Tag: Wayland

• March 17, 2026MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  481 – Change For The Sake of Jim

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, March 2026; Major Redesign for Firefox: Chrome getting an upgrade; Debian 13.4; SUSE for sale - again; ASUS says MacBook Neo is “shock”; HBO, Paramount Merge; Xfwl4 coming to XFCE, and more.

  In security and privacy: Age Verification coming to your Linux PC?; Anthropic turns Claud loose on Firefox code.

• December 7, 2025MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  474 – Goldilocks Zone

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – November, and a variety of other items

  In security and privacy: Cloudfare goes down and Charles finds out that Shai-Hulud returns from Arrakis

  And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

• October 17, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  448 – The Archive Is Breached!

  First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – September, Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support, Archive.org is breached, Arch and Valve team up, WWWFoundation packs it in, More WordPress news, even MORE WordPress News, and Google adds Linux apps to future Android versions

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill connects with the younger generation, Joe is still fixing things, Moss whines, and Majid folds some more

• May 31, 2024MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  438 – Copilot Takeover

  First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores "norecovery" Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch

  In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.

  Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.

• November 29, 2023MP3, News, OGG, Podcast

  426 – Happy Birthday, mintCast!

  First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavour releases Galileo, Vivaldi comes to Flathub, Google kills magazine content, OpenMandriva releases Rock 5.0, Pipewire reaches 1.0.0

  In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing

  Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

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