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First up in the News: Mint Monthly News, Mint is testing new CDN setup for repositories, EndeavourOS ends ARM branch due to lack of help, Proton buys Standard Notes, Dynebolic portable Linux renewed after 10 year hiatus, APT 2.9 released, 3.0 announced


In Security and Privacy: Over 92,000 DLink NAS devices exposed via backdoor, with no patch (out of service)


Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets his game on with a new handheld device, Joe gets his game on with every device, Majid gets to be the family IT guy, and Eric deals with technical debt

In our Innards section: Using the Linux Mint Backup Tool and backing up applet settings


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: Red Hat Announces Nova Graphics Driver for NVIDIA GPUs, Blender 4.1 released, MakuluLinux brings LinDoz back this time with AI, the end of EXT2


In security and privacy: Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections, Suspected Russian Data-Wiping 'AcidPour' Malware Targeting Linux x86 Devices


Then in our Wanderings: Moss needs some salt for his new battery, Bill goes vrroom vrroom in a big truck, Joe is getting Steamed, Majid chillaxes, and Dale is Scaling his NAS

First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February 2024, Linux market share passes 4% for first time, SerpentOS makes progress, AMD is told hands off HDMI 2.1, Google blocks RCS on rooted devices, AMDGPU has limits, ProtonMail comes to all desktops, and NVidia bans translation layers


In security and privacy: Avast is fined bigly for selling browser data


Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays a lot of games, Majid does mirrors


In our Innards section: We discuss scams and trying to protect the people we care about


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

In our Innards section we have an impromptu discussion about audio editing - some things to think about when editing for a podcast.


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: KDE MegaRelease 6, No open source HDMI 2.1 driver


In security and privacy: New Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities Expose Android and Linux Devices to Hackers


Then in our Wanderings: Bill stops rolling, Joe surprises people by fixing things, Majid needs audio files to become an audiophile

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First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks


In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data


Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games, Moss survives, and Majid finally “gets” Arch


In our Innards section: we discuss the current mintCast infrastructure

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section: Bill explains the current mintCast infrastructure


In "Check This Out" we share a call for new shows by Hacker Public Radio


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

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First up in the news: Mint 21.3 "Edge" is out, Ubuntu taking heat over Pro packages, Bazzite 2.2 is out, BunsenLabs Boron is out, Parrot 6.0 is out, we say Goodbye to Ginny, RPi Compute Module 5 is in the works, Say Hello to Wilma, RH causes issues for CentOS, and DSL Linux makes a resurgence


In security and privacy: Ring will stop giving video to police, and AnyDesk responds to a major hack


Then in our Wanderings: Bill is moving gear around, Joe upgrades, Moss takes a new tablet, and Majid is drinking the Samsung Kool-Aid

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First up in the news: Mint 21.3 released, Linux kernel 4.14 goes EOL, Google sued over patent infringement, OpenSSH phases out DSA keys, Canonical snap steams Valve


In security and privacy: NoaBot worms its way into Linux; Pixieboot vulnerabilities show up in UEFI, and SlippyBook rears its head


Then in our Wanderings: Joe buys things cheap, and Eric talks audio production


In our Innards section: We talk about whether there’s a need for desktop computers anymore.


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section: Predictions: 2023 mistakes and 2024 attempts


In "Check This Out" Bill Talks a little about Ventoy - again


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix Officially Released for Apple Silicon Macs


In security and privacy: Nothin'. We got nothin'.

Then in our Wanderings: Bill becomes “unstable”; Majid bricks and un-bricks; Moss is counting pixels; Joe …; and Eric does some Homebrewing

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In our Innards section: We're a bit all over the place - a "free form" if you will.


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. No, really – we've got feedback this time!

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First up in the news: Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” – BETAs released, Mint Monthly News – November 2023, Gnome shell updates on Ubuntu 23.10; Zorin has a new desktop; Calibre offers new formats; KDE fixes bugs ahead of Plasma 6; Intel does some driver code clean up; Canonical ports Multipass to Qt6; Linux 6.8 is Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers.


In security and privacy: Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

Then in our Wanderings: Bill is mumbling for a week straight; Joe is droning on

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In our Innards section: Tablets. Linux tablets.


