Episode 5:05: Version Not Supported

Coming up in this episode

• 2 be or y292B?
• Set your watch to Mozilla
• And we FINALLY get back to ya

0:00 Cold Open
2:35 libfuse2 & Y292B
15:09 Mozilla Alt Text & Layoffs
37:35 Pjolt on Thunderbird & iOS
45:20 Chris Recommends an Android
49:34 Chaos-r3v says it's FreeBSD
58:51 Stan Wonders: Mint or Ubuntu?
1:04:35 Next Time!
1:06:45 Stinger

The Video Version!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV67oDTbqU0

Preshow

• If your podcatcher made you feel like you have deja vu for episode 5:04, you probably were correct. We had a little mixup on the upload. Just delete the bad episode and re-download. You can verify the episode here - https://linuxuserspace.show/504

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🔥Warm Up🔥

• Our Appimage video has outdated instructions. Ubuntu renamed the libfuse2 package to libfuse2t64.
• More information on the AppImageKit wiki page about the correct Fuse packages for your distribution.

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Feedback

Pjolt - Thunderbird for iOS?

Thunderbird is in the roadmap for iOS

Chris - Which Android device?

The Pixel has Chris's vote.

Chaos-r3v - Juniper Network switches

At least under the hood Junos OS is based on FreeBSD

Stan - Multiple Operating Systems on the same hardware

• It is posssible to dualboot Ubuntu and Linux Mint or just about any Linux distribution.
• As far as which distribution is best, that really depends on you and what works best in your mind.

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