Jupiter Extras
Jupiter Extras is a companion podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting. It features new ideas, interviews, event coverage, and other bonus content. The show offers additional material for listeners who want more from the network.
Episodes
Clanker Therapy 2: What We Have Been Building
We’ve spent months talking about agents, automation, self-hosting, and new ways of working with AI.
This time, we’re coming back with receipts.
Fountain for Podcasters
kaishi00/hermes-conduit: Conduit — native SwiftUI iOS client for Hermes Agent
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition - Home Assistant
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LinuxFest Northwest 2025 Day 1
Live from LinuxFest Norhtwest 2025 Day 1. Exclusive coverage, chats, interviews, and more. Catch day two in episode 612 of LINUX Unplugged.
Texas LinuxFest Day 2
Texas LinuxFest day two live from the floor. It's a busy one, and we have some great guests sit down and chat. Then we send out Brent to walk the show expo hall.
Texas LinuxFest Day 1
Live from the floor of Texas LinuxFest. We capture the structured chaos 1 from Austin Texas.
Nostr Workshop
Our Nostr workshop. We’ll help you get your Nostr identity and answer any questions.
Plus, where we see this protocol going and features coming.
The protocol is very promising
We're finding new use cases for it every week. It's based on simple and flexible event objects (passed around as plain JSON).
A public key identifies every user. Every post is signed. Every client validates thes
Our First Official LIT Stream 🎉
A bonus stream and our first official LIT Coder stream! Chris discusses CES 2024 day two and its focus on artificial intelligence.
Then, explore AI regulations with Carolyn Posner from the Consumer Technology Association.
Additionally, we delve into the potential approval of Bitcoin ETFs and the fading of diversity, equity, and inclusion policies in big businesses.
Note: Description
First Monday Live Stream of the year w/Chris
Chris hangs with the live stream while we wait for the Coder that never starts. We cover new transparent OLED TVs, the trend of canceling streaming services, a government spending deal, affordable televisions, Nvidia's Super Series, Apple's AI strategy, drug use in Silicon Valley, Bitcoin ETFs, the Y2K issue, and the importance of safety in updating chips and programs. Stay tuned for more
Brunch With Brent: Tim Canham
Brent sits down with Tim Canham, Senior Software Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explore topics including the hardware and software powering NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter; JPL's switch from Solaris to Linux; the open source projects, tools, and philosophy at JPL, ...and more.Special Guest: Tim Canham.
Brunch with Brent: Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Brent sits down with Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser, computer scientist, serial-entrepreneur, inventor (perhaps) of the webcam, Augmented Reality Ph.D. who ran the very first web server at the University of Cambridge, among much more. We explore topics including computer science as an art-form, the origins of the Raspberry Pi and T9 predictive text, philosophies around innovation and inventio
Headline Hangout w/Chris
Chris's thoughts on Linux's NVIDIA conundrum, Elon's takeover of Twitter, MailChimp's insider hack, and the Google Drones taking off in Texas.
March Boost Battle
The Unplugged team holds a live event with a special guest, your questions, and we give away a lot of Bitcoin sats!
Who Wants to be a Satoshionaire Land of the Snow Edition
Brent's in the hot seat and plays to win 1000 Satoshis, while Wes adds a little color commentary.
Microsoft is now the Disney of Video Games
We react to Microsoft gobbling up yet another game studio, chat about Crypto.com's recent $15M hack, the massive failure YouTube just admitted, and a few personal crew stories.
Road Trip Tech
Our road trip machine is loaded up from solar to networking, the tech that made working, living, and recording from the road possible for 44 days and over 2,200 miles.
Road Trip Memories
During our summer road trip to Denver we had the microphone's recording and captured some great moments.
Don't miss this exclusive look behind the wheels!
