LINUX Unplugged

Canonical’s Jon Seager joins us to unpack Ubuntu’s bold desktop reset, and what could be the biggest reimagining of Ubuntu in its history.
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Fixes available in -proposed pocket for CVE-2026-98432 | Ubuntu
CVE-2026-98432 | Ubuntu
Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray
Ubuntu 26.10 release notes
Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop
enioka group
Accelerating Ubuntu Core Desktop
Engineering Ubuntu For The Next 20 Years
GamingOnLinux: Core Desktop restarted, gaming plans
It's FOSS: Core Desktop + firmware HWE proposal
Why Canonical Is Reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop (explainer)
Releases - canonical/ubuntu-core-desktop - GitHub — Ubuntu Core Desktop 26 DANGEROUS developer preview.
canonical/workshop - GitHub — Ubuntu-native development environments: secure, fast, composable, and agent-ready.
The Immutable Linux Paradox - Jon Seager
Ubuntu Core — Canonical's immutable, snap-based Ubuntu for desktops, servers, and edge devices.
Snap confinement — How strict confinement and interfaces isolate applications.
LXD — Canonical's system container manager, used for isolated development environments.
uutils coreutils — Rust reimplementation of the GNU coreutils shipped in 26.10.
bootc — Container-image-based OS updates, as used by Fedora's image-based desktops.
ntpd-rs — Full-featured Rust implementation of NTP, including NTS support.
imagecraft — Tool for customizing and building bootable Ubuntu images.
Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop - Desktop
Myna speech-to-text is now available as a technology preview
Myna - GitHub — Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
Myna - Snapcraft — Install the Myna snap.
Torsher — One Docker container with one database and one interface, made for the TV first.
koya-bar — JavaScript UI on Koya's own GPU renderer, without a browser underneath.
koya-os — Live ISO if you fancy trying it from USB rather than changing your current setup.
Pick: List All Tabs (Updated) — A Firefox extension that lists every open tab across all windows, groups duplicates and busy sites (respecting Multi-Account Containers), and lets you jump to or close tabs individually or by site.
zachleat/list-all-tabs: Firefox extension to list tabs, find duplicates, and close them.
Pick: Tangram — Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications. Each tab is persistent and independent. You can set multiple tabs with different accounts for the same application.
Tangram on Flathub
Pick: Pinchflat-NGX — An enhanced, self-hosted YouTube media manager built on Pinchflat with Material design UI, PostgreSQL support, OIDC SSO, and disk staging.

Fedora 45 has serious upgrades under the hood; we dig in, and may have found our new favorite dashboard.
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Texas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Meetup.com
Texas Meetup — Saturday Lunch · Colony Events Gathio
Fedora Linux 45 Final NO-GO: Release Delayed to November 3
The eMudhra Issue Was So Bad, It Delayed Fedora 45
Fedora 45 Beta vs Fedora 44: What Actually Changed?
Fedora 45 Workstation: Top New Features
Fedora's oo7 Secrets Swap: What Actually Changes
What's New in Fedora 45: GNOME 51, Plasma 6.7, and More
webssh — Security-focused, self-hosted SSH and SFTP workspace for homelabs and teams - multi-user, passkeys, OIDC, encrypted keys, backups, and offline-ready.
Termix-SSH/Termix: self-hosted, plugin-based server management — Self-hosted, plugin-based server management.
Project NOMAD — Offline Knowledge & AI Server — A self-contained offline server packed with encyclopedic knowledge, local AI, and essential tools, ready when the internet isn't.
DuarteSantos8/openGym: open-source gym tracker, App Store + APK — Free gym tracker, no ads, no subscription. Plan routines, log workouts, import from Strong, Hevy and FitNotes.
trailcurrentoss — Open-source, offline-capable head unit for your car.
nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed | Farid Zakaria's Blog — Enter the Nixpkgs multiverse. All the versions that ever existed, all in one place.
Pick: Hex
hex on GitHub — Hex is local-first voice dictation. Hold a shortcut, speak, and release. Hex transcribes on your Mac and pastes the result into the app you are using.
Pick: Hokum — Notifications for Wayland that look like they belong on a computer from this decade. Drawn with Rune.
anomalyco/hokum: Notifications for Wayland that look like they belong on a computer from this decade. Drawn with Rune.
Pick: PatchMon — PatchMon is an enterprise-grade platform that gives operations teams a single pane of glass to monitor, patch and secure their Linux fleet, with FreeBSD and Windows agent support.

A major PHP flaw puts servers everywhere at risk; so we hack ours. Meanwhile, open source helps debloat our smart TVs.
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PHP Security Release for PHP2Shell
PHP2Shell: PHP Remote Code Execution
Understanding PHP2Shell
CVE-2026-109618 - PHP RCE via OOM corruption
CVE-2026-109619 - PHP RCE via stale global state
Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let Hackers Gain Root Access Across Servers
PHP: OOM corruption advisory
PHP: stale global state advisory
PHP's October 23 follow-up
Steal My Bitcoin - a PHP RCE challenge! — Made this because I'm curious if anyone out there has figured out how to actually use this PHP RCE we spent the last few days panicking over. Have fun!+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again
CleanYourTV — Debloat any Android or Google TV over Wi-Fi and get an Apple TV-style home.
CleanYour.TV: remove ads and bloat from Android TV and Google TV
cleanyourtv/addons/frigate-glance
cleanyourtv/addons/smart-home
cleanyourtv/addons/tv-hub
humblemuzzu/dumbtv — Take the ads, tracking and clutter out of your Fire TV over ADB, no root. Every step can be undone. Comes with its own open-source home screen.
Amazon.com: Xiaomi TV Box S 3rd Gen
The LLM-gen-AI Elephant in Our FOSS Room :: SeaGL 2026 :: pretalx
KSMBD: Critical Unpatched Linux Kernel Flaws Accidentally Disclosed on Public List
android-nixpkgs: Nix-packaged Android SDK
LCARS - Wikipedia
agent-shell - Emacs Agent Shell — Brings your favorite AI agents to Emacs, keeping you at home.
HouseWaves — Home Assistant Whole-Home Multi-Room Speakers
LeadStinger
Niri — A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
Umbriel — Umbriel is a Wayland compositor designed for daily use, with scrolling, dwindle, master, and floating layouts, per-output workspaces, window rules, blur, shadows, and fluid animations.
NetBird - Open Source Zero Trust Networking
noblepayne/meshSidecar: Mesh network sidecars for NixOS Services
Vero V - OSMC — Vero V is OSMC’s fifth flagship streaming media player that’s designed for fast, “future-proof” 4K playback, including AV-1 and HDR formats. It uses an AMLogic S905X4 processor with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC storage, and it connects with HDMI 2.1, gigabit Ethernet, and Wi‑Fi.
HelixNotes - GitLab — A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
Pick: Telescope — Use your phone's camera as a webcam on Linux or Windows, telephoto and wide lenses included.
Telescope features.md - Telescope Docs
Telescope: your phone as a webcam on Linux & Windows
Pick: plex2jellyfin — Migrate your Plex library to Jellyfin and keep it clean forever. Mass rename, dedupe, consolidate, then a daemon guards new downloads.

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