In “Check This Out” GNU turns 40!

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org, @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify
• Eric – Most social media services as Eric Adams. Please note that I am NOT the mayor of New York City just in case there was any confusion. Also, I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org . In addition to MintCast, I am also a part of Distrohoppers’ Digest as well as Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast.

Special Thanks To:

• Bill Houser for our audio editing
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution
• Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>

First up in the news, Gnome wins Microsoft money, Firefox translates offline, Rocky overtakes the Red Hat pack, apps on KDE look more klear, Debian gets the Gecko treatment, Zoom gets Wayland screen sharing, Photoshop is kind-of–but not-really coming to Linux, and Nvidia contributes.

In security and privacy, Hertzbleed is coming for your CPU, and the EU is going after deepfakes.

Then in our Wanderings, Moss goes Custom, Norbert emerges, and Joe is Florida Man
In our Innards section we discuss the various licenses in the world of open source software

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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

The News

• GNOME wins Microsoft’s FOSS Fund
• Mozilla made a Firefox plugin for offline translation
• Rocky Linux Shoots Ahead
• This week in KDE: non-blurry XWayland apps!
• SpiralLinux: It’s Debian, in the same way Gecko is openSUSE
• Zoom Linux App Supports Screensharing on Wayland
• Adobe Photoshop For Web Is Free For All Now
• NVIDIA Lands AV1 VDPAU Hardware Acceleration In FFmpeg

Security and Privacy Update

• Hertzbleed is a new family of side-channel attacks affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, making use of frequency side channels
• The EU Is Asking Big Tech To Go After Deepfakes And Fake Accounts

Linux Innards

• GNU General Public License (GPL)
• GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
• BSD licenses
  • 2-clause BSD license (BSD-2-Clause)
  • 3-clause BSD license (BSD-3-Clause)
• MIT license (MIT)
• Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
• Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL-2.0)
• WTFPL
• Creative Commons

Announcements

• Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on Sunday, July 10, 2022
• Get mintCast converted to your time zone
• Next Live Stream –  2 pm US Central time on Saturday, July 2, 2022.
• Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone
• Livestream information is at mintcast.org/livestream

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org
• Josh T – jt@mintcast.org, Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – nishant@mintcast.org,riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
• Moss – bardmoss@pm.me, you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.
• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

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

• A cast of thousands for our audio editing, including Norbert, Londoner, Tony Hughes, and others. We continue to need volunteers for our audio editing, please contact us.
• Bill Houser and Josh Lowe for their work on the website, and Bill Howser for hosting the Linode which runs our website
• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs
• Archive.org for hosting our audio files
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about. Thanks, Clem!

First up in the news, Raspberry Pi OS has a 64-bit version, Nvidia has a release, System76 releases their scheduler, the This Week in Gnome blog, Slackware and Peppermint OS have new releases and Debian uses Arch.

In security, PolicyKit vulnerability lies dormant for a decade, GNU coreutils are being rewritten in Rust, Ubuntu improves low memory handling andSurfshark VPN jumps the shark.

Then in our Wanderings, Moss strikes a chord, Norbert further bodges his system, Bill gets more air time, Leo goes on an XL MX adventure, Joe runs for board and Nishant is distro hopping.

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

The News

20 minutes

• Raspberry Pi’s RaspberryPiOS Finally Spins 64-bit Version
• NVIDIA 510.47.03 Driver Released with support for Kernel 5.17 and Vulkan 1.3
• System76-Scheduler is a Rust-based tool To Improve Responsiveness
• This Week in Gnome – New Year, New Calendar, New Screencast Utility
• Slackware 15.0 Officially Released, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS
• Peppermint OS 11 Released, Now Based on Debian and Xfce
• Project Una launches

Security Update

• 12-Year-Old PolKit Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Now Patched
• Rust-written replacement to GNU Coreutils progressing, some binaries now faster
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Integrating systemd-oomd For Improving Low Memory Handling
• Surfshark VPN Revelations
• Surfshark merged with Nord