In "Check This Out": Ubuntu Touch OTA, PineTab 2, and Enter Shikari - Anaesthetist

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First up in the news: mintCast has a birthday, Mint 21.3 is named, Amazon works on a Linux fork for their devices, Ubuntu commits to Netplan, Firefox attempts Wayland, FreeBSD 14 is out, Endeavour releases Galileo, Vivaldi comes to Flathub, Google kills magazine content, OpenMandriva releases Rock 5.0, Pipewire reaches 1.0.0


In security and privacy: Google Chrome’s Privacy Washing


Then in our Wanderings: Bill may just be losing his mind, (there are doubts?), Joe prints everything but money, Majid does VR, Moss hangs on, and Eric spends more quality time with his Linux tablet.

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In our innards section we have a wonderful interview with Blaine, AKA Infinity Galactic; a YouTuber who's been making videos about Linux. Recently, he's made a couple of awesome videos about Linux Mint.

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First up in the news: Ubuntu 24.04 gets a name, Mozilla Doubles Down on Firefox DEB Package, Discord is now official on Flathub, scrcpy gets an update, LXQt 1.4.0 is released, Firefox Accounts gets a Mozilla rename, Brave launches an AI, there is a new Audacity, OpenELA forms to preserve RHEL access, Element gets a new license, Proton has a new app, Fedora 39 is released, and OBS Studio 30 is out


Then in our Wanderings: Bill gets things linked up, Joe plays with Nextcloud, Moss shuffles his files around, Majid plays musical chairs, and Eric finally buys a tablet.

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News; Ubuntu 23.10 re-released; GNOME gets new CEO; new RaspPi Imager released; Plasma 6 Release Dates released; Matrix reaches 115 Million users; Bodhi Linux 7.0 AppPack released


In security and privacy: BlackCat ransomware attacks Linux and VMs; 1Password Breach – no harm, no foul; new vulnerabilities found and patched in XWayland, X.org


Then in our Wanderings: Bill shuffles cards; Joe tests more things; Moss keeps busy


Then in our Innards section: We discuss containerized package systems


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we speak to Danielle Fore´ of Elementary OS about the 7.1 release,


In "Check This Out" we share a video by "Explaining Computers" about some Tips and Tricks for Linux Mint.


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Cinnamon EDGE released, new version of Raspberry Pi OS released, new Ubuntu 23.10+flavours


In security and privacy: Curl patches 'worst' security flaw in ages, Encrypted Client Hello


Then in our Wanderings: Joe prints the D-handle, Moss tries out a new chair, Bill spends more money, Majid is finally Apple-free and Eric manages to stay alive for days without a smartphone.

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In our Innards section we continue the conversation about Android, and the variants thereof


In "Check This Out" GNU turns 40!


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news: LMDE 6 FAYE released, Mint 21.2 EDGE iso approved, Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut


In security and privacy: Update LibreOffice Now to Fix a Security Flaw, Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor


Then in our Wanderings: Joe is Pining for Manjaro, Majid mixes his compartments, and Eric...well - you'll see.

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In our Innards section, Dale will take us back to the desktop


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news: LMDE 6 “Faye” BETA Released, Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process, Plasma 6 release date is set, IBM raises cloud prices, Manjaro 23 released, Mozilla rushes out patches, and ZFS returns to Ubuntu


In security and privacy, a huge security breach affects all browsers, and Google does user tracking


Then in our Wanderings, Majid has been a busy bunny, Joe is having troubles with 3D, Dale has been driven crazy, Bill gears up for public education, and Eric hates computers.

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In our Innards section, we talk about Linux on mobile devices


In "Check This Out" We discuss a CNN article about Ukraine's drone training.

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August, New Asahi Linux Mac GPU beats Apple, Gnome improves Epiphany, Budgie 10.8 is out, Bodhi 7.0.0 is released, QEMU 8.1 released, LibreOffice gets a new number, Linux Turns 32, Mageia 9 released, Linux Kernel 6.5 is out, and Firefox loses users


In security and privacy: Nothing. We have nothing.


Then in our Wanderings: Joe and Moss return to the fold, and welcome Eric Adams to join us

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In our Innards section we talk about cloud storage solutions and attempt to demystify some of the procedures for hosting your own cloud storage.

