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 The News Mint 21.2 Victoria released Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option Blend OS v3 Bhatura released In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux Security and Privacy Avrecon infects 70,000 Linux Servers, turns them into a botnet OpenSSH Agent RCE Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Commands PyLoose Linux Malware Mines Crypto Directly From Memory Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  Special Thanks To:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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 <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4543" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mint 21.2 Victoria released</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/canonicals-loses-prominent-lxd-engineer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/ubuntu-new-unified-install-plans-sound-meh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option</a> Blend OS v3 Bhatura released <a href="https://news.itsfoss.com/suse-rhel-fork/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/avrecon-malware-infects-70-0000-linux-routers-to-build-botnet/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Avrecon infects 70,000 Linux Servers, turns them into a botnet</a> <a href="https://cybersecuritynews.com/openssh-rce-flaw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenSSH Agent RCE Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Commands</a> <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-pyloose-linux-malware-mines-crypto-directly-from-memory/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PyLoose Linux Malware Mines Crypto Directly From Memory</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-417-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>Special Thanks To:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

417 – All Hail Avrecon

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. https://openscad.org/downloads.html https://youtu.be/KyADkmRVe0U Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

In our Innards section we talk browsers And finally, the feedback <h2>In “Check This Out”</h2> A link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look. <a href="https://openscad.org/downloads.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://openscad.org/downloads.html</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/KyADkmRVe0U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/KyADkmRVe0U</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-416-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

416.5 – Browser Arousal

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 The News Mint Monthly News Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games Red Hat tried to address criticism over their new source code restrictions LibreBoot, FOSS BIOS replacement, sees new release Google Admits Users “Not Quite Happy” With New Search Engine New Peppermint OS is out, based on Debian 12 New version of KaOS is out, Arch-“inspired” with Plasma Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” Solus 4 is released Security and Privacy StackRot, a new Linux Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability Introducing Proton Pass Full Shownotes can be found here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  Special Thanks To:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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 <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4536" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mint Monthly News</a> <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/steam-deck-hits-over-10000-verified-and-playable-games/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steam Deck hits over 10,000 verified and playable games</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Open-Source-Commitment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat tried to address criticism over their new source code restrictions</a> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/new-libreboot-stable-release/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LibreBoot, FOSS BIOS replacement, sees new release</a> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/26/google-execs-hope-new-search-feature-will-help-amid-reddit-blackouts.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Admits Users “Not Quite Happy” With New Search Engine</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/peppermint-os-is-now-based-on-debian-12-heres-whats-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Peppermint OS is out, based on Debian 12</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/independent-distro-kaos-2023-06-is-out-with-linux-6-3-latest-kde-software" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New version of KaOS is out, Arch-“inspired” with Plasma</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/judge-rules-white-house-pressured-social-networks-to-suppress-free-speech/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”</a> <a href="https://getsol.us/2023/07/08/solus-4-4-released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Solus 4 is released</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://securityaffairs.com/148231/security/stackrot-linux-kernel-privilege-escalation-bug.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">StackRot, a new Linux Kernel privilege escalation vulnerability</a> <a href="https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-launch" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Introducing Proton Pass</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-416-show-notes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Shownotes can be found here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h2>Special Thanks To:</h2> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

416 – The Red Hat Diaries

In our Innards section, we get all cloudy We also have some feedback! In “Check This Out” New App to Trim, Crop, Mirror &amp; Flip Videos on Linux Diablo build for modern operating systems Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

In our Innards section, we get all cloudy We also have some feedback! <h3>In “Check This Out”</h3> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/rotate-flip-trim-video-on-linux-easily/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New App to Trim, Crop, Mirror &amp; Flip Videos on Linux</a> <a href="https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Diablo build for modern operating systems</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-415-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

415.5 – Out There Somewhere

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 The News Mint 21.2 betas have been released Debian 13 gets a name Ardour 7.5 Remaps Tempo Maps Editing, more Red Hat now limited RHEL sources to CentOS Stream Now Shipping: Opera One, first browser with AI Security and Privacy Hackers infect Linux SSH servers with Tsunami Botnet Malware Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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 <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mint 21.2 betas have been released</a> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/debian-13-codename-is-trixie/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian 13 gets a name</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/ardour-7-5-revamps-tempo-maps-editing-remembers-i-o-connections-per-device" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ardour 7.5 Remaps Tempo Maps Editing, more</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-CentOS-Stream-Sources" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat now limited RHEL sources to CentOS Stream</a> <a href="https://press.opera.com/2023/06/20/introducing-opera-one/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Now Shipping: Opera One, first browser with AI</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-infect-linux-ssh-servers-with-tsunami-botnet-malware/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hackers infect Linux SSH servers with Tsunami Botnet Malware</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-415-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

415 – Future Appears Cloudy

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 &amp; 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 The News Mint Monthly News – May 2023 All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year Red Hat Will Stop 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 Security and Privacy New Linux Ransomware “Blacksuit”, looks like “Royal” Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs and other valuable contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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 &amp; 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 <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4518" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mint Monthly News – May 2023</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/immutable-all-snap-ubuntu-desktop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All-Snap Ubuntu Desktop Will Be Available Next Year</a> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/red-hat-stop-packaging-libreoffice/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat Will Stop Packaging LibreOffice as RPM for RHEL, Fedora</a> <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/897874/mozilla-thunderbirds-next-big-update-is-now-in-beta/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla Thunderbird’s Next Big Update Is Now in Beta</a> <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/26/windows_xp_activation_keygen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Windows XP activation algorithm cracked – keygen now works on Linux</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/06/new-linux-ransomware-strain-blacksuit.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Linux Ransomware “Blacksuit”, looks like “Royal”</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-414-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and 3 Fat Truckers</li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and other valuable contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

414 – Salt and Battery

In our Innards section, we talk all things Git … In “Check This Out” Generate Secure Passwords on Linux Fast with ‘Key Cutter’ Git Beginner Projects Top 8 Open Source GitHub Projects to Level-Up Your Coding And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about  

In our Innards section, we talk all things Git … <h3>In “Check This Out”</h3> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/key-cutter-password-generator-linux/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Generate Secure Passwords on Linux Fast with ‘Key Cutter’</a> <a href="https://github.com/topics/beginner-project" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Git Beginner Projects</a> <a href="https://codegym.cc/groups/posts/383-top-8-open-source-github-projects-to-level-up-your-coding" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top 8 Open Source GitHub Projects to Level-Up Your Coding</a> And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-413-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li> </ul>

413.5 – Git Some!

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, I’m off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates The News Arch Migrates Git Ubuntu Makes “Significant Changes” to PPAs for 23.10 Fedora Onyx, Immutable and with Budgie, approved for Fedora 39 Google To Start Removing Inactive Accounts After 2 Years Google Chrome’s 2023 UI Refresh on Ubuntu Debian Votes to Reinstate Merged-usr File Movement Moratorium Proton Unveils Family Plan Red Hat Reveals Podman Desktop 1.0 Fedora Intends To Completely Drop X11 in Plasma 6 Thunderbird Gets a Brand New Logo Security And Privacy Google’s New 2FA Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing 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 contribution Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about  

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, I’m off to University, Joe is manacled to his office, Moss kicks the tires on the new Bodhi, and Bill migrates <h2>The News</h2> Arch Migrates Git <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/significant-changes-to-ppas-coming-in-ubuntu-23-10" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Makes “Significant Changes” to PPAs for 23.10</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/fedora-onyx-approved-as-immutable-fedora-linux-39-spin-with-budgie-desktop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora Onyx, Immutable and with Budgie, approved for Fedora 39</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1939628" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google To Start Removing Inactive Accounts After 2 Years</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/try-chrome-design-fresh-2023-linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Chrome’s 2023 UI Refresh on Ubuntu</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Reinstate-usr-Moratorium" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Debian Votes to Reinstate Merged-usr File Movement Moratorium</a> <a href="https://proton.me/blog/proton-family-plan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Proton Unveils Family Plan</a> <a href="https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/05/23/podman-desktop-now-generally-available#" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat Reveals Podman Desktop 1.0</a> <a href="https://linuxiac.com/fedora-plans-to-drop-x11-support-in-plasma-6/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fedora Intends To Completely Drop X11 in Plasma 6</a> <a href="https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/introducing-the-brand-new-thunderbird-logo/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thunderbird Gets a Brand New Logo</a> <h2>Security And Privacy</h2> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/google-authenticator-two-factor-not-end-encrypted-1850377102" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google’s New 2FA Isn’t End-to-End Encrypted</a> <h2><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-413-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs and various other contribution</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li> </ul>

413 – Flying Wigs

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 In “Check This Out”  Meet Snapshot, GNOME’s New Camera App Full Show Notes Can be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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 <h4>In “Check This Out” </h4> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/snapshot-new-gnome-camera-app/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meet Snapshot, GNOME’s New Camera App</a> <h3><a href="https://mintcast.org/show-notes/episode-412-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can be Found Here</a></h3> <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li><a></a>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and 3 Fat Truckers</li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast</a> on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

412.5 – Gracias, Amiga!

