MP3 – mintCast

446 – The Beauty of Cinnamon, and The Downfall of Redbox

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August 2024, Software Freedom Day,

In security and privacy: Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit;

Then in our Wanderings: Bill flirts with Ladybird, Joe gets jiggy with his ports, Moss does something or other, Eric gets COSMIC;

In our Innards section: we discuss DRM and digital media providers


And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Full Show Notes Here
The News:


Mint Monthly News – August 2024


Software Freedom Day


Mozilla Firefox 130 Released with Labs, Overscroll & Web Codecs API


ArchBang Calls It Quits


Upgrades to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Paused [Update: Now Resolved]


Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme


Linux Mint Tease ‘Improved’ Default Cinnamon Theme

Security And Privacy


Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit

Contact Info:
  • Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
  • Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
  • Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
  • Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
  • Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
    • Special Thanks To:
    • Bill 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 contributions
    • 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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