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Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical snap steams Valve
In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head
Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eric talks audio production
In our Innards section: We talk about whether there’s a need for desktop computers anymore.
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Sorry, No Chapters of Timestamps this episode folks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Full Show Notes Here
The News
Mint 21.3 released
Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than 6 Years of Maintenance
Google’s TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge
OpenSSH Announces Plan to Phase Out DSA Keys
PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops
Canonical’s Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
Security and Privacy
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling
Breaking Down Slippy-Book: The New RCE Flaw in Linux Distros
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and my 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] @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected], Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.
Special Thanks To:
Eric Adams 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!>
In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head
Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eric talks audio production
In our Innards section: We talk about whether there’s a need for desktop computers anymore.
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Sorry, No Chapters of Timestamps this episode folks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Full Show Notes Here
The News
Mint 21.3 released
Linux Kernel 4.14 Reaches End of Life After More Than 6 Years of Maintenance
Google’s TPUs could end up costing it a billion-plus, thanks to this patent challenge
OpenSSH Announces Plan to Phase Out DSA Keys
PipeWire Camera Support Is Coming to OBS Studio for Linux Desktops
Canonical’s Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve
Security and Privacy
Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling
Breaking Down Slippy-Book: The New RCE Flaw in Linux Distros
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and my 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] @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify
Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [email protected], Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes.
Special Thanks To:
Eric Adams 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!>
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