Bi-Weekly Wanderings

• Moss joined the February Album Writing Month
• Norbert found a way to save space when dual-booting
• Bill starts a new podcast titled 3 Fat Truckers
• Leo tries MX Linux and gives Gnome a real fair shake
• Joe started testing usbip on his Pi 4
• Nishant has been preparing for LPIC-1

Announcements

• Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on February 20, 2022
• Get mintCast converted to your time zone
• Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on January 12, 2022
• Get the Live Stream converted to your time zone

Wrap-up

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org
• Josh T – jt@mintcast.org, Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter
• Nishant – nishant@mintcast.org,riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam
• Moss – bardmoss@pm.me, you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.
• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

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!

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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac has been playing with Sonic Pi and working with the Raspberry Pi.
• Rob has been working with Bash
  • alias dus=’f(){ du -h -d 1 “$@” | sort -h; unset -f f; }; f’

News:

• Linux Mint news for the Sept 2018
• Microsoft Has Pulled the Windows 10 October 2018 Update 

Linux Innards:

• Rob, Isaac, and the new hosts talk about LMDE 3.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!
• Info about OpenRheinRuhr

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • Use Telegram
• Isaac
  • Atom IDE

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac’s been trying to help out more with Linux Mint development.
• Rob’s been a world traveler.

News:

• Linux Mint 19.1 codenamed ‘Tessa’
• Linux Mint news for the month of August
• How to upgrade to LMDE 3
• LMDE 3 “Cindy” released
• Linus is taking a break from Linux
• Linux User and Developer comes to an end

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac talk about ending their time doing the podcast and ask who would like to take over.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • Altered Carbon
• Isaac
  • Go to your local comic book store!

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.

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac’s been busy with random life stuff.
• Rob just got back from Australia.

News:

• Monthly News – July 2018
• LMDE 3 “Cindy” Cinnamon – BETA Release
  • Release Notes

Linux Innards:

• Rob talks about the different frameworks that make up the podcast machine for MintCast.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!
• Info about OpenRheinRuhr

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • The Boat of a Million Years
• Isaac
  • FiveThirtyEight

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.

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac upgraded a computer to from Mint 18.3 to Mint 19, put up a couple of PR’s for Linux Mint, and read the book “Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 days of Rejection”
• Rob installed Ubuntu Server for a work project, upgraded a computer from Mint 18.3 to Mint 19, and ran into a crazy issue with PIA

News:

• How to upgrade to Linux Mint 19 from 18.3
• Are BSDs dying?

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac are still having no luck getting a BSD distro to work. Isaac tried out GhostBSD, while Rob tried out OpenBSD and FreeBSD.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!
• Info about OpenRheinRuhr

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • The OpenRheinRuhr 2017 conference in Oberhausen, November 3-4, 2018.
    • https://openrheinruhr.de/2016/11/21/openrheinruhr-2017-wieder-in-oberhausen/ 
    • http://www.industriemuseum.lvr.de/de/die_museen/oberhausen/oberhausen.html
• Isaac
  • If you hear about Twitch and need a gateway drug to start out with, then check out “TwitchPresents”
    • https://www.twitch.tv/twitchpresents
    • Currently showing all the classic Doctor Who episodes

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.

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac has puppies, been playing with Gnome, and still can’t get his Arch box to work correctly.
• Rob’s been on vacation and solved some issues with pip on his Mint 18.3 box.

News:

• Linux Mint 19 “Tara” Released!
  • Cinnamon: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3597
    • What’s new on Cinnamon?
  • MATE: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3598
  • Xfce: https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3599
• Gentoo GitHub was hacked
• Suicide Linux

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac installed Linux Mint 19 and talked about everything they liked.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!
• Info about OpenRheinRuhr

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • Finally finished the first four books in the “Singularity” series by David Beers (http://www.davidbeersfiction.com/the-singularity-series/)
  • OpenRheinRuhr
• Isaac
  • Read “Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat”
  • OpenRheinRuhr

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.
• We’ll be back in a month everyone!