Why Linux Will Win in 20 Years
It's a casual community hangout, and we spin the Wheel of Topics. From what Linux does worst, our thoughts on EndlessOS, Ubuntu Web Remix, QubesOS, Brent's adventures with JellyFin, and why Linux will ultimately dominate all operating systems in 20 years.
elementary OS 6.1 Secrets with Founder and CEO Danielle Foré
Big internal process improvements have resulted in a major new version of elementary OS hot on the heals of the previous release. Find out why 6.1 is a lot more than just a number.Special Guest: Danielle Foré .
Cryptocurrency Chat with Chris
Taken from Monday's Coder live stream, Chris reacts to discovering that the city of Miami has its own crypto coin. As the conversation goes on it turns into a broader discussion about how cryptocurrency gets a bad reputation, and why that reputation is completely divorced from the reality of the technology.
Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge: Our Reaction
Our virtual LUG of experts had a lot to say about the Linus Tech Tips Switch to Linux challenge. We recap what is going on, how it could go wrong, and what we hope happens.
This release is an excerpt from our LINUX Unplugged live stream on Tuesday, October 5th, 2021.Special Guests: Alan Pope, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.
Brunch with Brent: Carl Richell
Brent sits down with Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76. We explore the people, passion, and culture behind the scenes, learn of young Carl, the early years of building a Linux-focused hardware business, how today System76 fuels a tiny piece of SpaceX, and more.
Carl's Community Ask: Be Bold.Special Guest: Carl Richell.
Brunch with Brent: Philip Müller
Brent sits down with Philip Müller, Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Manjaro, and CEO at Manjaro GmbH & Co. KG. We explore the formation and evolution of Manjaro as a Linux distribution, the development of past and recent hardware partnerships, cross-distribution collaborations, and what's inspiring Philip in the next 5 years.Special Guest: Philip Müller.
Brunch with Brent: Kyle Rankin
Brent sits down with Kyle Rankin, Chief Security Officer and Vice President at Purism and former Tech Editor and columnist at Linux Journal. We explore his 10+ years with Linux Journal, as well as Purism's culture, ideals, product design and engineering philosophies, and more.Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.
Brunch with Brent: Sri Ramkrishna
Brent sits down with Sri Ramkrishna, seasoned GNOME community member, founder of Linux App Summit, and Principle Ecosystems Engineer at ITRenew. We discuss his experiences in the GNOME community since 1998, the value of building relationships across communities, the increasing importance of non-technical roles in open source projects, and more.Special Guest: Sri Ramkrishna.
The Resilience of the Voyagers
Heather, of SciByte fame, joins Chris and Wes to celebrate the incredible accomplishments and amazing resiliency of the Voyager probes.Special Guest: Heather.
Pagure a GitLab Alternative: Neal Gompa
Pagure, the free software GitLab alternative no one is talking about.
Neal Gompa joins us to discuss what makes it unique, which projects are using it, and the significant adoption in progress.Special Guest: Neal Gompa.
Brunch with Brent: Daniel Foré
Brent sits down with Daniel Foré, founder of elementary OS and co-host of User Error. We explore his early years in design and software, formative aspects of Ubuntu and Gentoo, the philosophies and history of elementary OS, and more.Special Guest: Danielle Foré .
User Error: What Will Change Post-virus?
Joe, Alan, and Dan speculate about what the world will be like after the situation with Coronavirus is under control and life returns to something resembling normality.Special Guests: Alan Pope and Danielle Foré .
Brunch with Brent: Aleix Pol
Brent sits down with Aleix Pol, president of KDE e.V., KDE software developer, co-founder of Linux App Summit and Barcelona Free Software. We discuss his longstanding collaborations within the KDE community, developer sponsorships in open source business models, and more.Special Guest: Aleix Pol.
Brunch with Brent: Stuart Langridge
Brent sits down with Stuart Langridge, co-host of Bad Voltage, for an exploration of open source's "final mile", the text and language interface as a UX opportunity, terminals vs. search engines, Darwinian processes and crab-bucketism in software development, and more.Special Guest: Stuart Langridge.
