrived. An old friend drops by to talk survival strategies as prices explode, and we pitch our own unapologetically 90s approach to stretching storage.

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

We make our big Linux predictions for 2026, but first, we score how we did for 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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

Chris cooks up a remote-access trick for Jellyfin that skips VPNs entirely. One simple toggle: absurd, yet shockingly effective.

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

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

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

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

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.

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, we visit System76 in Denver where the COSMIC team has surprises waiting for us.

Our cross-continent race to Texas Linux Fest culminates into fantastic meat, meetups, and more.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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