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, I conquered wifi, and Majid goes back in time. The News Mint News for April Mozilla Thunderbird Is Adding Paid Features and Services Raspberry Pi OS updates with new kernel, chromium Sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust for better security  Flatseal 2.0 released with GTK4, libadwaita Framework Laptop gets Ryzen 7040 Series Coldplay Lyrics Hidden in Kingston SSD Firmware YouTube Is Testing Blocking AdBlockers Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V Gets Ubuntu Microsoft wants Firefox to ditch Google, switch to Bing Security and Privacy India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

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, I conquered wifi, and Majid goes back in time. <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4513" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mint News for April</a> <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/891204/mozilla-thunderbird-is-adding-paid-features-and-services/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Mozilla Thunderbird Is Adding Paid Features and Services</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-brings-linux-kernel-6-1-lts-chromium-113-and-more" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Raspberry Pi OS updates with new kernel, chromium</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-su-rewrite-rust" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Sudo and su are being rewritten in Rust for better security</a> <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/flatseal-2-0-released-with-gtk4-libadwaita-ui/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Flatseal 2.0 released with GTK4, libadwaita</a> <a href="https://frame.work/blog/announcing-the-framework-laptop-13-powered-by-amd-ryzen" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Framework Laptop gets Ryzen 7040 Series</a> <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/surprise-coldplay-lyrics-hidden-in-kingston-ssd-firmware/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Coldplay Lyrics Hidden in Kingston SSD Firmware</a> <a href="https://9to5google.com/2023/05/10/youtube-ad-blockers/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube Is Testing Blocking AdBlockers</a> <a href="https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-enables-ubuntu-on-starfive-visionfive2-risc-v-board" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Star5’s Vision 2 RISC-V Gets Ubuntu</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/microsoft-wants-firefox-to-ditch-google-switch-to-bing" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft wants Firefox to ditch Google, switch to Bing</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/09/india_messaging_apps_ban/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck</a> <h2><a href="http://192.168.1.167:8181/show-notes/episode-412-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and 3 Fat Truckers</li> <li>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h3>We would like to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h3> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

412 – Coldpause

The podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux

In our Innards section, we talk about the origins of the desktop; We had no feedback this episode. Please email us! We’d love to hear from you! Full Show notes can be found  here 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, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx) Dale – Dale_CDL@pm.me, Distrohoppers’ Digest, It’s Moss dot Com  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Joe for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about 

In our Innards section, we talk about the origins of the desktop; We had no feedback this episode. Please email us! We’d love to hear from you! <h2><a href="http://192.168.1.167:8181/show-notes/episode-411-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show notes can be found here</a></h2> <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li><a></a>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, I’m on Mastodon as @zaivala@hostux.social, and other contact information can be found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s </a><a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> and 3 Fat Truckers</li> <li><a></a>Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast</a> on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> <li>Dale – <a href="mailto:Dale_CDL@pm.me">Dale_CDL@pm.me</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="https://itsmoss.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot Com</a></li> </ul> <h4>Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h4> <ul> <li>Joe for our audio editing</li> <li><a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for our time syncs</li> <li>Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio</li> <li>The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about </li></ul>

411.5 – Origins of The GUI

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. The News Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released Ubuntu 23.04 is Now Available for Download (All Flavours) blendOS 2 Is Already Here and Supports Android Apps Out of the Box Vivaldi 6.0: Organize Tabs and More New Opera One Browser GTK3 port of GIMP is “officially finished” QEMU 8.0 Released with 32-bit support deprecated Ryzen 7000 processors are burning up Proton launches encrypted password manager The World Wide Web becomes public 30 years ago today Jetpack Announces End of Twitter Auto-Sharing Red Hat, Black Anger Security And Privacy Mullvad Subjected to Search Warrant, Nothing To Find, Cops Left RTM Locker’s First Linux Ransomware Strain Targeting NAS and ESXi Hosts Full Show notes can be found  here 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC &amp; 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Joe for the Audio Editing Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for show research, time syncs, and general contribution. Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts mintcast.org Archive.org for hosting our audio files The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem! 

