May 01, 2024

436 – Upgrade At Your Peril

1 hour 33 minutes

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 starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping

Full Show Notes Here

00:00:00 – Intro

00:01:17 – News

00:42:15 – Security And Privacy

00:42:47 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings

01:28:40 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts

01:29:20 – Wrap Up

01:31:26 – Special Thanks

01:32:12 – Outro

The News

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver

Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

Microsoft adds MS-DOS 4.0 to their Open-Source Github page

Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavours Available to Download

Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Yet

Contact Info:

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

Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], music on YouTube and Bandcamp if you look for it.

Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers

Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.

Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon, Distrohoppers’ Digest 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.

Alan – popey.me

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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