Behind the Scenes: LINUX Unplugged
We share what goes into making LINUX Unplugged special, and have a laugh at some of our bad ideas from show past.
Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph
Brent sits down with Elizabeth K. Joseph, Developer Advocate at IBM Z, former Ubuntu Community Council member, and contributor to Ubuntu, Debian, Xubuntu, and others. We discuss her new passion for mainframes, her early contributions to open source projects, the niche opportunities in Z DevOps on mainframes, and more.Special Guest: Elizabeth K. Joseph.
Brunch with Brent: Nuritzi Sanchez
Brent sits down with Nuritzi Sanchez, Senior Open Source Program Manager at GitLab, former GNOME Foundation President and Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Founding Member of Endless, Inc. We explore her current experiences at GitLab, her deep involvement in the growth of GNOME's community, the evolution of the Linux App Summit, her involvement with Endless, and why she is so dra
Brunch with Brent: Brandon Bruce
Brent sits down with Brandon Bruce, Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy. We explore the world of support, how his former role as professional chef informs his "Kitchen Brigade" approach to building a support team, analytics data's ability to reveal surprising user experience patterns, and more.Special Guest: Brandon Bruce.
Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth
Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of L
Podcasting Basics: Joe Ressington
Joe talks about the basics of podcasting including recording spaces, types of microphones, post-production techniques, editing, and more.
Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2
Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. In this Part 2 we explore open source and photography through workflows, lighting controls, and camera OSs, artificial intelligence and the future of photography, and more.Special Guest: Peter Adams.
Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 1
Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. We explore his photography project "Faces of Open Source", his history in the dot-com bubble era, how he came to love open source, and more.
Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2 comes out this Friday.Special Guest: Peter Adams.
Brunch with Brent: Jim Salter
Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire.Special Guest: Jim Sal
Self-Hosted: Fixing Brent's WiFi
Join Alex and Brent for a chat about upgrading your home network with an eye towards stability, simplicity, and hosting things yourself.
Brunch with Brent: Joe Ressington
Brent sits down with Joe Ressington, Jupiter Broadcasting Podcast Content Director, Late Night Linux host, and musician, for an exploration of his journey in podcasting, a behind-the-scenes of User Error and Linux Action News, how music led to Linux, the origins of Brunch with Brent's theme music, and more.Special Guest: Joe Ressington.
Brunch with Brent: Jackie DeVore
Brent sits down with Jackie DeVore, co-host of horror podcast Sirens of Scream and multi-disciplinary artist. Our in-person chat explores the origins of her podcasting, creativity as a lifestyle, women in tech, art, and gaming, and her co-founding and recent launch of Hell Bunny Independents Club, a women's inclusive and supportive digital safe space.Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.
Brunch with Brent: Catherine Kretzschmar
Brent sits down with Catherine Kretzschmar, professional music teacher, coding bootcamp enlistee, and humanist celebrant, for an in-person connective chat on the relationship between music and coding, the quality-of-life implications of ever-evolving home automation, an intro to humanist celebrancy, and more.
Catherine is a good friend of the Jupiter Broadcasting family and wife of Alex
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 2
Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 2 we explore Jason's various voice acting roles, his approach to embodying roles like The Joker, the setup in his Linux-only audio recording studios, the power in collaborative innovation, examining yourself
Brunch with Brent: Jason Spisak Part 1
Brent sits down with Jason Spisak, professional voice actor, actor, producer, and co-founder of multiple Linux-related projects including Lycoris, Symphony OS, and Symple PC. In Part 1 we chat about everything from Jason's deep motivations behind his Linux projects, to patents vs. open source, digital independence and the nature of human endeavor. A few additional voices join us throughou
Brunch with Brent: Alan Pope
Brent sits down with Alan Pope (popey), who shares his knack for fuzzy-testing, the beginnings of Ubuntu Podcast, insights into Ubuntu Touch and Unity, the joys and perils of being "Internet Famous", and how to contribute meaningfully to your favorite Linux distributions.
popey is a Developer Advocate at Canonical working on Snapcraft & Ubuntu, co-host of User Error and Ubuntu Podcas
Brunch with Brent: Rocco
Brent sits down with Rocco of Big Daddy Linux for a conversation about the origins of Linux Spotlight, some shared behind-the-scenes podcasting perspectives, and just how great we feel about our Linux community.Special Guest: Rocco (BigDaddyLinux).
