MP3 – mintCast

Episode 384


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Show notes
  • First up in the news,Google has an NVMe problem, Arch has a new installer, Deepin unlocks your face, Fedora and Ubuntu have betas and they both default to Wayland on Nvidia, and mintCast gets the April Fools treatment; 
  • In security and privacy, Red Hat has an “I” patch, another kernel vulnerability found, and Lumen finds more threats in WSL;
  • Then in our Wanderings, I’m in reconstruction again, Bill is driving himself crazy, Josh is getting Steamy, and Norbert did… something. Some things.
  • In our Innards section we discuss some of the newer additions to Linux and what we think about them;
  • And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. We expected Joe here but he got called away at the last minute. Wish you were here, Joe.

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The News

20 minutes

  • Google Has A Problem With Linux Server Reboots Due To Too Many NVMe Drives
  • Improved Arch Linux Installer Experience to come with archinstall 2.4
  •  Deepin OS Becomes the First Linux Distro to Offer Face Unlock
  • Fedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS betas have been released
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Will Default To Wayland With the NVIDIA Proprietary Driver
  • mintCast April Fools

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Security and Privacy Update

10 minutes

  • Red Hat released a patch for a recently discovered vulnerability that allowed for local privilege escalation, putting all manner of Linux systems potentially at risk.
    • Another vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
    • Lumen security research reveals threats still lurk in Windows Subsystem for Linux

Linux Innards

Tech added to Linux

30 minutes (~5-8 minutes each)

  • Systemd
  • Wireguard
  • Snaps, Flatpak, and Appimage
  • Wayland
  • PulseAudio and PipeWire
  • Btrfs and ZFS
  • WINE-based tech (Bottles, Proton, Lutris, PlayOnLinux)
Check This Out

10 minutes

  • Podcasts (Josh T) – Play, update, and manage your podcasts from a lightweight interface that seamlessly integrates with GNOME. Podcasts can play various audio formats and remember where you stopped listening. You can subscribe to shows via RSS/Atom, iTunes, and Soundcloud links. Subscriptions from other apps can be imported via OPML files.
  • PeerGOS (Moss) – an open source replacement for Google Drive, able to be self-hosted, or hosted on the company’s servers, free to 500 Mb and decent prices for larger storage amounts.
  • App Outlet (Norbert) – A universal Linux app store
Announcements
  • Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on April 17th
  • Get mintCast converted to your time zone
  • Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on April 9th
  • Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone
Wrap-up
  • JoeTllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee 
  • MossFull Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], lots of ways to contact me can be found on It’s MOSS
  • Bill[email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my new podcast 3ftpodcast.org
  • Norbert[email protected]
  • Josh T[email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
  • Josh H [email protected], @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites, Crowbar Kernel Panic.
  • Nishant[email protected], riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on Discord, maverick00783 @ Steam

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

  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Norbert and Tony Hughes for audio editing of the show
  • Byte mark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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