lxd – mintCast https://mintcast.org The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:21:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://mintcast.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-small-logo-32x32.png lxd – mintCast https://mintcast.org 32 32 164426984 419 – Bill & Majid’s Excellent Adventure https://mintcast.org/419-bill-majids-excellent-adventure/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:24:54 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6330 First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as "Incus", Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Alarm raised over MozillaVPN, EFF launches the TOR University Challenge, news on OpenZFS and ZFSBoot, and Devuan 5 is here

In security and privacy: SkidMap and Downfall

Then in our Wanderings: Bill and Majid have cloudy days

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]]> First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as “Incus”, Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Alarm raised over MozillaVPN, EFF launches the TOR University Challenge, news on OpenZFS and ZFSBoot, and Devuan 5 is here

In security and privacy: SkidMap and Downfall

Then in our Wanderings: Bill and Majid have cloudy days

The News

LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as “Incus”

Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux

Messaging Layer Security: Secure and Usable End-to-End Encryption

State of Solus – August 2023

Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc

EFF Launches the Tor University Challenge

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is

Devuan GNU+Linux 5 Is Here for Software Freedom Lovers Based on Debian 12

Security and Privacy

New SkidMap Linux Malware Variant Targeting Vulnerable Redis Servers

Downfall

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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!>
]]> 6330 418 – In Memoriam: Kevin Mitnick https://mintcast.org/418-in-memoriam-kevin-mitnick/ Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:53:40 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6304 First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,

In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors

Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave

In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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]]> First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,

In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave

In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News

Mint Monthly News – July 2023

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Google warns again it will start deleting inactive accounts in December

Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y

Security and Privacy

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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!>
]]> 6304 417 – All Hail Avrecon https://mintcast.org/417-all-hail-avrecon/ Sat, 29 Jul 2023 02:23:02 +0000 https://mintcast.org/?p=6284 First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat

In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

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]]> First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat

In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

The News

Mint 21.2 Victoria released

Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits

Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

Blend OS v3 Bhatura released

In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Security and Privacy

Avrecon infects 70,000 Linux Servers, turns them into a botnet

OpenSSH Agent RCE Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Commands

PyLoose Linux Malware Mines Crypto Directly From Memory

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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!>
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