MP3 – mintCast

434 – Open Source, Close Malware


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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 in our Wanderings: Moss needs some salt for his new battery, Bill goes vrroom vrroom in a big truck, Joe is getting Steamed, Majid chillaxes, and Dale is Scaling his NAS

  • 00:00:00 – Intro
  • 00:01:48 – News
  • 00:18:55 – Security And Privacy
  • 00:34:12 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
  • 01:33:03 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  • 01:34:16 – Wrap Up
  • 01:37:23 – Outro
  • Full Show Notes Here
    The News

    Red Hat Announces Nova, a Rust-Based GSP-Only Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs

    Blender 4.1 Officially Released with Quality-of-Life and Performance Improvements

    LinDoz Returns With Advanced AI To Revamp the MakuluLinux Lineup

    The Journey of Linux’s ext2 Filesystem Comes to an End

    Security and Privacy

    Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

    Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices

    Contact Info:
    • JoeTllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
    • Moss Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
    • Bill [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
    • Majid [email protected] @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify
    • Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected], Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.
    • Special Thanks To:
      • Bill Houser for our audio editing
      • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
      • Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
      • Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
      • Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
      • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about
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