Distros – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:59:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png Distros – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 375.5 – One Is the Loneliest Number https://mintcast.org/375-5-one-is-the-loneliest-number/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:51:33 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=5293 And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
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]]> 1:46 Linux Innards
42:07 Vibrations from the Ether
51:07 Check This Out
54:28 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, fragmentation
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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

Linux Innards

  • Joe
    • Inevitable
    • Innovative
    • Provides an outlet for many
    • Yes it is somewhat daunting for a new linux user to pick that first distro
  • Tony
    • One of the benefits and one of the drawbacks of a free and open culture in Linux. Some loved Distributions over the years have started because someone wanted things in ‘Their’ Linux system to be a certain way and initially released an ISO to share with others, some of these even live on after the original creator moves on.
    • Gives a wide variety of choices to the user. DE wise for me if Gnome was  the only option I would probably have gone back to Windows even windows 10 is more to my liking as a DE
    • As for Distroes the issue again is choice, some like a lightweight minimal system and only install the apps they use, while some prefer all the bells and whistles to be installed. This is also helpful if offline for long periods or on a Data capped ISP
  • Norbert
    • Choice of defaults
    • Not all may work
  • Josh
    • Freedom of choice lies at the heart of free open source software and is preferable to less choice
    • Good for devs as they get to work on the projects they are passionate about
    • Good for users who get to experience the vision of the devs
    • Differentiates Linux from proprietary OS’s
    • Choice paralysis is a thing but not in this case
    • Arguments for this being the reason that proprietary software companies don’t cater to Linux has been nullified by universal package formats
    • Drawback is that applications utilizing non-native toolkit can appear out of place

Vibrations from the Ether

Check This Out

Announcements

Wrap-up

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

  • Norbert for our audio production
  • Leo for timestamps and publishing
  • Josh Lowe for all his work on the website
  • Hobstar for our logo
  • initrd for the animated Discord logo
  • Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 5293 mintCast 354.5 – Everyone Has an Opinion (mp3) https://mintcast.org/mintcast-354-everyone-has-an-opinion-mp3/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:46:05 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4924 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases
In Security, time to patch… again.
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1:30 Linux Innards
33:12 Vibrations from the Ether
51:24 Check This Out
53:45 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, We discuss chromium and how to pick a distro

And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

More Chromium Talk – Leo

  • What do we use?
  • Chromium-based? Firefox?
  • The monoculture…

What’s My Distro? – Moss

As I was just pressed into service on this topic yesterday, some early bits of this article were borrowed from or inspired by the article, “What Does The Penguin Say?” on LinuxInsider.com,

So Windows gives you “Windows the Windows Way”, Mac gives you “Mac the Mac Way”, and Linux gives you… everything you ever dreamed of — or your worst nightmares — in a user salad of options.

Just look at the desktop paradigms.

  • Does the desktop try to capture a “traditional” or revolutionary desktop interface paradigm?
  • Does it favor sleekness or no-frills functionality?
  • Do the developers strive for constant evolution or stability and consistency?
  • Are windows, menus, and settings panels minimalist or information-dense?
  • Should users accept the UI as it is, or make it their own?

As founder and co-host of Distrohoppers’ Digest, these and other issues come to the fore. 

  • Which installer does it use, or do they write their own? 
    • Ubiquity – most Ubuntu, Mint
    • Calamares – other Ubuntu, Ubuntu forks, GeckoLinux, and others
    • Anaconda – Fedora
    • Debian-Installer
    • YaST

Now that Ubuntu is setting off writing an all-new installer, this issue is even more timely. How will it be better than Ubiquity? Anyone who has used Calamares has a few answers to that one. But can it be better than Calamares? What about flexibility? Some users of OpenSUSE claim their installer is better than Calamares because it has much more and better options, while others, like me, say those options are not the least understood by most users.

