442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On
First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox’s New Controversial Feature
Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,
In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
- [skipto time=”00:00:00″] – Intro
- [skipto time=”00:01:36″] – News
- [skipto time=”00:31:11″] – Security And Privacy
- [skipto time=”00:45:05″] – Wanderings
- [skipto time=”01:06:28″] – Innards
- [skipto time=”01:44:35″] – Vibrations From The Ether
- [skipto time=”01:45:19″] – Check This Out
- [skipto time=”01:46:54″] – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
- [skipto time=”01:47:54″] – Wrap Up
- [skipto time=”01:49:31″] – Special Thanks
- [skipto time=”01:49:58″] – Outro
The News:
Mint 22 Update
X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41
CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs
Apple Approves First PC Emulator App for iOS – Can it Run Linux?
SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
Security and Privacy
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
Firefox’s New Controversial Feature: Is it a problem?
Contact Info:
- Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
- Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and in stealth mode on HPR
- Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
- Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
- Eric – You can hear and see me on the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. I can be reached by email at [email protected].
Special Thanks To:
- Bill Houser for our audio editing
- Archive.org for hosting our audio files
- Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
- Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
- Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
- The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>



