MP3 – mintCast mintCast

First up in the news: AlmaLinux restores some deprecated stuff, Nouveau dev joins the bigs, Linux runs cars, Microsoft sneaks MS-DOS 4.0 into their open source portfolio, Ubuntu 24.04 is out…. And you shouldn’t upgrade your system yet





In security and privacy: nope, nada





Then in our Wanderings: Joe preps for zombies, Bill migrates, Majid is starstruck, Moss is car swapping, Popey is job swapping

In our Innards section: Migrating Pihole and wireguard to an x86_64 system





In Vibrations from the Ether, we have listener feedback about malicious Linux developer vulnerabilities





And finally, in Check This Out, Bill discusses Fullup – The comprehensive update script for Arch Linux based systems

First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced





In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out of service)





Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets his game on with a new handheld device, Joe gets his game on with every device, Majid gets to be the family IT guy, and Eric deals with technical debt

In our Innards section: Using the Linux Mint Backup Tool and backing up applet settings





And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers





In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browser data





Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays a lot of games, Majid does mirrors





In our Innards section: We discuss scams and trying to protect the people we care about





And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions