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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – March 2023, Ubuntu 23.04 beta released, updates in Tumbleweed, last 16.04-based Ubuntu Touch rolled out, Linux Lite 6.4 released, COSMIC DE updates, OpenBSD 7.3 & FreeBSD 13.2 announced, big changes in Firefox 113, Mullvad announces their own browser, and Solus sets sail once again;

In security and privacy, Kodi leaks

Then in our Wanderings, Bill catches up, Moss has more drive, Joe is such a prints, Majid iPads in

In our Innards section, we meet one of our new co-hosts;

Mint Monthly News – March 2023

Ubuntu 23.04 beta released with new features

Gnome, Curl, LLVM update in Tumbleweed

Ubuntu Touch OTA-25, last version based on 16.04, rolled out

Linux Lite 6.4 Released

COSMIC DE first Spring updates

FreeBSD 13.2 announced

OpenBSD 7.3 announced

Firefox 113 promises big updates

Mullvad Browser is out

LXQt 1.3.0 releases

Solus Attempts To Right Its Course

Kodi confirms data breach – 400,000 user records and private messages stolen

First up in the news, Chrome does fractions with Wayland, new Framework laptops, Docker changes their mind, ARM needs more money, Midnight BSD released, GnuCash is updated, Cinnamon Remix goes official, and PineStar64 is announced;

In security and privacy, Mélofée happens, and Linux Tech Tips gets hacked;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe has been sick, and Moss replaces a hard drive.

In our Innards section, we beg for new hosts and talk about our experiences with mintCast;

Chrome arrives with fractional scaling in Wayland

Docker decides to not sunset the “free-team” plan after all

ARM wants to dramatically change their licensing structure

Midnight BSD 3.0 Released

GnuCash 5.0 Released

Cinnamon Remix becomes official as Ubuntu Cinnamon

Pine64 releases Star64 RISC-V SBC with GPU

Mélofée: Researchers Uncover New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese APT Groups

How Linux Tech Tips’ YouTube Page Got Hacked

First up in the news: Meet Ubuntu Flatpak Remix, KDE Plasma 6 Begins, No Peeking, Vanilla goes to Debian, LibreOffice 7.4.6, Nitrux goes “sh”, Elementary updates, DuckDuckGo goes AI on Wikipedia, Debian gets new APT, Proton joins the fight against censorship, Firefox 111 features, Kali 2023.1 released, and Wine 8.4 with old Wayland released;

In security and privacy, Brave needs no permission to do Google, NordVPN open sources code;

Then in our Wanderings, we are posting no Bills this episode,

In our Innards section, Joe talks ffmpeg;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

Archive.org for hosting our audio files

Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo

Londoner for our time syncs

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

First up in the news: Looks like the end for Mycroft, Proton offers Drive for everybody, MidnightBSD takes on helloSystem, Fedora 38 now with full Flathub access, new Transmission, Android 14 Preview, Framework has new SSDs, new versions of KaOS and Parrot, Ardour and Clonezilla have new releases, and systemd is the future;

In security and privacy, several PyPI packages steal crypto;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe’s back hurts, Moss is underworked, and Bill is not.

In our Innards section, we have invited Danielle Foré to come and talk about her Elementary OS project, and other changes;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

First up in the news, Mint 21.2 has the codename Victoria, OpenSuse updates, helloSystem says hello for the 0.8th time, new Firefox allows imports, Xfce goes Waylanding, Cosmic DE speeds up, OBS Studio fixes Linux Wayland bug, and Elementary has a new release;

In security and privacy, we report on after log4j, Boldmove, and Malvirt;

Then in our Wanderings, Joe calls Texas for Icing, and Moss is having New Phone Fever; Bill is in Colorado doing a rescue and will be back next episode.

In our Innards section we discuss what you can do with old Android devices;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

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.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

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;

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

New autofocus camera modules for Raspberry Pi

Fairphone 2 hits End Of Life after 7 years of updates

More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

Xubuntu 23.04 will offer “Minimal” version, under 700 Mb

Brave browser adds support for Tor Bridges

Kodi 20 released with AV1, Pipewire support

Libvirt 9.0 released

Google Topics API for targeted ads gets shot down

Firefox 109 – New Features, Updates, and Fixes

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

First up in the news

In security and privacy

Then 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

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Linux Mint 21.1 Vera released

More developers reportedly now use Linux than macOS

Security and Privacy

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible:

AudioFreak (Riyo) 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

Bill Houser for hosting the Pi400 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

News 00:00:45

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.

Twitter. Discord. Telegram. Matrix. Reddit. Youtube.

Security and Privacy

Samsung’s Android AppSigning Key has leaked

Before we leave, we want to make sure to acknowledge some of the people who make mintCast possible: