June 11, 2022

385 – I like my desktop the way I like my drink

52 minutes

1:30 The News

20:10 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

47:57 Announcements

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

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

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

The News

Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” will have a new graphical tool to upgrade from Mint 20.3

Fedora plans to deprecate legacy BIOS support and remove legacy Xorg drivers

Plans for GNOME 43 and Beyond

Sony Engineer Speeds Linux exFAT Driver by 73%

Alibaba’s 128-core Armv9 Server Processor Is Ready For Preview

Wrap-up

Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee

Norbert – [email protected]

Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on Twitter

Nishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ Steam

Moss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.

Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on Discord

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

Norbert and Tony H for our audio production

Leo for timestamps and publishing

Josh Lowe for all his work on the website

Hobstar for our logo

initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time sync

Bytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble server

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

HPR for our backup Mumble room

The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!

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