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In our Innards section: Migrating Pihole and wireguard to an x86_64 system In Vibrations from the Ether, we have listener feedback about malicious Linux developer vulnerabilities And final...

https://mintcast.org/435-5-pies-and-wires/

First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux ren...

https://mintcast.org/435-erics-back/

In our Innards section: Using the Linux Mint Backup Tool and backing up applet settings And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

https://mintcast.org/434-5-3-2-1-backup/

First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2 In security and privacy: ...

https://mintcast.org/434-open-source-close-malware/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devi...

https://mintcast.org/theyre-all-out-to-get-you/

In our Innards section we have an impromptu discussion about audio editing - some things to think about when editing for a podcast. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

https://mintcast.org/432-5-ears-deep/

First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers Then in our Wanderin...

https://mintcast.org/432-podcasts-are-better/

First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vul...

https://mintcast.org/431-artificially-intelligent/

In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure In "Check This Out" we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio And finally, the feedback and a couple of...

https://mintcast.org/430-5-infrastructure-bill/

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 "Edge" is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, we say Goodbye to Ginny, RPi Compute Module 5...

https://mintcast.org/430-darn-smaller-linux/

First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical snap steams Valve In security and privacy: N...

https://mintcast.org/429-do-you-desktop/

In our Innards section: Predictions: 2023 mistakes and 2024 attempts In "Check This Out" Bill Talks a little about Ventoy - again And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. Dow...

https://mintcast.org/428-5-2024-predictions/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs In security and privacy: Nothin'. We got nothin'. Then in our Wanderings: Bill become...

https://mintcast.org/428-32-bits-days-are-numbered/

In our Innards section: We're a bit all over the place - a "free form" if you will. And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. No, really – we've got feedback this time! Downloa...

https://mintcast.org/427-5-free-form-or-free-fall/

First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new for...

https://mintcast.org/427-virginia-is-for-lovers/

In our Innards section: Tablets. Linux tablets. In "Check This Out": Ubuntu Touch OTA, PineTab 2, and Enter Shikari - Anaesthetist Download

https://mintcast.org/426-5-cry-havoc-and-bring-forth-the-tablets-of-war/

First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavo...

https://mintcast.org/426-happy-birthday-mintcast/

In our innards section we have a wonderful interview with Blaine, AKA Infinity Galactic; a YouTuber who's been making videos about Linux. Recently, he's made a couple of awesome videos about Lin...

https://mintcast.org/425-5-infinitely-galactic-the-interview/

First up in the news: Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name, Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package, Discord is now official on Flathub, scrcpy gets an update, LXQt 1.4.0 is released, Firefox Accounts g...

https://mintcast.org/425-firefox-down/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News; Ubuntu 23.10 re-released; GNOME gets new CEO; new RaspPi Imager released; Plasma 6 Release Dates released; Matrix reaches 115 Million users; Bodhi Linux ...

https://mintcast.org/424-meh-snap/

In our Innards section, we speak to Danielle Fore´ of Elementary OS about the 7.1 release, In "Check This Out" we share a video by "Explaining Computers" about some Tips and Tricks for Linux...

https://mintcast.org/423-5-its-elementary-or-nothing/

First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Cinnamon EDGE released, new version of Raspberry Pi OS released, new Ubuntu 23.10+flavours In security and privacy: Curl patches 'worst' security flaw in ages,...

https://mintcast.org/423-lay-down-a-buntu/

In our Innards section we continue the conversation about Android, and the variants thereof In "Check This Out" GNU turns 40! And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Download...

https://mintcast.org/422-5-when-in-rom/

First up in the news: LMDE 6 FAYE released, Mint 21.2 EDGE iso approved, Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut In security and privacy: Update LibreOffice Now to Fix a Security Flaw, C...

https://mintcast.org/422-bit-of-a-hodgepodge/

In our Innards section, Dale will take us back to the desktop And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Download

https://mintcast.org/421-5-what-fecking-time-is-it/

First up in the news: LMDE 6 “Faye” BETA Released, Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process, Plasma 6 release date is set, IBM raises cloud prices, Manjaro 23 released, Mozilla rus...

