mintCast 240 – Fixing Linux

Posted on February 4, 2016 by mintCast

News:

Looking back on Mint in the month of January 2016 (blog.linuxmint.com) (airtop-pc.com)
Linux Mint will have its own apps starting in Mint 18 (softpedia.com)
What’s New in Arch Linux’s Pacman 5.0 Package Manager (softpedia.com)
- A good guide to package mangers (distrowatch.com)
Ubuntu Linux and open source play key role in Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview (betanews.com)

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mintCast 239 – A Friendly Look at Arch

Posted on January 21, 2016 by mintCast

News:

Linux Mint 18 codenamed “Sarah” (blog.linuxmint.com)
New features in Linux Mint 17.3 Xfce (linuxmint.com)
AT&T chooses Ubuntu Linux instead of Microsoft Windows (betanews.com)
Google’s creepy plan to kill the password (engadget.com)

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mintCast 238 – 2016 FOSS Predictions

Posted on January 8, 2016 by mintCast

News:

Linux Mint 17.3 “Rosa” KDE and Xfce – BETA Release (KDE) (Xfce)
Linux Mint 17.3 OEM images available (linuxmint.com)
Monthly Mint News – December 2015 (linuxmint.com)
North Korea’s ‘paranoid’ computer operating system revealed (theguardian.com) (wikipedia.org)
Linux Foundation gives Blockchain a boost (linuxinsider.com)
Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock (debian.org) (theguardian.com) (docker.com)

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mintCast 237 – Mint 17.3 and The Year of 2015

Posted on December 17, 2015 by mintCast

News:

Linux Mint 17.3 ‘Rosa’ Cinnamon released (linuxmint.com)
Linux Mint 17.3 ‘Rosa’ MATE released (linuxmint.com)
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification (dice.com)
For once, a good story about Linux Kernel developers (itworld.com)
Arch Linux Devs Will No Longer Support KDE 4 (softpedia.com)
- Upgrade Instructions (wiki.archlinux.org)

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mintCast 236 – A Pinch of Cinnamon

Posted on November 19, 2015 by mintCast

News:

Cinnamon 2.8 released (segfault.linuxmint.com)
MATE 1.12 released (segfault.linuxmint.com)
SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows (arstechnica.co.uk)
Linus says ‘Security is useless’ (softpedia.com) (washingtonpost.com)
Linux Kernel 4.3 Officially Released (linux.com)
File-encrypting ransomware starts targeting Linux web servers (pcworld.com)
Romanian researchers lay waste to Linux badware (theregister.co.uk)
Adjust Linux volume from your phone (carltheandroid.wordpress.com)

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mintCast 233 – Give it Away

Posted on October 8, 2015 by mintCast

News:

Monthly News – September 2015 (blog.linuxmint.com)
Google Chromebooks: The most popular classroom computing device (zdnet.com)
The Linux Foundation Says You Should Install Linux on Your Chromebook (softpedia.com)
Debian dropping the Linux Standard Base (lwn.net)
The Linux Kernel to Celebrate Its 24th Birthday (softpedia.com)
Celebrating 5 years of LibreOffice (opensource.com)

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mintCast 232 – Minty Bits

Posted on September 24, 2015 by mintCast

News:

Linux Mint 17.3 codenamed ‘Rosa’ (blog.linuxmint.com)
Mint 17.3: Easier WM selection in MATE and Xfce, improved Compiz, Compton and Openbox support (segfault.linuxmint.com)
Monthly News – August 2015 (blog.linuxmint.com)
What you should not expect when switching to Linux (darkduck.com)
Don’t get too excited; it’s not going to power the next Windows…. (itworld.com) (linux.com) (softpedia.com)
How to find information about built-in kernel modules on Linux (xmodulo.com)
Disney Lights Up IoT Links With Linux Light Bulb (linux.com) (techcrunch.com) (disneyresearch.com) (linuxgizmos.com)

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