This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to discuss the Linux Challenge that the hosts of the WAN Show from Linus Tech Tips are doing. We’ll give our thoughts on this news and offer a helping hand to the WAN Show team. Then we’re going to discuss security concerns as Malware seems to be popping up in WSL. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.

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Hosts of Destination Linux:

Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeekcommunity.com
Michael Tunnell = tuxdigital.com
Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com
Noah Chelliah = asknoahshow.com

Segment Index

• 00:00 = Welcome to DL 246
• 01:11 = Community Feedback: “Michael & Noah are wrong about self-hosting a mail server”
• 11:31 = DigitalOcean: App Platform ( https://do.co/dln )
• 13:15 = Linus Tech Tips’ Linux Challenge (WAN Show)
• 15:45 = Windows 11 to Hurt Gaming Performance
• 29:18 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
• 28:50 = Popcorn Outtake
• 31:26 = Malware Found In WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
• 42:36 = Linux Gaming: The Long Dark
• 46:49 = Software Spotlight: FotoToon
• 48:32 = Tip of the Week: How To Encrypt Your Disks
• 52:08 = Fedora 35 Beta Testing Event
• 54:34 = Outro

Tip of the Week:

Use the fdisk command to find the device name for your USB Drive:

sudo fdisk -l

Install cryptsetup package on your system:

sudo apt install cryptsetup

Set up a new dm-crypt device in LUKS encryption mode:

sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sdb

Open the device and setup mapping with name provided (e.g. USBDrive in this example):

sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb USBDriv

Verify the new virtual block device mapper:

ls -arlt /dev/mapper | tail

Run ext4 filesystem directly on that device:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/USBDrive

Mount the device your filesystem:

sudo mount /dev/mapper/USBDrive /USBDrive

Verify the the mapper is properly mounted using the df command:

df -h /USBDrive/