First up in the news, Stallman goes manual on C, DNF5 arrives in Fedora, LibreOffice gets fumigated, GNOME comes into its Shell, they have put hair in the Blender, Avast buys your cookies, and Intel fogs the processor market;
In security and privacy, we have multi-stage malware, website leaks, and shell attacks;
Then in our Wanderings, Norbert is cutting corners, Moss tries a different mint, Joe keeps modding, and Bill fixes a broken Arch …again.
In our Innards section, Ransomware goes to school;
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.
The News
Beloved Browser Extension acquired by Not-So-Beloved Antivirus Firm Richard Stallman Announces GNU C Language Reference ManualFedora 39 Looks To Use DNF5 By Default For Better Performance & Improved User Experience LibreOffice 7.3.6 Is Now Available for Download, 50 Bugs Fixed GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes GNOME Shell on Mobile Is Shaping Up Nicely, Gets New Navigation Gestures, Quick SettingsBlender 3.3 LTS Officially Released with New Hair Workflow, Support for Intel Arc Graphics Wave Goodbye to Celeron and Pentium, Hello Intel ProcessorSecurity and Privacy Update
New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deploymentOver 80% of the top websites leak user searches to advertisersGIFShell attack creates reverse shell using Microsoft Teams GIFsWrap-up
Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, MeWe, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffeeNorbert – [email protected]Josh T – [email protected], Josh Thacker on Discord, and @Metal_FOSS on TwitterNishant – [email protected],riconghost on instagram, riconghost@Github, Ghost.Ricon on DIscord, maverick00783 @ SteamMoss – [email protected], you can hear me on Distrohoppers’ Digest and Full Circle Weekly News, and you can find more contact information for me on It’s MOSS.Bill – [email protected], @wchouser3 on Twitter,and Bill_H on DiscordBefore we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:
Norbert, Londoner, Tony H, and all others for our audio editingLeo for timestamps and publishingJosh Lowe for all his work on the websiteHobstar for our logoinitrd for the animated Discord logoLondoner for our time syncBytemark Hosting for hosting mintcast.org and our Mumble serverArchive.org for hosting our audio filesHPR for our backup Mumble roomThe Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about.Thanks, Clem!