478 – The Anti-Windows Cast

First up in security and privacy: Euro firms ditch American Clouds and systemd stuff

Then in our Wanderings: Joe, Majid does yoga with his distros, Charles is our security guru, Jim explores the new Mint release

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

The News:

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

We are building cryptographically verifiable integrity into Linux systems

Europe’s digital sovereignty paranoia

Dow Chemical says AI is the element behind 4,500 job cuts

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 the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).
• Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest.
• Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
• Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
• Jim– [email protected], 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 <Thanks, Clem … and co!>