MP3 – mintCast

First up in the news: Firefox’s new terms aren’t that bad, uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on, Cloudflare bounces browsers, and PocketCast goes free

In security and privacy: French government rejects security backdoors, and TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

Then in our Wanderings: Joe moxxes the prox, Bill goes deep in the heart of Texas, Moss sings again, and Majid finally learns Audacity…sort of

Firefox’s Updated Terms of Use Are Not As Bad As They Sound

uBlock Origin is the Most Popular Firefox Add-on

Cloudflare’s bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers

Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls

Pocket Casts Makes Its Web Player Free and Criticizes Corporate-Owned Rivals

France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision

TAILS replaces balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Linus Torvalds make Linux Rust-ier, and Mozilla flounders with privacy policy;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is missing, Moss is still catching up, Joe works on his rack, Majid isn’t fee

In our Innards section: We Discuss Linux dedicated hardware

In Bodhi Corner, work has begun on Bodhi Linux 8 with lots of changes under the hood

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Mint Monthly News – February

Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles – Or Not – Around Rust Code

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January, Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer, Serpent OS Rebrands as AerynOS, OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action

Then in our Wanderings: Bill has been busy with work, Joe has been spending some quality time with Proxmox and Portainer, Moss tries to get up to speed with a long overdue update, and Eric has been have a great time with smartwatches and LLMs.

In our Innards section: Joe discusses his Proxmox setup

In our newest feature, Bodhi Corner: Moss discusses what the Bodhi team is working on for current and future versions of Bodhi Linux;

And finally in Check This Out, Eric covers a nice GUI tool named Pods, used to manage Podman containers.

Mint Monthly News – January 2025

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed

Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer

No More Snakes: Serpent OS Rebrands as AerynOS

OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action

In our innards section – we have a discussion about “nuke and pave” verses “update in place.”

First up in the news: Solus 4.7 Released, Facebook bans Linux, WINE 10 released, RISC V stuff, and cursing at your AI is the way forward

In security and privacy: Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe builds things, Bill butters his Mint, Majid likes cursing at his computer

Solus 4.7 Released

Facebook bans Linux

Wine 10.0 Release Brings New Drivers, Features & Changes

GTK’s X11 Backend Now Deprecated, Planned For Removal In GTK 5

Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite

“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews

Judge Says Controversial FBI Searches Require a Warrant

In our Innards section: A look at Docker

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released, Parallels can finally run x86 versions of Linux on Apple Silicon, German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license, Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

In security and privacy: Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe enjoys prepares his rack , Dale does routing , and Eric shares 80s kid culture with his kid.

Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” released joe

Parallels can finally run x86 versions of Linux on Apple Silicon

German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club

Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat

First up in the news: Not a lot of Linux news….but a lot of Mint News with 22.1 BETA Released

Then in our Wanderings: Joe prepares the innards, Bill enjoys some butter with his jelly, Eric does nothing, Moss takes a break and All roads lead to Ubuntu for Majid

In our Innards section: A look back at last years predictions, and making some predictions for 2025

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

In our Innards section: We talk “servers” and mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: mintCast turned 16 while we weren’t watching, Mint 22.1 being tested, Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop Environment released, US lawyers pushing Google to divest Chrome, El Capitan takes the lead

In security and privacy: Hackers push fake BitWarden updates, Chinese hackers push Linux-focused WolfsBane, WordPress security flaw gives hackers admin access,

Then in our Wanderings: Bill cools the runnings, Joe cools his printer, Moss cools his ereaders, Majid gives in to temptation, and Eric finds value and delight in his secondhand hardware.

mintCast is 16!

Linux Mint 22.1 ISOs are now being tested

US lawyers will reportedly try to force Google to sell Chrome and unbundle Android

All hail our new leader — AMD-powered El Capitan becomes officially the world’s fastest supercomputer

Hackers pushing fake Bitwarden updates hit thousands of devices with data stealing malware

Chinese hackers target Linux with new WolfsBane malware

Security plugin flaw in millions of WordPress sites gives admin access