First up in the news: LMDE 7 “Gigi” released


Then in our Wanderings: Bill suffers an outage, Joe’s Jellyfin is “ok”, Majid is back to “full time”, and Jim has a lot of extensions


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” release imminent, Mint Monthly News, Ubuntu 25.10 is out and breaking stuff, Firefox shaking is loved by TIME, Windows 10 is officially dead and lots more!


In security and privacy: Charles has some interesting news on AI and new laws in Spain


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: LMDE 7 ‘Gigi” BETA released


In security and privacy: Mississippi enforces Age Assurance Law, NPM suffers a security breach.


Then in our Wanderings, Joe works with Proxmox, and Openmediavault, Jim Troubleshoots hard disks, Majid goes back to work, and Bill works on his "Immich."


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” released, Mint Monthly News – August


In security and privacy: Plex is a problem again


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing.

First up in the Mint news: Another birthday for Mint!, Mint 22.2 final ISOs now being tested


In security and privacy: Arch is Ddossed and malware abounds


Then in our Wanderings: Joe does a lot, Majid achieves very little, Charles, Bill falls off the ARC and Jim is a photographic genius


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

A Saturday Livestream about everything and nothing.


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First up in The News: Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” BETA Release, The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project is seeking increased sponsorship, and CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings


In our Innards section: Joe goes hard on some 3D printing


In Check This Out, Charles gives us an overview of Pass Key


And finally, in Vibrations from the Ether, feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint 22.2 betas now in testing, Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces, Debian 13 Trixie Release Date is Officially Confirmed, and Hyprland Hyprperks have been launched.


In Security and Privacy, Introducing Proton Authenticator – secure 2FA, your way and Microsoft Recall issues


In Check This Out, Ignition allows you to manage startup apps and scripts


And finally, Vibrations From the Ether

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – July 2025


In our Innards section: Let’s talk BASH!


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Linux hits 5%, Nintendo does what we feared, The orange baby eats a TACO, Steam prefers Proton to Native, Fedora might have killed Bazzite and a new Firefox release


We also welcome Charles as a new co-host!


In security and privacy: more password leakage by big tech


And finally, the Feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – May 2025, controversy around the Nintendo Switch 2, Fedora 43 Workstation (GNOME) to remove X11 session, end of Linux Format, and we have a new format and new co-host!


In our Innards section: Dale discusses mobile internet devices and networks


In Check This Out, we cover Packet, a new file transfer utility that integrates with Android’s Quick Share


In Check This Out, we cover Packet, a new file transfer utility that integrates with Android’s Quick Share


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, BackBlaze backups may be in trouble, you can run Arch inside Windows, Linux kernel drops 486 and early 586 support, and a new RaspberryPiOS release, and the end of Windows 10 support brings new opportunities


In security and privacy: openSUSE removes Deepin Desktop over security issues, Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law


Then in our Wanderings: Bill goes mobile, Moss plays with a Pangolin, Eric finally fixes his WiFi.


In our Innards section: we talk about Virtual Machines


In Bodhi Corner, just a bit about theming

First up in the news: Ubuntu 25.04 released, Ardour advances, Commodore OS 3.0 released, and OpenMandriva brings us TWO new releases


In security and privacy: US warns of new Zambian cybersecurity law, and Hackers can now imitate official Google mail


Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets recontained, Moss waits, Majid goes to Cambridge


In our Innards section: Open discussion!


In Bodhi Corner, we discuss the magic of modules

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Linux 6.16 To Add Asahi UAPI Header For Apple Silicon, Switzerland battles privacy intrusions, Firefox adds HEVC playback in Linux, Debian releases APT 3.0, Apple may add Mx GCC core support, Git turns 20, ProtonMail adds advanced features, ArcoLinux ends it all


Then in our Wanderings: Bill is having trouble on the road and won’t be here, Joe returns to us, Moss juggles tablets, Majid learns things, and Eric is AWOL

In our Innards section: we talk travel computing


In Bodhi Corner, Robert Wiley releases a script which can be used to install Moksha on any version of Debian, including Trixie

First up in the news: New GIMP, Debian comes to a RISC-V tablet, Google explains why the are putting Terminal on Android, Asahi Linux loses another top dev, Plex goes for the gold – yours, meet EU OS, Kernel 6.14 is released, Gnome 48 released, new GRUB updates, AerynOS is released with GNOME 48


In security and privacy: “MyTerms” wants to let the user dictate privacy


Then in our Wanderings: Moss plays Musical Tablets, Joe Moxes the Prox, Dale has a burpday, Majid is on holiday and Bill is off truckin’ somewhere...


In our Innards section: Dale takes us through Mobile Networks


In Bodhi Corner, Moss covers new translations and work on the next version.