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LINUX Unplugged

LINUX Unplugged

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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.© 2025 Jupiter Broadcasting Politics & Government
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  • 666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution

    666: Berkeley Suffering Distribution
    May 11 2026
    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.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonTexas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TXTexas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer PortalDirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - UbuntuDirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching GuideLINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge RulesMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernelBrent's nixbsd configNomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating Systemgershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchersgershwin-on-freebsd live isogershwin-on-debian live isogershwin-on-arch live isoMaintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD FoundationPick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSDFreshPorts: sysutils/sylve
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 665: Patch Me If You Can

    665: Patch Me If You Can
    May 4 2026
    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!Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMCopy Fail — CVE-2026-31431 — "An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux system, and use that to gain root." — TheoriCopy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root - Xint — "A single 732-byte Python script can edit a setuid binary and obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017." — XintLinux Kernel Bug Explained - Jorijn — "CopyFail is more portable. One script, every distro, no offsets. Dirty Pipe needed kernel ≥ 5.8; Copy Fail covers 2017–2026." — Jorijn"Kubernetes Pod Security Standards (Restricted) and default seccomp do NOT block the syscall used." — JorijnArs: Most Severe Linux Threat in Years — "The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed." — Ars TechnicaSysdig: CVE-2026-31431 Analysis — "The flaw was introduced in 2017 via commit 72548b093ee3, which switched AEAD operations to in-place processing." — SysdigCERT-EU AdvisoryUbuntu Security TrackerThe Register: Crypto FlawKernel Patch (reverts 2017 optimization) — "This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of the associated data." — Kernel CommitBuggy Commit: 72548b093ee3 (2017)DeepWiki: AF_ALG Internalsoss-security DisclosurePSA + GRUB Mitigation - Jan WildeboerUbuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Released — "Ubuntu 26.04 LTS sets the example for providing best-in-class resilience while simultaneously embracing innovation and the advancement of open source." — Jon Seager, VP Ubuntu EngineeringThe Future of AI in Ubuntu - Jon Seager — "Throughout 2026 we'll be working on enabling access to frontier AI for Ubuntu users in a way that is deliberate, secure, and aligned with our open source values." — Jon SeagerUbuntu 26.04 Release NotesUbuntu AI Features Throughout 2026 - Phoronix — "Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful — Microsoft should take note." — ZDNetCanonical DDoS Attack Update — "Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it." — arcticp, CanonicalUbuntu Weekly Newsletter #942Canonical AI Approach - ZDNet9to5Linux: Opt-In LLM Toolsuutils/coreutils: Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutilsLINUX Unplugged 636: Engineering the FutureLiveCD fails to start X session on QEMU · Issue #354 · ghostbsd/issuesMonty's “rescue” drive NixOS configMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge ReportPick: NASty — NASty is a NAS operating system built on NixOS and bcachefs. It turns commodity hardware into a storage appliance serving NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF — managed from a single web UI, updated atomically, and rolled back when things go sideways.Pick: Defuse — Defuse is a GTK4 application for removing image backgrounds locally.Defuse on Flathub
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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • 664: Back to Root

    664: Back to Root
    Apr 27 2026

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

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    • 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
    • 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
    • LINUX Unplugged 666 BSD Challenge - Rules and Regrets
    • LFNW2026 - Back to Root
    • LinuxFest Northwest 2026 Playlist - YouTube
    • LinuxFest Northwest - YouTube
    • The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
    • Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
    • Bear454's Fundraiser: Support for James Mason's Family
    • Pick: Updo — Updo is a command-line tool for monitoring website uptime and performance. It provides real-time metrics on website status, response time, SSL certificate expiry, and more, with alert notifications.
    • Pick: Pake — 🤱🏻 Turn any webpage into a desktop app with one command.
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    59 mins
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