April 24, 2022

380 – Leo makes an appearance

1 hour 35 minutes

1:45 The News

33:09 Security Update

57:43 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

1:30:48 Announcements & Outro

First up in the news, Raspberry Pi OS has a 64-bit version, Nvidia has a release, System76 releases their scheduler, the This Week in Gnome blog, Slackware and Peppermint OS have new releases and Debian uses Arch.

In security, PolicyKit vulnerability lies dormant for a decade, GNU coreutils are being rewritten in Rust, Ubuntu improves low memory handling andSurfshark VPN jumps the shark.

Then in our Wanderings, Moss strikes a chord, Norbert further bodges his system, Bill gets more air time, Leo goes on an XL MX adventure, Joe runs for board and Nishant is distro hopping.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

20 minutes

Raspberry Pi’s RaspberryPiOS Finally Spins 64-bit Version

NVIDIA 510.47.03 Driver Released with support for Kernel 5.17 and Vulkan 1.3

System76-Scheduler is a Rust-based tool To Improve Responsiveness

This Week in Gnome – New Year, New Calendar, New Screencast Utility

Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS

Peppermint OS 11 Released, Now Based on Debian and Xfce

Project Una launches

Security Update

12-Year-Old PolKit Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Now Patched

Rust-written replacement to GNU Coreutils progressing, some binaries now faster

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Integrating systemd-oomd For Improving Low Memory Handling

Surfshark VPN Revelations

Surfshark merged with Nord

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

Moss joined the February Album Writing Month

Norbert found a way to save space when dual-booting

Bill starts a new podcast titled 3 Fat Truckers

Leo tries MX Linux and gives Gnome a real fair shake

Joe started testing usbip on his Pi 4

Nishant has been preparing for LPIC-1

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on February 20, 2022

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Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on January 12, 2022

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Wrap-up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee

Norbert – [email protected]

Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter

Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam

Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.

Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible …

Norbert for our audio production

Leo for timestamps and publishing

Josh Lowe for all his work on the website

Hobstar for our logo

initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time sync

Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

HPR for our backup Mumble room

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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