In "Check This Out" On August 12, 1981 IBM Introduces Personal Computer

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First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as "Incus", Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Alarm raised over MozillaVPN, EFF launches the TOR University Challenge, news on OpenZFS and ZFSBoot, and Devuan 5 is here
In security and privacy: SkidMap and Downfall

Then in our Wanderings: Bill and Majid have cloudy days
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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,
In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors

Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave


In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we talk “ethical telemetry”

And finally, the feedback

In "Check This Out" Check out the new version and tell us what you think!

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First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat
In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist
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In our Innards section we talk browsers

And finally, the feedback

In "Check This Out" a link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Steam Deck exceeds 10,000 games, Red Hat fights public opinion, new LibreBoot is out, Google whines about their new AI search, Peppermint OS upgrades to Bookworm, a new KaOS, First Amendment fails at Supremes, and Solus 4 is released
In security and privacy, StackRot is here, and so is ProtonPass

Then in our Wanderings, Moss makes money, Joe goes 3D, Bill mics up, and Majid thumbs his nose at inflation
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In our Innards section, we get all cloudy

We also have some feedback!


In "Check This Out" a new app to trim, crop, and mirror/flip videos on linux. Also: Diablo build for modern operating systems!

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First up in the news, Mint 21.2 betas have been released, Debian 13 gets a name, Ardour 7.5 does remaps, RHEL goes closed-source, and Opera One ships with AI
In security and privacy, Tsunami comes to SSH

Then in our Wanderings Joe goes on a little trip, Moss musics, and Majid has toys
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First up in the news, Mint Monthly News, All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year, Red Hat Stops Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL & Fedora, Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta, Windows XP activation algorithm cracked - keygen now works on Linux


In security and privacy, we meet Blacksuit


Then in our Wanderings, Bill chases burning trucks, Moss is feeling the pressure, and Majid needs to stop spending money


In our Innards section, we discuss laptop battery life


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our innards, we talk all things Git

In "Check This Out" Londoner shared a cool tool for generating secure passwords; Joe sheres a couple links for getting started with Git


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First up in the news, Arch migrates Git, Ubuntu changes PPAs, Fedora Onyx is approved, Google to remove old accounts, Debian re-imposes a moratorium, Proton goes Family, Red Hat unveils a new Desktop, Fedora plans to drop X11, Thunderbird gets a new logo
In security and privacy, Google’s 2FA isn’t private enough

Then in our Wanderings, Majid is off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates
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In our Innards section we talk about Pimiga

In Vibrations from the Ether, Joe interacts with a listener via email about some hardware subjects and other stuff

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First up, in the news, Mint News for April, Mozilla Thunderbird is adding paid features and services, Raspberry Pi OS updates, sudo and su get Rusty, Flatseal gets GTK4, new Framework laptop gets Ryzen 7040 series, Kingston firmware contains lyrics, YouTube tests blocking adblock, Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V gets Ubuntu, and Microsoft wants Firefox to switch to Bing
In security and privacy, India bans open-source messaging apps “for security reasons”;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill tells a story, Joe gets political, Moss conquers wifi, and Majid goes back in time.
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In our Innards section, we talk about the origins of the desktop


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First up in the news, Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released, blendOS 2 supports Android, new Vivaldi out, new Opera One Dev Release, GIMP completes GTK3 rewrite, QEMU drops 32-bit, Ryzens are burning, Proton launches a password app, Jetpack Announces the end of twitter auto-sharing, and Red Hat lays of 4% due to high profits;
In security and privacy, Mullvad foils a search warrant, and RTM Locker targets NAS and ESXi;
Then in our Wanderings, Joe goes 3D, Moss upgrades, Bill shuffles cards, Majid has a few lightbulb moments, and Dale has entered the Void.
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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – March 2023, Ubuntu 23.04 beta released, updates in Tumbleweed, last 16.04-based Ubuntu Touch rolled out, Linux Lite 6.4 released, COSMIC DE updates, OpenBSD 7.3 & FreeBSD 13.2 announced, big changes in Firefox 113, Mullvad announces their own browser, and Solus sets sail once again;


In security and privacy, Kodi leaks

Then in our Wanderings, Bill catches up, Moss has more drive, Joe is such a prints, Majid iPads in

In our Innards section, we meet one of our new co-hosts

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First up in the news, Chrome does fractions with Wayland, new Framework laptops, Docker changes their mind, ARM needs more money, Midnight BSD released, GnuCash is updated, Cinnamon Remix goes official, and PineStar64 is announced;


In security and privacy, Mélofée happens, and Linux Tech Tips gets hacked;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe has been sick, and Moss replaces a hard drive.