… or does the distro provide a pure image (.img) file, and you have to install GRUB or another bootloader yourself? (EasyOS)

  • Which package manager do they use, or do they write their own?
    • APT with .deb packages (or .rpm packages, in PCLinuxOS)
    • Portage or Entropy
    • URPM, dnf
    • pacman, pamac
    • YUM
    • YaST, zypper
    • eopkg
    • .pup, .snf, you name it

I guess next would be to discuss families, which mostly boils down to:

  • Debian Family
    • Ubuntu sub-family – probably 90-95% of all desktop Linux users
      • Ubuntu
      • Ubuntu wannabes, remixes, respins
      • Linux Mint
      • Indies (Peppermint, FerenOS, Zorin)
    • Independents
  • Slackware Family
    • OpenSUSE variants
  • Red Hat Family
    • Red Hat variants (Fedora, Scientific, CentOS, Rocky, Clear, Oracle)
    • Mandrake variants (PCLinuxOS, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Rosa)
  • Arch Family (Endeavour, Manjaro)
  • Gentoo Family (Sabayon, ChromeOS, Mocaccino, Calculate, Redcore)
  • LFS and Homebrew Family (SolusOS, Clear Linux OS)

Then there is the topic of Desktop Environments. We’ve discussed this rather extensively in the past on this show. The major choices are:

  • Gnome or variants, which includes Cinnamon and Budgie, as well as forks of earlier versions such as MATE
  • KDE Plasma, or forks such as Trinity
  • Enlightenment, or forks such as Moksha
  • XFCE
  • LXDE or LXQt
  • Independents such as Deepin, Pantheon, and Lumina

So in terms of complete packages of distros, according to statistics seen by Martin Wimpress, mentioned by Martin Wimpress in the past year or so, but not referenced anywhere public, around 85% of all Linux Desktop users run Ubuntu (Gnome), perhaps 5% run Ubuntu MATE, around 4-5% run Linux Mint, and that leaves 5-6% for everything else. What are the other “everything else”s that I would recommend for new users?

Everyone has an opinion. I’m running 9 different distros across 4 machines, with eight on one machine alone.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to just recommend the main version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint, and you’d be right to do so, but there are others I’d also recommend based on the machine and the user. Right now, my list would include UbuntuDDE Remix, Bodhi Linux, Lubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenMandriva, KDE neon, Zorin OS, FerenOS, and PeppermintOS. The first two are the most unusual and forward-looking, and the last three are the easiest to make them look or work the most like Windows 7 or 10. You are of course encouraged to try anything Official or unofficial Ubuntu, including Linux Mint and Pop!_OS. On that list, only OpenMandriva and PCLinuxOS are not Ubuntu-based, and what is missing from that list includes Fedora or OpenSUSE or Arch-based distros.

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

CHECK THIS OUT!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on February 21, 2021. 

Get the show time converted to your time zone!

Wrap-up:

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

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4924 mintCast 354.5 – Everyone Has an Opinion https://mintcast.org/mintcast-354-everyone-has-an-opinion/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:45:56 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=4921 Then, in the News, a Linux Mint update, Ubuntu loses the lead, Wayland changes, and some new releases
In Security, time to patch… again.
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1:30 Linux Innards
33:12 Vibrations from the Ether
51:24 Check This Out
53:45 Announcements & Outro

In our Innards section, We discuss chromium and how to pick a distro

And finally, the feedback and a couple suggestions

More Chromium Talk – Leo

  • What do we use?
  • Chromium-based? Firefox?
  • The monoculture…

What’s My Distro? – Moss

As I was just pressed into service on this topic yesterday, some early bits of this article were borrowed from or inspired by the article, “What Does The Penguin Say?” on LinuxInsider.com,

So Windows gives you “Windows the Windows Way”, Mac gives you “Mac the Mac Way”, and Linux gives you… everything you ever dreamed of — or your worst nightmares — in a user salad of options.

Just look at the desktop paradigms.

  • Does the desktop try to capture a “traditional” or revolutionary desktop interface paradigm?
  • Does it favor sleekness or no-frills functionality?
  • Do the developers strive for constant evolution or stability and consistency?
  • Are windows, menus, and settings panels minimalist or information-dense?
  • Should users accept the UI as it is, or make it their own?

