Listen "442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On"
Episode Synopsis
First up in the news: Mint 22 update, Red Hat may replace GRUB, Fedora drops X11, CachyOS adds AMD support, Apple approves PC emulator, SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand, EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox’s New Controversial Feature
Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,
In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Full Show Notes Here
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:36 – News
00:31:11 – Security And Privacy
00:45:05 – Wanderings
01:06:28 – Innards
01:44:35 – Vibrations From The Ether
01:45:19 – Check This Out
01:46:54 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:47:54 – Wrap Up
01:49:31 – Special Thanks
01:49:58 – Outro
The News:
Mint 22 Update
Red Hat may replace GRUB
X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41
CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs
Apple Approves First PC Emulator App for iOS – Can it Run Linux?
SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
Security and Privacy
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
Firefox’s New Controversial Feature: Is it a problem?
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and in stealth mode on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – You can hear and see me on the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. I can be reached by email at [email protected].
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!>
In security and privacy: CrowdStrike broke Linux and nobody noticed, Firefox’s New Controversial Feature
Then in our Wanderings: Bill puts his foot down, Joe is working on magnetism, Moss has new toys,
In our Innards section: We talk about Pine64 products
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Full Show Notes Here
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:36 – News
00:31:11 – Security And Privacy
00:45:05 – Wanderings
01:06:28 – Innards
01:44:35 – Vibrations From The Ether
01:45:19 – Check This Out
01:46:54 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:47:54 – Wrap Up
01:49:31 – Special Thanks
01:49:58 – Outro
The News:
Mint 22 Update
Red Hat may replace GRUB
X11 Is No Longer Part of Fedora Workstation 41
CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs
Apple Approves First PC Emulator App for iOS – Can it Run Linux?
SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11
Security and Privacy
CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
Firefox’s New Controversial Feature: Is it a problem?
Contact Info:
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], and in stealth mode on HPR
Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
Eric – You can hear and see me on the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. I can be reached by email at [email protected].
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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