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In our Innards section, Dale will take us back to the desktop

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

First up in the news: LMDE 6 “Faye” BETA Released, Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process, Plasma 6 release date is set, IBM raises cloud prices, Manjaro 23 released, Mozilla rushes out patches, and ZFS returns to Ubuntu

In security and privacy, a huge security breach affects all browsers, and Google does user tracking

Then in our Wanderings, Majid has been a busy bunny, Joe is having troubles with 3D, Dale has been driven crazy, Bill gears up for public education, and Eric hates computers.

LMDE 6 “Faye” – BETA Released

Fedora and Asahi Linux revamp installation process

Plasma 6 will be released in February 2024

Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% in 2024

Manjaro 23.0 Uranos released

Mozilla patches Firefox, Thunderbird against zero-day exploited in attacks

Ubuntu 23.10 Restores ZFS File-System Support In Its Installer

In our Innards section, we talk about Linux on mobile devices

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – August, New Asahi Linux Mac GPU beats Apple, Gnome improves Epiphany, Budgie 10.8 is out, Bodhi 7.0.0 is released, QEMU 8.1 released, LibreOffice gets a new number, Linux Turns 32, Mageia 9 released, Linux Kernel 6.5 is out, and Firefox loses users

In security and privacy: Nothing. We have nothing.

Then in our Wanderings: Joe and Moss return to the fold, and welcome Eric Adams to join us

Mint Monthly News – August

New Asahi Linux Mac GPU drivers just did something even Apple couldn’t manage

Gnome 44.4 Is Out To Improve Epiphany and more

Budgie 10.8 Desktop Released, New Trash Applet, Menu Improvements

Bodhi Linux 7.0.0 Released

QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements

LibreOffice Changes Its Stripes, er, Numbers

Linux Turns 32

Mageia 9 Officially Released with Linux 6.4, Smaller Disk Footprint, and More

Linux 6.5 Kernel Released

Firefox Has Lost around 70M Users in Last 5 Years

In our Innards section we talk about cloud storage solutions and attempt to demystify some of the procedures for hosting your own cloud storage.

On August 12, 1981 IBM Introduces Personal Computer

First up in the news: LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as “Incus”, Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux, Mint’s birthday coming up, Messaging Layer Security, State of Solus, Alarm raised over MozillaVPN, EFF launches the TOR University Challenge, news on OpenZFS and ZFSBoot, and Devuan 5 is here

In security and privacy: SkidMap and Downfall

Then in our Wanderings: Bill and Majid have cloudy days

LXD-Linux Containers Forks LXD Project as “Incus”

Indian Defense Services are Switching to Linux

Messaging Layer Security: Secure and Usable End-to-End Encryption

State of Solus – August 2023

Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc

EFF Launches the Tor University Challenge

OpenZFS 2.2 is nearly here, and ZFSBootMenu 2.2 already is

Devuan GNU+Linux 5 Is Here for Software Freedom Lovers Based on Debian 12

New SkidMap Linux Malware Variant Targeting Vulnerable Redis Servers

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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News, Fedora Asahi Remix debuts, Wine 8.13 releases, Debian makes RISC-V official, Inkscape 1.3 released, Canonical seizes LXD maintenance, Google will start deleting inactive accounts in December, Google does something “dangerous” to chromium, ChromeOS splits browser from OS, Derrick Wong leaves XFS,

In security and privacy: Zenbleed: A new Flaw in AMD Zen 2 Processors,

Then in our Wanderings: Joe fixes a van, Moss just tries to keep up, Bill rants about Audacity, and Majid joins in the heatwave

In our Innards section, we discuss the passing of Kevin Mitnick and a few of its repercussions to the Linux and security communities

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Mint Monthly News – July 2023

Our new flagship distro: Fedora Asahi Remix

RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture

Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Google warns again it will start deleting inactive accounts in December

Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y

In our Innards section, we talk “ethical telemetry”

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Check out the new version and tell us what you think!

https://linuxmint.com/download.php

First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat

In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware

Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist

Mint 21.2 Victoria released

Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits

Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

Blend OS v3 Bhatura released

In a Blow to IBM, SUSE is Forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Avrecon infects 70,000 Linux Servers, turns them into a botnet

OpenSSH Agent RCE Flaw Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Commands

PyLoose Linux Malware Mines Crypto Directly From Memory

In our Innards section we talk browsers

And finally, the feedback

A link to a cool project and a YouTube video worth giving a look.

https://openscad.org/downloads.html

https://youtu.be/KyADkmRVe0U