In our Innards section, we beg for new hosts and talk about our experiences with mintCast.

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First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released.


In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;


Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,


In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – February, Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak, Linux desktop powers consider uniting for an app store, Ubuntu Devs Working on ‘Mini’ Installer, Mesa 23 released, Mozilla narcs on Android apps, Fedora caught thinking, Linux supports Apple chips, OnlyOffice integrates, Falkon accelerates


In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help

Then we have our usual Wanderings

In our Innards section, we talk about the Android apps we can't live without.
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First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;


In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;


Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.


In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

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First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release.


In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt.


Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.


In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices.

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This week in our Innards, We do a rundown of our favorite distros of 2022


In "Check This Out" we talk about a graphical tool Londoner shared that makes light work of scheduling a shutdown or reboot. Moss shares his experience with the Flatpak of a favorite game of his; and we share an article postulating the death of Unix.

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First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109


In security and privacy, nothing to see here, move along


Then in our Wanderings, Moss is back, Joe has fun with a Pihole, and Bill takes some OTC stuff.

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First up in the news:
Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS


In Security and Privacy, Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered


The in our wanderings: Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers


In our innards section, We go over last years predictions and our new predictions

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First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.


In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.


The in our wanderings: Guy talk


In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.

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First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support
In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

In security and privacy: updates are required

Then in our Wanderings: Bill hammers nextcloud, Joe does tinkering

In our Innards section: we discuss more history and finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions


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In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

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First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clonezilla gets a new kernel, and Fedora refreshes Live Creation;

In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

Then in our Wanderings: Moss unMints his Studio, Joe sadly loses a Beto, and Bill doesn’t have much.


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up in the news: The Kudu is out, with a Lobster on its tail, Fedora 37 is dragging, the next Kernel takes less power from the people, Steam Snap switches stacks, Flatpak gets Meson, and Linus wants to forget about 486; 

In security and privacy: we get the first security update for the Kudu;

Then in our Wanderings: Joe goes to Micro Center, Moss is having a ball, and Bill is clouding around

In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions


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First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky; 

In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;

Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;

In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we talk about how Linux has permeated Everything;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news, Monthly Mintyness, Gnome gnarliness, and KDE K-ness, Ubuntu 22.10 gets fresh, Ubuntu now on AWS, Brave blocks consent, Google kills another app, GNU Toolchain moves, Matrix patches holes, new Shotcut, new Audacity, and more…

In security and privacy, a new virus for Windows and Linux

Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fixing bikes on his audiobookshelf, Moss has more classes, and Bill gets Nextcloud running.

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BleepingComputer publishes a series titled “This Week in Ransomware” each week as a news summary on this topic. In early September they covered multiple times schools being increasingly targeted by ransomware and we decided to cover it in the innards.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and Intel fogs the processor market;

In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;

Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.

In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news, AWK gets Unicode, GIMP out, Firefox improves its memory, Nitrux released, Unity is a Flavour, Microsoft drops Linux, Makulu adds to the confusion, and Debian wrestles with firmware;

In security and privacy, 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered, and Plex gets exposed;

Then in our Wanderings, Moss reconfigures again, and Norbert contradicts himself.

In our Innards section, Mint and Gnome have lots to show us;

And finally, the feedback and a suggestion or two.

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In our Innards section, Bill falls down a rabbit hole called “pentesting.”

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First up in the news, The Kernel gets a bump, LibreOffice adds a point, Android 13 is out if you have a Pixel, and Gnome has a birthday,

In security and privacy, Discord and your passwords are pythoned, and hard drives apparently have a taste in music

Then in our Wanderings, Joe plays with his handheld, Bill is setting up a new server, Moss skips the assault and gets a couple batteries, and Norbert has had done some things.