As founder and co-host of Distrohoppers’ Digest, these and other issues come to the fore. 

  • Which installer does it use, or do they write their own? 
    • Ubiquity – most Ubuntu, Mint
    • Calamares – other Ubuntu, Ubuntu forks, GeckoLinux, and others
    • Anaconda – Fedora
    • Debian-Installer
    • YaST

Now that Ubuntu is setting off writing an all-new installer, this issue is even more timely. How will it be better than Ubiquity? Anyone who has used Calamares has a few answers to that one. But can it be better than Calamares? What about flexibility? Some users of OpenSUSE claim their installer is better than Calamares because it has much more and better options, while others, like me, say those options are not the least understood by most users.

… or does the distro provide a pure image (.img) file, and you have to install GRUB or another bootloader yourself? (EasyOS)

  • Which package manager do they use, or do they write their own?
    • APT with .deb packages (or .rpm packages, in PCLinuxOS)
    • Portage or Entropy
    • URPM, dnf
    • pacman, pamac
    • YUM
    • YaST, zypper
    • eopkg
    • .pup, .snf, you name it

I guess next would be to discuss families, which mostly boils down to:

  • Debian Family
    • Ubuntu sub-family – probably 90-95% of all desktop Linux users
      • Ubuntu
      • Ubuntu wannabes, remixes, respins
      • Linux Mint
      • Indies (Peppermint, FerenOS, Zorin)
    • Independents
  • Slackware Family
    • OpenSUSE variants
  • Red Hat Family
    • Red Hat variants (Fedora, Scientific, CentOS, Rocky, Clear, Oracle)
    • Mandrake variants (PCLinuxOS, Mageia, OpenMandriva, Rosa)
  • Arch Family (Endeavour, Manjaro)
  • Gentoo Family (Sabayon, ChromeOS, Mocaccino, Calculate, Redcore)
  • LFS and Homebrew Family (SolusOS, Clear Linux OS)

Then there is the topic of Desktop Environments. We’ve discussed this rather extensively in the past on this show. The major choices are:

  • Gnome or variants, which includes Cinnamon and Budgie, as well as forks of earlier versions such as MATE
  • KDE Plasma, or forks such as Trinity
  • Enlightenment, or forks such as Moksha
  • XFCE
  • LXDE or LXQt
  • Independents such as Deepin, Pantheon, and Lumina

So in terms of complete packages of distros, according to statistics seen by Martin Wimpress, mentioned by Martin Wimpress in the past year or so, but not referenced anywhere public, around 85% of all Linux Desktop users run Ubuntu (Gnome), perhaps 5% run Ubuntu MATE, around 4-5% run Linux Mint, and that leaves 5-6% for everything else. What are the other “everything else”s that I would recommend for new users?

Everyone has an opinion. I’m running 9 different distros across 4 machines, with eight on one machine alone.

It’s the easiest thing in the world to just recommend the main version of Ubuntu or Linux Mint, and you’d be right to do so, but there are others I’d also recommend based on the machine and the user. Right now, my list would include UbuntuDDE Remix, Bodhi Linux, Lubuntu, PCLinuxOS, OpenMandriva, KDE neon, Zorin OS, FerenOS, and PeppermintOS. The first two are the most unusual and forward-looking, and the last three are the easiest to make them look or work the most like Windows 7 or 10. You are of course encouraged to try anything Official or unofficial Ubuntu, including Linux Mint and Pop!_OS. On that list, only OpenMandriva and PCLinuxOS are not Ubuntu-based, and what is missing from that list includes Fedora or OpenSUSE or Arch-based distros.

VIBRATIONS FROM THE ETHER: 

CHECK THIS OUT!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

Our next episode will be at 2 pm Central US time on February 21, 2021. 

Get the show time converted to your time zone!

