Episode Summary

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, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my 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, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @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 eric@mintcast.org, 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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