mintCast 175 – PiBang Linux

• The MintBox 2 is available! (blog.linuxmint.com) (fit-pc.com) (linuxgizmos.com)

• Linux Mint August Update — LMDE’s Update Pack 7 landed in ‘incoming’. The team noted a couple of important issues and is currently working on solving them. Development continues in preparation for Mint 16. (blog.linuxmint.com)

• Linus Says No NSA Backdoor in Linux — Brief dust-up in the kernel community leads to an illuminating look at random number generation… and a Linus comment! (linux-magazine.com)

• Linux Kernel 3.12 Will Be Named Suicidal Squirrel — “And no, before somebody asks, we’re not doing Linux95. Not for a few years, at least.” (softpedia.com)

• Google’s Coder Tool Lets Almost Anyone Develop Apps with Raspberry Pi
  (linux.com) (ostatic.com) (googlecreativelab.github.io)

• PiBang Linux ( pibanglinux.org) A Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi. It is inspired by Crunchbang Linux, and based on Raspbian.

• Raspian (raspbian.org) Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware.

• Suppose you want to create a zip archive, but with password protection, so that whoever tries to uncompress the zip file must know the right password. On Linux, there are several ways to encrypt and password protect a zip file. (xmodulo.com)

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