https://mintcast.org/421-fun-and-feckless/

In our Innards section, we talk about Linux on mobile devices In "Check This Out" We discuss a CNN article about Ukraine's drone training. Download

https://mintcast.org/420-5-i-dont-inhale/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August, New Asahi Linux Mac GPU beats Apple, Gnome improves Epiphany, Budgie 10.8 is out, Bodhi 7.0.0 is released, QEMU 8.1 released, LibreOffice gets ...

https://mintcast.org/420-puff-puff-pass/

In our Innards section we talk about cloud storage solutions and attempt to demystify some of the procedures for hosting your own cloud storage. In "Check This Out" On August 12, 1981 IBM Int...

https://mintcast.org/419-5-bill-majids-bogus-journey/

First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as "Incus", Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Ala...

https://mintcast.org/419-bill-majids-excellent-adventure/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start de...

https://mintcast.org/418-in-memoriam-kevin-mitnick/

In our Innards section, we talk “ethical telemetry” And finally, the feedback In "Check This Out" Check out the new version and tell us what you think! Download

https://mintcast.org/417-5-pick-me-pick-me/

First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat In secu...

https://mintcast.org/417-all-hail-avrecon/

In our Innards section we talk browsers And finally, the feedback In "Check This Out" a link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look Download

https://mintcast.org/416-5-browser-arousal/

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Steam Deck exceeds 10,000 games, Red Hat fights public opinion, new LibreBoot is out, Google whines about their new AI search, Peppermint OS upgrades to B...

https://mintcast.org/416-the-red-hat-diaries/

In our Innards section, we get all cloudy We also have some feedback! In "Check This Out" a new app to trim, crop, and mirror/flip videos on linux. Also: Diablo build for modern operating ...

https://mintcast.org/415-5-out-there-somewhere/

First up in the news, Mint 21.2 betas have been released, Debian 13 gets a name, Ardour 7.5 does remaps, RHEL goes closed-source, and Opera One ships with AI In security and privacy, Tsunami co...

https://mintcast.org/415-future-appears-cloudy/

First up in the news, Mint Monthly News, All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year, Red Hat Stops Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL & Fedora, Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Updat...

https://mintcast.org/414-salt-and-battery/

In our innards, we talk all things Git In "Check This Out" Londoner shared a cool tool for generating secure passwords; Joe sheres a couple links for getting started with Git No feedback t...

https://mintcast.org/413-5-git-some/

First up in the news, Arch migrates Git, Ubuntu changes PPAs, Fedora Onyx is approved, Google to remove old accounts, Debian re-imposes a moratorium, Proton goes Family, Red Hat unveils a new Des...

https://mintcast.org/413-flying-wigs/

In our Innards section we talk about Pimiga In Vibrations from the Ether, Joe interacts with a listener via email about some hardware subjects and other stuff Download

https://mintcast.org/412-5-gracias-amiga/

First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets...

https://mintcast.org/412-coldpause/

In our Innards section, we talk about the origins of the desktop We had no feedback this episode. Please email us! We'd love to hear from you! Download

https://mintcast.org/411-5-origins-of-the-gui/

First up in the news, Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released, blendOS 2 supports Android, new Vivaldi out, new Opera One Dev Release, GIMP completes GTK3 rewrite, QEMU drops 32-bit, Ryzens are burn...

https://mintcast.org/411-we-like-it-gui/

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, O...

https://mintcast.org/410-the-rise-of-dr-majid/

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 o...

https://mintcast.org/409-calling-all-podcasters/

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 Wikip...

https://mintcast.org/408-ffmpegged/

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’ Instal...

https://mintcast.org/407-theres-an-app-for-that/

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 Pr...

https://mintcast.org/406-its-elementary-dear-listener/

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...

https://mintcast.org/405-method-not-allowed/

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 ...

https://mintcast.org/404-5-2022-distro-rundown/

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...

https://mintcast.org/404-the-tenacity-of-tenacity/

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 th...

https://mintcast.org/403-2023-predictions/

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 ou...

https://mintcast.org/mintcast-402-linux-mint-beta/

First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives In security and privacy: update...

https://mintcast.org/mintcast-401-bill-hammers-nextcloud/

In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros; Download

https://mintcast.org/mintcast-400-5-leave-it-to-the-dads/

First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clo...

