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And now, here’s the show:

Welcome to mintCast Episode 303.

This is Leo and this week with me are Moss (not last this week) and Tony Hughes and Tony Watts and Joe and Bo (sorta) and we’re recording live on February 24th, 2019.

First up, in our wanderings, more security vulnerabilities, some OpenMandriva news, another LUG, the return of the Dell 7130, and more distro hopping

In the news, we have some updates, some goodbyes

In the innards, we hit more new user help with tons of pointers

And finally, plenty of listener feedback to chat about

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

Leo

Writing again at leochavez.org

Documenting my GUI setup in Mint

Trackpad issue on t450s

Flatpak vulnerability

snapd vulnerability (Dirty Sock)

Moss

I spent several hours getting OpenMandriva 3.03 installed (almost 1400 updates, plus all my usual stuff). My system includes 4 distros on separate partitions. They have played together well. OM played with others better than any distro I've seen. And then... my Ubuntu Studio 18.10 installation updated its Grub, which, without asking permission, rewrote the whole Grub on the system. Now my three Ubuntu-based distros work, but OpenMandriva goes into a kernel panic at Step 2. I decided to blow away the offender (Ubuntu Studio 18.10) first. I heard there was a MATE flavor of MX. I found that was not true, but found some very confusing instructions on installing MATE DE on MX. Not being as stoopid as I used to be, I managed it. So I found and installed OpenMandriva 4 beta. Went smoothly. Everything seems to work, although it’s still beta. But now, MX is not booting, returning a 32-bit error. At this point, only my LM 19.1 MATE install is fully configured; I just have to troubleshoot the printer function in Bodhi 5 and finish configuring Kodi (not easy) to get that up and running. OM 4 is missing some files which would get Mullvad running, other things to follow. And I need to reinstall MX or find something else for Partition #4.

Update on Life: My mother is finally in the rehabilitation facility she should have been in a month ago, but is not optimistic about ever leaving. And my soggy car is still the same, ServPro said they can fix it for $500-700, everyone else tells me to “total” the car and get my insurance money. BTW, the rain has been so bad in this area that a rockslide has closed Interstate 40 on the North Carolina side of the mountains going from here to Asheville and large portions of Knoxville were so flooded I could not drive Uber last night.

Joe

Ordered Controller Board for 3d printer

Received

Got an enclosure for the 3d printer in the hopes that it will prevent that from happening again and maybe improve my prints

Modified.

Had fun at the local lug

Helped set up virtual box using an already existing hard drive with Windows

Then helped set up x2go on the same machine so that someone could remote into linux and launch the vm of windows

Reading up on pi hole docker

Need to rebuild my server. Gotta decide what to do

Purchased a mic stand extension.

Tony Watts

Upgraded Dell 7130 wifi card - thanks Craig!

Updating my arcade cabinet