First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox’s New Controversial Feature

Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,

In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

• 00:00:00 – Intro


• 00:01:36 – News


• 00:31:11 – Security And Privacy


• 00:45:05 – Wanderings


• 01:06:28 – Innards


• 01:44:35 – Vibrations From The Ether


• 01:45:19 – Check This Out


• 01:46:54 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts


• 01:47:54 – Wrap Up


• 01:49:31 – Special Thanks


• 01:49:58 – Outro

The News:

Mint 22 Update

Red Hat may replace GRUB

X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41

CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs

Apple Approves First PC Emulator App for iOS – Can it Run Linux?

SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand

EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11

Security and Privacy

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed

Firefox’s New Controversial Feature: Is it a problem?

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee





• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and in stealth mode on HPR





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers





• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.





• Eric – You can hear and see me on the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.

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 contributions





• 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!>