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• February 28, 2013Blog, How-to, News, Podcast, Software

  mintCast 150: Podcasting With Jack

  Listen: mintcast150.mp3 or mintcast150.ogg News: [8:15] Linux Mint Debian 201303 RC released! (blog.linuxmint.com) The Unofficial LMDE KDE distro breaks away, becomes a real Official Distro – SolydXK. (solydxk.com) The Python Foundation provides […]

• December 6, 2012How-to, News, Podcast

  mintCast 140: Linux Logs

  News: Nadia 14.1 ISO respins. (LinuxMint.com) Mint 14 reviews almost universally positive. (Muktware.com),(Gnuman.com),(LinuxUser.co.uk),(Arstechnica.com),(OmgUbuntu.co.uk) Mathew Garrett releases universal shim for Linux on UEFI. (Phoronix.com) Has the Humble Bundle lost its way? […]

• November 3, 2011How-to, News, Podcast

  Episode 89: Charles on Writing

  News: Linux Foundation releases UEFI blueprint. (h-online.com) (linuxfoundation.org) (techcrunch.com) New kernel branch for consumer electronics. (zdnet.com) (arstechnica.com) Microsoft Bings Mozilla’s Firefox. (arstechnica.com) Dell ships Ubuntu in China. (h-online.com) Oracle V. […]

• October 27, 2011How-to, News, Podcast

  Episode 88: Linux Firewalls

  News: A Fresh Opera (blog.linuxmint.com) A Mint Font (www.omgubuntu.co.uk) Open Source Software continues to make inroads in the Enterprise (itweb.co.za) David Gewirtz link-baits for ZDNet with an article titled “Why […]

• August 28, 2011How-to, News, Podcast

  Episode 80: The Return of Charles

  News & Personal Updates 0:18:10 Steve Jobs resigns as Apple’s CEO http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904875404576528981250892702.html 0:24:09 Chrome/Chromium gets pulse audio support in linux. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32757#c18 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=97408 0:24:55 Power Regressions worse than Kernel 3.0 in […]

• July 31, 2011contest, How-to, News, Podcast, Software

  Episode 76: Compiling Software on Debian Based Systems

  News & Personal Updates 0:08:32 SUSE extends Linux agreement with Microsoft for four more years. http://www.newsfactor.com/news/SUSE-Linux-Deal-with-MS-Extended/story.xhtml?story_id=122003ZEWNDE 0:12:18 Oracle purchases Ksplice. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/oracle-acquires-zero-downtime-linux-upgrade-software/9271 http://www.ksplice.com/uptrack/download-ubuntu 0:24:34 The Humble Indie Bundle 3 is now […]

• May 30, 2011How-to, News, Podcast, Software

  Episode 67: Linux Mint 11, The Mintiest!

  News & Personal Updates 0:7:58 Linus Talks Of Linux 2.8 Or Linux 3.0; Ending Linux 2.6 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ3NQ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ3Ng https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/516 0:12:09 Fedora 15 is released http://fedoraproject.org/ http://fusionlinux.org/ 0:13:37 Unity Coming to […]

• March 2, 2010How-to, Software

  MythTV walkthrough – Software/Backend

  In response to my own part one video on MythTV I thought I would link to the last 5 parts of the series I recorded bringing you from bare metal to a watching TV in about an hour.

• December 12, 2009How-to

  I want to learn to write programs

  On our last show we answered a mail from one of our listeners, who asked: I want to learn to write programs in Linux. This is not the first time […]

• October 31, 2009Hardware, How-to

  MythTV 0.22 walkthrough – Part 1

  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 […]