mintCast 281 – Talking cron jobs

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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac’s been doing more for GNU and digging into Emacs.
• Rob’s been digging into Linux audio to setup the new podcast rig and also got his “auto-updater” to work.

News:

• Open Source Software turns 20
• Wine can now be installed on Android
• Tldr_ project

Linux Innards:

• Rob talks about his adventures and experience working with Cron and Anacron.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Thanks to everyone that emailed us or left comments on the webpage.
• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • mintupdate-tool was released in Mint 18.2
  • mintupdate-tool over ssh
  • mintupdate-tool with cron
•  Isaac
  • Missing Maps project
  • JavaScript NES Emulator

Pre-Show Music:

• “Yesterday’s Conversation” by Angus Wallace
• “The Red Stone” by Ground & Leaves

Podcast Announcements:

• Send us your bumper or intro or outro music.
• Next time we’ll be discussing last year’s and new year’s predictions.
• Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone….we’ll be back in 3 weeks!

More Information:

Hosts: Rob and Isaac
Live Stream every other Sunday 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
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• Google+: mintCast

More Linux Mint info: website, blog, forums, community

Credits:

Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). Podcast bumpers provided by Oscar.

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