mintCast

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The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux.... more

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April 19, 2023410 – The Rise of Dr. Majid
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – March 2023, Ubuntu 23.04 beta released, updates in Tumbleweed, last 16.04-based Ubuntu Touch rolled out, Linux Lite 6.4 released, COSMIC DE updates, OpenBSD 7.3 & FreeBSD 13.2 announced, big changes in Firefox 113, Mullvad announces their own browser, and Solus sets sail once again;
In security and privacy, Kodi leaks
Then in our Wanderings, Bill catches up, Moss has more drive, Joe is such a prints, Majid iPads in
In our Innards section, we meet one of our new co-hosts;
The News
Mint Monthly News – March 2023
Ubuntu 23.04 beta released with new features
Gnome, Curl, LLVM update in Tumbleweed
Ubuntu Touch OTA-25, last version based on 16.04, rolled out
Linux Lite 6.4 Released
COSMIC DE first Spring updates
FreeBSD 13.2 announced
OpenBSD 7.3 announced
Firefox 113 promises big updates
Mullvad Browser is out
LXQt 1.3.0 releases
Solus Attempts To Right Its Course
Security and Privacy
Kodi confirms data breach – 400,000 user records and private messages stolen
Full Show notes can be found here
Wrap-up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], other information found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @[email protected] on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC & 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:
Bill Houser for the Audio Editing
Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website
Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
Bill Houser for managing the pi 400 that hosts mintcast.org
Archive.org for hosting our audio files
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!
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2h 36min
April 05, 2023 409 – Calling All Podcasters!
First up in the news, Chrome does fractions with Wayland, new Framework laptops, Docker changes their mind, ARM needs more money, Midnight BSD released, GnuCash is updated, Cinnamon Remix goes official, and PineStar64 is announced;
In security and privacy, Mélofée happens, and Linux Tech Tips gets hacked;
Then in our Wanderings, Joe has been sick, and Moss replaces a hard drive.
In our Innards section, we beg for new hosts and talk about our experiences with mintCast.
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1h 8min
March 22, 2023 408 – Ffmpegged
First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released.
In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;
Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,
In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg
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1h 17min
March 08, 2023 407 – “There’s an App For That”
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates
In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help
Then we have our usual Wanderings
In our Innards section, we talk about the Android apps we can't live without.
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2h 21min
February 24, 2023 406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener
First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;
In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;
Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.
In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;
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2h 56min
February 08, 2023 405 – Method Not Allowed
First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.
In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.
Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.
In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.
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1h 16min
February 01, 2023 404.5 – 2022 Distro Rundown
This week in our Innards, We do a rundown of our favorite distros of 2022
In "Check This Out" we talk about a graphical tool Londoner shared that makes light work of scheduling a shutdown or reboot. Moss shares his experience with the Flatpak of a favorite game of his; and we share an article postulating the death of Unix.
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1h 3min
January 25, 2023 404 – The Tenacity of Tenacity
First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109
In security and privacy, nothing to see here, move along
Then in our Wanderings, Moss is back, Joe has fun with a Pihole, and Bill takes some OTC stuff.
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1h 17min
January 14, 2023 403 – 2023 Predictions
First up in the news:
Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS
In Security and Privacy, Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered
The in our wanderings: Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers
In our innards section, We go over last years predictions and our new predictions
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1h 44min
December 14, 2022 mintCast 402 – Linux Mint Beta
First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.
In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.
The in our wanderings: Guy talk
In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.
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1h 50min

FAQs about mintCast:

How many episodes does mintCast have?

The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.