mintCast 270 – Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
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News:
- Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” released!
- Why you should care about Net Neutrality
Main Topic:
- Rob and Isaac talk about how installing Linux Mint 18.2 went and what they like about the new release.
Tips & Websites:
What are you reading?:
- Rob
- Finished: Change Agent — Daniel Suarez
- Finished: Hell’s Gate — David Weber and Linda Evans
- The Collapsing Empire — John Scalzi
- The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
- Isaac
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- Libertarianism: A Primer
- My Bayes theorem book will have to be continued another time (had to return to library)
- A couple more books on Libertarianism
- Couple of Math books
- The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to Eavesdropping on America
- The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
- Been reading over a bunch of JavaScript books lately for work
Pre-Show Music:
- “Yesterday’s Conversation” by Angus Wallace
- “The Red Stone” by Ground & Leaves
Podcast Announcements:
- We might be offline for a few weeks again due to Rob being a work traveler
- Next podcast will be Sunday, August 27, 2017 to kick of the new season.
More Information:
Hosts: Rob and Isaac
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream
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Credits:
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If Isaac needs to be busy with his house, he should enjoy the time off, but otherwise he should dig up a co-host instead of doing a solo show. Will we ever hear from Scott again? Joe seems pretty negative about Mint these days. Maybe Bill could come back on.
Thanks guys for the LM18.2 review. I have two boxes installed, one 32B and the other 64B, with no problems. One thing I was disappointed in was that Cinnamon has now no means to resize an individual desktop icon. I must be the only one as no one else has complained. I usually do a fresh install and use a Bash script to install my favourite apps. Enjoy your holiday, Rob.
PS – I had a look at the Mint Forum (should have looked before!) and found that installing dconf-editor allows me to resize a cinnamon desktop icon by unticking “use-desktop-grid” – happy now.
Really enjoy listening to the show! Instead of buying $50 Ebay laptops I just ask my friends for their old or ‘broken’ computers. I got six free computers in less than six months. I can experiment with new distros or whatever with no fear.