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Untitled Linux Show (Audio)

Untitled Linux Show (Audio)

Linux news distro updates, open source tools, and command line tips.

TWiT · Leo Laporte

21 episodesEN-US

Show overview

Untitled Linux Show (Audio) has published 21 episodes during 2026. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 30m and 1h 47m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 21 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Leo Laporte.

Episodes
21
Started
2026
Median length
1h 38m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

The Untitled Linux Show covers the week's hottest Linux news for desktop, gaming, and even enterprise. ULS is the weekly update you don't want to miss, from the latest kernel development to the updates on your favorite apps! Each episode finishes with a killer command line tip from each host. You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes posted every Sunday.

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ULS 259: Capture the Orphans - Audacity, Poisoned AUR, & It's Too Powerful!

Jun 14, 20261h 37m

ULS 258: Leans the Wrong Way - Xorg, X86box, & X-ing AI

Jun 7, 20261h 51m

ULS 257: Better with Butter - Workshop, Hummingbird, & KernelScript

May 31, 20261h 47m

ULS 256: Cash Aware - AI in Your Terminal?

May 24, 20261h 51m

ULS 255: End of the 8-Bit Era - Security Nightmare, Performance win, & Public Beta

May 17, 20261h 23m

ULS 254: Dirty Frags, Dirty Hacks - Steam's New Controller & Linux's Dirty Frag Problem

May 10, 20261h 17m

ULS 253: Patch Out the Fun - CopyFail, AI Ubuntu, & Finally HDMI

May 3, 20261h 35m

ULS 252: Full Send - Killed By AI, Based on Fedora, & 13 Pro

Apr 27, 20261h 40m

ULS 251: Vibe But Verify - Ancient Bugs, Revised Releases, & Deprecated Processors

Apr 19, 20262h 3m

ULS 250: Pardon My French - France, Funding, & 7.0

Apr 12, 20261h 33m

ULS 249: Do It On a Potato - April Fools, Steam Skyrockets, & Office Politics

Apr 6, 20261h 46m

Ep 248ULS 248: It's Like a Crayon - Pine Time Pro, SystemD Harassment, & No More AI Slop

This week the guys take a look at the Pine Time Pro, cover KDE 6.6 and its performance wins, and celebrate the Kali Linux release. Ubuntu's Grub may be changing, Nvidia has a new stable driver, and the SystemD age birth date field is still causing controversy. Gnome has a new fellowship to pay programmers directly, and AI bug reports may finally be decent. For tips we have OMP Manager for easy Oh My Posh installs, fluidsynth for playing midi, exiftool for manipulating media meta-information, and part one of a grafana installation. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4skwtS1 and have a great week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Mar 29, 20261h 52m

Ep 247ULS 247: Trips off the Tongue - Free Software, Android Verification, & Finally a Decent Browser

This week Germany's going ODF, the guys remember what used to be before SystemD ate the world, and Google has finally revealed what the unverified install flow will look like. There's a Blender update, Manjaro may be cooked, and there's finally a decent browser for Linux Arm. For tips we have Oh My Posh for ricing your terminal, Midnight Commander, Memos, and ClamAV. The show notes are available at https://bit.ly/47cvQ5g and Happy Linuxing! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Jeff Massie, and Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: outsystems.com/twit

Mar 22, 20261h 44m

Ep 246ULS 246: Chasing the Sun - Updates, Frameworks, & Closing the Source

There's new releases all around, with Calibre 9.5, Gimp 3.2, Handbrake 1.11, and KeePassXC 2.7.12 all releasing updates. Then Fedora has a RISC-V complaint, the kernel is publishing an API specification, and systemd is adding AI-specific documentation. SUSE may be for sale, and the guys have ideas about who may be interested in purchasing, while TrueNAS makes waves by closing the future source of their system build scripts. For tips, we have "udevadm info" for querying the device database, arch-deckify for turning a machine into a SteamOS experience, and an intro to Bash's ctrl-r search function. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4lu7Osd and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Mar 15, 20261h 33m

Ep 245ULS 245: Not a Supernova - Firefox Nova, Gnome 40, & Age Verification Fallout