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. <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-3-officially-released-this-is-whats-new" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Kernel 6.3 Officially Released</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/04/ubuntu-23-04-released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 is Now Available for Download (All Flavours)</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/blendos-2-is-already-here-and-supports-android-apps-out-of-the-box" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blendOS 2 Is Already Here and Supports Android Apps Out of the Box</a> <a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vivaldi 6.0: Organize Tabs and More</a> <a href="https://www.opera.com/one" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Opera One Browser</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-GTK3-Finished" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GTK3 port of GIMP is “officially finished”</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-8.0-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">QEMU 8.0 Released with 32-bit support deprecated</a> <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/888011/amds-ryzen-7000x3d-processors-are-burning-up/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ryzen 7000 processors are burning up</a> <a href="https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-beta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Proton launches encrypted password manager</a> <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/world-wide-web-launches-in-public-domain" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The World Wide Web becomes public 30 years ago today</a> <a href="https://jetpack.com/blog/the-end-of-twitter-auto-sharing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jetpack Announces End of Twitter Auto-Sharing</a> <a href="https://wraltechwire.com/2023/04/29/red-hat-layoffs-trigger-black-anger-call-for-employees-to-unionize/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Red Hat, Black Anger</a> <h2>Security And Privacy</h2> <a href="https://mullvad.net/sv/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mullvad Subjected to Search Warrant, Nothing To Find, Cops Left</a> <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/rtm-lockers-first-linux-ransomware.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RTM Locker’s First Linux Ransomware Strain Targeting NAS and ESXi Hosts</a> <h2><a href="http://192.168.1.167:8181/show-notes/episode-411-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show notes can be found here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap Up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@wchouser3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@wchouser3@fosstodon.org</a> on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – <a href="mailto:drmajid@mintcast.org">drmajid@mintcast.org</a> @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h4>Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h4> <ul> <li>Joe for the Audio Editing</li> <li>Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Londoner for show research, time syncs, and general contribution.</li> <li>Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts <a href="http://mintcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mintcast.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Mint</a> development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!</li> </ul>

411 – We Like It GUI

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 &amp; 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; The News Mint Monthly News – March 2023 Ubuntu 23.04 beta released with new features Gnome, Curl, LLVM update in Tumbleweed Ubuntu Touch OTA-25, last version based on 16.04, rolled out Linux Lite 6.4 Released COSMIC DE first Spring updates FreeBSD 13.2 announced OpenBSD 7.3 announced Firefox 113 promises big updates Mullvad Browser is out LXQt 1.3.0 releases Solus Attempts To Right Its Course Security and Privacy Kodi confirms data breach – 400,000 user records and private messages stolen Full Show notes can be found  here 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC &amp; 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx)  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for the Audio Editing Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts mintcast.org Archive.org for hosting our audio files The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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 &amp; 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; <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4486" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mint Monthly News – March 2023</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-23-04-beta-released-with-gnome-44-linux-kernel-6-2-and-new-installer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu 23.04 beta released with new features</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/risc-y-business-arm-wants-to-charge-dramatically-more-for-chip-licenses/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2023/03/31/gnome-curl-llvm-up-in-tw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-25-released-for-linux-phones-with-minor-improvements" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://news.opensuse.org/2023/03/31/gnome-curl-llvm-up-in-tw/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gnome, Curl, LLVM update in Tumbleweed</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.0-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/release-announcements/linux-lite-6-4-final-released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-25-released-for-linux-phones-with-minor-improvements" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ubuntu Touch OTA-25, last version based on 16.04, rolled out</a> <a href="https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/release-announcements/linux-lite-6-4-final-released/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Lite 6.4 Released</a> <a href="https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-first-spring-update" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-first-spring-update" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COSMIC DE first Spring updates</a> <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/announce/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.2R/announce/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FreeBSD 13.2 announced</a> <a href="https://www.openbsd.org/73.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenBSD 7.3 announced</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/firefox-113-promises-support-for-animated-av1-images-official-debian-package-and-more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 113 promises big updates</a> <a href="https://mullvad.net/en/download/browser/linux" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mullvad Browser is out</a> <a href="https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/releases/tag/1.3.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LXQt 1.3.0 releases</a> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SolusProject/comments/12ndrvt/righting_the_ship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Solus Attempts To Right Its Course</a> <h2>Security and Privacy<a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/melofee-researchers-uncover-new-linux.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></h2> <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/kodi-confirms-data-breach-400k-user.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kodi confirms data breach – 400,000 user records and private messages stolen</a> <h2><a href="http://192.168.1.167:8181/show-notes/episode-410-show-notes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show notes can be found here</a></h2> <h2>Wrap-up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@wchouser3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@wchouser3@fosstodon.org</a> on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> <li>Majid – <a href="mailto:drmajid@mintcast.org">drmajid@mintcast.org</a> @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify (<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/show/6Uo4DsJE8fJmvo8npljbmx</a>)</li> </ul> <h2>Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h2> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for the Audio Editing</li> <li>Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts <a href="http://mintcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mintcast.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Mint</a> development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!</li></ul>