Wrap-up:

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

  • Owen Peery for our audio editing, Josh Lowe for all his work on the website, Hobstar for our logo, and Londoner for our time sync
  • Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server
  • Archive.org for hosting our audio files
  • HPR for our backup Mumble room
  • The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem!>
]]> 4921 mintCast 255 – Derivative distros and ferenOS, a Mint derivative https://mintcast.org/mintcast-255-derivative-distros-and-ferenos-a-mint-derivative/ Thu, 20 Oct 2016 00:07:52 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3182 255]
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News:

Main Topic:

  • Rob talks about what exactly is a Derivative distros and his experience with ferenOS, a Mint derivative, while Isaac isn’t sure what went wrong when he tried out ferenOS.

Tips & Websites:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 3182 mintCast 248 – The 5 W’s and H of Distro Beta Testing https://mintcast.org/mintcast-248-the-5-ws-and-h-of-distro-beta-testing/ Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:19:50 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3128 248]

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News:

BASHing Windows:

Main Topic:

  • Rob talks about everything you need to know about BETA testing

Tips & Websites:

  • Linux Mint roadmap
    • If hearing us talk about BETA testing sparked your interest or curiosity, then here’s a link to the roadmap so you can follow the progress of the development team as they move the BETA release to the stable release
  • Isaac read Prisoner’s Dilemma
    • Good book about John von Neumann, game theory and the dilemmas presented by the Atomic bomb.

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 3128 mintCast 235 – The Wily Werewolf https://mintcast.org/mintcast-235-the-wily-werewolf/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 16:31:30 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3034 235]

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News:

Main Topic: Ubuntu 15.10 – The Wily Werewolf

Websites:

Tip:

  • Fish shell (http://fishshell.com/) If you use terminal a lot, then try out Fish shell, I been using it more lately and starting to really like it.  More powerful than bash and more user-friendly then zsh
  • Install Samba Server on Ubuntu 15.10 (howtoforge.com) Going along with the topic this week, here’s a how-to on installing Samba Server on Ubuntu 15.10

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 3034 mintCast 232 – Minty Bits https://mintcast.org/mintcast-232-minty-bits/ Fri, 25 Sep 2015 02:15:44 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=3010 232]

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News:

Main Topic: Minty Bits … What Makes Mint Minty?

Website:

  • Mint Developer Center – http://developer.linuxmint.com
    • This page is for developers interested in Mint-related projects including Cinnamon and other Mint tools.

Tip:

  •  Configuring the MDM login screen for multiple monitors (segfault.linuxmint.com)
    • A lot of people using multiple monitors ask why their login screen appears on the wrong monitor, why can’t it use all of them, how to change its resolution and why the login screen simply doesn’t follow the configuration they set in Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce or KDE.

Pre-Show Music:

  • Playlist – “Traffic Jam” by Jamhippo  (jamendo.com)

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 3010 mintCast 230 – Linux Mint 17.2 KDE & Xfce https://mintcast.org/mintcast-230-linux-mint-17-2-kde-xfce/ Fri, 14 Aug 2015 01:50:41 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2996 230]

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News:

Main Topic: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela – KDE & Xfce

Website:

Tip:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 2996 mintCast 228 – Linux Mint 17.2 https://mintcast.org/mintcast-228-linux-mint-17-2/ Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:23:54 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2986 228] Download

Introduction:

News:

Main Topic: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela – MATE and Cinnamon

Website:

Tip:

  • How to benchmark your GPU on Linux:
  • Linux is not famous for its gaming abilities and possibilities, and it is only natural that there aren’t many GPU benchmarking tools available with which users can test their graphics hardware. There are however some benchmarking suites that can help you determine the various aspects of your GPU performance with precision. (howtoforge.com)

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 2986 mintCast 223 – Ubuntu & Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Vivid Vervet https://mintcast.org/mintcast-223-ubuntu-ubuntu-mate-15-04-vivid-vervet/ Thu, 07 May 2015 08:26:16 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2964 223] Download

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Main Topic: Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Vivid Vervet

Website:

This document compares Upstart and systemd with a view to aiding in the transition to the latter.

Tip:

  • You can “fix” the menus in Vivid Vervet.

If you don’t like the global (or local) menus in Ubuntu 15.04, you can go to System Settings > Appearance > Behavior and choose the desired location of menus from ‘Show the menus for a window’ option. You can also install dconf-editor to tweak a number of Unity settings, including the auto-hide of menus.