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac’s been recovering from the past couple of weeks and trying to help out more with Linux Mint
• Rob’s been playing Starfinder, traveled to Boston, and working on TrueOS

News:

• Linux Mint news for the month of May
  • BETA’s have dropped!!!!
• Cryptocurrency miners found in Ubuntu Snap Store

Linux Innards:

• Rob talks about his experience trying to get TrueOS up and running.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!
• Info about OpenRheinRuhr

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • OpenRheinRuhr
• Isaac
  • Mindhunter
    • Netflix show
    • Book

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.
• We’ll be back in a month everyone!

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac spent time with family, screwed up his Arch box, and learned an alias.
• Rob’s been playing Starfinder and exploring Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver

News:

• Cinnamon 3.8 is officially out!

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac both talk about their experience with Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

•  Rob will be at Texas Linux Fest!
  • Texax Linux Fest speaker schedule

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac has been working on Gentoo.
• Rob’s inherited a legacy C# project at work.

News:

• No news!

Linux Innards:

• Rob talks about the pains he ran into with Gentoo while installing a UI. Isaac managed to get Cinnamon up and running.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • Texas Linuxfest is set to go on June 8-9 in Austin, TX
  • Commandline
•  Isaac
  • Gentoo Cheatsheet

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac has been helping out listeners get their resumes lined out, had issues with two hard drives in one computer and finished a book.
• Rob’s been GM’ing a Starfinder campaign, finished a book, and doing some yard work.

News:

• Linux Mint news for March 2018
• Using Pacli and PacUI
• Torvalds Expresses Concerns Over Current “Kernel Lockdown” Approach

Linux Innards:

• Isaac and Rob both take a deep dive into getting Gentoo installed and setting up an internet connection.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

•  Isaac
  • Some terminal based games

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac has been helping people out with their resumes, building a RetroPie, and found a computer garage sale
• Rob’s about to start gaming a new RPG project on Roll 20 based on Paizo’s “Starfinder”

News:

• New Raspberry Pi released!
• Top Linux distros for developers
• Linux Foundation announces open source ACRN hypervisor for the Internet of Things
• Faster app-launching in Cinnamon
• Mintbox Mini 2

Linux Innards:

• Rob talks about his first looks and attempts into Gentoo. Isaac discovers he knows nothing about MBR and GPT.

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

•  Isaac
  • Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac ordered a new Linux Mint shirt, finished a book on Bayes, then realized he’s volunteered for too many things.
  • HELLOTUX
• Rob’s been away in Australia for the past month, finished a book by Andy Weir, and started looking into Clang.

News:

• Linux Mint Blog – Feb update
• LFS Stable Version 8.2 Release

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac talk about ways that to become better at your job, if you are an IT professional and also how to get hired if you are just now getting into the IT profession.
  • Classic software dev books

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Contribute to Linux Mint!

Check this out!:

•  Isaac
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Vimium
    • Chrome plugin for using Vim on most webpages

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Interview: Ran Levi of Malicious Life

• Isaac and Rob got a chance to speak with Ran Levi, the host of the Malicious Life podcast, about malware, viruses, Linux, and life!
• Ran Levi on Twitter @ranlevi
• Malicious Life: https://malicious.life

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 talking about cron, anacron, and all that.
• See you in a couple of weeks!

More Information:

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

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac got some new books and is using GPG more.
• Rob ran into some issues with a cron job, started using Joplin over Evernote, and is still having issues with his Onion Omega2.

News:

• Linux Mint news for Dec 2017
• Linux Mint Translation Guide
• Linux Mint 19 codenamed “Tara”
• Linux Journal is back from the grave!

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac look back at the predictions they made for 2017 and then attempt to make some for 2018.

