Episode Summary
First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver
In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers,
Then in our Wanderings: Bill stops rolling, Joe surprises people by fixing things, Majid needs audio files to become an audiophile
00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:17 – News
00:40:36 – Security And Privacy
00:59:21 – Wanderings
01:47:14 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
01:50:16 – Special Thanks
01:50:59 – Outro
Full Show Notes Here
The News
KDE MegaRelease 6
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
LibreOffice 24.2.1 Office Suite Is Out with More Than 100 Bug Fixes
GParted 1.6 Open-Source Partition Editor Improves exFAT Support and Fixes Bugs – 9to5Linux
Nintendo Sues Yuzu Emulator Developers for Facilitating Switch Piracy
Security And Privacy
New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers
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:
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!>