Brunch with Brent: Jacob Roecker
Brent sits down with Jacob Roecker, long-time Jupiter Broadcasting community member and Bronze Star Medal decorated United States Army veteran. Jacob shares his journey from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan through to dealing with PTSD, and how Jupiter Broadcasting and its community was integral throughout.Special Guest: Jacob Roecker.
popey on ThinkPads
Chz sits down with Alan Pope (popey) to discuss his thoughts about ThinkPads, and why they might be the perfect Linux laptop.
Find out what those model numbers really mean, plus our tips for picking which one is right for you.Special Guest: Alan Pope.
Brunch with Brent: Emma Marshall
Brent sits down with Emma Marshall, Customer Happiness Manager at System76 for a fun chat touching on her love of pinball and puppies, spreading happiness, women in tech, and more.
Note: This episode was recorded before the Superfans 3 event, which occurred between November 15-17, 2019.Special Guest: Emma Marshall.
Brunch with Brent: Jill Bryant Ryniker
Brent sits down with Jill Bryant Ryniker, long time linux aficionado, for a connective conversation exploring her deep involvement in linux and open source, from community to professional animation and more.
Jill wears many complimentary hats, a few of which include: co-host of Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday, regular community guest on Linux Unplugged, LinuxChixs LA co-organizer, professio
Brunch with Brent: Martin Wimpress
Brent sits down with Martin Wimpress, co-founder and project lead for Ubuntu MATE https://ubuntu-mate.org/, Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and co-host of Ubuntu Podcast https://ubuntupodcast.org/.
We dive into why innovative, creative people are attracted to open source, his journey through Linux and podcasting, his feelings on his new position in the Desktop Team at Canonical
A Chat with mergerfs Developer Antonio Musumeci
Alex, Drew from ChooseLinux, and Brent (of the Brunch fame) sit down with Antonio Musumeci, the developer of mergerfs during the JB sprint. It is a union filesystem geared towards simplifying storage and management of files across numerous commodity storage devices, it is similar to mhddfs, unionfs, and aufs.
mergerfs makes JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Drives) appear like an ‘array’ of drives.
Happy Halloween, 2019!
Drew and Jackie DeVore talk about talk about their Halloween obsession, and give out a few recommendations for tech-related movies, shows, and podcasts to enjoy.Special Guest: Jackie DeVore.
OggCamp 2019 Panel
Joe hosts the panel at OggCamp 2019 with guests Dr Laura Cowen, Josh Lowe, Caroline Keep, and Dan Lynch.Special Guests: Caroline Keep, Dan Lynch, Dr Laura Cowen, and Josh Lowe.
Our Trip To Texas Cyber Summit
We're back from Texas Cyber Summit with stories of new friends, great food, and our experiences from the event.
Brunch with Brent: Allan Jude
Brent sits down for an in-person chat with Allan Jude for a retrospective storytelling of his beginnings in BSD, his long history with podcasting, BSDNow and Jupiter Broadcasting, a beginner's guide to the benefits of FreeBSD, with technical nuggets and nostalgic bits throughout.
Allan Jude wears many hats including FreeBSD developer and member of the FreeBSD Core team, ZFS expert, co-fo
Brunch with Brent: Angela Fisher
Brent sits down with Angela Fisher, Executive Producer at Linux Academy, Jupiter Broadcasting co-founder, co-host of many JB productions including The FauxShow, and Tech Talk Today, among others. We touch on a variety of topics including the early beginnings of Jupiter Broadcasting, the origins of Brunch with Brent, aswell as many that are closer to her heart - from painting to parenting.
