Episode Details

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

The News:

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” – BETA Release

CachyOS Topped DistroWatch’s Rankings

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) project is seeking increased sponsorship

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR
• Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other two podcasts I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid) and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_dr@mastodon.social, AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org.
• Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord
• Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube

Special Thanks To:

• Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
• 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
• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about