News: Mathematical Software (both are Linux versions!) (Scilab) (Octave) Linux Mint 12 KDE RC released! (blog.linuxmint.com) Raspberry Pi released to manufacturing, available in weeks. (raspberrypi.org) Tizen project releases code, SDK preview – no longer vaporware. (phoronix.com) Corel introduces AfterShot Pro for Linux, Mac and Windows. (engadget.com) PulseAudio ported to Android. (phoronix.com) (arunraghavan.net) More reasons to [...]

News: Did the LHC just find the Higgs? (discovery.com) Linux Mint adds a bit of Cinnamon to their mix! (cinnamon.linuxmint.com) (pcworld.com) (h-online.com) (blog.linuxmint.com) Android remerges with the Linux kernel. (h-online.com) The Dreckig OS. (osnews.com) Will Gnome 3.4 save the linux desktop? (internetnews.com) Open Sourcing Medicine. (ucsf.edu) Suicide Linux – for those who like to live [...]

News: Where the Linux jobs are. (oregonlive.com) HP to open source WebOS. (news.yahoo.com) Linux Mint and a Banshee debacle? (omgubuntu.co.uk) BluRay Support comes to Linux. (phoronix.com) FCC Sides with Google, in Google Wallet debacle on the Nexus Prime. (abcnews.go.com) (fcc.gov) The Main Topic: 2011 in Review New hosts for mintCast Debian 6 The death of [...]

News & Personal Updates 0:7:58 Linus Talks Of Linux 2.8 Or Linux 3.0; Ending Linux 2.6 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ3NQ http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTQ3Ng https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/516 0:12:09 Fedora 15 is released http://fedoraproject.org/ http://fusionlinux.org/ 0:13:37 Unity Coming to openSUSE After All http://ostatic.com/blog/unity-coming-to-opensuse-after-all 0:21:09 Calligra Announces First Snapshot Release http://www.calligra-suite.org/news/calligra-announces-first-snapshot-release/ 0:26:02 Simon Phipps blogs about the Microsoft Skype purchase http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/05/a-liberating-betrayal/index.htm 0:34:25 Duke Nukem has [...]

News & Personal Updates 0:00:42 Two stories from the Linux Mint Blog:  Linux Mint signs a partnership with HelloTux and Linux Mint 5 LTS Elyssa reaches end of life http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1733 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1731       0:03:08 Google vs Bedrock   http://zd.net/k518ix http://bit.ly/kzSVd http://zd.net/jH8Ttt       0:09:36 The DOJ has placed limits on Microsoft’s purchase of [...]

News & Personal Updates 0:03:14 Oracle abandons OpenOffice http://yhoo.it/fUZeL5 0:0:7:57 The first beta candidate for Fedora 15 is now available http://bit.ly/iacz7N http://bit.ly/gxyzdg 0:13:23 Dropbox Controversy. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Apr-19.html Original Blog Post http://bit.ly/etKUnX Boing Boing Story http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=735 Dropbox’s take 0:20:21 Is there a growing shortage of Linux admins? http://www.ctoedge.com/content/coming-linux-admin-shortage 0:24:36 Gimp 2.7.2 released http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTM0Ng Main Topic 0:26:49 Review [...]

News & personal updates Neil McGovern of the Debian team has announced that Debian 6 was for released on February 5th. During the two years that Debian ‘Squeeze’ was under development, the Debian Project managed to close over 149,000 bugs. Debian.org Linux.com ran a discussion of Linux Mint Debian Edition, which we will be talking [...]

Harrison and James review some of their favorite Linux games while we transition to the new hosts, in this episode of mintCast. News & personal updates This is the first episode of mintCast 2.0, hosted by Harrison and James. Flight Gear FlightProSim Statement XBMC moves to GIT XBMC CrystalHD playback Main Topic Linux Gaming: Nexuiz [...]

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Rothgar’s favorite items from CES 2010. Also this was supposed to be done as a different episode so sorry if there are random edits where I changed numbers and corrected myself on a few acronyms. I left a few mistakes still in the podcast but trying to edit that stuff out is hard. I also [...]