First up in the news, Mint is coming, Lennart Poettering has left the building, Vim speaks a new language, WebApps come to GNOME 43, Fedora lets Flatpak out of jail and wants to talk, GTK5 is dropping the X, Linux gets Siri, er, Cortana, er, Carola.
In security and privacy, CISA sounds the alarm, and Firefox strips,
Then in our Wanderings, Bill repaves his Omen, Moss goes back to school, Joe is still in 3D and Norbert is typing still
In our Innards section We talk subscription Services
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The News
Linux Mint NewsLennart Poettering, creator of systemd and pulseaudio, has left Red Hat and joined MicrosoftVIM 9.0 drops bombshell with new scripting language GNOME 43 adds support for WebApps and Flatpaks GTK5 might drop X11 support, says GNOME devFedora Proposing To Allow Unrestricted Access To Flathub Fedora announces Carola, a smart assistant for LinuxSecurity and Privacy
CISA sound alarm about high-severity bug in all Linux distros New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters Linux Innards
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