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In our Innards section we discuss the changes we usually make to the systems and desktop environments we use to fit our workflows and to make them feel like home.

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First up in the news: Vanessa is finally here, so is the Linux kernel version 5.19, which was published from an M1 Mac by Linus Torvalds

In security and privacy, Sale of over a billion Chinese users’ data found, DuckDuckGo is (finally) blocking Microsoft trackers, and Linux 6.0 to have run-time verification for running on safety critical systems

Then in our Wanderings, Bill is hearing things, Moss is losing power, Joe is soldering on, and Norbert is taming the fox

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In our Innards section Tom Murosky joins us for an interview

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First up in the news: Vanessa is almost here, Xfce flirts with Wayland, GNOME is touching up the touchscreen experience, and STAR protects data on Brave browsers;

In security and privacy, the Retbleed speculative exploit is more than just speculation, but the kernel team already have a fix, and Lightning Framework flashes our way;

Then in our Wanderings, Bill is back from Pennsylvania again and again, Norbert polishes his laptop, Moss is doing the Makulu Shift, Joe is working the mods, Josh T is fixing watches, and Tom is channeling.

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In our Innards section, we discuss the subscription services we're using.

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First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dropping the X, Linux gets Siri, er, Cortana, er, Carola.

In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips

Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still

In our Innards section We talk subscription Services

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news, Gnome wins Microsoft money, Firefox translates offline, Rocky overtakes the Red Hat pack, apps on KDE look more klear, Debian gets the Gecko treatment, Zoom gets Wayland screen sharing, Photoshop is kind-of–but not-really coming to Linux, and Nvidia contributes.

In security and privacy, Hertzbleed is coming for your CPU, and the EU is going after deepfakes.

Then in our Wanderings, Moss goes Custom, Norbert emerges, and Joe is Florida Man
In our Innards section we discuss the various licenses in the world of open source software

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we interview Steve Seguin, creator of VDO.Ninja

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First up in the news, There are new Regolith and Cinnamon desktops, KDE has new gear, Telegram Premium to launch, Plex has new Linux apps, Atom editor gets nuked, noUbuntu works to tame a daemon, System76 goes to Europe, and Europe is all about the C;

In security, Symbiote malware discovered, and Apple M1 chips are found to be flawed;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fighting trees, Bill is editing shows from the cab of a truck, Moss is spending Jeff Bezos’ money, Norbert is in a galaxy far far away, and we get to meet our guest, Steve Seguin.

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First up in the news, we have some Gnome news, some new Intel on Linux 5.19, the kernel gets even more Rusty, Ubuntu loses its Pulse, and Proton unifies.

In security and privacy: Facebook has no clue where your data goes.  LinuxFX dumps user data… where? Mozilla fixes a serious vulnerability.

Then in our Wanderings: Joe starts making videos, Moss’ wife starts Cruzeing, and Norbert starts his new laptop.

In our Innards section, we get some thoughts on Ubuntu 22.04.

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section we discuss how we would build our own distro

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First up in the news: NVIDIA is transitioning, Debian talks non-free, Ubuntu has new ISOs and Docker news.

In security and privacy: Intel has more microcode

Then in our Wanderings: Joe lost the election, Norbert watches sci-fi and Bill sets up NextCloud.

First up in the news, NTFS is orphaned, a hare-brained C alternative, and some new Pop!

In security and privacy, Microsoft found it, and Musk open sources

Then in our Wanderings, Jorge is steaming right along, Joe is destroying more stuff, Norbert had a little too much linux, Moss is redoing EVERYTHING, and Bill is pulling his hair out.

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First up in the news, NTFS is orphaned, a hare-brained C alternative, and some new Pop!

In security and privacy, Microsoft found it, and Musk open sources 

Then in our Wanderings, Jorge is steaming right along, Joe is destroying more stuff, Norbert had a little too much linux, Moss is redoing EVERYTHING, and Bill is pulling his hair out.

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In our Innards section we discuss tips and tricks around GRUB, as well as a couple alternatives.

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In our Innards section we discuss Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 “Elsie”.


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First up in the news, Mint 21 will have a new graphical upgrade tool; Fedora plans to remove BIOS and XOrg; Gnome43 reworks adwaita tools; a Sony engineer makes exFAT 73% faster; and Alibaba previews a 128-core Armv9 server processor.

