September 28, 2022

395 – Buttery Smooth Experience

1 hour 17 minutes

1:08 The News

26:46 Security and Privacy

33:17 Bi-Weekly Wanderings

55:54 Linux Innards

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

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

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

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

And finally, the feedback and a suggestion or two.

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

The News

Universal Unix tool AWK gets Unicode support

GIMP 2.99.12 Released – “A Huge Milestone Towards GIMP 3.0”

Firefox 105 Beta Brings Memory Fixes, Return of the Two-Finger Swipe Gesture on Linux

Nitrux 2.4 Released with Linux Kernel 5.19, KDE Gear 22.08, and New Maui Apps

Ubuntu Unity to become an official Ubuntu flavour for 22.10

Microsoft Decides to Drop the Linux App for Teams to Replace it as a Progressive Web App Instead

Makulu Linux adds to the confusion with Makulu Max

Debian moves to resolve the firmware question

Post on Debian’s website

Malcat – hexadecimal editor and disassembler for malware analysis

Lutris is now available on Flathub, as is an update of Un-Googled Chromium

Arti 1.0.0 released

Security and Privacy Update

“As Nasty as Dirty Pipe” — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered

Plex breach exposes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords

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, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editing

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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