mintCast 214 – Linux Mint Christmas Wish List

News:

Your Linux PC isn’t as secure as you think it is (pcworld.com)
Fedora 21 is here, and it’s creating a bit of a buzz (zdnet.com)
Open source continues its march into the Public sector worldwide (computerworlduk.com)
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft end their Nook partnership (cnet.com)

Backports of major applications into the Linux Mint 17.x series
An affordable, workable Steam Machine console
More AAA games
Linux to become a major player in the IoT market, bringing standardization and simplicity.
Professional (proprietary) multimedia applications like Photoshop, Pro Tools, Avid etc.
LMDE kept up-to-date, as much as possible, with the main edition
A version of mumble-jack that works on 17.x
Reasonably priced Linux laptops
An upgrade path that works! (Scott grumbling)
Greater unity in the FOSS world (can’t we all just get along?)

Zim – A Desktop Wiki (http://www.zim-wiki.org). Zim can be used to:
- Keep an archive of notes
- Take notes during meetings or lectures
- Organize task lists
- Draft blog entries and emails
- Do brainstorming

A tmux primer “There are 4,257 tutorials on tmux. That’s a rough number that I just made up. This one is designed to take you from ‘wtf tmux’ to ‘omg tmux’ with extreme haste.” (http://danielmiessler.com/study/tmux/)

If you’re a mintCast listener, and would like a way to give something back, then consider making a donation in support of Ken Starks’ organization, Reglue (http://www.reglue.org). Your donation will do more good there than most other places we can think of.
SCaLE 13x: The 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo (February 19-22, 2015) Hilton Los Angeles Airport, Los Angeles, CA
Kansas Linux Fest (March 21-22, 2015) Lawrence, KS
LinuxCon North America (August 17-19, 2015) in Seattle, WA