First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Linus Torvalds make Linux Rust-ier, and Mozilla flounders with privacy policy;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is missing, Moss is still catching up, Joe works on his rack, Majid isn’t fee

In our Innards section: We Discuss Linux dedicated hardware

In Bodhi Corner, work has begun on Bodhi Linux 8 with lots of changes under the hood

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News:

Mint Monthly News – February

Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles – Or Not – Around Rust Code

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

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, occasionally on HPR





• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) 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 – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio





• 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





• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>