Vibrations from the Ether:

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

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • Listened to Sunday Morning Linux Review #261 (http://smlr.us/) and got excited about looking into Qubes OS (https://www.qubes-os.org/).
  • Listened to Linux in the Ham Shack #201 (?) (http://lhspodcast.info/) and got excited about looking into BSD again.
  • Still thinking about getting a Ham license
•  Isaac
  • Found out that you can return back Audible books
  • Turn off autofill on your browsers everyone!
  • After reading all about Emacs v/s Vi (or Vim) I realized why RMS calls Vi the editor of the beast
  • Snowden created a new phone app called Haven

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 Monday 6:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac sets up his OnionPi and hates his cell phone.
• Rob was busy with family and church, but did manage to switch cell phone providers from Ting to T-Mobile.

News:

• Linux Mint Installation Guide is up on the Linux Mint blog
• Article about how Linux Mint 18.3 is the best
• Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” KDE released!
• Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Xfce released!

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac talk about GCC
  • GCC Wiki
  • GCC Home Page
  • List of open GCC projects to contribute towards

Vibrations from the Ether:

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

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • The Unlimited 55 Cell plan (why Rob went to T-Mobile)
  • Been re-reading Lev Grossman’s “Magician’s Land”
•  Isaac
  • Reading Kevin Mitnick’s books

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 Monday 6:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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Bi-weekly Wanderings:

• Isaac gets ArchLinux32 mirrors set up.
• Rob installs GalliumOS 2.1 on his Chromebook and upgraded from his daily driver machine to Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia.

News:

• Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Cinnamon & MATE Released
• How to upgrade to Linux Mint 18.3
• Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” Xfce & KDE – BETA Released
• Linux Journal ceases publication

Linux Innards:

• Rob and Isaac talk about the BinUtils software package
  • BinUtils homepage
  • BinUtils Wikipedia
  • BinUtils codebase
  • BinUtils bug list

Vibrations from the Ether:

• Thanks to everyone that emailed in about how they got into Linux and why they continue to love and support Linux!

Check this out!:

• Rob
  • GalliumOS 
  • Knowledge Project 
• Isaac
  • ArchLinux32
  • GNU BinUtils

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 in Linux Innards we’ll take a look at gcc – The GNU Compiler Collection

More Information:

Hosts: Rob and Isaac
Live Stream every other Monday 6:00 p.m.(Central): mintcast.org/livestream

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” released!
  • Cinnamon Edition 
  • MATE Edition
  • Xfce Edition
  • KDE Edition
  • What’s new in Linux Mint 18.2
  • Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon release notes
  • How to upgrade to Linux Mint 18.2
• 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:

• The Linux Mint blog
• Linux Mint

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
• • 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

Contact Us:

• Forum: forums.linuxmint.com (rarely)
• Email: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” – BETA Release
  • KDE edition
  • Xfce edition
• How to install Linux on a Chromebook (and why you should)
  • Gallium OS
• Isaac got his Mycroft delivered to him
• Isaac tried out Trisquel

Main Topic:

• Isaac started installing LXDE.
• Rob talks about his adventures using LFScript.

Tips & Websites:

• LFScript

What are you reading?:

• Rob
  • Finished: Old Man’s War – John Scalzi
  • The Ghost Brigades – John Scalzi
  • This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel — Trevin Wax
  • The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
  • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself  — Steve Corbett
  • Beginning Android Games — Mario Zechner
• Isaac
  • “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA” by Tim Weiner
  • “The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ rule changed the world” by Sharon McGrayne
  • “Libertarianism: A Primer” by David Boaz

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Linux Mint news for the month of May
• Linux Mint 18.2 “Sonya” – BETA Release
  • MATE edition
  • Cinnamon edition

Main Topic:

• Rob starts on his upgrade to LFS v8.0
  • Finds that his scripts are more helpful the second time around.
  • Realizes how nice of an editor Atom is.
• Isaac goes to war with getting wireless setup on his BLFS install.

