June 16, 2022

389 – The Out of Memory Daemon is Out of Control

1 hour 33 minutes

2:15 The News

41:07 Security and Privacy

46.05 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

1:25:24 Housekeeping and Announcements

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

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

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

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

The News

Cinnamon 5.4 Desktop Environment Released for Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa”

Regolith Desktop 2.0 is Out with Many Changes

KDE Gear 22.04.2 announced

Telegram to launch Premium plan at $4.99/month

Plex’s new Linux apps arrive on Flathub

Atom editor support ends in December

Asahi Linux Celebrates First Triangle On Apple M1 With Fully Open-Source Driver

System76 Hardware is Making its Way to Europe Soon

Ubuntu tries to tame systemd Out Of Memory Daemon

Europe Makes Type-C Charger Mandatory For All Phones

Security and Privacy Update

New Symbiote malware affects all running processes on Linux systems

MIT Researchers discover “unpatchable” flaw in Apple M1 chips

Announcements

Next Episode – 2 pm US Central time on June 26, 2022

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Next Live Stream – 2 pm US Central time on June 18, 2022

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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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