410 – The Rise of Dr. Majid

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; The News Chrome arrives with fractional scaling in Wayland Docker decides to not sunset the “free-team” plan after all ARM wants to dramatically change their licensing structure Midnight BSD 3.0 Released GnuCash 5.0 Released Cinnamon Remix becomes official as Ubuntu Cinnamon Pine64 releases Star64 RISC-V SBC with GPU Security and Privacy Mélofée: Researchers Uncover New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese APT Groups How Linux Tech Tips’ YouTube Page Got Hacked 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts Linux OTC &amp; 3 Fat Truckers  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:  Bill Houser for the Audio Editing Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts mintcast.org Archive.org for hosting our audio files The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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; <h2>The News</h2> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-fractional-scale-v1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chrome arrives with fractional scaling in Wayland</a> <a href="https://www.docker.com/blog/no-longer-sunsetting-the-free-team-plan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Docker decides to not sunset the “free-team” plan after all</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/risc-y-business-arm-wants-to-charge-dramatically-more-for-chip-licenses/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ARM wants to dramatically change their licensing structure</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.0-Released" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight BSD 3.0 Released</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/gnucash-5-0-accounting-software-released-with-new-stock-transaction-assistant-more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GnuCash 5.0 Released</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-cinnamon-remix-becomes-official-ubuntu-flavor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cinnamon Remix becomes official as Ubuntu Cinnamon</a> <a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/04/02/pine64-star64-sbc-starfive-jh7110-quad-core-risc-v-processor-imagination-gpu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pine64 releases Star64 RISC-V SBC with GPU</a> <h2>Security and Privacy</h2> <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/03/melofee-researchers-uncover-new-linux.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mélofée: Researchers Uncover New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese APT Groups</a> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654996/linus-tech-tips-channel-hack-session-token-elon-musk-crypto-scam" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Linux Tech Tips’ YouTube Page Got Hacked</a> <h2>Wrap-up</h2> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@wchouser3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@wchouser3@fosstodon.org</a> on Mastodon. Also – checkout my podcasts <a href="https://linuxotc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a></li> </ul> <h2>Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:</h2> <ul> <li>Bill Houser for the Audio Editing</li> <li>Josh Lowe, and Bill Houser for all their work on the website</li> <li>Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo</li> <li>Bill Houser  for managing the pi 400 that hosts <a href="http://mintcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mintcast.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.linuxmint.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linux Mint</a> development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!</li></ul>

409 – Calling All Podcasters!

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; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts 3 Fat Truckers and Linux OTC.  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

First up in the news: <a href="https://9to5linux.com/meet-ubuntu-flatpak-remix-ubuntu-with-flatpak-support-preinstalled" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix</a>, <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2023/03/03/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-begins/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KDE Plasma 6 Begins</a>, <a href="https://www.omglinux.com/peek-gif-recorder-for-linux-no-longer-in-development/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">No Peeking</a>, <a href="https://vanillaos.org/2023/03/07/vanilla-os-2.0-orchid-initial-work.html" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Vanilla goes to Debian</a>, <a href="https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2023/03/09/libreoffice-7-4-6-community/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">LibreOffice 7.4.6</a>, <a href="https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-2-7-0/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Nitrux goes “sh”</a>, <a href="https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-february-2023/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Elementary updates</a>, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1922564" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia</a>, <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/08/debian_12_apt_2_6/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Debian gets new APT,</a> <a href="https://protonvpn.com/blog/day-against-cyber-censorship/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Proton joins the fight against censorship</a>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/111.0/releasenotes/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 111 features</a>, <a href="https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2023-1-release/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Kali 2023.1 released</a>, and <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-8.4-Released" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released</a>; In security and privacy, <a href="https://brave.com/privacy-updates/24-google-sign-in-permission/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Brave needs no permission to do Google</a>, <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/nordvpn-open-sources-its-linux-vpn-client-and-libraries/" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">NordVPN open sources code</a>; Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode, In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a> and <a href="http://linuxotc.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a>.</li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

