# The Future of Retro

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/258/
> Atari has released details about its upcoming Linux powered console, some of us are sold… And some of us are rather skeptical. 

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 258
- Date: 2018-07-18
- Hosts: chris, wes
- Duration: 01:28:27
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/7a5df406-0a76-47ec-b09c-1649a70526db.mp3
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTPb8-9Btiw



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