Then in our Wanderings, Joe is Board of school runnings, Norbert is looking for a MATE, Moss blew up Kodi; and Bill is browsercasting.

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In our Innards section we discuss some of the newer additions to Linux and what we think about them.

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In our Linux Innards, we review our 2021 predictions and make our new predictions for 2022.

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In the news, Pop OS 21.10 is released, GNOME 42 – Top New Feature and Release Detail, ReactOS 0.4.14 has been released, Krita 5.0 has been released, and there’s yet another desktop environment on the horizon

In security, a grub update causes problems with Ubuntu and a Log4shell update

Then in our wanderings, Joe's on vacation, Norbert's full of gingerbread, Nishant is surviving the winter, Josh is on Windows, and Bill's just glad to be here

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In our Innards section, we talk about our favorite command line tools

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news, Linux Mint monthly news, Europe embraces open source, Debian has browser issues, Fedora goes all in on Wayland, Firefox helps you fight spam, And the Linux kernel gets rusty

In security, Ubuntu Kernel Security Patches, FGKASLR gets closer to mainline, Data stealing malware hides on Linux servers, Go Daddy data breach

In our Wanderings, Joe does some 3d printing, Josh got a new monitor, Norbert switches OS’s, and Clayton looks back

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Show notes



First up in the news,Google has an NVMe problem, Arch has a new installer, Deepin unlocks your face, Fedora and Ubuntu have betas and they both default to Wayland on Nvidia, and mintCast gets the April Fools treatment; In security and privacy, Red Hat has an “I” patch, another kernel vulnerability found, and Lumen finds more threats in WSL;Then in our Wanderings, I’m in reconstruction again, Bill is driving himself crazy, Josh is getting Steamy, and Norbert did… something. Some things.



In our Innards section we discuss some of the newer additions to Linux and what we think about them;And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. We expected Joe here but he got called away at the last minute. Wish you were here, Joe.



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The News



20 minutes



Google Has A Problem With Linux Server Reboots Due To Too Many NVMe DrivesImproved Arch Linux Installer Experience to come with archinstall 2.4 Deepin OS Becomes the First Linux Distro to Offer Face UnlockFedora 36 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS betas have been releasedUbuntu 22.04 LTS Will Default To Wayland With the NVIDIA Proprietary DrivermintCast April Fools



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Security and Privacy Update



10 minutes



Red Hat released a patch for a recently discovered vulnerability that allowed for local privilege escalation, putting all manner of Linux systems potentially at risk.Another vulnerability in the Linux KernelLumen security research reveals threats still lurk in Windows Subsystem for Linux



Linux Innards



Tech added to Linux



30 minutes (~5-8 minutes each)



SystemdWireguardSnaps, Flatpak, and AppimageWaylandPulseAudio and PipeWireBtrfs and ZFSWINE-based tech (Bottles, Proton, Lutris, PlayOnLinux)



Check This Out



10 minutes



Podcasts (Josh T) - Play, update, and manage your podcasts from a lightweight interface that seamlessly integrates with GNOME. Podcasts can play various audio formats and remember where you stopped listening. You can subscribe to shows via RSS/Atom, iTunes, and Soundcloud links. Subscriptions from other apps can be imported via OPML files.PeerGOS (Moss) - an open source replacement for Google Drive, able to be self-hosted, or hosted on the company’s servers, free to 500 Mb and decent prices for larger storage amounts.App Outlet (Norbert) - A universal Linux app store



Announcements



Next Episode - 2 pm US Central time on April 17thGet mintCast converted to your time zoneNext Live Stream -  2 pm US Central time on April 9thGet the Live Stream converted to your time zone



Wrap-up



Joe - Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss - Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, lots of ways to contact me can be found on It’s MOSSBill - bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also - checkout my new podcast 3ftpodcast.orgNorbert - norbert@mintcast.orgJosh T - jt@mintcast.org, Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on TwitterJosh H - joshontech@mintcast.org, @joshontech on Twitter and most other social sites, Crowbar Kernel Panic.Nishant - nishant@mintcast.org, riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on Discord, maverick00783 @ Steam



Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible



Josh Lowe for all his work on the website,

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