First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2
In security and privacy: Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections, Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices
Then in our Wanderings: Moss needs some salt for his new battery, Bill goes vrroom vrroom in a big truck, Joe is getting Steamed, Majid chillaxes, and Dale is Scaling his NAS

00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:48 – News
00:18:55 – Security And Privacy
00:34:12 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:33:03 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:34:16 – Wrap Up
01:37:23 – Outro


Full Show Notes Here

The News
Red Hat Announces Nova, a Rust-Based GSP-Only Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs
Blender 4.1 Officially Released with Quality-of-Life and Performance Improvements
LinDoz Returns With Advanced AI To Revamp the MakuluLinux Lineup
The Journey of Linux’s ext2 Filesystem Comes to an End
Security and Privacy
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
Suspected Russian Data-Wiping ‘AcidPour’ Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices
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:

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!>

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