LINUX Unplugged

A new documentary reveals KDE's 30-year underdog story. Plasma pioneer Aaron Seigo joins us to look back, and explore what's next with Plasma 6.8.
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KDE at 30 - KDE Community
Plasma 6.8 30th Anniversary Edition - Release Notes — Plasma 6.8 is released on a very special day: KDE’s 30th birthday. Today we celebrate three decades of the KDE community providing the world’s greatest free and open-source software.
KDE: The Documentary — The Story of Free Software Underdogs
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs │ Full Film Coming October 14th
KDE 4.0 Release Event Keynote - Jan 18, 2008
Aaron Seigo - GitHub
ArcGIS for Elixir — Convenient access to Esri ArcGIS APIs for applications written in the Elixir programming language.
Sparking a Fire | Linux Action Show s20e06 - YouTube — Aaron Siego joins us to talk about the new open source KDE powered tablet that he and his team are working on! Find out how hard you want one, after this week's episode!
Culture of Shiny | LINUX Unplugged 25 — Aaron Seigo joins us to call out the new and shiny culture that’s pervasive in the free software community. And even your own humble hosts have been afflicted with from time to time.
KDE Connect — Enabling all your devices to communicate with each other.
Local-First Software — Experience apps that work offline, keep your data private, and sync seamlessly across your devices. Your data stays with you, not locked in the cloud.
jellyProxyKiosk — LCARS Jellyfin info front-end
Pick: RememberWindowPositions — Remember window positions for apps in KDE Plasma 6+. Especially useful for multi-window applications such as browsers.
Pick: Konveyor — Konveyor turns Plasma into an endless, scrollable row of windows. Nothing overlaps, nothing gets buried, and the rest of your desktop stays exactly the way you like it.

We've turned our Steam Deck into a security monitoring system; Monitor your property, identify people, pets, and vehicles with detailed daily intelligence briefings. All local.
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Clanker Therapy 3: What Have You Been Building? - Livestream Oct 16, 2026
Texas Linux Festival 2026
Frigate NVR
blakeblackshear/frigate — NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras
Frigate Documentation
Frigate Releases
Frigate Object Detector Configuration
Ultralytics YOLO11 Documentation
llama.cpp
Ollama
Ultralytics YOLO11
ultralytics/yolo11 - GitHub — Ultralytics YOLO11 discovery and quickstart for detection, segmentation, classification, pose, OBB, and tracking.
cage-kiosk/cage: A Wayland kiosk
TomBursch/kitchenowl - GitHub — KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager. The backend is made with Flask and the frontend with Flutter. Easily add items to your shopping list before you go shopping. You can also create recipes and add items based on what you want to cook.
dahjah/muse-vm-hacks — Basic repo with what you need to go from a bare chat interface with your muse agent to an ssh-accessible VM with the nix package manager and full tailscale access (muse ships with a stipped down version
Pick: wtfi2 — Live, visual network-path diagnostic that pinpoints exactly where your Wi-Fi connection dies — and how to fix it. Rust + ratatui TUI.
Pick: SpaceScan — Fast disk-usage explorer for Linux: sunburst chart, keyboard-driven table, and text/CSV/JSON reports. Accurate like du, safe cleanup, 10 languages.
Pick: Vermouth — A native C++/Qt Linux launcher for Windows, Steam, GOG and retro games. 2.3 MB installed. Zero bloat. KDE-first.
Pick: RAWmakase — 📸 Free, fast, Lightroom-compatible RAW photo editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
ArtCraft — Open Source Tools and Models for Makers, Builders, and Creatives (aka open source Adobe clones)
storytold/lightcraft - GitHub — An open-source non-destructive photo editor written by scratch in pure Rust

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers.
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SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot Agent Tops 400,000 Users After First Month - Bloomberg
Meta’s Muse reportedly passes 3 million weekly users and 5m downloads
OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
What Is the Meta Muse Secure VM? Sentinel, Egress, Risks
How We Built Safety Into Muse | Meta AI Research
Pick: hw-monitor — Linux desktop application designed to monitor various aspects of your computer's hardware.
Pick: tincan-cli — Serverless peer-to-peer voice and text chat for your terminal.

KDE’s fight over AI generated code explodes at exactly the moment Plasma is making some of its biggest changes in years.
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Going All-In on a Wayland Future
KDE/kup: Backup scheduler for the Plasma desktop
Sovereign Tech Fund Invests Over €1 Million in KDE Software Development
KDE and AI, and you, and me – Adventures in Linux and KDE
What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE - YouTube
What Even is Ocean?
Akseli Lahtinen on Union for QtWidgets
StyleKit talk at Akademy 2026
Framework Laptop 12
KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you
QA infrastructure in KDE
KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?
KDE: The Documentary TRAILER — The Story of Free Software Underdogs — Full Film Coming October 14th
What's Happening in KDE Remote Desktop — Improved Unattended Mode and More
This Week in Plasma: Bi-Directional RDP Clipboard Sync
This Week in Plasma: So Many Ways to Click and Scroll
This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026
KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure
Framework's Fedora KDE Plasma Laptop 12 Guide
systemd 262
A review canary in systemd's contributor instructions
Linux Live Update documentation
LUO userspace API
memfd_create(2)
FluxCast — Miracast/WFD ecosystem platform with .deb and AUR packages.
fluxcast-flake
JB Gulf Coast Meetup Room
Nixarr — Media Server Nixos Module
Nixflix — Nixflix is a declarative media server configuration manager for NixOS
garage — S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments.
Pick: Cliparr — Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server, or from a local video file opened directly in your browser.
Cliparr: Plex and Jellyfin providers
Cliparr: local file or direct media URL
Cliparr: export settings
Cliparr: subtitles
Mediabunny — A complete JavaScript media toolkit for the browser
KyleTryon/gifenc: fast GIF encoding
Pick: fdroidcl — A command-line F-Droid desktop client
space-elevator — Space Elevator gets you to orbit. What you do up there is your business.

We're turning our spare, scattered storage into one giant network drive. Good idea? Maybe.
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Clanker Therapy Session 1 Highlights - YouTube
Texas Linux Festival 2026
Valve's Steam Frame Now Available At $1059+ USD
My Last Quest - Launch 84
RustFS — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
Announcing RustFS 1.0.0 GA - RustFS Blog
rustfs - GitHub — RustFS is an open-source, S3-compatible high-performance object storage system supporting migration and coexistence with other S3-compatible platforms such as MinIO and Ceph.
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Macintosh SE/30 - Wikipedia
Love Down Babylon
Armada — The Open Source, Encrypted Discord Alternative
absorb — A cross platform Audiobookshelf client for Android and iOS
Lissen: Audiobookshelf Client
GrakovNe/lissen-android — Minimalistic Android client app for Audiobookshelf
wizarr - GitHub — Wizarr is an advanced user invitation and management system for Jellyfin, Plex, Emby etc.
vikunja — The task manager you actually own.
zj-radar — A Zellij sidebar that shows Claude Code, Codex, and other AI-agent status across every tab.
Pi - GitHub
Pi — AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI
Zoboomafoo - Wikipedia
Pick: flakelet — Run systemd services from Nix flakes and update them independently of the host system
Pick: ffdash — A TUI for batch AV1 & VP9 video encoding with hardware acceleration, real-time progress monitoring, and full control over quality settings. Made to work as a viable encoding dashboard over SSH. · GitHub
Pick: Chompass — Private calorie tracking for Android and the browser. Bring your own AI key, or run Gemma 4 on-device.