Hardware – mintCast

426.5 – Cry “Havoc!” and Bring Forth The Tablets of War.

Bill Houser — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 05:00:00 +0000

In our Innards section: Tablets. Linux tablets.

In “Check This Out”: Ubuntu Touch OTA, PineTab 2, and Enter Shikari – Anaesthetist

[skipto time=”00:00:00″] – Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Promo
[skipto time=”00:00:56″] – Intro
[skipto time=”00:02:07″] – Innards
[skipto time=”00:41:18″] – Vibrations From The Ether
[skipto time=”00:42:27″] – Special Thanks
[skipto time=”00:42:47″] – Check This Out
[skipto time=”00:44:39″] – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
[skipto time=”00:45:43″] – Wrap Up
[skipto time=”00:49:12″] – Outro

Full Show Notes

Wrap Up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldr870 on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams plus Distrohoppers’ Digest. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org, Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.

Special Thanks To:

Someone (probably Bill) 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

414 – Salt and Battery

Bill Houser — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 04:00:00 +0000

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 Update Is Now in Beta, Windows XP activation algorithm cracked – keygen now works on Linux;

In security and privacy, we meet Blacksuit;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill chases burning trucks, Moss is feeling the pressure, and Majid needs to stop spending money

In our Innards section, we discuss laptop battery life;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News

Mint Monthly News – May 2023

All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year

Red Hat Will Stop Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL, Fedora

Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta

Windows XP activation algorithm cracked – keygen now works on Linux

Security and Privacy

New Linux Ransomware “Blacksuit”, looks like “Royal”

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)

We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

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 other valuable contribution
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

411 – We Like It GUI

Bill Houser — Thu, 04 May 2023 00:58:47 +0000

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 burning, Proton launches a password app, Jetpack Announces the end of twitter auto-sharing, and Red Hat lays of 4% due to high profits;

In security and privacy, Mullvad foils a search warrant, and RTM Locker targets NAS and ESXi;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe goes 3D, Moss upgrades, Bill shuffles cards, Majid has a few lightbulb moments, and Dale has entered the Void.

The News

Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released

Ubuntu 23.04 is Now Available for Download (All Flavours)

blendOS 2 Is Already Here and Supports Android Apps Out of the Box

Vivaldi 6.0: Organize Tabs and More

New Opera One Browser

GTK3 port of GIMP is “officially finished”

QEMU 8.0 Released with 32-bit support deprecated

Ryzen 7000 processors are burning up

Proton launches encrypted password manager

The World Wide Web becomes public 30 years ago today

Jetpack Announces End of Twitter Auto-Sharing

Red Hat, Black Anger

Security And Privacy

Mullvad Subjected to Search Warrant, Nothing To Find, Cops Left

RTM Locker’s First Linux Ransomware Strain Targeting NAS and ESXi Hosts

Full Show notes can be found here

Wrap Up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, other information found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC & 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @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:

Joe 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
Londoner for show research, time syncs, and general contribution.
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!

410 – The Rise of Dr. Majid

Bill Houser — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:27:43 +0000

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, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, other information found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC & 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @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!

mintCast 151: SolydXK

mintcast — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:05:21 +0000

Listen: mintcast151.mp3 or mintcast151.ogg

News:

Clem details MDM login screens built with HTML5. (Blog.LinuxMint.com )
Canonical takes the lid off of Mir. (Phoronix.com )
HP to offer all-in-one Ubuntu computer for sale in UK. (OMGUbuntu.co.uk )
Steam for Linux continues to grow, challenges Steam for Mac adoption numbers. (Webupd8.org )

The Main Topic:

Interview with Schoelje discussing the new SolydXK distro. (SolydXK )

Tip and Website in one:

notify-sendIt allows you to send notifications to the desktop and works in most DE’s. I use it in my scripts to let me know where they’ve got to and what is being done, also it adds a flair of professionalism to my home-grown code!!
An example use would be;

notify-send -t 5000 ‘Backup Script’ ‘The backup has completed successfully’

Which would then show a title and main notification for 5 seconds;

Title – Backup Script,
Main notification – The backup has completed successfully.

You can, as with all Linux commands, get fancy and add variables and other inputs. Thanks to Beardy Jesse for this Tip and Website.(ss64.com )

More Information:

Hosts:: Rob, Scott, JamesLive Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

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More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits: Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast’s bumpers were provided by Oscar.

Episode 29: CES Special

mintcast — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:30:08 +0000

Rothgar’s favorite items from CES 2010. Also this was supposed to be done as a different episode so sorry if there are random edits where I changed numbers and corrected myself on a few acronyms. I left a few mistakes still in the podcast but trying to edit that stuff out is hard.
I also threw in some different music this time just to mix things up. Let us know what you think. The music is from DanoSongs.com and is called “Crazy From the Message”.

Here is all the stuff I talk about in this episode so you can read up more about it.

Cell phones
Nexus One
Palm Pre+ and Pixi+
LG GW990
Lonovo LePhone

Computers
Lonovo IdeaPad U1
HP netbooks
HP Slate
Sony Dash Chumby
NetGear 3g and wimax sharing routers
See through OLED display
Skylight smartbook

Entertainment
Sony Blu-ray player
Skype enabled TV
Haier’s wireless TV – MIT WiTricity
Visio VXT
Xbox360+Uverse
Samsung C9000
Boxee Box
PopBox
HDHR Cable Card

Hosts: Charles, Rothgar, SiKing, Art Vanderhoff

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Email: mintcast (at) mintcast (dot) org
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More info:
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MythTV 0.22 walkthrough – Part 1

mintcast — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:27:50 +0000

I thought I would post a my first how to video on setting up MythTV. This video is just about the hardware but I will have followups on setting up the software later.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62eKpsFDvmQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]

Google sends cease-and-desist to Android ROM modder

mintcast — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:09:26 +0000

I recently read this story over at engadget mobile and couldn’t help but think this sort of thing really hurts the Android scene. I know CyanogenMod was in the wrong because he was re-distributing non open source programs. (Marketplace, youtube, maps, etc.) Google did give him the go ahead so long as he took those programs out. But here is where I really get worked up about this.
1. Why aren’t those programs open source?
2. If the ROM only runs on Google devices wouldn’t the people already have “licensing” to run the software?
3. I have been using Windows Mobile for 4+ years and have downloaded countless “cooked” ROMs including programs that I am sure were not open source nor were they licensed for my phone. And I have never see a ROM creator get a cease-and-desist from Microsoft to stop distributing their OS or programs provided. I have seen some ROM creators get cease-and-desist for including paid programs, but never from Microsoft. There are quite a few that even include Microsoft Voice Dial in their ROMs which isn’t free and only licensed for certain phones.
Now does this make Microsoft more open than Google? No. Maybe Microsoft just doesn’t care because they are working on a new phone OS. But even then, my phone currently has Windows Mobile 6.5 which isn’t even due out till next month and there have been 6.5 ROMs since before it was announced.
I honestly think the flexibility and non-threatening nature of Windows Mobile has been the only thing that lets it survive. I think the Windows Mobile (now called Windows Phone) has a bigger feature set and better hardware available than any other mobile phone OS. But the OS just sucks when it comes to usability.
If Google really wants Android to make a big splash with the smart phone market they need to stop acting like Apple and a bit more like Microsoft. Especially when you say your OS is “open”.
What do you guys think?