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424 – Meh Snap

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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

  1. 00:00:00 – Intro
  2. 00:01:36 – News
  3. 00:24:26 – Security And Privacy
  4. 00:29:56 – Wanderings
  5. 00:45:57 – Innards
  6. 01:11:52 – Vibrations From The Ether
  7. 01:15:30 – Check This Out
  8. 01:20:45 – Housekeeping and Announcemtns
  9. 01:21:28 – Wrap Up
    10. 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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