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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.

]]> 2964 mintCast 221 – MakuluLinux and the LMDE2 RC https://mintcast.org/mintcast-221-makululinux-and-the-lmde2-rc/ Fri, 27 Mar 2015 02:53:19 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2948 221] Download

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Main Topic: MakuluLinux Cinnamon and LMDE 2 Cinnamon RC

Website:

  • 101 Open Source Tools for Developers (datamation.com)
    Open source tools for programming languages, team management, frameworks, IDEs, text editors and more.

Tip:

  • You need to apply the OpenSSL patches today, not tomorrow (zdnet.com)
    At first glance, you might not think that the latest set of OpenSSL security patches are that important. Sure, there’s a dozen of them and two are serious, but are they really that bad? Yes, actually they’re not just bad, they’re awful.

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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. 

]]> 2948 mintCast 220 – Martin Wimpress and Ubuntu MATE https://mintcast.org/mintcast-220-martin-wimpress-and-ubuntu-mate/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:43:37 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2946 220] Download

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Main Topic: Ubuntu MATE with Martin Wimpress

Website:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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. 

]]> 2946 mintCast 219 – Bodhi Linux and Chromebooks https://mintcast.org/mintcast-219-bodhi-linux-and-chromebooks/ Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:18:03 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2939 219] Download

News:

Main Topic: Bodhi Linux and Chromebooks

Website:

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

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. 

]]> 2939 mintCast 196 – Looking at LMDE https://mintcast.org/mintcast-196-looking-at-lmde/ Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:16:36 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2786 196] Download

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Main Topic: LMDE 201403

  • Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing. It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with Cinnamon or MATE. The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.
  • …but the LMDE repository is down! (blog.linuxmint.com)
  • Are there enough users for Linux Mint Debian Edition to survive? (itworld.com)

Tip:

  • Some outrageously gorgeous animated HTML5 login screens for Mint. (gnome-look.org)

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott
Live Stream  Mondays 7:00 p.m. or Sundays 2:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream
Contact Us:

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

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2786 mintCast 194 – Sonic and BSD https://mintcast.org/mintcast-194-sonic-and-bsd/ Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:31:58 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2772 194] Download

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Main Topic: PC-BSD 10

  • PC-BSD® is a user friendly desktop Operating System based on FreeBSD.
  • Known widely for its stability and security in server environments, FreeBSD provides an excellent base on which to build a desktop operating system.
  • PC-BSD uses a host of popular open source window managers and uses a custom-tailored application installer that puts popular applications in easy reach of users.

Website(s):

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream (Mondays 8:00 p.m. or Sundays 2:00 p.m.): mintcast.org/livestream
Contact Us:

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

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2772 mintCast 193 – A New User’s View of Mint https://mintcast.org/mintcast-193-new-user-mint/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:51:04 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2767 193] Download

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Main Topic: A New User’s View of Linux Mint

Website(s):

Pre-Show Music:

Podcast Announcements:

  • Linux in the Ham Shack at Hamvention 2014 Allow Linux in the Ham Shack to set up an educational booth at the Dayton Hamvention 2014. (indiegogo.com)

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream (Mondays 8:00 p.m. or Sundays 2:00 p.m.): mintcast.org/livestream
Contact Us:

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

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2767 mintCast 192 – It’s Elementary https://mintcast.org/mintcast-192-its-elementary/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 03:52:39 +0000 http://mintcast.org/?p=2758 192] Download

News:

