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This week in our Innards, We do a rundown of our favorite distros of 2022

In "Check This Out" we talk about a graphical tool Londoner shared that makes light work of scheduling a shutdown or reboot. Moss shares his experience with the Flatpak of a favorite game of his; and we share an article postulating the death of Unix.

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First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109

In security and privacy, nothing to see here, move along

Then in our Wanderings, Moss is back, Joe has fun with a Pihole, and Bill takes some OTC stuff.

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First up in the news:

Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released, Goodbye SHA-1: NIST Retires 27-Year-Old Widely Used Cryptographic Algorithm, Pine Tab2 announced, More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

In Security and Privacy, Serious Linux kernel security hole uncovered

The in our wanderings: Moss is in Atlanta this week but has sent in his predictions, Joe does HPR, Bill sets up servers

In our innards section, We go over last years predictions and our new predictions

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First up in the news: Mint 21.1 beta has been released, vivaldi adds mastodon plugin.

In Security and Privacy, Eufy shows your videos, samsungs lost some keys, and more rootkits.

The in our wanderings: Guy talk

In our innards section, Bill discusses setting up podcasts.

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First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon Support

In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

In security and privacy: updates are required

Then in our Wanderings: Bill hammers nextcloud, Joe does tinkering

In our Innards section: we discuss more history and finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

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First up in the news: New Mint Stuff, Nitrux gets 6.0, Linux Steams forward, exFAT repair is now possible, LXQt gets Wayland, a pioneer passes, Mastodon blossoms, Nouveau and Nvidia updates, Clonezilla gets a new kernel, and Fedora refreshes Live Creation;

In security and privacy: OpenSSL3 Patch Arrives

Then in our Wanderings: Moss unMints his Studio, Joe sadly loses a Beto, and Bill doesn’t have much.

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up in the news: The Kudu is out, with a Lobster on its tail, Fedora 37 is dragging, the next Kernel takes less power from the people, Steam Snap switches stacks, Flatpak gets Meson, and Linus wants to forget about 486; 

In security and privacy: we get the first security update for the Kudu;

Then in our Wanderings: Joe goes to Micro Center, Moss is having a ball, and Bill is clouding around

In our Innards section, we continue our historical journey through Linux distros;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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First up in the news: Debian carries buffer patches, IceWM 3, Wireshark 4, free Ubuntu Pro for all, KDE winds down Plasma 5, VirtualBox 7, Proton drives prices, and dreams of Forky; 

In security and privacy: New Chinese malware for everything, Intel springs a leak, and Android’s leak exposed;

Then in our Wanderings: Joe futzes with his 3D printer, while Moss continues to fight with Mint 21;

In our Innards section, we begin a historical journey through Linux distros;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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In our Innards section, we talk about how Linux has permeated Everything;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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