https://mintcast.org/400-elon-musk-vs-trolls/

up in the news: The Kudu is out, with a Lobster on its tail, Fedora 37 is dragging, the next Kernel takes less power from the people, Steam Snap switches stacks, Flatpak gets Meson, and Linus wa...

https://mintcast.org/399-lunar-eclipse-no-lunar-lobster/

First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky;  In securi...

https://mintcast.org/398-i-hear-a-leak-must-be-android/

In our Innards section, we talk about how Linux has permeated Everything; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Download

https://mintcast.org/397-5-anything-you-can-do-linux-does-it-better/

First up in the news, Monthly Mintyness, Gnome gnarliness, and KDE K-ness, Ubuntu 22.10 gets fresh, Ubuntu now on AWS, Brave blocks consent, Google kills another app, GNU Toolchain moves, Matrix ...

https://mintcast.org/397-bye-bye-stadia/

BleepingComputer publishes a series titled “This Week in Ransomware” each week as a news summary on this topic. In early September they covered multiple times schools being increasingly targe...

https://mintcast.org/396-5-newschool-ransomware/

First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and In...

https://mintcast.org/396-ransomware-goes-wild/

First up in the news, AWK gets Unicode, GIMP out, Firefox improves its memory, Nitrux released, Unity is a Flavour, Microsoft drops Linux, Makulu adds to the confusion, and Debian wrestles with f...

https://mintcast.org/396-buttery-smooth-experience/

In our Innards section, Bill falls down a rabbit hole called “pentesting.” Download

https://mintcast.org/394-5-a-distro-of-a-different-kaliber/

First up in the news, The Kernel gets a bump, LibreOffice adds a point, Android 13 is out if you have a Pixel, and Gnome has a birthday, In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are ...

https://mintcast.org/394-with-music-on-our-side-to-break-the-old-hard-drives/

In our Innards section we discuss the changes we usually make to the systems and desktop environments we use to fit our workflows and to make them feel like home. Download

https://mintcast.org/393-5-home-decor/

First up in the news: Vanessa is finally here, so is the Linux kernel version 5.19, which was published from an M1 Mac by Linus Torvalds In security and privacy, Sale of over a billion Chinese ...

https://mintcast.org/393-quantum-of-solus/

In our Innards section Tom Murosky joins us for an interview Download

https://mintcast.org/392-5-interview-with-tom-murosky-switched-to-linux/

First up in the news: Vanessa is almost here, Xfce flirts with Wayland, GNOME is touching up the touchscreen experience, and STAR protects data on Brave browsers; In security and privacy, the R...

https://mintcast.org/392-the-return-of-the-trampolines/

In our Innards section, we discuss the subscription services we're using. Download

https://mintcast.org/391-5-the-subscription-service-rabbit-hole/

First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dro...

https://mintcast.org/391-putting-our-money-where-our-mouths-are/

First up in the news, Gnome wins Microsoft money, Firefox translates offline, Rocky overtakes the Red Hat pack, apps on KDE look more klear, Debian gets the Gecko treatment, Zoom gets Wayland scr...

https://mintcast.org/390-this-is-the-wayland/

In our Innards section, we interview Steve Seguin, creator of VDO.Ninja Download

https://mintcast.org/389-5the-martial-arts-of-podcasting/

First up in the news, There are new Regolith and Cinnamon desktops, KDE has new gear, Telegram Premium to launch, Plex has new Linux apps, Atom editor gets nuked, noUbuntu works to tame a daemon,...

https://mintcast.org/389-the-out-of-memory-daemon-is-out-of-control/

First up in the news, we have some Gnome news, some new Intel on Linux 5.19, the kernel gets even more Rusty, Ubuntu loses its Pulse, and Proton unifies. In security and privacy: Facebook has no ...

https://mintcast.org/388-another-one-writes-the-rust/

In our Innards section we discuss how we would build our own distro Download

https://mintcast.org/387-5-if-you-were-to-build-a-distro/

First up in the news: NVIDIA is transitioning, Debian talks non-free, Ubuntu has new ISOs and Docker news. In security and privacy: Intel has more microcode Then in our Wanderings: Joe lost the e...

https://mintcast.org/387-the-curious-case-of-debian-downloads/

First up in the news, NTFS is orphaned, a hare-brained C alternative, and some new Pop! In security and privacy, Microsoft found it, and Musk open sources Then in our Wanderings, Jorge is steamin...

