First up in the news: Mint 22 Beta in testing, Cinnamon 6.2 Desktop Environment Released, Linux’s New DRM Panic “Blue Screen of Death” In Action, Ubuntu is Finally Adding DEB Installer Support to App Center, AlmaLinux comes to the RPi 5, Proton goes non-profit, and light-based chips are coming In security and privacy: nada Then in our Wanderings: B…

In our Innards section: Linux Pain Points: Why doesn’t Linux Just Work? And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:21 – Innards 01:07:06 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:07:28 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:08:18 – Wrap Up 01:10:07 – Special Thanks 01:10:39 – Outro “The Linux Experiment” Link…

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition, Internet Archive Hit With DDoS Attacks, ProtonPass is released for MacOS and Linux, and new features come to VLC In security and privacy: Linux Exploit found by US Federal agency Then in our Wanderings: Bill distro-hops, Moss has re…

In our Innards section: We have a free-form discussion on AI utility, privacy and security And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 01:05:27 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:08:28 – Check This Out 01:09:27 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:10:17 – Wrap Up 01:12:57 – Outro Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.o…

First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option, Turkey bans …

In our Innards section: we’re going to discuss some best practices for good hygiene and safety when utilizing technology. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:03 – Innards 01:00:08 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:00:43 – Check This Out 01:02:02 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:02:43 – Wr…

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News for April, Ubuntu 24.04 released, Ubuntu 24.10 Codename Revealed, systemd introduces run0, Google threatens RISC-V support for Android, RISC-V OS arrives, and BitWarden launches MFA for Android & iOS In security and privacy: a new ransomware threat is found, and a GitLab maximum security flaw is found Then in…

In our Innards section: We interview Alan Pope And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:57 – Innards 01:13:26 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:26:29 – Check This Out 01:27:10 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:27:50 – Wrap Up 01:30:42 – Outro Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@…

First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their open source portfolio, Ubuntu 24.04 is out…. And you shouldn’t upgrade your system yet In security and privacy: nope, nada Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstru…

In our Innards section: Migrating Pihole and wireguard to an x86_64 system In Vibrations from the Ether, we have listener feedback about malicious Linux developer vulnerabilities And finally, in Check This Out, Bill discusses Fullup – The comprehensive update script for Arch Linux based systems 00:00:00 – Intro 00:04:47 – Innards 00:32:26 – Vibrati…

First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out o…

In our Innards section: Using the Linux Mint Backup Tool and backing up applet settings And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:00 – Innards 00:26:39 – Vibrations from the Ether 00:34:38 – Check This Out 00:36:38 – Housekeeping and Announcements 00:37:47 – Wrap Up 00:41:00 – Outtro Full Show Notes Here Contact I…

First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2 In security and privacy: Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections, Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices Then…

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers; In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browse…

In our Innards section we have an impromptu discussion about audio editing – some things to think about when editing for a podcast. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions 00:00:00 – Intro 00:00:48 – Innards 00:47:44 – Vibrations From The Ether 00:56:58 – Check This Out 00:58:36 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 00:59:24 – Wrap Up 01:01…

First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers, Then in our Wanderings: Bill stops rolling, Joe surprises people by fixing things, Majid needs audio files to become an audiophile 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:17 – News 00:40:36 – Securit…

First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games…

In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure In “Check This Out” we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:06 – Innards 00:40:07 – Check This Out 00:45:07 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 00:45:48 – Wrap Up 00:48:49 – Outro Full Show …

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 “Edge” is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, we say Goodbye to Ginny, RPi Compute Module 5 is in the works, Say Hello to Wilma, RH causes issues for CentOS, and DSL Linux makes a resurgence In security and privacy: Ring will stop giving video to …

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical snap steams Valve In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eri…

In our Innards section: Predictions: 2023 mistakes and 2024 attempts In “Check This Out” Bill Talks a little about Ventoy – again And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:13 – Innards 00:40:48 – Vibrations From The Ether 00:48:08 – Check This Out 00:52:42 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 00:53:30 – Wrap Up 00:56:0…

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs In security and privacy: Nothin’. We got nothin’. Then in our Wanderings: Bill becomes “unstable”; Majid bricks and un-bricks; Moss is counting pixels; Joe …; and Eric does some Homebrewing 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:28 – News 00:36:06 – Bi-Weekly Wan…

In our Innards section: We’re a bit all over the place – a “free form” if you will. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. No, really – we’ve got feedback this time! 00:00:00 – Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Promo 00:00:56 – Intro 00:02:00 – Innards 00:57:36 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:11:18 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:…

First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new formats; KDE fixes bugs ahead of Plasma 6; Intel does some driver code clean up; Canonical ports Multipass to Qt6; Linux 6.8 is Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics …

In our Innards section: Tablets. Linux tablets. In “Check This Out”: Ubuntu Touch OTA, PineTab 2, and Enter Shikari – Anaesthetist 00:00:00 – Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Promo 00:00:56 – Intro 00:02:07 – Innards 00:41:18 – Vibrations From The Ether 00:42:27 – Special Thanks 00:42:47 – Check This Out 00:44:39 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 00…