Tips & Websites:

• ArchWiki Wireless network configuration
• ArchWiki systemd
• ArchWiki wpa_supplicant

What are you reading?:

• • Finished: A Fire Upon the Deep — Vernor Vinge
  • Finished: The Sentinel — Michael Wallace
  • This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel — Trevin Wax
  • The Way of Kings — Brandon SandersonRob
  • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself  — Steve Corbett
• Isaac
  • Finished “Change Agent” by Daniel Suarez
  • Finished “A Concise History of the Catholic Church”
  • Finished “Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union“
  • Started “Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA” by Tim Weiner
  • Started “The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ rule changed the world” by Sharon McGrayne
  • Started “Libertarianism: A Primer” by David Boaz

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Bitcoin is on the rise
• Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release (LTS)

Main Topic:

• Rob gets LFS installed and moves on to BLFS.
• Rob talks about systemd
• Isaac talks about how much easier things were the second time around as he updates his LFS install to v8.0.

Tips & Websites:

• Official systemd website
• Debian wiki
• ArchWiki systemd
• mintCast 210: Starting Linux:
  • http://170.187.156.171/2014/10/09/mintcast-210-starting-linux/

What are you reading?:

• Rob
  • A Fire Upon The Deep — Vernor Vinge
  • This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel — Trevin Wax
  • The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
  • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself  — Steve Corbett
• Isaac
  • Finished “American Kingpin: The epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road”
  • Finished “Don’t Hurt People and Don’t take their stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto”
  • Just about to wrap up “A Concise history of the Catholic Church”
  • Started “Change Agent” by Daniel Suarez
  • Started “Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union”
  • Reading a lot of Linux and C books

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Cinnamon 3.4 released!
• An NSA-derived ransomware worm is shutting down computers worldwide
  • Windows XP patch forced out of Microsoft
  • Not a problem for Linux Mint users

Main Topic:

• Rob conquers his script issues, while Isaac contemplates package management.

Tips & Websites:

• Go read “Crypto” by Steven Levy
• http://www.gnu.org

What are you reading?:

• Rob
  • Game Over (The MindWar Trilogy Book 3) — Andrew Klavan
  • A Fire Upon The Deep — Vernor Vinge
  • This Is Our Time: Everyday Myths in Light of the Gospel — Trevin Wax
  • The Way of Kings — Brandon Sanderson
  • When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor … and Yourself  — Steve Corbett
• Isaac
  • Finished “SkunkWorks”
  • Started “American Kingpin: The epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road”
  • Just about to wrap up “A Concise history of the Catholic Church”
  • Reading a couple books over Linear Algebra
  • Reading a lot of Linux and C books
  • Also started reading books over Libertarianism

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Linux Mint news for the month of April
• Farewell Unity, you challenged desktop Linux.
• Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence
• Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 Released and What’s Next

Main Topic:

• Rob talks about his build script issues, while discovering a solution to his current problem. Isaac decides he needs to update his LFS build.

Tips & Websites:

• http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts/
• http://experimentalnomad.com/

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• Linux Mint News for March 2017
• KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans

Main Topic:

• Rob talks about the problems and solutions he encountered as he works his way through Chapter 6 of building Linux From Scratch. Isaac does a quick run through of Chapters 7 and 8, while realizing he needs to get started on BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch).

Tips & Websites:

• Rob realizes the power of StackOverflow
  • https://stackoverflow.com

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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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News:

• New ISO images for LMDE 2 “Betsy”
• Mintbox Mini Pro & Airtop Preview
  • Order a MintBox

Main Topic:

• Rob and Isaac continue with Chapter 6 in Linux From Scratch. Rob talks about some of the problems he ran into, while Isaac does a little foreshadowing on the coming chapters.

Tips & Websites:

• Isaac digs more into GNU.
• Isaac is reading Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

Pre-Show Music:

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

Podcast Announcements:

• No announcements

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: mintcast@mintcast.org
• Twitter: @mintCast @txhawkins @Linux_Mint
• IRC: irc.spotchat.org – #mintcast
  
• 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.