  • Why Did Linux Mint Ax mintConstructor? Linux Mint has given Reglue the opportunity to create a respin for educational purposes within their non-profit, largely due to an app named mintConstructor. It provides a fairly simple method of making custom systems using Linux Mint as the base. (fossforce.com)
  • Ubuntu Planning To Develop Its Own File Manager The latest piece of the desktop Linux stack that Ubuntu developers are planning to replace with their own home grown solution is a file manager. (phoronix.com)
  • LibreOffice 4.2 released;  better bridges the gap with Microsoft Office Improved Office compatibility, OpenCL-powered spreadsheet math, and more features round out latest update of the open source productivity suite.  (infoworld.com)
  • UK government plans switch from Microsoft Office to open source Ministers are looking at saving tens of millions of pounds a year by abandoning expensive software produced by firms such as Microsoft.  Some £200m has been spent by the public sector on the computer giant’s Office suite alone since 2010. (theguardian.com)
  • Shotwell, elementary, and Pantheon Photos: What it all means Quote from the article… “To be clear, Yorba remains the maintainer of Shotwell.  elementary has not taken it over.” (yorba.org)
  • Podcasting “patent troll” fighting EFF wants donors’ names Personal Audio LLC is a patent-holding company that became famous (or infamous, depending on one’s point of view) by claiming that it owns things like playlists and podcasts (or “episodic content,” in the words of one Personal Audio patent). Its wild claims led the Electronic Frontier Foundation to raise more than $76,000 from donors to fight the patent. (arstechnica.com)

Main Topic: elementary OS

  • elementary OS has a single goal: to provide the best possible experience for our community. We’re driven by a desire to be better, not by a paycheck. Contributors aren’t profit-maximizers, they’re purpose-maximizers.  (elementaryos.org)

Website:

  • elementaryupdate.com is a website aimed at popularizing elementary OS. Its primary audience is everyday users with minimal computer experience. (www.elementaryupdate.com)

Tip:

  • Elementary Tweaks – A tool similar to Gnome Tweak Tool or Ubuntu Tweak, specifically tailored to elementary OS, has been requested many times before. Well you are in luck my friend, because here is just that: elementary Tweaks! (www.elementaryupdate.com)

Pre-show music this week was:

  • Yesterday’s Conversation by Angus Wallace (Jamendo.com)

Podcast Announcements:

  • Linux in the Ham Shack at Hamvention 2014 Allow Linux in the Ham Shack to set up an educational booth at the Dayton Hamvention 2014. (indiegogo.com)

More Information:

Hosts: Rob, Scott, Joe
Live Stream (Mondays 8:00 p.m. or Sundays 2:00 p.m.): mintcast.org/livestream
Contact Us:

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

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.

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News:

  • 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)

Website: PiBang Linux

  • 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.

Tip: Create an encrypted zip file on Linux

  • 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)

Podcast Announcements:

  • Watch for “Event” announcements in the mintCast Community on Google+ to find out when we’re recording!
  • OGGCamp October 19th & 20th 2013 at Liverpool John Moores university in the UK. (http://oggcamp.org)

More Information:

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

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

Credits:
Podcast Entry and exit music provided by Mark Blasco (podcastthemes.com). The podcast bumpers were provided by Oscar.

]]> 2663 mintCast 143: Mint 14 KDE and Xfce https://mintcast.org/mintcast-143-mint-14-kde-and-xfce/ Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:43:39 +0000 http://www.mintcast.org/?p=2316

News:

  • Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 6 is now avaiable for download. (Linuxmint.com)
  • Ouya Gaming Console Showing up in Videos Around the Web. (Ostatic.com)
  • The Raspberry PI gets an open source educational manual. (Raspberrypi.org)

The Main Topic:

  • Linux Mint 14 Xfce and KDE reviews

Website of the Podcast:

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals about free and open source software together with the tools used to create them and the community that uses those tools. They include authors, editors, artists, software developers, activists, and many others. There are manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source softwares, about how to do things (like design or stay safe online) with open source software, and manuals about free culture services that use or support free software and formats.

Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, to add a more detailed explanation, to write a new chapter, or to start a whole new manual on a topic.

Tip of the Podcast:

  • !$

A great bash history expansion trick is “!$” which expands into the last argument of last command. For example, say you ran the following command “ls /usr/share/doc/apt/examples” to see what is in that folder. Then you realize that you want to run “ls -l” instead. Rather than typing the whole command and path over, you can just type “ls -l !$”. Convenient, huh?

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MP3:
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More Information:

Hosts:: Rob, Scott, James

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 @txhawkins @3dbeef @jamescoyner

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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 bumpers are provided by Oscar.

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