Self-Hosted: Reverse Proxy Basics
Chris, Alex, and Wes talk about reverse proxies, internal routing, and some popular methods to make it all work.
Brunch with Brent: Christophe Limpalair
Brent sits down with Christophe Limpalair, VP of Growth at Linux Academy and founder of Scale Your Code, for a get-to-know-you conversation that spans from taming your lizard brain through to mastering the miscellaneous, with a generous ask of the community.
Topics
Scale Your Code Podcast
Learning
Life lessons
Failing
Networking
Introverted
Social skill
Software development
Career path
Self-Hosted Production Meeting
Alex and Chris are hard at work on the next Self-Hosted episode, here's a behind the scenes real moment from their recent production meeting.
PowerShell on Linux
Chris and Wes talk with DM from the PowerShell On Linux community about PowerShell's strengths and its place in the Linux ecosystem.Special Guest: DM.
The Story Behind our Daily Linux Podcast
Chris and Chz catch up on what's been going on and then share the story behind our new daily Linux podcast and the breakthrough it took to make it possible.
Brunch with Brent: Wes Payne
Brent joins Wes Payne, well-known Jupiter Broadcasting co-host of Linux Unplugged, Coder Radio, and TechSNAP, for a deep-dive conversation that touches a wide swath of life as a Wes, with topics including:
adventures in learning
a recipe for great collaborations
one definition of Wes-work
creativity and problem-solving in tech
introvertedness and the subtle art of being agreeable
strate
Librem 5 Unplugged
We react to the "ship date" of the Librem 5, and look back at when it was first announced.
Then our take on what steps Pursim could take to turn this situation into a net postive.
Brunch with Brent: Drew DeVore
Brent sits down with Drew DeVore, Jupiter Broadcasting's latest addition to the Audio Editing Engineer team and cohost of Choose Linux. We chat shoes, his love for linux, adventures in audio, and why JB feels like home.
User Error Outtake: Bunk Beds
What should have been an innocent question about bunk beds turned into the longest ever User Error outtake.
Here is the unedited version of a segment on User Error 73. There is some bad language.
The Story Behind Self-Hosted
Brent joins Alex and Chris to discuss the origins of Jupiter Broadcasting's new selfhosted.show. It's a casual chat about a project in the making for two years, hit play and the drinks are on us.
Brunch with Brent: Alex Kretzschmar
Brent welcomes Alex into the podcast family and discusses his long journey from Apple to Red Hat, and London to Raleigh. Plus some tidbits about the new show he's co-hosting on Jupiter Broadcasting and spending time with the crew.
Brunch with Brent: Chz Bacon
A revealing conversation with Jupiter Broadcasting's designer Mr. Chz Bacon. We discuss his Linux roots, design philosophies, community involvement, and a lot more.
The Enthusiast Trap - Office Hours with Chris
What is the enthusiast trap, and why does it seem to ensnarl every successful open source project? Also, some excellent listener power user tips for NextCloud.
Dell's New Ubuntu Hardware for Late 2019
A quick update on the new XPS 13 details and Dell's Linux hardware plan for 2019.
Dell's got a new Developer Edition.
The laptops will be avaible in these areas:
Austria
Belgium (Dutch and French)
Switzerland (German and French)
Germany
Denmark
Spain
France
Ireland
Italy
The Netherlands
Norway
Sweden
The United Kingdom
Chris and Wes React to LINUX Unplugged
Nothing is worse than your past self. So we play old clips of LINUX Unplugged and react.
Thomas Cameron Texas LinuxFest Keynote
The complete keynote from Texas LinuxFest that inspired us to try harder. Thomas Cameron presents a keynote that everyone needs to hear. It's time to end the distro wars, invite everyone to the dance, and build the future.
Cloud dude, Linux advocate, Open Source evangelist and current Amazonian, Thomas Cameron's keynote is a must listen. Special Guest: Thomas Cameron.
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