February 20, 2026

479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard

1 hour 43 minutes

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026,

In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:

Mint Monthly News – January 2026

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally. Face scan or I.D. needed?

Firefox Announces ‘A.I. Controls’ To Block Its Upcoming A.I. Features

AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management.

Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month

The Memory Crisis Is Taking No Prisoners

RaspberyPi goes Dual RAM

Linux 6.19

KDE 6.6 & Gnome 50 Betas out

Ubuntu getting rid of the Software & Updater tool

Libreoffice 26.2 released

Security and Privacy:

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits

Contact Info:

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

Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR

Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).

Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest.

Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].

Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord

Jim– [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Special Thanks To:

Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

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

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

...more

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February 20, 2026

479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard

1 hour 43 minutes

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026,

In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Link To Full Show Notes

The News:

Mint Monthly News – January 2026

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally. Face scan or I.D. needed?

Firefox Announces ‘A.I. Controls’ To Block Its Upcoming A.I. Features

AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management.

Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month

The Memory Crisis Is Taking No Prisoners

RaspberyPi goes Dual RAM

Linux 6.19

KDE 6.6 & Gnome 50 Betas out

Ubuntu getting rid of the Software & Updater tool

Libreoffice 26.2 released

Security and Privacy:

SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits

Contact Info:

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

Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR

Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).

Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest.

Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].

Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord

Jim– [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Special Thanks To:

Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio

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

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

...more

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