Interview – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:50:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png Interview – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 447.5 – Interview with Ken McConnell https://mintcast.org/447-5-interview-with-ken-mcconnell/ Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:54:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=7196 In our Innards section: we visit with author Ken McConnell

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> In our Innards section: we visit with author Ken McConnell

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

Special Thanks To:

  • 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

]]> 7196 436.5 – Popey’s Groupies https://mintcast.org/436-5-popeys-groupies/ Wed, 08 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6876 In our Innards section: We interview Alan Pope

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

]]> In our Innards section: We interview Alan Pope

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here

Contact Info:

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!>
]]> 6876 436 – Upgrade At Your Peril https://mintcast.org/436-upgrade-at-your-peril/ Wed, 01 May 2024 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6874 First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their open source portfolio, Ubuntu 24.04 is out…. And you shouldn’t upgrade your system yet

In security and privacy: nope, nada

Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping

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In security and privacy: nope, nada

Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping

Full Show Notes Here

The News

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver

Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

Microsoft adds MS-DOS 4.0 to their Open-Source Github page

Ubuntu 24.04 Official Flavours Available to Download

Why You Shouldn’t Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Yet

Contact Info:

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!>
]]> 6874 425.5 – Infinitely Galactic, The Interview https://mintcast.org/425-5-infinitely-galactic-the-interview/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6464 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 Linux Mint.

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]]> 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 Linux Mint.

  1. [skipto time=”00:00:00″] – Intro
  2. [skipto time=”00:01:11″] – Innards
  3. [skipto time=”00:58:44″] – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
  4. [skipto time=”00:59:32″] – Wrap Up
  5. [skipto time=”01:01:25″] – Special Thanks

Some Links for IG:

YouTube

Facebook

Twitter (X)

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 6464 423.5 – It’s Elementary Or Nothing! https://mintcast.org/423-5-its-elementary-or-nothing/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 04:00:00 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6412 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 Mint.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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]]> 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 Mint.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
]]> 6412 411.5 – Origins of The GUI https://mintcast.org/411-5-origins-of-the-gui/ Wed, 10 May 2023 18:39:54 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6129 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!

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]]> 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!

Full Show notes can be found here

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

  • Joe 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
  • 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!
]]> 6129 411 – We Like It GUI https://mintcast.org/411-we-like-it-gui/ Thu, 04 May 2023 00:58:47 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6120 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.

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]]> 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

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!
]]> 6120 410 – The Rise of Dr. Majid https://mintcast.org/410-the-rise-of-dr-majid/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:27:43 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6067 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

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]]> 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

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!
]]> 6067 406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener https://mintcast.org/406-its-elementary-dear-listener/ Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:41:20 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5971 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 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

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In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

Shape2

In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Wrap-up

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

]]> 5971 mintCast 152: Russ on Ubuntu https://mintcast.org/mintcast-152-russ-on-ubuntu/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 02:56:19 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2388 Listen: mintcast152.mp3 or mintcast152.ogg

News:

[10:30]

The Main Topic: Ubuntu – Where’s It Going?

Featured Website: Linux In The Hamshack

  • Check out K5TUX and friends as they cover the world of amateur radio and Linux. (lhspodcast.info)

More Information:

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

Subscribe: [iTunes]

Contact Us:

Forum: forums.linuxmint.com

Email: mintcast@mintcast.org

Twitter: @mintCast @Linux_Mint @3dbeef @jamescoyner @txhawkins

IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast

Google+: mintCast

YouTube: mintCast Productions

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.

]]> 2388 mintCast 151: SolydXK https://mintcast.org/mintcast-151-solydxk/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:05:21 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2382 Listen: mintcast151.mp3 or mintcast151.ogg

News:

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

Subscribe: [iTunes] [Zune] [RSS MP3] [RSS OGG]

Contact Us:

Forum: forums.linuxmint.com

Email: mintcast@mintcast.org

Twitter: @mintCast @Linux_Mint @3dbeef @jamescoyner @txhawkins

IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast

Google+: mintCast

YouTube: mintCast Productions

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.

]]> 2382 Episode 130: The Time Weaver https://mintcast.org/episode-130-the-time-weaver/ Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:45:09 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2180

News:

  • Raspberry PI manufacturer to shift to UK facility for continued production. (zdnet.com)

The Main Topic:

Featured Website:

Tip:

  • From the command line, to toggle between two directories, just use the “cd -” command.

Your browser does not support the audio element.

MP3:
OGG:

More Information:

Hosts:: James, Rob, Scott

Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

Subscribe: [iTunes] [Zune] [RSS MP3] [RSS OGG]

Contact Us:

Forum: forums.linuxmint.com

Email: mintcast@mintcast.org

Twitter: @mintCast @Linux_Mint @3dbeef @jamescoyner @txhawkins

IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast

Google+: mintCast

YouTube: mintCast Productions

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.

]]> 2180 Episode 124: We Be Hammin’ Now https://mintcast.org/episode-124-we-be-hammin-now/ Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:16:05 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2115

News:

  • The EFF becomes the first ever group in American history to challenge the FBI’s authority. (eff.org)

The Main Topic: Russ — K5TUX

Featured Website:

Your browser does not support the audio element.

MP3:
OGG:

More Information:

Hosts:: James, Rob, Scott

Live Stream (Mondays at 8:00 p.m. Eastern): mintcast.org

Subscribe: [iTunes] [Zune] [RSS MP3] [RSS OGG]

Contact Us:

Forum: forums.linuxmint.com

Email: mintcast@mintcast.org

Twitter: @mintCast @Linux_Mint @3dbeef @jamescoyner @txhawkins

IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast

Google+: mintCast

YouTube: mintCast Productions

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.

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