Listen "419 – Bill & Majid’s Excellent Adventure"
Episode Synopsis
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
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: 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
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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