442 – AMD Support is Cachy(ing) On

mintCast

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

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Full Show Notes Here

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• 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

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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, [e-mail], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [e-mail], Mastodon @[e-mail], and in stealth mode on HPR
• Bill – [e-mail], Bill_H on Discord, @[e-mail] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [e-mail] @[e-mail], 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 [e-mail].

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