Episode Summary
First up in the news: Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name, Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package, Discord is now official on Flathub, scrcpy gets an update, LXQt 1.4.0 is released, Firefox Accounts gets a Mozilla rename, Brave launches an AI, there is a new Audacity, OpenELA forms to preserve RHEL access, Element gets a new license, Proton has a new app, Fedora 39 is released, and OBS Studio 30 is out
In security and privacy: we got nothing
Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets things linked up, Joe plays with Nextcloud, Moss shuffles his files around, Majid plays musical chairs, and Eric finally buys a tablet.
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:48 – News
01:09:23 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
01:37:57 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:38:45 – Wrap Up
01:40:38 – Special Thanks
The News
Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name
Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package
Discord is now Verified on Flathub
scrcpy v2.2
LXQt 1.4.0 Released
Why ‘Firefox accounts’ are becoming ‘Mozilla accounts’
Brave launches Leo AI
Audacity 3.4 Released with New Music Workflows, Time Stretch Tool
CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends
Proton releases a brand-new Linux app with many new features for its Proton VPN service
Fedora Linux 39 is officially here!
OBS Studio 30 Released with Support for Intel QSV H264, HEVC, and AV1 on Linux
Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here
Wrap Up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com
Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org, @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify
Eric – Most social media services as Eric Adams. Please note that I am NOT the mayor of New York City just in case there was any confusion. Also, I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org . In addition to MintCast, I am also a part of Distrohoppers’ Digest as well as Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast.
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!>