April 28, 2026 MP3 , News , OGG , Podcast
484 – Chuck x 2
First up in the news: Updated Mint ISOs
Then in our Wanderings: Majid explore Tailscale, Joe does it all again. Jim, Charlie, and Charles got some stuff too.
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
The News:
Updated Mint ISOs
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org , linuxlugcast.com , [email protected] , Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News , [email protected] , Mastodon @[email protected] , occasionally on HPR
Bill – [email protected] , Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric, Majid & Charlie).
Majid – [email protected] , AtypicalDoctor on Discord, and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest .
Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected] .
Charles – [email protected] , Mr PDX on Discord
Jim – [email protected] , GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube
Charlie – ImmutableCharlie on Discord, [email protected]
Special Thanks To:
Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
Archive.org for hosting our audio files
Hobstar for our logo,
Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
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