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.

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AudioFreak (Riyo) for our audio editing

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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

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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.

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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;

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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

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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.

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Security and Privacy

Samsung’s Android AppSigning Key has leaked

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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: 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;

And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions

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00:2:07 – News

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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Check This Out

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News 1:29

First 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;

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Check This Out

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