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LINUX Unplugged

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

Website ↗ Last published 2 November 2026 691 posts collected by Sputnik

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“Ptrace is being restricted by default. This doesn't break strace, but if you're trying to trace an already running process, then you're going to need to change a system setting. What they're doing, which is kind of clever, is they ship scope zero, where a process can only do it to its own threads. But if you install a debugging tool that might need this functionality legitimately, it ships a linked package which sets that system setting back to one. So hopefully you won't notice it.” — Wes Payne, LINUX Unplugged
Wes Payne · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Here's the argument, and I'm starting to buy it: most people that are probably in the tech field can probably type 100, 110 words per minute, and the average voice dictation is about 140 words per minute. So I've been using it, and I've been pretty darn impressed.” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“The sessions run server-side. So I can start something on my phone, like, oh crap, I got to fix this up. I can close the browser on my phone, sit down at the desktop, log into Web SSH, and the session's still going. Everything's still running, and I can just resume working. Love that.” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“JP Morgan isn't going to switch to a vibe-coded version of Office, right? So their big, huge enterprise customers ain't going anywhere.” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“How long have they been adding features that we don't need? I couldn't articulate the difference between Photoshop 7 and the current Photoshop. I know there's generative fill. But for a simpleton like me, Photoshop 7 still gets the job done. So if you could clone that function, you've got it, right? I just think that's asking for trouble if you're proprietary software.” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“There's the factor of how soon does it get into Nix packages, and then there's how soon is it actually on your machine. Nix is often one of the fastest to actually get it patched in the code. But because of the way Nix works, it can sometimes be one of the slower ones to actually get it on your machine… You can think of Nix packages as a giant tree that all depends on each other. If you're just doing a leaf of that tree, it's not a big deal. But if you're doing something that's really at the root of that tree, you have to rebuild everything under it.” — Wes Payne, LINUX Unplugged
Wes Payne · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“For me, the browser homepage thing is sort of like the app nag about reviewing the app. I'm never launching the app to review the app. I'm launching the app to get something done. I don't ever launch Firefox to just look at the start page.” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“With software tests, I like the phrase: write tests, not too many, mostly integration. Mostly the things that test the real functionality that you care the most about, rather than strictly internal stuff. And I think there's a similar principle for dashboards and anything in monitoring, because too much information means you don't really pay attention to any of it. Or, like, alert fatigue, that kind of thing.” — Wes Payne, LINUX Unplugged
Wes Payne · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“It's really going to show us the long tail of C code that is out there that we rely on. That these were always there. And a lot of them are not like some crazy bugs that humans could never find. They're bugs that humans could find. We've just never been able to look.” — Wes Payne, LINUX Unplugged
Wes Payne · 25 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If you're anti-Linux desktop growth, then what are we trying to do here with free software? What was the whole purpose of making something that was making the information free to the world? … Are we just trying to create a clubhouse that's just big enough for us to hang out in, that we can pretend like the rest of the world doesn't exist?” — Chris Fisher, LINUX Unplugged
Chris Fisher · 28 Sep 2026 Listen →

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LINUX Unplugged is hosted by Chris Fisher , Wes Payne , Brent Gervais , chzbacon , Ell Marquez and Joe Ressington .

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