November 02, 2023

424 – Meh Snap

1 hour 25 minutes

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

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

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

Then in our Innards section: We discuss containerized package systems

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

00:00:00 – Intro

00:01:36 – News

00:24:26 – Security And Privacy

00:29:56 – Wanderings

00:45:57 – Innards

01:11:52 – Vibrations From The Ether

01:15:30 – Check This Out

01:20:45 – Housekeeping and Announcemtns

01:21:28 – Wrap Up

The News

Mint Monthly News – October 2023

Ubuntu 23.10 Desktop ISOs Re-Released Following Translation Snafu

GNOME Foundation Welcomes Holly Million as Executive Director

Raspberry Pi Imager Gets New Tabbed OS Customization UI, Raspberry Pi 5 Support

KDE Plasma 6.0 Release Date Revealed

Raspberry Pi 5 Available Now

Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users

Bodhi 7.0 64-bit AppPack Released

Security and Privacy

BlackCat ransomware uses new ‘Munchkin’ Linux VM in stealthy attacks

Okta Support System incident and 1Password

XWayland & X.Org Server See New Releases Due To Three More Security Vulnerabilities

Full Show Notes Can Be Found Here

Wrap Up

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

Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [email protected], I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], and other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com

Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, @wchouser3 on Twitter, and wchouser3 on Facebook also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers

Majid – [email protected], @atypicaldoctor on twitter, AtypicalAnaesthetist on instagram and The Atypical Anaesthetist Podcast on Spotify

Eric – Most social media services as Eric Adams. Please note that I am NOT the mayor of New York City just in case there was any confusion. Also, I can be reached by email at [email protected] . In addition to MintCast, I am also a part of Distrohoppers’ Digest as well as Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast.

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

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