Listen "416 – The Red Hat Diaries"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Steam Deck exceeds 10,000 games, Red Hat fights public opinion, new LibreBoot is out, Google whines about their new AI search, Peppermint OS upgrades to Bookworm, a new KaOS, First Amendment fails at Supremes, and Solus 4 is released
In security and privacy, StackRot is here, and so is ProtonPass
Then in our Wanderings, Moss makes money, Joe goes 3D, Bill mics up, and Majid thumbs his nose at inflation
The News
Mint Monthly News
Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
Red Hat tried to address criticism over their new source code restrictions
LibreBoot, FOSS BIOS replacement, sees new release
Google Admits Users “Not Quite Happy” With New Search Engine
New Peppermint OS is out, based on Debian 12
New version of KaOS is out, Arch-“inspired” with Plasma
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”
Solus 4 is released
Security and Privacy
StackRot, a new Linux Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability
Introducing Proton Pass
Full Shownotes can be found here
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
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!>
In security and privacy, StackRot is here, and so is ProtonPass
Then in our Wanderings, Moss makes money, Joe goes 3D, Bill mics up, and Majid thumbs his nose at inflation
The News
Mint Monthly News
Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games
Red Hat tried to address criticism over their new source code restrictions
LibreBoot, FOSS BIOS replacement, sees new release
Google Admits Users “Not Quite Happy” With New Search Engine
New Peppermint OS is out, based on Debian 12
New version of KaOS is out, Arch-“inspired” with Plasma
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”
Solus 4 is released
Security and Privacy
StackRot, a new Linux Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability
Introducing Proton Pass
Full Shownotes can be found here
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)
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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