This week, there's more age verification fallout, everybody hates Ubuntu, and Wine releases 11.4. Linux From Scratch goes SystemD, Gnome is testing version 50, and Debian released a community update. Armbian releases 26.2, EA teases Linux Anti-Cheat for Linux, and Firefox Nova leaks as the visual Firefox refresh. For tips, we have Waydroid for Android on Linux, --follow for journalctl parsing, MusicBrainz Picard for managing tagging, and then a quick primer on Block and Character devices. You can see the show notes at https://bit.ly/4rZmDWd and have a great week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Ken McDonald, and Rob Campbell Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Mar 8, 20261h 32m

Ep 244ULS 244: Torture the Metaphor - Age Verification, Git Redirects, & Security Changes

This show starts with an Android review, looking at Jonathan's newest tablet. It also covers the coming Android apocalypse, the age verification legislation, and the sudo-rs asterisk fight. Mesa is grappling with AI, Ardour has a couple of point releases, and Gnome is redirecting traffic to GitHub. Fedora has a new mobile experiment in PocketBlue, and the 0 A.D. game has a stable release. For tips we have PyNetscan for IP scanning, snapper for BTRFS snapshots, mediainfo for media file investigations, and espanso for automatic text expansion. Find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3N9X3ys and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald, Rob Campbell, and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit

Mar 1, 20262h 9m

Ep 243ULS 243: Only a Few Things Crashed - Intel is Back, Matrix is Out, and AI is Speeding up the Kernel

This week we cover an Immutable Gentoo-derived distro, the release of KDE 6.6, Blender 5.1 and PipeWire 1.6. Then Intel hires more Linux developers, with a very specific gaming-centric experience wishlist, and the kernel 6.19.3 minor update is out, fixing some serious issues. For tips we have whosthere for network device discovery, rate-mirrors for exploring update mirror speeds, system-ac-power for detecting power and battery state, and unzip for .zip handling. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4rCL0ZK and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Jeff Massie, Rob Campbell, and Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Feb 22, 20261h 39m

Ep 242ULS 242: Syntactical Sugar - Sustainable Distros, New Kernels, & Wayland Vim?

The Linux Kernel 6.19 is out, the Rust experiment is over, and it's time to talk about 7.0. Vim 9.2 is out, with a bit of a weird new feature in its changelogs, and IPFire is an intriguing, community-driven security domain block list. PearOS has a new release for those seeking an Apple-inspired Linux experience, and Linux Mint is adjusting its release schedule to better manage developer and tester schedules. River is a new project trying to do Wayland support with a modular Desktop stack, and Mesa 26.0 is out with impressive performance gains. For tips, we have cull for finding and deleting big files, a systemd program for detecting if the OS is running virtualized, preload for caching applications in ram, and new_script for a script-writing tool that *doesn't* feature an LLM. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3ZCNcEc and happy Linux'ing! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Rob Campbell, Ken McDonald, and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Feb 15, 20261h 23m

Ep 241ULS 241: A Very Hot Sandwich - A Smorgasbord of New Releases

This week, we start by talking about the Raspberry Pi memory price increases and bemoan that it's a tough time to be an enthusiast. Then we help ourselves feel better by covering all the new Betas and releases of our favorite software. There's a new LibreOffice, a look ahead at GIMP 3.2, and the Krita 6 Beta. Toyota has announced Flourite, a new game engine written in Flutter and Dart. And Ardour 9 and Shotcut 26.1 are out. We talk Debian, and spend some time looking at how AI has changed the Open Source landscape. For tips, there's another look at systemd-analyze and then a quick intro to gpioget for reading gpio lines. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4r3PmZn and have a great week! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Host: Ken McDonald Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Feb 8, 20261h 21m

Ep 240ULS 240: I Like the Frosting - We Review, We Work, & We Game

This week starts with a quick review of the Argon40 One Up, the Laptop shell made for the Raspberry Pi CM5. Then we talk about the Calibre e-book reader, a shoot-out between AMD Epyc and Intel Xeon, and talk about the latest in desktop environments. Gparted ships an update, Proton and GeForce Now brings the Linux gaming, and the Raspberry Pi Display module is just begging to be rack mounted. For tips we have Libcaca for graphics in the terminal, A candy hack for pacman, and Sheelbeats for terminal music listening. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/4a8jVWD and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord. Sponsor: bitwarden.com/twit

Feb 1, 20261h 22m
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