445 – Wearable

First up in the news: KITE OS educational Linux developed in Kerala, India, Microsoft rolls out Windows Recall again, Linus regrets merging BCacheFS again, 4M Linux 46 released;

In security and privacy: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update, “sedxp” Linux malware avoids detection for two years;

Then in our Wanderings: Majid is back from his travels, Moss, Joe, Eric gets his PineTime

In our Innards section: we do wearables

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

• 00:00:00 – Intro
• 00:01:45 – News
• 00:23:04 – Security And Privacy
• 00:36:19 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
• 01:16:31 – Innards
• 02:07:49 – Check This Out
• 02:08:52 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
• 02:09:36 – Wrap Up
• 02:11:16 – Special Thanks
• 02:11:56 – Outro

The News

KITE develops FOSS-based OS for public schools

Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Paused Due to ‘Critical Bug’

Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October

Linus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs

4MLinux 46 Mini Linux Distro Released with New Apps, Integrated LAMP Server

Security and Privacy

“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft update

Stealthy ‘sedexp’ Linux malware evaded detection for two years

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
• Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], 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 [email protected].

Special Thanks To:

• Bill 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