https://mintcast.org/386-interview-with-flathub-contributor-jorge-castro/

First up in the news, NTFS is orphaned, a hare-brained C alternative, and some new Pop! In security and privacy, Microsoft found it, and Musk open sources  Then in our Wanderings, Jorge is steam...

https://mintcast.org/386-microsoft-redemption-arc/

In our Innards section we discuss tips and tricks around GRUB, as well as a couple alternatives. Download

https://mintcast.org/383-5-bootloader-boot-camp/

In our Innards section we discuss Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 “Elsie”. Download

https://mintcast.org/385-5-the-debian-edition/

First up in the news, Mint 21 will have a new graphical upgrade tool; Fedora plans to remove BIOS and XOrg; Gnome43 reworks adwaita tools; a Sony engineer makes exFAT 73% faster; and Alibaba prev...

https://mintcast.org/385-i-like-my-desktop-the-way-i-like-my-drink/

In our Innards section we discuss some of the newer additions to Linux and what we think about them. Download

https://mintcast.org/384-5-new-linux-tech/

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

https://mintcast.org/episode-384/

First up in the news: Ubuntu is out-fedoring Fedora; Linux 5.18 brings new optimizations; the Budgie has landed; Debian 12 has a projected birthday, and Asahi has its first Alpha; In security and...

https://mintcast.org/383-ubuntu-is-out-fedoring-fedora/

In our Innards section we discuss our free and open source alternatives for proprietary software. Download

https://mintcast.org/382-5-its-time-to-focus/

First up in the news: Linux crosses the C; We look into Steam; Flatpak improves; Gnome gets more customizable. In security and privacy: Bvp47 found after 10 years. Then in our Wanderings: Moss is...

https://mintcast.org/382-kernel-metamorphosis/

In our Innards section we talk about Raspberry Pis and other single-board computers. Download

https://mintcast.org/381-5-raspberry-swing/

First up in the news: AMD builds brand new Linux graphics driver support and Ubuntu MATE to add native Flatpak support. In security and privacy: Arch Linux packages are… outdated? Mozilla does ...

https://mintcast.org/381-mozilla-does-something-meta/

In our Innards section, we strive to become certified Linux administrators and discuss the LPIC-1 exam with Leo and Nishant. Download

https://mintcast.org/381-master-and-apprentice/

First up in the news, Raspberry Pi OS has a 64-bit version, Nvidia has a release, System76 releases their scheduler, the This Week in Gnome blog, Slackware and Peppermint OS have new releases and...

https://mintcast.org/380-leo-makes-an-appearance/

In our Innards section, we talk about how much security is enough. In security, Ubuntu Kernel Security Patches, FGKASLR gets closer to mainline, Data stealing malware hides on Linux servers, Go...

https://mintcast.org/379-5-phishing-season/

In this episode we discuss our current daily driver distros of choice and pick alternatives that we would move to if our current distros of choice stopped being developed. In security, Ubuntu K...

https://mintcast.org/379-there-can-be-only-one/

In this episode we discuss our current daily driver distros of choice and pick alternatives that we would move to if our current distros of choice stopped being developed. In security, Ubuntu K...

https://mintcast.org/378-5-oh-the-distros-youll-go/

First up in the news, Mint 20.3 Una is released, Pipewire has a new release and Solus co-lead resigns. In security, Ubuntu Kernel update fixes vulnerabilities and Ryzen Mobile CPU’s and Pluton ...

https://mintcast.org/378-reaching-enlightenment/

In our Linux Innards, we review our 2021 predictions and make our new predictions for 2022. Download

https://mintcast.org/377-5-predicting-predicaments/

In the news, Pop OS 21.10 is released, GNOME 42 – Top New Feature and Release Detail, ReactOS 0.4.14 has been released, Krita 5.0 has been released, and there’s yet another desktop environmen...

https://mintcast.org/377-zero-days-of-christmas/

In our Innards section, we talk about our favorite command line tools And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Download

https://mintcast.org/376-5-getting-ac-cli-mated/

First up in the news, Linux Mint monthly news, Europe embraces open source, Debian has browser issues, Fedora goes all in on Wayland, Firefox helps you fight spam, And the Linux kernel gets rusty...

https://mintcast.org/376-joe-do-you-copy/