408 – Ffmpegged

 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 discuss the Android Apps We can’t live without And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions  Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fostodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts 3 Fat Truckers and Linux OTC  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

<ul> <li>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,</li> <li>In security and privacy, LastPass Devs accounts get breached, NSA wants to help</li> <li>Then we have our usual wanderings.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>In our Innards section we discuss the Android Apps We can’t live without</li> <li>And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions</li> </ul> <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fostodon.org on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts <a href="https://3ftpodcast.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">3 Fat Truckers</a> and <a href="https://linuxotc.org" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Linux OTC</a></li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

407 – “There’s an App For That”

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; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions. <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3ftpodcast.org</a></li> <li>Norbert – <a href="mailto:norbert@mintcast.org">norbert@mintcast.org</a></li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

406 – It’s Elementary, Dear Listener

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; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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; And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3ftpodcast.org</a></li> <li>Norbert – <a href="mailto:norbert@mintcast.org">norbert@mintcast.org</a></li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

405 – Method Not Allowed

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. Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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. <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3ftpodcast.org</a></li> <li>Norbert – <a href="mailto:norbert@mintcast.org">norbert@mintcast.org</a></li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

404.5 – 2022 Distro Rundown

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;  Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube. The News New autofocus camera modules for Raspberry Pi Fairphone 2 hits End Of Life after 7 years of updates More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS Xubuntu 23.04 will offer “Minimal” version, under 700 Mb Brave browser adds support for Tor Bridges Kodi 20 released with AV1, Pipewire support Libvirt 9.0 released Google Topics API for targeted ads gets shot down Firefox 109 – New Features, Updates, and Fixes 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, other information found at It’s Moss dot com   Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast 3ftpodcast.org Norbert – norbert@mintcast.org  Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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; <a href="https://twitter.com/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/discord" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Discord</a>. <a href="http://170.187.156.171/tg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Telegram</a>. <a href="https://matrix.to/#/!hrOdFAAThheahzAioA:joshontech.com?via=joshontech.com&amp;via=matrix.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matrix</a>. <a href="http://reddit.com/r/mintcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reddit</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/mintCast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <h3>The News</h3> <a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-autofocus-camera-modules/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New autofocus camera modules for Raspberry Pi</a> <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/goodbye-sha-1-nist-retires-27-year-old.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fairphone 2 hits End Of Life after 7 years of updates</a> <a href="https://www.techradar.com/news/more-developers-use-linux-than-macos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS</a> <a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/xubuntu-23-04-will-come-in-a-cd-rom-size-minimal-image" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xubuntu 23.04 will offer “Minimal” version, under 700 Mb</a> <a href="https://brave.com/tor-bridges/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brave browser adds support for Tor Bridges</a> <a href="https://9to5linux.com/kodi-20-nexus-released-with-av1-hardware-decoding-on-linux-pipewire-support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kodi 20 released with AV1, Pipewire support</a> <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-9.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libvirt 9.0 released</a> <a href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/google_topics_api/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Topics API for targeted ads gets shot</a><a href="https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/01/18/google_topics_api/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> down</a> <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.0/releasenotes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Firefox 109 – New Features, Updates, and Fixes</a> <h3>Wrap-up</h3> <ul> <li>Joe – <a href="http://www.tllts.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tllts.org</a>,  <a href="http://www.linuxlugcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">linuxlugcast.com</a>, MeWe, <a href="mailto:jb@mintcast.org">jb@mintcast.org</a>, <a href="https://ko-fi.com/joeeb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buy Joe a coffee</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Moss – <a href="https://fullcirclemagazine.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Circle Weekly News</a>, <a href="https://distrohoppersdigest.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distrohoppers’ Digest</a>, <a href="mailto:bardmoss@pm.me">bardmoss@pm.me</a>, other information found at <a href="https://itsmoss.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s Moss dot com</a></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Bill – <a href="mailto:bill@mintcast.org">bill@mintcast.org</a>, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my podcast <a href="http://www.3ftpodcast.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3ftpodcast.org</a></li> <li>Norbert – <a href="mailto:norbert@mintcast.org">norbert@mintcast.org</a></li> </ul> Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing <a href="http://Archive.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Archive.org</a> for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about

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